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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9644952" data-attributes="member: 177">Why?  The SWADE rulebook gives seven uses for bennies, only one of which exerts direct narrative influence, and that's one you could houserule away and have players not blink an eye.  The other six are (in terms for folks who don't know the system):Reroll a attempt to perform a taskShed being Shaken (shake off a stun, basically)Soak incoming damageGet a better initiativeReroll outgoing damageGet some magic power back.None of this is particularly "narrative".  Some might call them "dissociated" mechanics, in that they are not clearly attached to some physical game-world action like drinking a potion, but their focus is not on the narrative itself.</blockquote>