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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6071035" data-attributes="member: 87792">Disproof by counter example.  In MHRP and Leverage, the player decides how to tweak the dice pool when they spend a plot point to stunt.  The Watcher or Fixer is not involved in this process.  There is no deconstruction/reconstruction involved.  (And if you want plot points they are very easy to get).This.And Australia doesn't have Amazon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Yup.  It's a dice pool system (keep the top 2) with almost every dice in the dice pool representing a different factor (so it's one dice for your power, one for any relevant skill, one for whether you're in a solo/buddy/team situation.).  Any 1s you roll are opportunities for the other side and bad (and any 1s the Watcher rolls are equally bad for the Watcher characters).  One of the most important dice is the distinction - this can either be personal or something in the scene (your character sheet has three for the character).  A distinction may be either d8 or d4 entirely at the whim of the player - positive or negative.  If you pick d4 you gain a plot point (so it's risk/reward).  A crowd of people may be positive (to hide or to help) or negative (to rescue).A plot point can be spent on manipulating the dice pool (some ways happen before the roll and some after).  A plot point is normally spent before the roll to stunt, adding an extra dice to the roll (d6 if you're boring, d8 if you describe your stunt, d10 if you describe your stunt and the person you're fighting gave an opportunity last roll).  Alternatively after the roll you can counterattack (if you are the defender and win - attacker rolls first), have an additional effect (either on the same bad guy or someone else), keep an extra dice in the dice pool in your total representing good fortune/skill, and any of the Sfx on your sheet.  You can also spend a plot point to create an asset - this uses your action, but whenever you can use that asset for the rest of the scene you get a dice its size in your dice pool.And yes it is entirely possible for someone like Iron Man to blow a massive number of plot points on a single alpha strike roll, gaining them by shorting out his armour (which has hardcoded limits to allow for this - shut a system down, gain a plot point; shut down four and dump all the plot points you've got into a Unibeam attack backed up by the D12 Wired to the NYC Electrical grid asset you established earlier and Tony's going to be walking round in a tin can for a while, but the bad guys are going down hard, and there are brownouts in a ten block radius).  Tony at this point is probably rolling D12 (asset) + D10 (solo) + D10 (armour's stamina) + d10 (Stepped up repulsors) + d10 (tech Master) + d10 (Long set up stunt) + d4 (Innocent Bystanders scene distinction or Bleeding Edge Tech personal distinction both as things to get in the way) + 1d6 for every enemy beyond the first (Sfx AoE).  d12+5d10+nd6+d4.  Drop plot points on keeping the best four or five (rather than 2) dice in the dice pool and you're looking at an attack roll in the high 20s with a normal defence roll being around 3d8, pick the best 2 - and every five points you beat the defence roll increasing the stress inflicted, with six points taking someone out.  And Tony's player didn't have to ask permission from the DM for setting up one single part of that.  (Of course this is a limit case scenario here, and Tony's probably been setting this one up for the whole session). [MENTION=81242]Lost Soul[/MENTION], It might work for some groups - it does if there isn't a tactician (or power gamer) in the group.  It's definitely mechanically flawed.</blockquote>

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