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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6161743" data-attributes="member: 5143">It's been a while, so I can't remember at this moment, but I have a vague recollection of them doing this for a short period of time.  The DM decided instead of voting.  However, if I remember correctly it didn't solve the problem that many players felt their PC who didn't say anything was the best roleplayed and the DM didn't recognize it.  Plus, the DM could still play favorites if any of the players were his friends.I know that these certs definitely piled up in certain player's hands.  I remember a couple of games where one player pulled out his 17 reroll certs while no one else at the table had even gotten one.  Then that same player got another one at the end of the game.I mean, it might mean that they were such a great roleplayer that they were always the one to get the cert.  However, it was my experience that the player who spoke up the most got the cert regardless of their roleplaying ability.  All you had to do was constantly say you were doing SOMETHING, anything.  I once remember a player who went off on his own on a tangent that had nothing to do with the adventure, he nearly got the rest of the party killed and didn't appear to even understand what the adventure was about.  However, he got the cert that session because he just did so much stuff.  Plus, he was the defacto "leader" of a group of players who played together often.I think a lot of people just felt(I know I certainly did) at the end of a number of sessions that they had really put in the extra effort to try to get their roleplaying recognized only to have someone that clearly didn't deserve it get it for some reason or another.  Sometimes for reasons as silly as "I liked that name you called the villain, that was hilarious, you get my vote for best roleplayer".</blockquote>

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