Cinematic House-Rules - Post them if you got 'em!

[Ragitsu]

Speaking of which, how often do you guys award Hero Points/Success Points/Victory Points/Heroic Mettle Points/etc?

[kdtipa]

I base it partly on how many the players already have. It's not like character points where there needs to be a progression. I don't want the characters to have a stock of 10 HMPs that they can use to totally overrun a session. So I keep in mind what they have. And then just wait for those moments where they come up with that really good idea, or pull of something especially impressive.

[RedMattis]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Speaking of which, how often do you guys award Hero Points/Success Points/Victory Points/Heroic Mettle Points/etc?

A set number at the start of every meeting.

Character points depend on good roleplaying (etc.), but I give out the same amount of Fate Points regardless.

[Pmandrekar]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

That is creepy: I use something similar, only I call them Victory Points.

Or Hero Points. I use something familiar to this as well.

I find that if you let players use CPs to affect the action, sometimes they are stingy with doing so, since they also want to 'advance' their character.

[Pmandrekar]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Speaking of which, how often do you guys award Hero Points/Success Points/Victory Points/Heroic Mettle Points/etc?

It's at my whim. I hand them out for good roleplaying, great jokes, flamboyant heroism. Sometimes, if someone uses their points to do something exceptionally self-sacrificing, the Gods see fit to hand them all back.

The short answer is: As many per session as I expect them to spend.

The cost of doing things are set accordingly. If I want players to be able to tweak one roll a game, I would hand out 2 Hero points, and then charge 2 hero points to convert a Crit Failure into a Success.

If I expected each player to do so 3x per session, I would hand out 6 points, and charge the same 2 points. And so on.

-P.

[Gigermann]

Originally Posted by Pmandrekar

Or Hero Points. I use something familiar to this as well.

I find that if you let players use CPs to affect the action, sometimes they are stingy with doing so, since they also want to 'advance' their character.

I got around this issue by giving a number of Temporary CPs for these purposes—use 'em or lose 'em. Worked well enough.

[Ragitsu]

Anyone work on a "Judo Chop" Technique yet?

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Anyone work on a "Judo Chop" Technique yet?

Exotic Hand Strike + Skill Adaption (Exotic Hand Strike from Judo)

[Dwarf99]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

Exotic Hand Strike + Skill Adaption (Exotic Hand Strike from Judo)

I also thought that Hammer Fist would work

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Anyone work on a "Judo Chop" Technique yet?

If you mean in the way Austin Powers uses it, it seems like an application of Kayo. :)