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<blockquote data-quote="mearls" data-source="post: 1934160" data-attributes="member: 697">I'm actually working on something very similar right now for a summer release. I've been messing around with the idea of &quot;tokens&quot; that you can sort of redeem for stuff. In D&amp;D 3.5-ese, it would be like a barbarian spending points from his &quot;anger pool&quot; to fuel his rage. He might spend a ton to get a really powerful rage, or a few for a minor rage. You could tie it into Aaron2's idea for a save to resist the effects of leaving a rage - the more points you spend, the higher the DC and the worse the effects.The rules I've been tinkering with use what I call tokens. You basically earn tokens by doing stuff or fulfilling conditions in a fight, and then you can cash them in to do stuff. There's different types of tokens, and they're tied into feats. A guy with the Dodge tree of feats might earn dodge tokens, the Power Attack feats earn you power tokens, stuff like that.To go back to D&amp;D 3.5, in order to rage you might have to earn 2 rage tokens by suffering damage, dropping an enemy, using a full-round action to gnaw on your shield, howl like a wolf, and stomp your feat, something like that. The more tokens you earn and spend in an encounter, the better your rage.I can't really say more, because this stuff isn't even close to playtest, but it's been a lot of fun to work on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mearls, post: 1934160, member: 697"] I'm actually working on something very similar right now for a summer release. I've been messing around with the idea of "tokens" that you can sort of redeem for stuff. In D&D 3.5-ese, it would be like a barbarian spending points from his "anger pool" to fuel his rage. He might spend a ton to get a really powerful rage, or a few for a minor rage. You could tie it into Aaron2's idea for a save to resist the effects of leaving a rage - the more points you spend, the higher the DC and the worse the effects. The rules I've been tinkering with use what I call tokens. You basically earn tokens by doing stuff or fulfilling conditions in a fight, and then you can cash them in to do stuff. There's different types of tokens, and they're tied into feats. A guy with the Dodge tree of feats might earn dodge tokens, the Power Attack feats earn you power tokens, stuff like that. To go back to D&D 3.5, in order to rage you might have to earn 2 rage tokens by suffering damage, dropping an enemy, using a full-round action to gnaw on your shield, howl like a wolf, and stomp your feat, something like that. The more tokens you earn and spend in an encounter, the better your rage. I can't really say more, because this stuff isn't even close to playtest, but it's been a lot of fun to work on. [/QUOTE]

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