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Message: <blockquote data-quote="saitir" data-source="post: 5143118" data-attributes="member: 35012">Excellent stuff, all of you. I just recalled that muppet/Ian/Atnod came to us via the rptools forum, so I've sent him the link to here. Now, ordinarily I'm a fan of dishing out goodies to players who contribute with write-ups and such.  I avoid XP because history tells me that it leads to alot of resentment between players. Instead I've been known to give out anything from special one-session encounter powers, extra actions points, extra healing surges, an occasional magic item, a very occasional permanent skill bonus and so on.Also there've been 'Super Action Points' (SAPs) that can be used in different ways to an action point (change a missed attack into a crit, tweak the game circumstances, and so on). However, I usually assign these based on an individual player grading curve, rather than a group grading curve.  Which is to say, for someone, writing 3 pages of iambic pentameter is just a 20 minute job, while for someone else, writing a paragraph of in character thoughts takes them an hour or more.  How do you judge these things fairly? The simplest answer is, of course, no one gets anything and any additional writeups are just icing on the cake and help us all have a little more fun.   So I'd really appreciate your feedback on this. Also, I hope to get my server back up and running in a couple of days and we can use a more permanent arena to keep our thoughts together.</blockquote>

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