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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antithetist" data-source="post: 5145140" data-attributes="member: 88443">Bonus XP for remaining poker chips seems to encourage hoarding. Maybe you don't mind that, but for my money it's not as much fun. Encourage the players to spend their chips (like, surplus chips are lost at an extended rest, perhaps) and you guarantee a more enthusiastic use of the system. Monsters spending chips to negate player chips also seems no fun to me. Player actions being negated is almost always frustrating, and in this case it also gives the players an extra incentive to just hoard their chips for XP instead of chucking them down the drain thanks to enemy counter-chips. Why not just give elite/solo monsters hands like the players', used in the same way? It seems to me that the whole poker hand shtick is given an extra level of awesome if the players are watching their adversary's hand in the same way as they would in a real poker game.</blockquote>