Melestruas Experience Awards Tokens
Experience Points were one of the greatest innovations in the original role-playing game by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Not only could characters have adventures¸ but they could improve and get more powerful as a result of their experience. I like to reward intelligent play by awarding experience for overcoming any challenge - successfully negotiating a deal¸ obtaining a cruicial piece of information¸ preventing the world from exploding¸ as well as for defeating monsters. The rules give detailed awards for monsters¸ and no guidance at all for anything else other than "you might like to do it"¸ and the rules for monsters are fiddly and require mental arithmetic. They also don't lend themselves to instant feedback. So I have moved away from calculating experience¸ and instead just award each party member a set amount based on the level of challenge and the average party level and using the combat difficulty table of the DMG. This still lacks instant feedback¸ and I tended to forget at the end of a session and have to send round a message to the players afterwards telling them how much XP they had earned. To address this¸ I have developed these XP Award tokens¸ which I hand out immediately the group overcome a challenge which is worth experience. They can then get instant feedback and see their awards mounting up at the table during the session. Bronze tokens are for an easy challenge¸ Silver tokens are for a normal challenge¸ gold tokens are for completing a goal and platinum tokens are for achieving a major campaign goal. These tokens are pay-what-you-want. Try them out and enjoy them for free¸ or if you like the concept and want to leave me a tip¸ add on what you think they are worth. If you do enjoy them¸ please come back¸ rate them¸ review them¸ make contact (and look at my other publications). If they don't work for you - well¸ I'm giving them away for free... Enjoy!