Victory Points

Establishing a standard for when your players successfully overcome a complex obstacle ensures that the consequences of the challenge are meaningful and rewarding. Victory Points are a valuable tool to help build your own subsystems for tracking these successes. Many other subsystems throughout this chapter use these as well, though often by a different name. Victory Points (or VP) allow you to track the PCs' progress using a subsystem to go beyond the results of a single check. Victory Points have almost unlimited potential as a campaign tool; you could track and resolve them within a single encounter, or you could collect them over the course of an entire campaign to determine the outcome of a particular story element.