Quote from: Hastur-The-Unnameable;1041905Some games encorporate them better than others. Agone uses them to fuel your super powers, as well as a die modifier and spare lives. They are actually representative of an ingame mystical force that each player has the ability to tap into.

My group usually prefers having them exist, but we usually play ganes where they are fairly scarce, at least in the beginning (7th sea, Agone, L5R, etc.)

At that point, it sounds like mana/spell-points or something similar. Maybe with a difference in how they are collected/restored.

(It there a current electronic release for Agone in English? I'm at least 3 generations from my French ancestors. )

Quote from: Hastur-The-Unnameable;1041905Some games encorporate them better than others. Agone uses them to fuel your super powers, as well as a die modifier and spare lives. They are actually representative of an ingame mystical force that each player has the ability to tap into

Agreed. Sagas of the Icelanders and Monsterhearts use Bonds and Strings as currency representing how much a given person owes or has leverage over another. It works very well in those games.

Quote from: Tod13;1042000At that point, it sounds like mana/spell-points or something similar. Maybe with a difference in how they are collected/restored.

(It there a current electronic release for Agone in English? I'm at least 3 generations from my French ancestors. )

Sort of, but you can also use them for normal skill rolls and such. There are 3 ways to get them back (complete refresh at the start of session, one every day spent in a Perfection, and one every minute spent in a Sanctuary), but they are of a general use, which is nice.

(sadly no... it only ever had the first edition released, and then the company died, and no company has picked up the game again in french or in English. there are some major copyright issues. Having looked though, you might be able to find the PDFs and translations of the french books in PDF somewhere on the internet. You can get the original books super cheap still (in English), but other than that there isn't anything official. There is an all but official in name Fanzine that I got permission to translate and share, which I do in my spare time, but that's about it)