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I am a fan, and to be honest I do this already (on my own).
I do have the luck of living in a city that has a lot of cons, or is near a lot. Atlanta has Dragon*Con, and I can go to cons like SCARAB, Mobicon, Play-on-con, and I get to go to Indy for Gencon as well. so I would say 4-5 cons on average. I try to GM in all of them, so I do accumulate quite a number of boons between what I GM and play.
Last year, I got two Nagaji/Wayang/Kitsune boons. I kept one for myself and donated the other to a special event we had at GA PFS for christmas. I have given out other boons (Tien weapon training, varisian weapon training, prosperity, xenophobia, extra trait) that I just don't want anymore or don't plan to use and given them to players that I think did an excellent job at the table:
Some examples:
Gave one to a player that blew his personal scroll of word of recall to save the rest of the party.
Gave one to a player that I killed and didnt have enough PP to come back. (good incentive to roll up a new charater!)
Gave one to a player that stayed behind to hold back enemies while the rest escape. He was the only casualty, even though everyone chipped in for the raise as well.
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So Paizo would reward the people who do not attend Paizo events? Okaaaaay.
I can only see this working if the boon didn't 'activate' unless the non-attendee ATTENDED the next con along by getting the organising judge to sign it as 'activated'.
Aside from that, I'd say this idea has zero chance of happening.
Organise your own con already, folks! Or find an great GM like CRobledo who rewards awesome heroics.
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I *do* like the idea of the shared boons though. I also like the idea of high star GMs having lots of goodies to give away at their whims to encourage heroics and roleplaying. I would just get miffed if I was at a con and I won something that I had to give to someone else (I don't have that many boons...)
Shared boons could be really cool for those adventurers travelling together. For example:
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BLOOD KIN
You have struck an unusually strong relationship with another Pathfinder. Whether you have sworn a blood oath together, grown up together, or are in a deeply affectionate relationship, when you are adventuring together you both temporarily gain the benefits of the 'Shake It Off' teamwork feat.
Write the name of your character's blood kin here: _________.
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"NOOOOO!!!"
You have struck an unusually strong relationship with another Pathfinder. Whenever this ally is killed by any attack that requires an attack roll and you are within 20 feet, as an immediate action you may roll a reflex save to leap in front of the attack to save the life of your ally. This action can be taken immediately after the GM calculates the killing blow.
The reflex DC is 10 + HD of the single strongest enemy close to your ally. Success means you deflect the blow completely and fall prone between the enemy and your ally. Failure means you fall prone as per success, but the damage is resolved against your ally.
This action cannot be taken if you are flat-footed or helpless. Once used successfully, this boon is used up forever.
Write the name of your character's protected ally here: _________.
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Actually, I'd love to see teamwork boons. You get two copies at a con; one MUST be given away. When two characters at a table have the same boon, they get to use the teamwork feat (or something similar).
We've already done teamwork boons and they received nothing but negative feedback. I don't remember even one positive post or email about them. A, teamwork boons will most likely not be made available on a boon.
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Actually, I'd love to see teamwork boons. You get two copies at a con; one MUST be given away. When two characters at a table have the same boon, they get to use the teamwork feat (or something similar).We've already done teamwork boons and they received nothing but negative feedback. I don't remember even one positive post or email about them. A, teamwork boons will most likely not be made available on a boon.
I've never seen one of these - and I would have loved to get one, especially either of the ones that KG suggested upthread. Possibly it's because I tend to play at tables with friends rather than random groups.
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Actually, I'd love to see teamwork boons. You get two copies at a con; one MUST be given away. When two characters at a table have the same boon, they get to use the teamwork feat (or something similar).We've already done teamwork boons and they received nothing but negative feedback. I don't remember even one positive post or email about them. A, teamwork boons will most likely not be made available on a boon.
Mike, I think the big problem with those teamwork boons was in the execution. And the execution had some pretty big flaws:
1a) Boons are usually handed out randomly, so it's very hard to predict who is going to get which boon. This means that it's statistically very unlikely that you and a friend will both get the same one if you go to a con. This means that there's a good chance that if you mostly play at local gamedays, if you don't have a match now, you won't have a match until next year when you go to that big con again (and even then it might not be likely). The idea in this thread to give the second copy out to a person of your choice fixes this.
1b) It's so rare to find someone who matches, that you'll probably stop obsessively asking if people have it eventually, so even if you sit at a table with a match, you might not know
2) Teamwork feats often are good only for certain kinds of characters. So for instance Target of Opportunity is godlike for an archer, but worthless for a melee character. Thus, this even moreso reduces your chances to get one you can use.
3) After all this reduction of chances to usefully match (and I've never seen someone match in all my tables), you only get a one-time benefit anyway
I have some ideas for how to make an effective teamwork boon. One quick idea is to make you permanently count as having a teamwork feat of your choice for the purposes of letting other people use their teamwork feat with you (but you gain no benefits). Any rogue who plays with the same person would die to give that boon to a buddy for Outflank. If you're interested in giving out teamwork boons that would make people more excited and would like to hear some thoughts, I'd be happy to PM some others.
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No, these were not random. Every player that participated at a con was supposed to receive one so that all six players at a table could utilize them. It was probably miscommunication between the con organizer and myself so I will take the blame for that. Think of it kind of like a door prize for showing up at a con.
Also, we made sure there were 3-4 different teamwork so casters and melee and ranged could all benefit.
I don't have the boons in front of me because I'm at Origins but I know they should have been made readily available and that most, if not all, players at a con could have benefited from them.
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No, these were not random. Every player that participated at a con was supposed to receive one so that all six players at a table could utilize them. It was probably miscommunication between the con organizer and myself so I will take the blame for that. Think of it kind of like a door prize for showing up at a con.
Also, we made sure there were 3-4 different teamwork so casters and melee and ranged could all benefit.
I don't have the boons in front of me because I'm at Origins but I know they should have been made readily available and that most, if not all, players at a con could have benefited from them.
Oops! Maybe this isn't from the same set I saw? It's been over a year, so I could be hallucinating, but I'm almost positive that I remember rolling randomly for which boon to get. Maybe there was a sleeker version later that gave out all the options as choices?
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We've already done teamwork boons and they received nothing but negative feedback. I don't remember even one positive post or email about them. A, teamwork boons will most likely not be made available on a boon.
Regrettable. I like teamwork feats, but I always assume that no one else uses them, so I don't bother taking them myself ... and as far as I can tell, so does everyone else at the PFS table. ;p
One quick idea is to make you permanently count as having a teamwork feat of your choice for the purposes of letting other people use their teamwork feat with you (but you gain no benefits)
I like this. I think it needs tweaking, but I don't know what I'd do with it to tweak it, so hm.
If we saturated a big con with these, this could lead to more people being willing to take teamwork feats. I know I wouldn't mind collecting the whole set on several different characters, even if it gave me no benefit, just because it makes the table more efficient ... and knowing that there are other PCs like that at the table ... hm.
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I liked it.I've received no feedback yet.Mike,
The Emerald Elixir boon is sort of a teamwork boon.
How well is it being received?
I like it, but when I asked some of the players in my region about it, it was pretty much panned as "play to win" and some players even said they'd single out and specifically target characters who use the Elixir if they were GMing for that character. This doesn't apply for all of the players, of course, but I received no positive responses, only neutral and this.
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I like the idea, but they have limited appeal to those who don't regularly play with a buddy/partner/child/etc.
And if you do play with a regular companion you already have the possibility of taking teamwork feats, which gives you options not generally considered by the bulk of PFS players.
For example, my wife and I have characters with both "Lookout" and "Outflank" feats, and have built a "first strike" team that has a fair chance of seriously inconveniencing many enemy spellcasters at the onset of combat (possibly even culminating in a full attack from the rogue against an outflanked, prone, and still flat-footed opponent).
If nothing has come of this, I'd like to toss my hat in for I like the idea of shared boons (teamwork feats as boon being something different) I think it could add a lot to inner party roleplay (but not enough to slow the game down) by hopefully getting people more "into" their characters and how that character would inter/act with those around them and the world in general. This dynamic between "boon bubbies" © could hopefully also create a space where other players get more "into" roleplaying. why not reward roleplay, big numbers have enough advantages
