Mike Shea from the Sly Flourish blog joins me in the latest minicast, and together we try to answer a listener’s voicemail about interesting houserules that can enhance the game. Both of us provide a couple of houserules, with Mike providing one of the neatest uses for music yet at a D&D table.
Mike can be found at his blog, or at http://www.twitter.com/slyflourish
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Thadeous
May 10, 2010
Sweet! Something to listen to on the way to work today! I really love the format of your minicast, it’s a super creative idea.
John Doom
May 10, 2010
I really liked this podcast. I love the idea of giving out tokens for +1 to anything when the players are role-playing. As a former Paranoia XP* player and GM, I can’t believe I didn’t think about using this in my D&D World. The idea to have a theme song is also great one I think I’ll try to implement.
*Paranoia has something called Perversity points which acts in a somewhat similar, albeit more sinister, manner.
SkaSaxGuy
May 11, 2010
Just wanted to say I love the podcast (I only wish there were more of them!).
A few house rules that I have implemented in my game:
I hand out poker chips out for cool moves in combat, roleplaying and helping out with game stuff (making tokens, helping with maps, initiative etc) and the players can use them as follows:
– 1 token per +1 (max of 3 spent on one roll) on any d20 roll (skill check, attack roll, saving throw) OR they can spend 3 to re-roll any d20 roll
– you may also use an action point to: recharge an encounter power, re-roll a d20 roll or buy back your second wind.