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Right but every time the previous blows landed, there is a very high probability that the fiction was about getting hit: bruises, blood...

I like a well implemented meta currency system. They are all over the place these days so that’s fortunate for me, I guess. The...

Also, to add... you don't have to see how. You get that, right? That you don't have to understand what works for others? You have to...

Unless you have it that hit points represent fatigue, nicks, scratches, and suchlike as well as just luck; thus meaning the character...

Why you think Chirrut Îmwe is not force sensitive? To me it seems pretty clear that he is, just not necessarily at a jedi level. And...

How I interpret it to avoid the complete player/character decisions disconnect, is that every hit point has at least a little bit of...

What I care about is are the player decisions meta, and if they do not correspond to a decisions the character makes they are.

Hard disagree. Hit points are an abstraction, but they still represent something real in the fiction that the character can experience...

but they can feel exhausted and sore, maybe even bruised, and know that drinking that potion helps with that

Burning Wheel is pretty clear on what a GM can do to dice pools by spending Fate or Persona for a NPC. Marvel Heroic RP is pretty clear...

I see. I would definitely call unconscious use meta. The character is not making a choice to use it.

that is not what @Umbran wrote. The question was ‘Do you understand the reasons folks want GMs to follow some rules, generally?’

Or, if you're going to make tactical decisions about resources, to make them from the character's point of view. In the fiction the...

but the character does know that sometimes things just work out for them against the odds, so maybe all they do is confidently walk...