7 - System Sunday: Describe a cool part of a system that you love.
TOON was my third RPG and the first I saw emulating a genre other than fantasy adventures. One of the many ways it does this is that when you lose all your Hit Points you’re out of the game for three minutes of real time before coming back at full points.
Drama Points in Buffy The Vampire Slayer do a lot to balance the main character types, more immediately powerful Heroes and more normal White Hats, with the latter able to buy them cheaper and having more ways to earn them, give some player narrative control in a largely traditional game, and while they’re mostly used for the big boost to a single roll of a Heroic Feat, every use has an example you can cite from the show.
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| For the show, skipping repeating getting an Orb of Thesulah. For the game, Giles spending a Drama Point to skip that. |
(Bonus: four of the five uses in the demo, the fifth being coming back from the dead.)
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