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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 8147443" data-attributes="member: 67">You know, as a tangent, there’s something that bugs me about how inspiration is handle in the rules. I think it’s that, fundamentally, it shifts the burden of deciding when to award it (and even that language causes problems – it should be a tool, not a prize) to the DM who, frankly, has better things to do than try to remember to grade players’ role-playing.In my experience, this means people who have it rarely use it (or remember they have it) and, consequently, the DM (usually me) is even less likely to remember to “reward” it. And, yeah, I know that players could award it to each other, but that never happens, either. Resource management isn’t supposed to work that way!Your adaptation takes (some of) the subjectivity out of it, which is good (also, it reminds me a bit of Angry DM’s solution, although that has players earn inspiration by voluntarily taking on disadvantage). Personally, I prefer to replace it with something I don’t need to remember or remind people of (like giving all PCs a free variant lucky feat as described earlier).Which is not to say that I don’t think your adaptation is good; if I had a DM who used it, that would be cool. But I think I’d more likely not take advantage of it (so to speak) than constantly call attention to how I’m roleplaying my character. I just prefer to be more subtle in that arena.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rune, post: 8147443, member: 67"] You know, as a tangent, there’s something that bugs me about how inspiration is handle in the rules. I think it’s that, fundamentally, it shifts the burden of deciding when to award it (and even that language causes problems – it should be a tool, not a prize) to the DM who, frankly, has better things to do than try to remember to grade players’ role-playing. In my experience, this means people who have it rarely use it (or remember they have it) and, consequently, the DM (usually me) is even less likely to remember to “reward” it. And, yeah, I know that players could award it to each other, but that never happens, either. Resource management isn’t supposed to work that way! Your adaptation takes (some of) the subjectivity out of it, which is good (also, it reminds me a bit of Angry DM’s solution, although that has players earn inspiration by voluntarily taking on disadvantage). Personally, I prefer to replace it with something I don’t need to remember or remind people of (like giving all PCs a free variant lucky feat as described earlier). Which is not to say that I don’t think your adaptation is good; if I had a DM who used it, that would be cool. But I think I’d more likely not take advantage of it (so to speak) than constantly call attention to how I’m roleplaying my character. I just prefer to be more subtle in that arena. [/QUOTE]

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