Johannes Oppermann we started with spend-after, too. I moved back to gamble-before because it juices the token economy more. They weren’t engaging with the Fun recharge at all, which feels important to me for pacing and de-escalation.

One important side effect of this is that my wife immediately twigged to the value of those Fun tokens: instead of spamming her one good stat, now she spreads around her efforts to spend the widest variety of stat tokens and get more oomph out of her Fun.

That’s all a little advanced for the kid but it lets my wife more easily suggest a variety of approaches to her.

This is also why I added Awesome-after.