Talk:Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 1 Choices/@comment-36744766-20200201023225/@comment-37484301-20200201025245

base xp is the lowest xp you'll get basically because it is if your character is at level 1

so if the effect is 5 base x level, you can actually get more if you're level 2 (which then would be 5 base x 2 = 10 xp points instead of 5 xp points).