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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8027301" data-attributes="member: 1465">Basically never. It's unclear, boring and goofy.Unclear, because it doesn't say when you can expend it. According to the examples in the book, it seems like it can be intended as a condition : you become &quot;inspired&quot; and as long as the reason for your inspiration is sustained, you can &quot;expend&quot; it (so that you cease to be inspired) in exchange for advantage on a single roll related to the reason I am inspired. Unfortunately I only see gaming groups playing it so that you &quot;save&quot; your inspiration for later and can use it on something totally unrelated: &quot;hey 3 weeks ago I got inspired for donating money to a beggar, now I want to use it for shoplifting&quot;.Boring because it's advantage which it's the most common benefits from special abilities. Advantage doesn't even allow you to do something beyond your current capabilities, as a straight bonus does, it only increases the chances. Useful yes, exciting no.Goofy because what does it mean I earned my advantage by doing something cool and now I can give it to you because you do something cool? Why don't you get yours from the DM so that I can keep mine?Also, traits and ideas are very unequal before gaining inspiration, with some it's much easier than others. Originally I thought I would rather use inspiration for rewarding players who purposefully did something inconvenient in order to stay in character. Like not lying when it would really help, because the PC can't really be untruthful. But in practice I don't even remember to give inspiration anymore. I might be persuaded to give it another go one day, but I really want to stick with the &quot;inspiration as a condition&quot;, so that you have to find yourself a situation during which you both earn and expend your inspiration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8027301, member: 1465"] Basically never. It's unclear, boring and goofy. [B]Unclear[/B], because it doesn't say when you can expend it. According to the examples in the book, it seems like it can be intended as a [I]condition [/I]: you become "inspired" and as long as the reason for your inspiration is sustained, you can "expend" it (so that you cease to be inspired) in exchange for advantage on a single roll [I]related to the reason I am inspired. [/I]Unfortunately I only see gaming groups playing it so that you "save" your inspiration for later and can use it on something totally unrelated: "hey 3 weeks ago I got inspired for donating money to a beggar, now I want to use it for shoplifting". [B]Boring[/B] because it's advantage which it's the most common benefits from special abilities. Advantage doesn't even allow you to do something beyond your current capabilities, as a straight bonus does, it only increases the chances. Useful yes, exciting no. [B]Goofy [/B]because what does it mean I earned my advantage by doing something cool and now I can give it to you because you do something cool? Why don't you get yours from the DM so that I can keep mine? Also, traits and ideas are very unequal before gaining inspiration, with some it's much easier than others. Originally I thought I would rather use inspiration for rewarding players who purposefully did something [I]inconvenient [/I]in order to stay in character. Like not lying when it would really help, because the PC can't really be untruthful. But in practice I don't even remember to give inspiration anymore. I might be persuaded to give it another go one day, but I really want to stick with the "inspiration as a condition", so that you have to find yourself a situation during which you both [B]earn [/B]and [B]expend [/B]your inspiration. [/QUOTE]

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