I've mentioned this question before, but now we are about a month and a half away from actually starting ACKS, I do want to bring it up again, and perhaps get some serious feedback.
In the ACKS rules as written, if the party seizes 10,000 gp in treasure, and there are 5 PCs and 10 henchmen (a not unrealistic scenario). Regardless of how the treasure is actually split up, the PC's will each get 1000 XP from "treasure share", and each henchman will get 500 XP.
Now the actual treasure split, by the book, should be: 230gp for each henchman (15 shares each), and 1,539gp for each PC (100 shares each).
My instinct is that it would be far clearer to do things this way:
The PC's split the cash evenly. Each PC awards his own henchmen cash out of his share as he wishes (but if the PC takes more than 6-7 times the amount of any henchman, that henchman will consider himself ill-used). Sometime a PC might get a larger share of the total pot if he doesn't get a good magic item. Sometimes a PC might steal or hide treasure and end up with a larger total. And here's the important bit: the PC's and henchmen get XP based on the amount of gold they actually take home for themselves, not as a share of the theoretical pot.
How do people actually feel about this?
Actually, your suggestion seems fair. It'll also make us watch each other a little closer, in order to get our share.
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