I know i sound like a broken record....
But if you're having trouble getting enough judges because its a big time commitment... why not hand out some sort of OOC points for it?
I just don't get the resistance to the idea. When someone's tired and frustrated and it's late at night and they've just gotten an annoying email from someone and they're thinking of quitting something fairly silly like a note of appreciation or their collection of "virtually meaningless points" can seem important.
You want more judges, right?
If "love of the game" isn't doing it for extisting settings (and Eberron is like... the best setting ever...) why are we so sure that L4W is going to be different?
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The time-for-xp thing....
I understand. I'm just confused about why we have to have a bunch of different systems...
If you give out 5 points to a DM for a month of running a game; instead of giving x number of xp on a different schedule, why not just give the player 2 points that can be spent on that character in the same way...?
One system: everybody gets something; DMs get a bit more...
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Polling's good. I will reiterate my firm belief that polls
should cover a broad range of options, including options that don't seem to be popular.
Since it's potentially quite complex maybe we should break it down into areas -- then do another poll on specific systems
(having run a few I can say that it can be quite tricky to make which-option-means-which-clear)
So a general conceptual point
The poll HAS to be public and multiple choice (public b/c of the error i mentioned that allows for double posting)
1 No points of any sort (covaithe-style)
Point awards
2 ... for DMing
3 ...for judging/assisting character approval *
4 ...for a campaign log (judged by judges to be complete and informative)
5 ...for doing other _____
6 ... for every x period of time that passes in a game a player gets points for that character (time for xp)
Points (if we have them) can be spent to
7 ... improve your character's level
8 ... buy magic items for your character
9 ... buy access to rare material
this is to help prevent the flood of genasi effect -- you can spend x points to get access to that race/class
10 .. allow for the creation and play of extra characters
Limits
11... Earning of points should be capped (no matter what you can only earn this much for your contributions)
12... Spending of points should be capped per character
13 ...additional limits should be imposed to ensure that characters are not significantly more powerful than average
limits to insure magic items and character levels do not outshine "normal" characters
We should have a separate system for
14 ... time for xp (conflicts with choice 6)
* = I'd really like to see a "two tier" approval process for character.
A. Volunteer checks sheet; helps get it formatted properly if necessary
B. Character judge looks at it
(so if a DM running a campaign for 1 month gets 5 points then a "character checking volunteer" might get 1 point for five character sheets they've checked...)