Feb 4 2005, 01:52 AM
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I am a longtime SR GM and am trying to evaluate how my group gives karma out. Currently I do a team reward that all PCs get. This includes categories for survival, success, and threat. Most of the time each one is worth 1-2 pts. I then have individual awards per the suggestions in SR3. These usually end up with each PC getting anywhere from 2-5 of these. I would say for an average run my PCs get about 7 karma. I am considering doing some changes (see below). I was wondering how other groups do karma rewards, or what suggestions other GMs have? Okay here is the list:
1 Go Iron fist stye and I will give it out based on my opinion of what people did and how much they added to the game. 2 I am thinking about making the team rewards(surv. succ threat) a little higher, but in turn making the extra awards harder to get. 3 Spreading the rewards out more (RPing bad-0, Avg-1, good-2, Great-3 or more) 4 Adding a new category "Player nominated." and having every player give a "best Player" vote and awarding that player an extra point, or maybe doing top 2? 5 One example I saw, that came across interesting but cheesy was.....Everytime a player does something that is awesome (big dramatic speech, awesome quote, super risky stunt that works, says hilarious 1 liner, etc.) the players yell out Karma and that PC is rewarded with an extra point at the end of the run. Obviously you have to set a limit on this or it could get crazy. Maybe a total of 3 "Karma!!s" a run at max. Also I know that the idea of screaming out karma, may seem a little to "BINGO!" to everyone, so somethign similar could be worked out. |
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Brazila The only thing better than XP! Feb 4 2005, 01:52 AM
fistandantilus3.0 A lot of that just depends on how you want to bala... Feb 4 2005, 02:09 AM
Brazila The common sense thing is cool. The group I am in... Feb 4 2005, 02:27 AM
James McMurray We give karma, XP, or whatever the system dictates... Feb 4 2005, 03:46 AM
fistandantilus3.0 I give cold hard karma whenever someone buys a SR ... Feb 4 2005, 03:54 AM
Taran I give 2-3 karma per session, sometimes 4. Does a... Feb 4 2005, 04:21 AM
Sren The group I used to run with gave 9-20 per session... Feb 4 2005, 04:53 AM
Necro Tech Iron fist it baby. I long ago got over giving out ... Feb 4 2005, 05:25 AM
TeOdio I usually give one point per session for survival.... Feb 4 2005, 05:56 AM
hahnsoo QUOTE (Brazila) As for the large karma awards, we ... Feb 4 2005, 06:00 AM
fistandantilus3.0 We use "cash for Karma" too, but since w... Feb 4 2005, 06:23 AM
Capt. Dave I've given players Karma for out-of-game stuff... Feb 4 2005, 06:33 AM
Modesitt Current GM I'm under simply assigns the entire... Feb 4 2005, 07:20 AM
SirKodiak QUOTE Part of it is simple game balance. Another p... Feb 4 2005, 09:10 AM
hahnsoo Note that the excessive use of Cash for Karma is s... Feb 4 2005, 11:57 AM
Fortune The Cash For Karma (and Karma For Cash) optional r... Feb 4 2005, 12:29 PM
hahnsoo QUOTE (Fortune @ Feb 4 2005, 07:29 AM) The Ca... Feb 4 2005, 01:31 PM
Fortune I'm not stupid ... I grasp the concept just fi... Feb 4 2005, 02:51 PM
Catsnightmare QUOTE (Brazila)
4 Adding a new category "Pla... Feb 4 2005, 06:52 PM
Crimson Jack Since most of my play group are pretty creative pe... Feb 4 2005, 06:59 PM
Smiley QUOTE (Capt. Dave) I've given players Karma fo... Feb 4 2005, 07:11 PM
hahnsoo QUOTE (Fortune) I'm not stupid ... I grasp the... Feb 4 2005, 07:49 PM
Brazila Good stuff so far. Right now I use a modded versi... Feb 4 2005, 08:05 PM
mfb i break the karma awards down per character. for i... Feb 4 2005, 08:06 PM
dandy since alot has already been said, i'll just li... Feb 4 2005, 08:08 PM
Fortune QUOTE (hahnsoo) And you've missed the point of... Feb 4 2005, 08:43 PM
hahnsoo QUOTE (Fortune) I haven't missed the point at ... Feb 4 2005, 09:00 PM
Fortune And my point was that I disagree that Karma is awa... Feb 4 2005, 09:12 PM
Gilthanis QUOTE (Fortune) I have tried it (just as I've ... Feb 4 2005, 09:22 PM
Fortune In what way did I say I was always right? At what ... Feb 4 2005, 09:27 PM
Gilthanis QUOTE (Fortune @ Feb 4 2005, 04:27 PM) In wha... Feb 4 2005, 09:36 PM
Fortune The statement may have been 'general', but... Feb 4 2005, 09:46 PM
Gilthanis Yup my mentioning how many years I have gamed was ... Feb 4 2005, 09:49 PM
Brazila Oh well back to topic...... Feb 4 2005, 09:50 PM
Crimson Jack I've done 'running karma' a couple of ... Feb 4 2005, 11:44 PM
TeOdio Karma? You actually give your players Karma! ... Feb 5 2005, 05:38 PM
The White Dwarf Heres how I do it.
Threat level of run= 1-4 pts
I... Feb 6 2005, 06:35 AM
Joe Outside QUOTE (dandy) since alot has already been said, i... Feb 6 2005, 07:04 AM![]() ![]() |
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