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[Little Indian #5]

Leitchy mentioned elsewhere that he has a house rule where bennies don't count towards experience. I plan on doing it just the same way, because I think that the chance to gain additional experience through bennies will keep the players from spending those during the games (I witnessed that in a DC Heroes campaign) and I think not using bennies during play would go against the concept of "FFF".
Anybody else here who thinks it's not a good idea to allow players to swap bennies for experience?
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[Mauler]

A friend of mine uses a compromise in his game.
Bennies only give you an experience point on a roll of 6. This way people spend bennies more often, because the chance to convert them is rather slim, but there is still some potential reward if you make it through a session without spending all your bennies.

[DerFinsterling]

My players convert like in the book, but they never get to hoard them. After a combat I throw them a benny, as well as for roleplaying. So, they're using them alright. Sometimes there is one player left with 3 or even 4 bennies because he had a lot of luck (or not a lot of action), others are left empty handed. While this may be unfair on one occasion, I have found that it balances out in the longer run.
The only house rule we have is: Spend 3 bennies and gain one xp automatically. That's rarely used though, since my players are way too greedy. The record was: 5 bennies, all rolled, got no xp out of it.
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[Mr. Freak]

I think the rules are fine, although I have observed that it makes the luck and great luck edges really powerfull.

I do like the idea of 1 xp for all bennies spent.

Do you give out extra bennies as spot awards for good roleplaying, amusing the table, or heroic actions?

[jblittlefield]

I allow the exchange; however, since I use Bennies as "drama points" as well as for their intended purpose, they are rarely hanging around at the end of the session. I've only had one game (and that was before I started using them as drama points) in which a player actually had a Benny left over at session's end!

[DerFinsterling]

[Little Indian #5]

[Clint]

[razorwise]

Clint,

I really like that suggestion.

I've been running a 50F campaign and I have one Doreen that livens up when it's fight time to get "coup" and then hoards his bennies like a dwarf hoards mithril. (However, he did loosen up on them when he started getting blasted by that Octopon Warlock. )

The rest of the players spend them more wisely, usually using them up in the course of roleplaying, reserving 1 generally for emergency soaking in combat.

Regards,

Sean
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[palehorse]

The campaigns I run are usually short enough that a couple of extra XP aren't really going to make much difference. Regardless, I don't do the bennies-for-XP thing.
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[jblittlefield]

[jblittlefield]

[Clint]

[jblittlefield]

[ragnarok]

I don't use this rule. As seen in Deadlands, at least one(and most likely two) of my players WILL do anything to avoid getting into situations where spending FateChips/Bennies comes in handy.

The situations usually looks like this:
1. Trouble arrives.
2. Said player finds a plausible reason why his character is not attacked
3. The other players save the day and HIS butt(and sometimes spend Fatechips while doing so).

You can see the effect from two sides:
a) The other players get punished for doing the right thing (i.e a loss of FateChips/XP in comparison to the problem-player).
b) Said player get's rewarded for doing nothing(extra XP for unspent Bennies), even worse he can throw the balance of your planned encounter into a very wrong side(which should be like "kneedeep in their own blood, but they'll survive with a little luck and teamwork"-> I hope they'll get luck).

Seeing this as a player(I don't GM Deadlands) sucks BIG time and I don't want to see such behavoir in my games(and bashing his characters will make me very happy a lot of times, but it will not work in the long run(remember: A GM without players ain't a GM)).


In my next campaign I'll most likely go for a 1-in-6 chance per earned* bennie(regardless if you spent them or not), so if you got 3 extra-bennies during the Session, you can either roll 3d6 getting an XP for each 1 or you roll 1d6 getting an XP on 1-3. May sound compicated, but really isn't.

*Ok in an effort not to lesson the worth of "luck" or "young", extra-bennies from these will count as "earned".

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[bighara]

I voted yes, but I use a slightly different XP-for-bennies rule. Each benny left at the end of the session gives the player a cumulative 1 in 6 chance of gaining =1xp. For example, a player with 2 bennies left rolls a d6 and on a 1-2, gets +1xp.
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[DerFinsterling]

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