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The Problem:
I think it's important that players have ways to know which characters are currently in possession of source points and therefore have access to source powered abilities. This is especially so in Arena because if you let one source-powered character get through your defense it can very well be GG the next turn. While players can manually track who has what with careful observations and pen and paper it becomes extremely difficult when there are more than 2 characters per player and more than three teams duking it out.

Proposed Solution:
Generate a visual glow around a character that has source point(s). The intensity of the glow goes up as the number of source point he possesses goes up. Obviously this is only visible if the character himself is visible (so a sneaky rogue can still carry out the dreaded mortal blow ambush).

An alternative solution is to display the number of source points the character has in the character sheet displayed from "examination" as part of the basic information (ie: doesn't require any points in loremaster to show up). IMO this feels a bit too clunky though.

Last edited by M3SS3NG3R; 25/09/16 03:03 PM.
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There is a visual cue. If you look at the character portraits in the top left, you will see three circles immediately below the picture of each character. These light up showing you how many source points each character has (up to three).

EDIT: on rereading your post, it seems you are also referring to enemy characters. And you are right that there isn't a way to check that. Sorry.

Last edited by BemusedBear; 25/09/16 04:44 PM.
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Yeah I know you can see source points on your own character. It is the enemy characters that's concerning.


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