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Current scientific consensus is that they domesticated themselves. They moved into our space from surrounding wilderness, accepting the...

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...

Our Fading Suns game has meta-currency points based on landing critical success, but failures give points to the GM. The GM had built up...

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...

So I think this is the main issue with discussion about this. To me, there’s no discernible difference between hit points and expertise...

What game or games are you talking about? It would basically have to be “improv governed solely by a metacurrency” to work like that...

When you build strawmen, do you prefer plastic or paper straws?

I've been fine with them ever since I was introduced to them in the Ghostbusters roleplaying game. For me... there is a distinct split...

I agree, and even more so when the GM metacurrency is at least partially tied to the PC's actions. This is one area where 2d20 has some...

One of the reasons I like GM facing metacurrencies is because it helps alleviate the question of whether the GM was acting fairly. Don't...

I love them. For decades, at least in the circles I ran in, it felt like the holy grail of gaming experiences was when you'd have a...

I like meta-currencies. I also like the idea of having an interplay between the GM meta-currency and the player meta-currency, though...

I'm warming up to DM's metacurrency because oftentimes, "DM doing whatever they want" is often 1) unnecessarily antagonistic and 2) an...

[This is another htread in my ongoing exploration of foundational TTRPG elements to consider for Bucket: The RPG, my personal RPG design...