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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6126201" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Some interesting stuff here (sent some XP your way), and this is something I can get behind. Take my RPG, for example. It has a meta resource called Luck Points, and they can be spent to reroll, force rerolls, add to or subtract from a roll, etc. Luck points can be awarded in a variety of ways, including taking a risk (socially, in combat, etc.), pursuing your Driving Force (what drives you to act), being inhibited by your Challenge (something that inhibits your character), or exploring your Mystery (something you don't know but want to find out).So, let's roll up a random DF/CH/MY, and see what we get: DF: Protect nature, CH: Code of conduct, MY: Is the world wicked? So, this guy is driven to protect nature, follows a code of conduct (let's say it's your "honorable in combat" example), and wonders if the world is wicked. Every time he acts to protect nature, he'd get a Luck Point for pursuing his Driving Force; every time he lets his honorable nature hurt him (letting the orc retrieve his weapon, not ambushing someone when he could, etc.), he gains a Luck Point; and every time he explores whether or not the world is wicked (in his eyes), such as by seeing if a captured enemy will redeem himself, he gets a Luck Point.I like this type of mechanic, and it's not dissimilar to your "traits" description. You could have a Driving Force of "Do good" and then play that as it makes sense to the table / your character. Same for a Challenge that is "Do good", really; if you refuse to commit an evil act even though it would greatly help you, you'd gain a Luck Point.Of course, we can make the mechanic more in-tune with the game world (your divine intervention take), or leave it more meta-based (my Luck Point mechanic). And, yes, we can even let people affect the world around them, giving them some amount of control over the story (I have something called Fame points that fill this role).It's not a bad alternate system, in my opinion, but I'm curious what you'd tweak. As always, play what you like <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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