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TTRPG Tuesday: Spiritual Mana Burn

Heyyyyy it’s… after midnight on a Monday.  But I haven’t gone to sleep yet.  Is this a Mechanic Monday? A TTRPG Tuesday? The idea I have in mind is… both! Spirit Power Via Three Stats Player heroes are capable of extraordinary feats, by allowing primal spirits to inhabit them.  Just the act of inviting in a spirit is taxing, but channeling the spirit is truly… costly.  No matter what a spirit promises, they all hunger for life, they crave being real and whole and tangible again.  They drain their hosts whenever their powers are called upon; heroes can strengthen their sense of identity to resist this subsumption, but no one gets out of this alive. Heroes have three stats: Other, Resolve, and Self.  Self represents a hero’s health, be it mental, emotional, and/or physical.  Other represents the amount of spiritual charge a hero is carrying.  Resolve is a hero’s ability to protect their Self from the corroding effects of Other. Be it magic, martial, or otherwise, calling upon an inha