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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1338529" data-attributes="member: 5777">I havent played with hero points directly, but I have played in systems that use similar mechanics.My personal opion of points that are gained at various intervals, are used up in one shot deals, are limited/nonreplenishable, and may not even do anything uself anyway is a very low one.I really like the idea behind something 'extra' being behind powerful people in a world, but I also feel that what one 'side' has both should have.With hero points that are nonreplenishable (as they seem to be in ebberon and d20) you have the problem that one pc and another could have vastly different numbers of them and so technically be incredibly different in power. Same level, same stats, same class, same equipment, and yet somehow one of them is way ahead of the other. Just strikes me as 'bad' no matter how it is presented.Plus with npc's, how do you choose how many to give them? If they do get them then how many npc's should? If they all do then point for point the npc's will have thousands more than the pc's.. if only a few get them then it will be only hundreds.. In that, if your party has 4 pc's and they get some every now and then randomly then over the course of their carears for each point the pc's spend bad guys will likely spend at least 10.Now what mog showed above looks great, if I read it properly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> You get more at set periods of time, you dont have to be afraid to use them because you will get more later (as in, they do replenish), and they do good things..Really, for the nonreplenishable ones I look at it like the wealth charts. At a certain level a pc is assumed to have roughly a certain amount of gear. With the hero points as is then there is no way to guage where it 'should' be or what to do if it is really far off. With too much/too little weath there are easy fixes.If I drank a potion when I was level 1 I dont get punished for it when I am level 9 by having that part of my wealth gone forever, so why should I be punished for having spent that hero point at level 1?</blockquote>

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