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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 , '''Fate 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 or '''backgrounds''' in Dogs In The Vineyard