Sharing GM credits

Bront · Sep 27, 2006

This came up somewhere, and while it likely won't happen, it seems like a reasonable thing to do.

I propose that we allow people to use GM credits on someone else. Said use is still restricted to the normal rules for the character they effect. As per normal, use must be approved.

Example possable uses:
My wife wished to join LEW, and adventure with one of my characters, so I could spend GM credits to help her level up so the level desparity is closer.

A party is in need of gold, so player with GM credit gets the gold from a credit.

Party member is just short of leveling, so a nother player spends a GM credit so he can, to help the party.

Generaly seem fair uses.

Velmont · Sep 27, 2006

I don't see a problem with that, if someone want to spend GM credits on my characters to help them to level faster, I would be happy

IcyCool · Sep 27, 2006

I too would be happy to receive free xp or gp from someone else's GM credit. I do think it can be abused, but since the only things the abusers will wind up with are high level characters, or too much wealth for their level, I don't think it too much. The over wealthed characters will be obvious (and GM's can deal with them quite easily), and unless it is a group of people abusing this to level up their characters, any resulting high level characters from this will have no one to adventure with.

That, and DM credits don't appear to be a highly abundant resource. So it seems ok to me.

orsal · Sep 27, 2006

This sounds eminently reasonable. Since DM credits aren't earned by the character, but by the player, if the player would rather use them on someone else's character that should be just as acceptable.

Yes

Someone · Sep 27, 2006

I'm not exactly worried, since I'm not a judge, but how are you going to track how many GM's points are spent and where? I don't think it should be controlled to avoid fraud or abuse: GM's points are earned by GMs who finish adventures, people by their very nature commited with LEW, but I still think there should be some kind of double check to be sure everything is in order.

Velmont · Sep 27, 2006

Someone said:
I'm not exactly worried, since I'm not a judge, but how are you going to track how many GM's points are spent and where? I don't think it should be controlled to avoid fraud or abuse: GM's points are earned by GMs who finish adventures, people by their very nature commited with LEW, but I still think there should be some kind of double check to be sure everything is in order.

Judges gives DM credit, and I think judges must approved any expence, and you must record it somwhere too.

Knight Otu · Sep 27, 2006

I believe that I said that it should be ok in that earlier discussion. So, Yes.

Erekose13 · Sep 27, 2006

yup sounds reasonable to me. Too bad we can't spend LEB DM credits on our LEW characters, now that'd be fun

Manzanita · Sep 27, 2006

Sound good to me, Yes.

Bront · Sep 28, 2006

Someone said:
I'm not exactly worried, since I'm not a judge, but how are you going to track how many GM's points are spent and where? I don't think it should be controlled to avoid fraud or abuse: GM's points are earned by GMs who finish adventures, people by their very nature commited with LEW, but I still think there should be some kind of double check to be sure everything is in order.

They are tracked in the Character Tracking thread, AND on the character sheets they are spent on.

Also, noted abuse would be hard, unless you had a conspiricy of GMs bosting someone. It takes 20 credits to level per level through Level 8. And the money becomes less significant as you approach that level.