Plot point (role-playing games)
- Plot point (role-playing games)
Plot point is a term used in role-playing games. It refers to any point given to a player character which can be spent to alter the plot of the game. The name is a pun on the TV and film term plot point.
In most commercial RPGs, plot points represent the heroic quality of player characters, which separates them from other people in the game world, and as such are spent to increase a character's chance of success in combat. Examples include Edge in MechWarrior, Fortune dice in Feng Shui or Force points in Star Wars D6.
In some RPGs, mostly indie RPGs, plot points are rather a way of involving the player in the story. They can be spent to introduce something into the game, or to add a previously-unrevealed fact about a character. Examples include story tokens in Capes, the seven types of Narrative privileges ("Privilèges narratifs") in the 2nd edition of The Last Chronicles of Erdor (" [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chroniques_d%27Erdor| Les Chroniques d'Erdor"] , in French) or backgrounds in Dogs in the Vineyard
In Steve Jackson Games's role-playing game Toon, plot points are used as experience points, awarded for completing in-game objectives and used to increase a player character's statistics.
The first role-playing game to incorporate plot points was Top Secret by TSR which gave each character between 1-10 luck points. Each luck point allowed a player to reverse the consequences of a single roll.
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