Main point about Energy, @Windicator and @Aurrorian, is that in early games such as Digimon World, and even in the Digimon Story series, Digimon do have an MP stat. Now, I know what works in video games doesn't work in tabletops, but, well, Digimon are sort of geared towards fighting, like, it's natural for them. So, I couldn't see justifying a daily limit to the number of Spitfires a Digimon can do, especially if they're as likely to miss or hit. I did, however, put daily limits on certain terrain modifying features. I feel like the Energy stat is just something that you don't MontyHaul with in giving items that recover Energy frequently if you see the players having an excess of damage output. Maybe it's not good to rely on that, but there's no hard way to stop a DM from putting something they don't expect a player to be able to use on an enemy, only for them to have what's needed to use it, or carry it around until they can. Example here.

@VKAllenYou still interested?

@WindicatorI admit I may need to adjust the energy costs, but I still can't seem to justify not having an Energy stat.

But you get my point, yes? It's as much about the DM as it is the players and the items and enemies included in the game. Don't give heaps of experience, that way the upgrade-a-stat or be able to level up dichotomy remains a balance on the players, because investing more in stats means taking more BattleExp to Digivolve (when the DM lets them.)

Tentative interest, just a quick question.
How do tabletops work over the internet?

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I guess I can see where you are coming from seeing as how grounded this system seems to be to the one present in Digimon World and changing the mechanic from a "Energy bar" to "Special slot/Technique slot" or possibly just CD based would change the dynamic drastically but I seemed to have had shifted to the PnP mind set and yeah, most of them have reasons even besides tracking for existence of such slots.

I can agree with you would it be implemented in a efficient way with some thought put into should we really see X spamming its signature ability/technique Y for the next 5 encounters (though that would imply bad balance anyway). I mean in no way to actually invalidate Digimon that are specialized in said abilities/techniques.

On another note, I think I found your earlier Digimon Table Top.

I guess I don't have an argument against this, implementation needs to be thought out however as if flawed the game will probably feel a little dull.

So you just trust the the person isn't being a dick and giving himself the luckiest rolls imaginable?

Well each time you use the Giga Cannon you have to roll the Dice of doom.
If you fail the roll your weapon malfuncions and you explode into small bits of data.

So you just trust the the person isn't being a dick and giving himself the luckiest rolls imaginable?