I used to play a lot of Fluxx - we'd use it as warm-up and/or wind-down at that big Amber campaign from way back when, and we'd often haul it with to game night at the Blue Dragon Cafe. One year, FLUXX gave me a killer idea for something to add to our White Elephant gift-exchange.
I ordered a stack of Fluxx blanxx, and mostly completed them, but left a spot on each to be filled in later. So it'd say something like "New Rule: _____ Draws an Extra Card. If _____ is playing this game, they draw an extra card each turn." Each one was different, and I made more of them than we had people attending the white elephant party.
At the end of the White Elephant exchange, each person would enter their own name (in sharpie) into the blanks on the cards they ended up with. Then, instead of keeping the card, they'd put it in my deck. From then on, whenever we'd play, there'd be a chance of a card coming up that helped them specifically. I was the only person in that gaming group who didn't/couldn't get such a card.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
PCs at Xmas
I like to give holiday presents to the PCs in my campaigns. (I haven't been able to do so in recent years, due to campaigns ending right around the holiday season).
This year, I had an easy gift for my Scion campaign. The PCs all ascended to Demigodhood for the holidays. This effectively doubled (at least) the power-level and XP total of the PCs. (And the irony of doing this for Christmas was not lost upon me. Umm... sacrilicious.)
In other years where we've done "White Elephant" random gift exchanges amongst the whole play group. When that's going on, I generally make little "gift cards" to put in the mix, with presents such as "+5 XP", "you gain a 3-pt henchman", "+1 die to the Ability of your choice" or "You are now Dworkin's favorite (for good or ill), and as such he brings you the jewel of judgment", whatever sort of stuff is relevant to the game we were playing.
The best gift card I ever made was my "Pound of (Drama) Dice" for 7th Sea. I had a single-player campaign going in 2002 - 2005. For Xmas one year, I made a punch card for the player (my wife) including one use of every single different thing a double-blooded sorceress-swordswoman (such as her character was) could get out of a drama die or reputation die. It had 17 entries, and was limited to 1 use per session.
This year, I had an easy gift for my Scion campaign. The PCs all ascended to Demigodhood for the holidays. This effectively doubled (at least) the power-level and XP total of the PCs. (And the irony of doing this for Christmas was not lost upon me. Umm... sacrilicious.)
In other years where we've done "White Elephant" random gift exchanges amongst the whole play group. When that's going on, I generally make little "gift cards" to put in the mix, with presents such as "+5 XP", "you gain a 3-pt henchman", "+1 die to the Ability of your choice" or "You are now Dworkin's favorite (for good or ill), and as such he brings you the jewel of judgment", whatever sort of stuff is relevant to the game we were playing.
The best gift card I ever made was my "Pound of (Drama) Dice" for 7th Sea. I had a single-player campaign going in 2002 - 2005. For Xmas one year, I made a punch card for the player (my wife) including one use of every single different thing a double-blooded sorceress-swordswoman (such as her character was) could get out of a drama die or reputation die. It had 17 entries, and was limited to 1 use per session.
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