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Well, any resource consumption needed, whether its the encounter/dailies, some kind of fatigue system or whatever can interfere with...

That doesn't help, because the people involved in complaints don't see why that would apply to individual powers. They'd probably have...

Lace and Steel pretty much did that in the 80s.

That's very much like the Earthdawn solution to certain D&D problems though; it works but you need to be very much overt about it, and...

As a side comment, this is one reason the lack of much in the way of guidelines for combat comparison in most superhero games is much...

Going back to the original post, from @Lakesidefantasy so many pages ago: There was an example given as well: The question was (and...

Yeah, its hard to see how some of those setups aren't going to serve different needs and masters better than others, especially in...

I think at this point I agree with a number of others that your personal definition of balance is both idiosyncratic and, honestly...

But pretty much all metacurrencies loosely represent something that exists in the setting, the issue is just in how they represent them...

I agree. To add more examples: Fame and Fortune points appeared in Top Secret back in 1980 - though I believe they were limited to just...

I didn't realize I was obligated to defend what's primarily a hypothetical by finding an extent example that perfectly matches it, but...

Depends on how you view luck-as-resource. I seem to remember Top Secret had that pretty early.

My wife gave me this book for Christmas (Circe, by Madaline Miller). It's a really interesting take on the Greek Circe, her background...

And as I noted, both the components I was talking about do exist in the real world The fact I did not, off the top of my head, have one...

I think part of it is because I can very much come across as consistently negative there, as I'm a mechanics hack by temperment and...