I thought that you couldn't gain XP from two different sources in the same season? For example you can engage in an adventure and gain adventure XP, and if you have time also do lab work, but you don't get the lab exposure XP since you already gained adventure XP.
That is my reading as well, and as someone else noted, 6xp for one night is a pretty good return... If you put the 4 or 5 in the spell mastry you would have otherwise earned you still come out ahead.
With the RAW, that's correct. However, being able to "stack" adventure experience and other sources is a very common (if not the most common) house rule in the multiverse. In large part because it seems implausible that the three-day holiday weekend you spent mediating the Faerie Rebellion (which resulted in about two hundred gallons of beer being consumed, and yet somehow the stores have two thousand, now) would keep you from inventing that Improved BoAF spell you've been working for months.
According to RAW you can forego adventure experience and keep lab experience while still gaining confidence from the adventure. I am personally of the belief that the intent of this is to allow more adventure time for companions and grogs so people don't want to haul out the big guns for every adventure.
Arachné: 2xp in Magic Lore, 2xp in Second Sight, 2xp in Covenant Lore: Andorra
I believe you are correct and I jumped the gun. Only one XP source per season, unless this troupe wants to play otherwise. In said case, Roberto will keep with the Practice of Spell Mastery. In RAW, spell mastery practice grants 5xp, which Roberto gets to double into 10xp (Flawless Magic).
Actually, according to RAW, you can do exactly what you're talking about. You just couldn't get the 2 exposure XP for inventing the spell. It's not as much about what you can do in season as it is about how much xp you can get in a season (at least as far as how the rules are currently written). If we house rule, that's fine, but I'd like the house rule to be pretty clear. Otherwise it can easily be taken advantage of.
No, only one source per season. I am willing to make an HR only if that is what everyone else wants.
Pere is also working on Spell Mastery that season and will pass on the adventure xp.
Vibria will forgo the experience and take the SQ of her study for the season (A Delicate Matter, with a SQ of 14 in Finesse), but will take the three Confidence Points.