Today, I’m working with a client who is setting up a series of brief questionnaires to give customers who take their business elsewhere. And if you do the questionnaire, you get $25 toward future service should you come back later. (It’s a suitable and attractive amount relative to the service they provide).
It made me think that I really want to give “Please come back! Here’s an incentive!” coupons to players when I’m in work-out-the-bugs mode and haven’t really delivered an optimal experience.
Yeah. Maybe I’ll start doing that. VOUCHER: One seat at a future table run by me.
It’s also ok to not be on your game every time, though. As long as you don’t feel like you owe every player the experience of their lives every time 🙂
Oh but I doooo.
Maybe give them a business card that says Take +1 Forward when you play in one of my games…
I imagine your game nights are the hottest ticket in Arizona and you really don’t need a compensation package, but . . .
You could get some uniquely coloured D6s. Hand them out to the players who you have sub-optimally entertained and let them roll them as one off boosts in a subsequent game.
Plus points: test your GM creativity trying to incorporate the additional roll into the narrative. You get the dice back after its single use.
What if they come back and that game sucks, too?
I smell a scam.
You almost fell for it.
Damn.
I sometimes play test for someone who rewards us by letting us know how subsequent runs go…. It’s interesting to see what other groups do with the same premise.