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Ditch Action Points for Fate Points?
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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5620630" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>I think action points, or any variation on them (hero points, fate points, etc.) are one of those things were you really have to consider the particular players involved. The usual suggestions never seem to work at our table. </p><p> </p><p>What does work for us is having them accumulate as a resource and letting players use as many as they want, whenever they want. But ... if the total accumulated gets too high, the players don't get new ones. We formalized this in an Arcana Evolved campaign, where each player could have a total of 1, +1 for every 4 levels. There was a feat to bump that up to 2, +1 for eveyr 3 levels. But in our current 4E campaign, I just hand them out at key moments, and the players know that if they don't use them, I'll stop handing them out.</p><p> </p><p>I have no reason to believe that the RAW and some of the standard variants don't work for a lot of people, but it turns our table into a bunch of turtles for some reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5620630, member: 54877"] I think action points, or any variation on them (hero points, fate points, etc.) are one of those things were you really have to consider the particular players involved. The usual suggestions never seem to work at our table. What does work for us is having them accumulate as a resource and letting players use as many as they want, whenever they want. But ... if the total accumulated gets too high, the players don't get new ones. We formalized this in an Arcana Evolved campaign, where each player could have a total of 1, +1 for every 4 levels. There was a feat to bump that up to 2, +1 for eveyr 3 levels. But in our current 4E campaign, I just hand them out at key moments, and the players know that if they don't use them, I'll stop handing them out. I have no reason to believe that the RAW and some of the standard variants don't work for a lot of people, but it turns our table into a bunch of turtles for some reason. [/QUOTE]
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