Here’s a new house rule for BSG:
Player characters can use Plot Points to aid a group, unit, or NPC under their command. The PC may either create a pool for use by those NPCs prior to the action sequence beginning (ex. CPT Muir decides to create a 4PP pool for his vipers during an upcoming battle) or, they must be able to communicate with the NPC to use plot point during an action sequence (ex. Muir has comms with a viper that is about to start a strafing run on a Cylon position. He can aid the roll of the NPC with his own plot points.)
31 August, 2012 at 20:08
I like this short of sharing mechanic, particularly in seeing how the players come up with ways to represent the sharing of the points in-character. Pep talks, briefings, flashbacks to drunken confessions of stupid mistakes, shouts of ‘look out!’ and so on…
The fringe benefit of having yet another reason to pay careful attention to the actions and intentions of the other players doesn’t hurt, either.
1 September, 2012 at 02:24
Did you mean sort? That’s my interpretation.
1 September, 2012 at 02:27
I did, I accidentally donated a surplus h to the cause.
1 September, 2012 at 11:51
And that’s the gift that keeps giving all year long… chuckle.