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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9872518" data-attributes="member: 177">I am sure there are implementations I'm not a fan of, but broadly speaking, yes, I do like them.Emphasis mine.So, that's not the normal way I approach thinking about the effects of meta-currency, unless the game rules make it explicitly so.  Instead: you are jumping out the window - if you use a meta-currency, and succeed, then the narrative description of the success might be that there was a cart of hay there.  Or you could narrate the classic set of awnings to bounce off/tear through, or whatever.  The reason you succeed is part of narration, and doesn't need to be determined explicitly before the roll.When it is tacked on, like D&D's Inspiration, is when it is most likely forgotten, because nothing really depends on it.  When it is integrated, and there's an expected meta currency economy, then people remember it, and you avoid the hoarding issue, because they learn that more meta currency is coming.How much depends on how it operates.</blockquote>