NON-EXPERIENCE AWARDS
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Compiled from various posts on rec.games.frp.dnd.
This file was downloaded from http://www.zioth.com/roleplay


Rewards to give characters besides experience and gold:
These are good because they can add to the interest of the game,
and can all cause as much harm as good.

Information/Knowledge/Enlightenment
 Maps to lost treasures or civilizations.
 Consultations with oracles.
 Information about a rival.
 Location of a secret passage into/out of a castle.
 True (or false) knowledge of the workings of the universe.
Fame/Prestige/Reputation
 The bards start singing your praises.
 You're in the chronicles.
 *Someone might want to take you down to make himself a reputation.
 *Privacy is reduced.
 *Everyone wants your help.
Romance/Spouse/Family/Children
 Prove devotion to a girl through ungood tasks, etc.
 Carry her token into battle.
 Get her parents' permission and blessing (need money).
 Marriage, children (must be supported).
 Teach children.
 Kids leave home -- endless possibilities.
Power (Physical/Mystical/Political)
 Lands.
 Tax-collecting.
 Immunity from tolls.
 Hunting rights.
 Timber rights.
 Monopolies.
 *New responsibility.
 *Deal with bureaucracy.
 *Deal with people who want your power.
 *Rights may have been taken from someone else to reward the char.
 *People might try to discredit you to get the rights for themselves.


Non-Magical Treasure

Art: paintings, sculpture, music boxes, clocks, ancient tomb
transcribed with a famous but lost speech, books (poetry, philosophy,
science, lore), combs, buckles, buttons (now known as cuff-links),
clips, broaches, bangles, beads, jewelry, gold chains (sometimes
hundreds of yards transported to a jeweler), fur cloaks, fine leather
and wood saddles with silver or gold inlay and carvings, barding

Music boxes:
 Cylinder: pinned cylinder plucks the tune from a comb of tuned steel
 teeth.
 Disc: tags of metal from perforated disk used to pluck a tune from a
 comb of steel teeth using asterisk-shaped "star wheels." It's easier
 to change a disk than a cylinder, so these replaced cylinders quickly.
 Made in elaborate cases with lots of inlay and intaglio, fancy
 carvings, etc.