Re: [OOC] The Liar's Club
For one, if we want to play a Storium-like session, we don't need the Unisystem mechanics, we use the Storium ones: I don't think Storium has anything that cannot be replicated on rpol, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
The problem here is, it doesn't seem to model characters with powers well, especially the kind of powers Tom and Zoey have.
These aren't finite resources, at least not in the context of an entire episode. Two spells and a Tk activation don't make Tom run out of Strengths, nor do they force him to activate a Weakness.
Zoey's intangibility doesn't run out. Her tangibility, as soon as she becomes able to achieve it, will, but even then, not in such a way that she has to spend finite resources to use it.
I find it hard to reconcile that with a system where, in order to succeed, you must spend a finite resource, and, most importantly, you must then spend a different finite resource before you can get the original one back. I get that it's a storytelling device, but it changes the character, not just the game.
Tom used his Blessing ability three or four times during this episode - as he should have, since it made sense to do so. How does that map to Storium?
Same for magic: without his shield, Tom would probably have died from the bullet wound, but using more magic during the same episode was still an option for him.
Does that mean he spent a Strength, and would therefore be unable to use magic until he spent his weaknesses?