More often than not the player is required to fill a gauge, get an item, or simply obey the limitations of one. These gauges/items tend to be excessively named (more so as the chapters proceed) and quite impractical to fill/acquire.
In Problem Sleuth[]
- Health Mechanics: Health Aegis represent the health bar for each character.
- Basic Mechanics: Vim, Imagination, Pulchritude, and Etiquette Monstrance. The main characters of Problem sleuth all had to deal with these Gauges.
- Attacks Mechanics: Comb Rave, Sick Burn and Communal attacks
- Universe Mechanics: Fractal Prospectus
In Homestuck[]
You cannot hope to beat Kanaya Maryam in a snark-off. She is simply the best there is.
- Health Vial: Refilled by vitality gel.
- Mangrit: A sort of gauge that is only shown in certain walkaround flashes. Attacks can be charged, which causes the Mangrit Vial to fill up in a green gel. Once it reaches full power, it can be used to release a devastating attack. Examples include John's powerful hammer attacks, or (Paul Robertson style) Dave's Timetable slashes. It can also be considered a stat in the sense that Dad has an unreasonably high level of Mangrit.
- Prankster's Gambit: Prankster's Gambit is a meter that raises and lowers depending on whether the person pranks or is pranked.
- Flighty Broads And Their Snarky Horseshitometer: A metric used by Kanaya Maryam to measure how successful her trolling attempts against Rose Lalonde were, as suggested by Karkat Vantas. The meter wavers back and forth depending on their conversations, with Kanaya being in the lead after her seventh conversation. The Flighty Broads and their Snarky Horseshitometer explodes after Kanaya sees Rose destroy her first gate. It simply could not handle that much horse shit.
- Alchemizing: Grist is used to create items in Sburb.
- Leveling: The Echeladder keeps track of a character's level.
- Boon: Boondollars are the monetary system within the Incipisphere, and as well as a virtual form on post-scratch Earth.
- Fakeness: Jake English's Brain Ghost Dirk's fakeness attribute
is measured by a gauge similar to those measuring health and mangrit; Dirk “become[s] a whole hell of a lot less fake”
when Jake believes in him, depleting the fakeness gauge, but the gauge fills back in again when Jake loses connection with his Hope powers, ultimately resulting in Dirk disappearing completely.