RE: [DL] 2 Questions about Chips

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Here's how I do it:  I've got a big posse (8 to 9 players!) and I decided
that there just weren't enough chips in the pot, so I doubled the number of
each standard color.  This also has the effect of diluting legend chips, but
that only affects the posse, not me (the marshal) ;-)

As marshal, I decided that I get to keep chips from session to session, but
not from adventure/story/yarn (whatever term you use) to the next.  So I
collect my chips and get them back next session, until the posse gets past
the current head-bad-guy. Then I toss whatever is left back into the pot.
By that time tho pretty much no chips are left on either side of the screen.

And I enforce the 10-chips limit on everybody -- players and myself.  Keeps
the max number of chips out of the pot to 80 or 90 for our group.  Yup, when
the pot's full there's lots of chips in there.  I got a big spitoon for our
fate pot.

HTH

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net 
> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Jungbluth
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:34 AM
> To: Deadlands Mailinglist
> Subject: [DL] 2 Questions about Chips
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> during our last DL session last nigth i encountert a small 
> problem about giving faith chips away as rewards. what 
> happens if all the blue and most of the red chips are gone 
> from the pot and an adventure calls for an award of 2 blue 
> and 4 red chips for each player at the end of the session, 
> and there are not enougth chips left?
> 
> another thing i was wondering about all the time: everyone 
> (including the marshal) draws 3 chips at the beginning of a 
> session the players for sure keep all the chips they have not 
> spend but what happens whit the chips from the marshal? does 
> he discard all chips he got or has left at the end of the 
> session and starts with 3 the next time or does he also keep 
> a running total?
> 
> regards
> 
> Patrick
>