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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--token-currency
type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--token-currency
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title: Token accumulation
summary: >-
  Activities award a dedicated currency that can be exchanged for a chosen
  reward at a known price.
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  - id: source-bfdb5d72aea0f93f
    title: 'Final Fantasy XIV: Exchanging Tomestones'
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      https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_exchange.html
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  - id: source-ec81ae3b15929ea5
    title: Final Fantasy XIV
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attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Token accumulation
    description: >-
      Activities award a dedicated currency that can be exchanged for a chosen
      reward at a known price.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-currency-13.webp
      width: 896
      height: 544
      game: Final Fantasy XIV
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        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
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      caption: Separate balances of Allagan Tomestones
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          label: Tokens accumulate separately from ordinary currency
    tips:
      - 'Show sources, storage limits and rewards available for tokens.'
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      - title: Final Fantasy XIV
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          https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_number.html
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Token accumulation

id: rpg-grind--token-currency
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--token-currency
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--token-currency/

Activities award a dedicated currency that can be exchanged for a chosen reward at a known price.

## At a glance

![Separate balances of Allagan Tomestones](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-currency-13.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_number.html) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Tokens accumulate separately from ordinary currency

- Show sources, storage limits and rewards available for tokens.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_number.html)

## How it works

Activities award a dedicated currency that can be exchanged for a chosen reward at a known price.

## Variants

### Action → reward

<a id="token-currency-loop"></a>

- Complete activities awarding guaranteed currency → buy desired equipment. <a id="token-currency-repeat"></a>
- Accumulate tokens through several alternative activities. <a id="token-currency-option-2"></a>
- Choose the next purchase by cost and build contribution. <a id="token-currency-option-3"></a>

## Design example

Each expedition grants two tokens; the hero can buy chosen gloves for twenty tokens.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV: Exchanging Tomestones](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_exchange.html) (id: source-bfdb5d72aea0f93f)
- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/uiguide/currency/currency-ats/ats_number.html) (id: source-ec81ae3b15929ea5)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors