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In the (Cortex engine) Leverage RPG, the flashback is there in part to allow you to split the party, but have other players still...

No. Spending a Fate point gives you a +2 or a reroll. They are not “just declare whatever you want” points. Fate does have other...

I don't know what 'reasonably possible' means here. Lots of games have very contrived game systems, for example turn-based ones. No-one...

Here I was more referring to the idea that if metacurrency creates a particular result, you can present that in an artificial and...

I think this is an easy answer, but not a very useful one. First, lots of things that people casually label 'metacurrency' don't mess...

I think maybe there is a lot being lost here, dunno where you got any of that. Let's recap. You wanted an example of how metacurrency...

Metacurrency as a mechanical resource This is the use of a currency as a resource; used to modify a mechanical effect. Like burning...

I think it depends how you think of them. You could think of them as spending extra effort. As a real-world example, when I would fight...

This is not even remotely true....like not even close. From series to series, sometimes even from comic to comic, we see the Hulk or...

If a poker player used his supply of chips to bluff a win out of a poor hand, would you accuse them of not taking the loss they "should...

Has anyone played much Cortex Primer here? Especially Marvel Heroic Roleplaying.... I have a hack of Cortex for Exalted (here) It...

Meta-currencies are not "I win" buttons. They are just a resource.

I think it qualifies as meta if you use, say, an encounter calculator to make an appropriate encounter for the adventure, as opposed to...

I do find it interesting that some folks do not want an intrusion into the fiction by an outside, or meta, force -- EXCEPT the GM. The...

This sounds like a skill issue. I find it trivially easy to incorporate such things into a consistent narrative. You just build on the...