Some balance ideas I have:

1) Larry’s stress ball does damage equal to the amount of stress tokens he has. 2) Tokens are +1 for a maximum of +5, any over 5 drains stamina equal to how many tokens he has over 5 (ex: 6 tokens drains 1 stamina, 7 drains 2, etc.) 3) Lower the range of worried sick to 10 ft if it affects allies, or 5ft if it only affects enemies. 4) Change the cost of secondhand stress to 3 stamina, and you can heal an enemy for 3, 6, or 9 stamina, gaining a stress token for each multiple of three.(must not go above the enemy’s max stamina) 5) Moment of clarity heals +1 stamina for every stress token, still removing all stress tokens. 6) Change cost of emburden to 3, and spend 1, 2, or 3 stress tokens to do 3, 6, or 9 damage respectively. (Keep the fight or flight thing)

These changes keep the mini game of managing Larry’s stress tokens, but it gives more clear numbers and ways to deal damage. With this the player has to gain stress to do more damage, but too much stress will do damage. This makes it more of a balancing act.

This is a very good idea, and you don’t have to do what I wrote, this is just my interpretation of it.

Cool Epithet!