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So wait, is, say, "the character handles the temptation to lust perfectly fine, and he moves on with this quest" (what seems to me to be...

What you're talking about isn't rules. It's player fiat/free roleplay. That's not compromise. That's just what you said you wanted in...

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...

Sure, but my original comment wasn’t about you in particular. For some people, “because magic” is a perfectly acceptable answer...

From my vantage point, at least when I first saw it being used, it was a resource that the player spent, that the character had no...

All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

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 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...

The salient point is that it brings out the unwanted. There is a conflict between what the fiction demands and what you the player would...

I'd go so far as to say that it's either the player or it's just an auton or script. This hypothetical internal model suggests that all...

No, I get it. I’ve done it before. But I think the distinction here is I perceive that external model as still being you. A set of...

This is why, upthread, I wondered about Goading Attack and Menacing attack:

There's a lot of subjective opinion and personal preference here. A specific definition of "proper" immersion. The dice "screwing you...