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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4219094" data-attributes="member: 1003">You've been reading this thread too, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Not at all!  Actually, my only problem with them right now is that they're called Hit Points. I think they should be called Awesome Points or perhaps Badass Tokens, as that would be more accurate.  Moreover, I plan on explaining to my PCs next month that "bloodied" can also be understood as "first blood" - that's what duels are fought to.  Until you lose half your Mojo Markers you don't even have a bloody nose or scraped knee.Ho ho, John Snow, watch where you go! You're in the strawberry patch now!Actually, that is just one of two possible elegant solutions!  And your solutions is, as you so adroitly describe (and I admitted right in the OP!) results in a very swingy, "gritty" game (my jargon was "2FS-Gr").  Although I do like the occasional Riddle of Steel, my favorite player (and wife) is not a fan.  I have no intention of running a gritty campaign at this time.  As for what that second (non-gritty) solution is, why don't you go re-read the last paragraph of the OP and think on it.  I enjoy our discussions and would appreciate any fresh insight you can bring to the table (which I might spoil if I spell it out for you).But once you've thought about that, don't you think this allows for "effective Minions" for narrativist and gamist purposes without doing harm to world-sim or the aesthetics of the system?I swear to God as my witness that this is exactly the end which I wish to achieve, so now that we're on the same team: got any ideas about elegant solution #2? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Uthwithian and all others should also feel free to explore this little avenue.  I can tell who's been thinking hard about the arguments, but no one has quite cleared the lid of the box yet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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