Field Reports

[SimonMoon6]

In several games that I've run, I've offered bonus experience to players who did anything supplemental for the game, like writing up the events that happened during a session or (since one player was more artistically inclined), illustrating important moments from a given session. This was occasionally extended to illustrating possible future plot ideas, things that might happen.

Since it involved bonus xp, nobody was hurt if they didn't get any, and anybody who wanted some could get some. (Generally, I only had one person writing and one person illustrating.) But I don't know that it would've worked as well if it was mandatory for everybody.

Rewarding those who choose to do so and not punishing those who don't seems to work pretty well in my experience.