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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    I noted something similar earlier about the tendency of modern heist/caper RPGs to include a mechanism for flashbacks that change the...
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    Deadstop reacted to Nytmare's post in the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency with Like Like.
    Egads. I know that there are almost 40 more pages of discussion ahead of this that I still need to chew through, but this reminded me...
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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    This part of the conversation is with me, not Micah. And while Micah indeed does not like too much PC/NPC separation, even he has said...
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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    But the in-world reality isn’t “picks a feat, which everyone gets a choice of at adulthood.” That’s how the ability is gated for PCs. It...
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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    5e NPCs aren’t built with PC rules and don’t take feats, though. Eberron assumes yes, regular people learn appropriate cantrips and...
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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    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...
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    Deadstop replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    What game or games are you talking about? It would basically have to be “improv governed solely by a metacurrency” to work like that...
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    Darem doesn’t turn into metal, he shows his true Khionian form as a fishlike alien. Hence the “fishstick” nickname/insult in a later...
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