[quote=@RickyG85]
What do you all think of this? 
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thanks for the thorough response, apologies that everything seems to be going pretty terribly for ya. I feel ya on the weather for sure, I think we got 6 inches of snow last night out of nowhere, thankfully we weren't massively effected by it. Everything sounds alright to me. The bennies idea is neat, I'm personally pretty neutral on it myself. I'd say maybe if they weren't 3 per scene, but rather 3 per some vague segment of the story, or just rewarded occasionally on top of the starting 3, but they don't get used up, only passed around. Basically works as an influence mechanic you see in some TTRPGs. Each player has 3, and can hand one to another player to influence their interaction or the duel against them. Pulling a heart of the cards gives it to the GM (or the other player still works potentially?). Then the GM can use these to power up NPCs and monsters in the same way the players can, and this could either completely remove the points from the pool or give them back to the players potentially.

[quote=@Kero]
Im just trying to figure out if I should go balls to the wall and run a gamba deck or just run sky strikers...

gamba is so tempting.......
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Gambler is absolutely the more fun option. Plus that gives the character room to grow and get better. Granted I'm also biased and just don't like Sky Strikers too much.