Race boon as incentive for GMing

[RainyDayNinja]

I got one of those Kitsune/Wayang/Nagaji race boons at a con recently, but since I have not particular desire to use any of those races, I plan on using it as an incentive to get people in my local PFS group to GM. Does anyone have suggestions on how to implement this?

I was thinking either:
1) Give it to the first person to GM 3 games, or
2) Make it a random drawing, in which each game someone GMs counts as one entry.

Thoughts?

[Jiggy]

Maybe for their first GM star?

[Drogon]

Both sound like excellent ideas. Your players will very likely be all over it.

Personally, I would go with #2, and make it a 6 week contest. That will give them time and incentive to GM as much as possible, and create a "weighted" lottery. Throw in a couple other prizes (you pay for a scenario PDF, a cool new dice bag/set of dice, or add in some of the more common boons) so that there isn't just a single winner.

[Jiggy]

Drogon wrote:

Throw in a couple other prizes (you pay for a scenario PDF, a cool new dice bag/set of dice, or add in some of the more common boons) so that there isn't just a single winner.

You could add the Character Folio to that list of prizes; lots of folks would be all over that, I imagine.

[RainyDayNinja]

Jiggy wrote:

Maybe for their first GM star?

That's way too high a target. It would take 5 months of non-stop GMing at our current rate, so they would likely just dismiss it as too hard.

[Azothath]

first to GM 3 games keeps it simple and reasonable... Don't forget to keep the ongoing scores out where everyone can see them as that is your motivator metric.

[Hayato Ken]

I´m with Jiggy here, first GM star is a good choice. For a lot of people, race boons or any boons like that are hard to come by. 3 games seem to view there. Also with 10 games they have more incentive to bring other people to gaming and perhaps the games rate will increase.

[Xuttah]

Yeah, I'd take a race boon from previous years as a reward for hitting tier one. Only eight more sessions, and I'd be someone (or thing) special.

[Feral]

I like the idea of something exclusive but not necessarily game mechanic related.

The last thing I think we want is people DMing with the sole purpose of unlocking some character optimization perk.