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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5510521" data-attributes="member: 54877">It would certainly require some work to balance it properly and make it really useful.&nbsp; If it was trivial, I'd just do it. But again, my point was that it was something that could be done by game designers that would not put an onerous burden on the people at the table.&nbsp;Ever seen the resource system in Burning Wheel?&nbsp; Or the circles mechanics, for that matter? Those are good examples of how a mechanic can invoke a different axis, be used more or less generically within its sphere of control, but still provide a lot more depth than the space it takes up would first have one to suspect.&nbsp;We can't just lift those directly from BW for 4E.&nbsp; For one thing, the resources system in BW isn't meant to handle a constant influx of gold from adventuring (though it does have provision for such at times).&nbsp; What makes it work but still be applicable is that is conceptually tight on what and when it addresses:&nbsp; Do you have enough cash, favors, friends, loans, etc. to make this thing happen that people want that stuff for, or do you not?&nbsp; If you try and fail, what are the consequences?&nbsp; That kind of stuff comes up in the narrative all the time, and with 4E we don't even have the existence of profession skills or merchant skills in the way to use something like it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5510521, member: 54877"] It would certainly require some work to balance it properly and make it really useful. If it was trivial, I'd just do it. But again, my point was that it was something that could be done by game designers that would not put an onerous burden on the people at the table. Ever seen the resource system in Burning Wheel? Or the circles mechanics, for that matter? Those are good examples of how a mechanic can invoke a different axis, be used more or less generically within its sphere of control, but still provide a lot more depth than the space it takes up would first have one to suspect. We can't just lift those directly from BW for 4E. For one thing, the resources system in BW isn't meant to handle a constant influx of gold from adventuring (though it does have provision for such at times). What makes it work but still be applicable is that is conceptually tight on what and when it addresses: Do you have enough cash, favors, friends, loans, etc. to make this thing happen that people want that stuff for, or do you not? If you try and fail, what are the consequences? That kind of stuff comes up in the narrative all the time, and with 4E we don't even have the existence of profession skills or merchant skills in the way to use something like it! :p [/QUOTE]

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