Any ideas on ways to reward players for contributing backstory / fluff to PF campaign wiki?


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I'm a player in a D&D3.5 high-level game where the DM lets us contribute backstory/fluff to a shared wiki for the campaign. For each "entry" we contribute, 400XP are contributed to a party fund for use in the creation of magic items. Magic item creation still costs the normal amount of money.

The DM has final editorial rights on all "entries" to keep the campaign going the way he wants.

Now, I'm starting to run a Pathfinder campaign, and I'd like to do a similar mechanic, but rewarding XP for magic items doesn't make sense given the Pathfinder rules. Do you all have any other ideas for rewards I could use?

Liberty's Edge

I've always used bonus XP for leveling as a reward but I suppose you can always put a gold into a 'magic item creation' pool to be used which might be fun for them as well if you didn't want to give them actual XP. We use Hero Points in our game so I might do something like reward 1/4 of a Hero Point for each entry.


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Free (lower-end and highly situational) traits? Hero points, as Liquidsabre suggested, are nice as well. A single favored class bonus 'bonus' on top of normal favored class bonuses (not to exceed character level).

I would be wary about 'per entry' and do it more ad-hoc based on length and quality.


To be honest, I think the most important thing to the player is that the their input is going to matter. So if they have some cool idea, and then it later comes into play, they are going to feel rewarded. If your set on having a mechanical benefit than the hero point idea isn't a bad way to go. But I've found that players really appreciate DM's that allow them to have input.


I would not give ingame benefits for doing stuff in a wiki. Of course this promotes activity in your wiki, but if you have players, with little time to do extra stuff, they might feel disadvantaged(plus it doesn't mage any sense ingame). I personally wouldn't like the idea to get something like hero points or whatever for writing fluff, if i'd like to write some stuff, i'd do it, if not it wouldn't be that good anyway.
I would follow the idea of WPharolin..

Grand Lodge

For most such situations, the opportunity to preen is usually reward enough.


My girlfriend is giving out bonus traits (similar to those in the APG) for detailed background work as appropriate to the background.

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