Hero Points

Another thing that I am instituting in this game: Hero points. Basically, if you do something that I deem especially heroic, hilarious, or noteworthy, I will award you hero points that can be used in game. Here is a summary, from the blog rpgcentric.com:

Rules:

1. The awarding of hero points is at the discretion of the DM.
2. Uses for hero Points:
1. On his turn, before determining the success or failure of an action, a player can announce that he is using a hero point to help accomplish the action. Normally, the hero point adds a bonus of +20 to the action, if the roll of a d20 dictates its success or failure.
1. If used with an attack roll, and the attack roll would have succeeded without the hero point, the hero point doubles the damage inflicted by the attack or it allows the PC to make a “called shot,” inflicting a special effect.
2. A hero point can allow a character to take a normal round’s worth of actions out of the regular initiative sequence with no special bonuses. He then returns to his normal initiative count.
3. If used when a character is being attacked by either a physical attack, a spell, or some other threat, the hero point can be used to add a +1d20 luck bonus to Armor Class or to a saving throw. If used with a saving throw for half damage or a partial effect, if the character would have made the save without the help of the hero point, he takes no damage or ill effect at all.
4. If used when a die roll determines that the character will die, a hero point can be used to avoid death and instead suffers a great and debilitating injury determined by the DM—the character gains a disfiguring scar, loses a hand, loses an eye, gains a limp, and so on. This is the only case when a hero point can be used after the result of an action is determined.
5.  For spells: 
1. Hero points allow a spellcaster to cast a spell above your current level. For each level the spell is above the character's current spell level, another hero point must be used.
2. Hero points allow a spellcaster to add additional targets for a known spell. For more than 10 additional targets, this use causes unconsciousness.
   
6. A character can use a hero point to make something work in a way the rules normally do not allow. This requires careful DM adjudication.

Things I will award Hero Points for:

1. At the end of every chapter of the story, I will ask for summaries. Those that are especially good will earn a hero point and be posted on the Blog.
2. For exceptionally in-character or heroic actions, I may reward hero points.
3. At least for now, I will reward hero points once a week to those who posted every day of the previous week. If this leads to a mass accumulation of hero points, this may not continue too long...