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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1767228" data-attributes="member: 12332">Have you TRIED the granting method at the table yet?  If not, I'd suggest you test it out.My players love it.  Gaga for it.  It makes MY job so much easier.  I'm a storyteller.  That's why we're all there, really ... isn't it?  The rules are there to make it interactive, make it a building experience, but they shouldn't really rule the evening.  This method gives the GM more OPTIONS, and I love that.  Options rock the casbah.  One aspect is that my players like that I can use it to advance the story ... blatantly, out front.   One player rolled a 1 coming in the door for the grand final "boss" fight, so I gave him an AP and hit him in the chest with the "Death Ray".  The "Death Ray" was really a plot device, had never intended to use it in combat, but it was alot more fun and flavorful to toss him through a brick wall.  No save, no attack roll, no screwing around.  BLAMMO.  Everybody loved it.  I've given them APs to keep them off a track I didn't expect and didn't want them to follow.  I've given them APs when I wanted to advance the storyline through doing something horrible to a PC.  And nobody complains of "Railroading" ... it's not.  They get the choice of the AP.   It's a little reward, a little something DIRECTLY useful, and alot better than awarding bonus XP or anything like that.Here's the other thing.  My players have started to LOVE their natural 1s.  Sometimes one of them is low on APs, or entirely out of APs ... that natural one is a great point to advance the storyline or have something weird and cinematic happen, and a great way to get some of that mojo back for when THEY want to have more control over the story.Dunno, just, for me, it adds more options to the game to get it to do what we all want.  The dice are a randomizing aspect, and the back and forth of APs is an opportunity for everybody at the table to tweak the story and make it even more their own.  I find it's drawn everybody at the table farther into their characters than they ever have been before.--fje</blockquote>

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