Scigars thoughts on a bookkeeping-lite will system.

We don't care about Will except when one gets to enough will to trigger skills. So skip accumulating it point by point and focus on designing triggers.

Have a few set triggers for each status, plus either give people a choice of personal triggers, or skills to help get them.

Normal: Battle Start setting.
Focused: Triggered very easily, possibly by making any save, or by taking a move action to attempt a will save/willpower check. Skill to start battle Focused?
Tense: Harder to trigger, requires a kill, taking X damage, using fate or a set of rolls.
High Tension: Something must be on the line. Difficult to trigger just by doing things normally, this is where you're below half health, or have taken out a non-mook enemy. A good point for personal triggers to be used. Possibly should give bonuses regardless of any skill.
Crisis: This is the ultimate state of play. Only accessible by Plot, personal triggers, or spending Fate.

Question: Would we want ever-increasing Tension like SRW will, or the ability to 'spend' tension on boosts? Maybe higher Tension can act like Fate Points?