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Ok. It is helpful to me, because I value mechanics representing fiction (as opposed to being present for some other purpose) very highly.

Again, the method matters far less to me than the fact that it represents something real in the fiction, with demonstrable effects.

I mean, in a fantasy setting, can’t you just justify any “metagame” currency as being a blessing of the gods diegetically, and thus now...

I find it helps my creativity when worldbuilding or designing encounters. Often I'm trying to relate things to real history, so "give me...

They might, but it's not necessarily about what the characters believe. Plenty of people in Star Wars don't believe the Force exists...

But they represent something that is in the text.

Thank you! This is what I'm talking about.

To a point, sure. Same for things like spell points or slots, and magic in general for all that: it's real in the setting, and the...

I never said you were wrong, like you have me. I've just expressed a different subjective opinion than you. My definition of...

Another game I never played or read, but fair enough. People like luck I suppose.

Fair enough, but unless your rulebooks are the size of the collected Encyclopedia Brittanica there's inevitably going to be situations...

If you are trying to align your subjective opinion with some kind of majority in an attempt to validate your preference over mine, I...

I suppose so, but they're also distasteful (to me, anyway), and I prefer other ways to represent that sort of thing. Level Up's exertion...

Who's "we"? Do you mean that's not how you decide? Not me. You might see the fact that it represents a real thing as a fig leaf that...

I think that's debatable. Are inspiration, luck, willpower and fate real things in the setting that have real, concrete effects, like...