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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8152382" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't really know Exalted. [USER=16586]@Campbell[/USER] does.But the example of a mechanic where one's PC can be required to act valorously, and there is a cost to buying that off, sounds a bit like Pendragon and maybe also a bit like a compel in Fate. (In Pendragon there's no resource that can be spent to buy off the compel.)The Dying Earth has a similar mechanic where a PC has a rating in 6 weaknesses (I can't remember the technical label, nor all of them - but gluttony and rakishness are two, and I'm pretty sure greed is probably in there as well). The GM can call for a check, and the player has only a limited budget to spend on re-rolls if the resistance check fails.Classic Traveller has morale for PCs as well as NPCs, and a fail can't be bought off. Burning Wheel has Steel which is a bit like morale but with the GM having more discretion to call for checks; in BW there is no "buying off" a failure but the players have resources they can spend to manipulate their dice pool so as to enhance the prospect of success.The general function of this sort of mechanic  - as I see it - is to help bring it about that the PCs' actions conform to the ingame situation as seen through the lens of personality and genre. So CT has morale - there is a somewhat military focus to the setting and the game - but not greed - the game allows players to take a "rational actor" approach towards acquiring riches. You probably wouldn't want morale as a player-side mechanic in a game aimed at providing a Star Wars-like experience.In most of these systems players can make some build choices that will help either increase their chance of success or mitigate the consequences of failure: CT is an exception because of the random nature of PC gen.I don't think anyone thinks that when the morale dice tell you that your CT PC is breaking in combat that that is a high moment of player agency. But that doesn't stop the overall play experience being one of high player agency. Most of the time at the table in a CT game is not going to be spent with the PC in the condition of having just failed a morale check.</blockquote>

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