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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 5660403" data-attributes="member: 20564">I use chips for awesomeness.  Physical poker chips, put out a few piles around the table.  And when a player does something particularly in character, particularly cool (regardless if it works), comes up with a clue everyone else overlooked, and other things like this, ANYONE can give them a chip.Yes, some people average more.  But what I've seen is that the people getting less are encouraged to do more to get more.EVERYONE giving out I think is a real key.  People want those accolades of a bunch of their friends each grabbing a chip and tossing it to them.  And some have been for the most boneheaded - but in-character - actions.  Other times it's been for audacious plans to save the day with much risk, or even for a perfectly (RP) description of an action in a deciding combat .It also helps for things like if the part splits, folks can get chips for side RP even if I'm focusing on different players.  I also give chips for adding to the campaign wiki, writing stories and backgrounds, etc.In the end it's shares of a XP pool, so I control the total amount I want going out to the group.  Oh, and the excel sheet behind the scenes awards two extra chips for showing up, so everyone gets a share even on an off night.  Well, actually, that's how it started (back in 3.0), but it metamorphed since.</blockquote>