Let's Talk About Metacurrency

[Gorgon Zee]

Not a fan.

I want the player and character decision spaces to be aligned, I want the decisions to be made in-character. Metacurrencies obviously go against that.

I think it depends how you think of them. You could think of them as spending extra effort. As a real-world example, when I would fight in martial arts, I'd have a generally sustainable level of effort that I could use for a match, but every now and again I'd want to exceed that and "spend effort" to try something different. I think that is modelled well by a meta-currency.