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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #60 on: March 21, 2011, 08:04:38 PM »
If you're strictly playing only your own character you can write in first person but I'd prefer if people would use third person. It's the most descriptive.

The system wants to take you in because you could (accidentally) slaughter a few hundred(thousand) people. They will get their own life later in life but they will stay on the military payroll. Oh yeah, military also means police and sector guards.

Anarchy I mean, the world order. Some of the scenarios I've got sketched involve an all out chaos.  :D
Fantasy, well duh, it's got powers on humans, what do you expect? But mostly the relation between sci-fi and fantasy, tech/humans vs powers/creatures for example.
Overall idea, more like go happy be lucky golddiggers or saving the world hardass kinda thing.

You can't be an already existing character. You can be just like Misaka but you can't be Misaka.

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #61 on: March 21, 2011, 08:19:01 PM »
Alright, fair enough on the char.

I'll be Misaka's future son or something, except I have the same power as her xDD


Also, personally I prefer the third person narrative style myself.


And is there a possiblity of setting up my story like, "I have a power but I've kept it secret so the military doesn't know" or would that be a sort of "too picture perfect" scenario?



As for the anarchy, like I said anything really goes for me, as long as theres some set of rules and such that people need to follow.

As for fantasy, I think there should definitely be enough element to allow, say, a "mage" to exist in the game, but keep it limited so they can't be like, "LOLOL IMA MAGE AND CAN KILL YOU WITH ONE SHOT AND REVIVE ANYONE LOLOLOL"


which would be annoying xD

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #62 on: March 21, 2011, 08:22:53 PM »
My first choice would be World of Darkness settings like Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse or Hunter the Reckoning.

However it seems you guys already decided on something else, but I'll gladly join this one.


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Questions to the interested:
How much fantasy do you want in?

In a setting of "urban city" I would rather have "sci-fi", than "fantasy".

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What kind of campaing do YOU want?
What about this one:

A rumour spreads that GreFac found a credible piece of information that an ancient military base exists in the lowest levels of the city. The base is rumoured to have an ancient weapon that is so simple and effective in it's design, that it simply ignores the advanced defence technology that modern military of the 3 factions have. It is believed that a weapon like this might tip the power balance, so naturally all factions send a small group of agents to find the base without attracting to much attention of rival factions.

Players are agents of one of the three factions.

That's just a suggestion. I mean there is no area more adventurous in on an urban planet as "ancient levels", right?
For one thing, Tiff is not on any level what I would call a typical American.  She's not what I would consider a typical person.  I don't know any other genius geneticist anime-fan martial artist marksman model-level beauties, do you?

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #63 on: March 21, 2011, 08:33:13 PM »
No one seemed to want to take up the mantle of GM so I took it. So it's going to be my world.

Yes, if there's an adventure it's going to be on the ancient levels and as a part of an expedition.

Earlier in the thread most were for the idea of working together, not against each other, you still thinking that way or changed?

So basically you two are more for the adventure than the grand scheme and saving the earth yada, yada, yada?


As the GM I reserve the right to change anything, anywhere, anytime. My ruling shall be absolute, it shall be obeyed.
So basically, if someone is a dick I'm going to be twice the dick. There's a lot of rocks to fall in a multilayer city...


PS. You won't be related to Misaka in any way. Period.

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #64 on: March 21, 2011, 08:39:25 PM »
Fine fine, I'm a guy with the same powers as Misaka. Not related, I still want electro powers.



Also, I was thinking working together is probably better... you know, cuz if we worked against each other, someone's going to have to die... actually, a lot of people will have to die, and no one wants to be killed off in an RP, amirite?


I do like the idea of the campaign though, but again, I don't really like the idea of players battling each other, those tend to not work :-/

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #65 on: March 21, 2011, 08:55:58 PM »
SO what kind of characters I can choose??
Can I be The Angel of Mercy that can heal others, do average amount of damage, have flying and 1st strike?

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #66 on: March 21, 2011, 09:18:05 PM »
As the GM I reserve the right to change anything, anywhere, anytime. My ruling shall be absolute, it shall be obeyed.
So basically, if someone is a dick I'm going to be twice the dick. There's a lot of rocks to fall in a multilayer city...

That's a universal statement. I have never encountered a GM that did not have absolute powers.

BTW, what kind of system will be used? Will we have character sheet and dice or something like that, or will this be based just on interaction with environment and whims of GM?
For one thing, Tiff is not on any level what I would call a typical American.  She's not what I would consider a typical person.  I don't know any other genius geneticist anime-fan martial artist marksman model-level beauties, do you?

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #67 on: March 21, 2011, 09:57:39 PM »
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How much anarchy do you want in?
A fair bit. Certainly not to the point where you can kill someone and everyone else in the room will only glance at you and then go back to drinking, but your description makes it sound like the world is a rather ungoverned place. My impression is that might makes right and resources are king, the factions' foremost interest is not losing ground against each other, providing for the citizenry (be it rights or public services) takes second place so people should generally be fairly independent-minded. The physical non-trackability by authorities despite virtually everyone having an implant should further support some degree of anarchy. Take it a step further and make it so onion routers or similar and encryption are widespread, and you have untrackable, anonymous, instant communication as well. That's a good recipe for people taking things into their own hands if they feel they are being abused by the powers that be. Taken together those factors can provide a nice counterbalance against what might otherwise be a police state. An uprising would be disastrous because it would weaken your faction compared to the other two. Better not make your people unhappy.

If my impression is correct this means that the debate on whether to allow authorities to track individuals is also about whether "freedom" or "order" is preferable for society as a whole. I like that touch, our characters might have nothing to do with it directly, but it adds a lot to the background.

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How much fantasy do you want in?
Enough to make it obvious we're not on a hypothetical version of earth, so go crazy with the wildlife. I'd also say that if humans can have powers, then so can animals, that should make things interesting. Say the rations have run out and the eleventh small furry thing the players were going to turn into dinner starts shooting laser beams from its eyes after the previous ten did not display such behaviour.

Apropos the powers, what power level are we talking about? Something like X-Men or Darker than Black where there's no end to what kind of power people can have and they may come in varying strengths with most "gifted" people somewhat stronger than the normal person but, with few exceptions, not excessively so? Or is the power level more along the lines of Bleach or Dragonball where even the weakest "gifted" person could kick any number of normal people's arses after having been trained?

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What kind of campaing do YOU want?
I'm ok with a "treasure hunt" campaign of some kind, whether it's something fleshed out like what AceHigh suggested, or whether we're just a bunch of freelance explorers.
A political campaign with intrigues and elaborate plots might be too tricky for a first, though the setting would be great for that as well.

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #68 on: March 22, 2011, 05:15:23 AM »
Q: How much anarchy?
A: You seem to have precluded anarchy in the basic setup with the three Factions. But any amount of total anarchy is fine with me as long as the group can work reasonably well together.

Q: How much fantasy?
A: Any setting with humans with powers can be, at most, Sci-Fan. Personally I'd like to keep it on the "Psi" end: telekinesis (and its subsets such as pingry's electrokinesis), telepathy, the ability to become completely undetectable (invisible to sight, radar, lidar, thermal, etc. + inaudible + scentless) are all okay in my book (I'd like to have the undetectable power for my character); things like warping reality or summoning and the more egregious violations of reality are things I'd prefer to avoid.

Q: What kind of campaign?
A: Whatever. As long as it's not an excuse for porn. I'd like to keep it at Rated "R" max.




Personally I'd like to play a character that's in his/her (female if I can, male if you want same gender for players/characters) late teens to late twenties (depending on what the "age competence zone" for the game is) that's dropped off the grid as much as possible. Former military with the power to go undetectable and to create small energy fields a molecule thick (like, riot shield size at max) daggers or something, or just carry daggers around. Also, a hacker.

Basically a psi-fi rogue-type character.
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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #69 on: March 22, 2011, 07:21:51 AM »
Also, a hacker.

Basically a psi-fi rogue-type character.

I knew that someone would pick that.

I would like to have a bit more passive powers for my character, a supernatural sense of awareness. I am not talking about X-ray vision or shit like that, but more like: if I touch a wall, I would immediately know how thick it is and if there is a room behind it... Short version: I want to have a sci-fi version of the Auspex power. At least it's not overpowered and not "like warping reality or summoning" after all  ;D
For one thing, Tiff is not on any level what I would call a typical American.  She's not what I would consider a typical person.  I don't know any other genius geneticist anime-fan martial artist marksman model-level beauties, do you?

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« Reply #70 on: March 22, 2011, 10:10:36 AM »
Also, a hacker.

Basically a psi-fi rogue-type character.

I knew that someone would pick that.

I would like to have a bit more passive powers for my character, a supernatural sense of awareness. I am not talking about X-ray vision or shit like that, but more like: if I touch a wall, I would immediately know how thick it is and if there is a room behind it... Short version: I want to have a sci-fi version of the Auspex power. At least it's not overpowered and not "like warping reality or summoning" after all  ;D

 :P

I like rogues. Rogue-type characters are my go-to after wizard-type characters.

And I think the whole monomolecular shield thing is actually OP in retrospect, my character will just carry around weapons or have an ability to create daggers or something.

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #71 on: March 22, 2011, 07:41:09 PM »
@Pingry:
So playing together as a team or towards a common goal, that's what I had in mind too. Competetive RPGs tend to need a much closer knit group.

@mAh:
You're free to make any kind of character you want. I'm going to modify, or reject it if it doesn't fit.

@Ace:
Freeform RP so it's up to the whims of me and the players, ultimately, me. If all goes well I don't have to do much than play along after setting the premisis, maybe a few touches here and there for things to not go too smooth. If not, I might have to guide you through the whole of it. That's why I have to use so much time in preparing this.

@Undetz:
Anarchy,
if I keep the timedate at that it will be pretty much what you described. Authority access could practically solve 99% of crimes but it would also make a police state. Also, having an implant isn't necessary so criminals could just not have one. Should authority access be allowed should all people be made to have one? That would be stepping on not just privacy rights but forcing physical changes to people, marking them like criminals on parole. An interesting issue indeed.

Powers,
I'm going to limit powers to what they can touch. So shooting lightning out of your fingertips with good aim is going to be real tricky unless your enemy is charged with a huge mount of static electricity but if you take a small ball, charge that and then throw it...
This will limit powers quite a lot in itself but otherwise you're free to go wild and be creative. If I see something that's too much, I cut in.

@Proin:
Anarchy,
is easily introduced if the tree factions were to go to war. Or if there were to be an outside invasion. Or we can timeskip and find ourselves in a world where sources for fusion are ending/ended, they've only got solar power left and technology is on a downroll.
Aftermath of all of those three would create a nice apocalyptic world with huge amounts of anarchy.

Character,
No limits, you can play anything you like, I won't have anything to say even if you play a 200 year old gay transvestite. So if you're rich enough, your mother took you to the old layers to give birth and you've lived there etc. you can be a gifted outside of the military but expect your life to suck then. The more powerful you are, the more you can expect it to suck. Hiding a five year old who can blast a wall by accident isn't exactly easy or cheap while the military would likely let someone with the power to shine dim light from his forehead retire early.

@Ace again:
I have no qualms about that.
You could actually get X-ray vision with cybernetic implants but that would be like RL X-ray then, kinda sucky, IR would be much more useful.




Sounds like most are for the treasure hunt adventure. Alright, I'll roll with that one then. It's just my experience that treasure hunts tend to die unless people get really good chemistry.



Useless fact:
-Average life span of a person is around 250 years. 170-180 years being the time when they turn into elderly(like modern 50-60). You're considered an adult against the law when you're 17. Physically you grow up just like people on earth, however, don't expect to match hundred year older people in skills or knowledge in their area of expertise.

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #72 on: March 22, 2011, 11:21:40 PM »
@Proin:
Anarchy,
is easily introduced if the tree factions were to go to war. Or if there were to be an outside invasion. Or we can timeskip and find ourselves in a world where sources for fusion are ending/ended, they've only got solar power left and technology is on a downroll.
Aftermath of all of those three would create a nice apocalyptic world with huge amounts of anarchy.

Thus creating a power vacuum for the characters to fill?

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Character,
No limits, you can play anything you like, I won't have anything to say even if you play a 200 year old gay transvestite. So if you're rich enough, your mother took you to the old layers to give birth and you've lived there etc. you can be a gifted outside of the military but expect your life to suck then. The more powerful you are, the more you can expect it to suck. Hiding a five year old who can blast a wall by accident isn't exactly easy or cheap while the military would likely let someone with the power to shine dim light from his forehead retire early.

In that case let me present: Eleor Nilin, professional assassin (aspiring), hacker extraordinaire (self-proclaimed), and ex-military (by way of desertion).

Height: 5'3"
Weight: ???
Age: 24
Three sizes: 32A-24-33
Hair color: Black (natural) with blue highlights (dyed)
Eyes: Red (artificial optics, passive light gathering(night vision), can see infrared, x-ray, built in optical zoom), Black (with contacts inserted to hide telltale red)
Skin: porcelain white (gets almost no sun) with no tattoos or significant skin blemishes

Her powers allow her to become invisible on all wave spectra (visible, UV, IR, etc), causes near-perfect absorption of radio and sound waves (making her almost impossible to detect using radar or sonar), and makes her scentless. She is still audible, she has trained to breathe very quietly and move nearly silently; if they're available she'll use a sonic damper to make detection even more difficult but since it's a blanket effect the sonic damper gives away her presence (though not her exact location) and so she won't activate it until her presence is revealed. Her other power allows her to manifest two long daggers with monomolecular edges, she also carries a fire-arm as a back-up/ranged weapon when possible.

She has also learned how to pick conventional locks in addition to knowing how to take care of electronic ones. She also is a trained hacker/cracker.

She was born in territory controlled by the Vandorians. Her powers developed at puberty and she was taken to a military training camp for talented youngsters. There she was further marked for Internal Enforcement - State Police of the worst sort - and was trained as an assassin. She was taught how to hack/crack, one of her assignments was to hack her own implant and remove the tracking function (which she accomplished), in order to better police the people. As part of her training the government made her an unperson, erasing her from all but the most highly classified of military systems.

She committed her first assassination when she was 17 and has engaged in various forms of internal espionage, counter-intelligence work and the like for the last seven years; however, rather than being treated as a valued asset she was treated as just another tool, degraded and abused by her superiors. Eventually she had enough and effected her escape, not too difficult after being given the training to do just that.

At the start of the game she'll have been on the run for about two weeks, long enough to establish several cover identities. Her current destination is GreFac territory, from there: who knows?

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Re: Would you be interested in a Play-By-Post RP?
« Reply #73 on: March 23, 2011, 01:09:15 AM »
So what am I supposed to do? Write a bio? If that's the case I can write one up tomorrow.

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« Reply #74 on: March 23, 2011, 01:55:16 AM »
Couple questions:

By "no money" I assume you mean "no hard currency, money is handled entirely digitally." If that is the case then what is the effective currency of the black market? I doubt drug and illicit arms dealers would want some electronic trail leading to them. Some sort of high-value, low-bulk item that someone walking through an inspection point wouldn't be stopped for. Jewelery maybe?

What kind of government does each group have? For some reason I picture the ULCU as being a restricted democracy, the Vandorians as being a Single-Party Stalin-esque Communist government, and the GreFac as being an Oligarchy, but some official word would be nice.

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« Reply #75 on: March 23, 2011, 08:37:17 AM »
I'd say you're a little OP'd as described, Proin. Absorption of all light and radio waves would make you appear like a hole in reality rather than invisible in the common sense, it would also raise your body temperature to lethal levels really fast. If you were to bend them around you, however...

And your character has a second power to boot.



Joonas, would time manipulation powers be OK? Say I can slow it down or speed it up in a range of up to 1.5 meters around myself, the smaller the affected space, the larger the discrepancy can be. At maximum range and around my entire body I could affect the passage of time by a factor of 2, but I could nearly stop time for an object I'm holding enclosed in my hands, or make it age a century in a minute.
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« Reply #76 on: March 23, 2011, 09:09:53 AM »
I'd say you're a little OP'd as described, Proin. Absorption of all light and radio waves would make you appear like a hole in reality rather than invisible in the common sense, it would also raise your body temperature to lethal levels really fast. If you were to bend them around you, however...

It's not an absorption of all light, when I say invisible I mean invisible. If she absorbed all light and heat she'd be detectable as (as you said) a "hole in reality." The absorption of radio waves and sound waves would, in fact, render her invisible to those detection methods as radar and sonar both require a return echo (no return echo, nothing there, and unless she was in a very small room there would still be enough return echoes around her to "show" the walls of the room, she wouldn't be a mysterious "blank spot").

And the reason I specify all that is because if she were merely able to become undetectable to sight then it would be trivially easy for even modern-day security or military forces to track and kill her.

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And your character has a second power to boot.

True. But one that I wouldn't mind giving up. Nor would I mind limiting the main power so long as its reduced form wasn't rendered completely worthless (what good is being invisible on the normal spectrum if everyone has IR goggles, X-ray detectors, personal RADAR, etc.?)



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Joonas, would time manipulation powers be OK? Say I can slow it down or speed it up in a range of up to 1.5 meters around myself, the smaller the affected space, the larger the discrepancy can be. At maximum range and around my entire body I could affect the passage of time by a factor of 2, but I could nearly stop time for an object I'm holding enclosed in my hands, or make it age a century in a minute.

You say my idea is OP? There's a reason haste and time stop are two of the most broken D&D spells of all time.  :P

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« Reply #77 on: March 23, 2011, 11:28:35 AM »
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True. But one that I wouldn't mind giving up. Nor would I mind limiting the main power so long as its reduced form wasn't rendered completely worthless (what good is being invisible on the normal spectrum if everyone has IR goggles, X-ray detectors, personal RADAR, etc.?)
I did mention bending lightwaves and radiowaves around you, did I not?


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You say my idea is OP? There's a reason haste and time stop are two of the most broken D&D spells of all time.
Yeah, stop time (or rather, slow it down to the century-to-minute ratio I mentioned) for something that's about as large as an egg, and only if I'm holding it. No catching bullets for me with that. Speeding up myself would work, but since the human body is fairly large I'd be maybe 4 or 5 times faster than normal. And I'd have to hold my breath because all air outside my body would be at normal time and sucking those sluggish molecules across the boundary of the field is more effort than it's worth, if I breathe in while speeding up myself I essentially create a vacuum in my nose and mouth that fills 5 times as fast from inside my body than it does from outside. I imagine it would be a bit like trying to breathe in through a plastic bag with a small hole in it. (No, I haven't tried that, I'm speculating) That gives me maybe 20 seconds that seem like 4 or 5 to everyone else before I need to cease the effect, exhale and inhale again. Punching someone in the face would be a bit like hitting a wall because they hardly move.

Still broken?

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« Reply #78 on: March 23, 2011, 12:42:40 PM »
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True. But one that I wouldn't mind giving up. Nor would I mind limiting the main power so long as its reduced form wasn't rendered completely worthless (what good is being invisible on the normal spectrum if everyone has IR goggles, X-ray detectors, personal RADAR, etc.?)
I did mention bending lightwaves and radiowaves around you, did I not?

So, exactly what I said, but the same, but worded different?


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You say my idea is OP? There's a reason haste and time stop are two of the most broken D&D spells of all time.
Yeah, stop time (or rather, slow it down to the century-to-minute ratio I mentioned) for something that's about as large as an egg, and only if I'm holding it. No catching bullets for me with that. Speeding up myself would work, but since the human body is fairly large I'd be maybe 4 or 5 times faster than normal. And I'd have to hold my breath because all air outside my body would be at normal time and sucking those sluggish molecules across the boundary of the field is more effort than it's worth, if I breathe in while speeding up myself I essentially create a vacuum in my nose and mouth that fills 5 times as fast from inside my body than it does from outside. I imagine it would be a bit like trying to breathe in through a plastic bag with a small hole in it. (No, I haven't tried that, I'm speculating) That gives me maybe 20 seconds that seem like 4 or 5 to everyone else before I need to cease the effect, exhale and inhale again. Punching someone in the face would be a bit like hitting a wall because they hardly move.

Still broken?

Yes. "Only" four or five times faster than everyone else is a huge advantage. Fights are won and lost by even a few percentage points difference in reaction speeds. Races at the Olympic level are won by hundredths or even thousandths of a second. And holding your breath for subjective minute long bursts is no big deal. Plus, if you were willing to "sacrifice" your "minimal advantage" and reduce it to a "mere two or three times faster" then you could provide yourself with a rather comfortable air cushion.

If you've ever played a video game that allows you to slow down time, you'd know that even slowing everything in the game, including yourself, by as little as 10% can give you a huge reaction time advantage. Slowing everything else down by eighty percent (what would effectively happen if you were moving and reacting five times faster) without any slowdown yourself is potentially game breaking.

Go play Fable II and use a level 4 time slow. That's the shit you're talking about.

FYI, I can hold my breath for several minutes. And I'm not in good shape.


Comparatively, the ability to be invisible to all forms of detection would go something like this (if I did anything aggressive) in the rooms that sound like they'll be the norm:

Eleor: *stealth* *sneak attack* *run*
Everyone not Dead: There's an enemy here, invisible! Fall back and block the door. Break out the tear gas, grenades, shotguns, and SMGs!
Eleor: Fuck!

Could my character still win? Yeah. But not if the enemy were willing to toss a grenade in and kill his own people. Conversely, your character would be able to move fast enough to get out of the area with the grenade, kill everyone in his way, and then kill the guy with the grenade.


I'm not saying you shouldn't play your concept. I just think you're under thinking the abuses available to you.
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« Reply #79 on: March 23, 2011, 03:01:53 PM »
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True. But one that I wouldn't mind giving up. Nor would I mind limiting the main power so long as its reduced form wasn't rendered completely worthless (what good is being invisible on the normal spectrum if everyone has IR goggles, X-ray detectors, personal RADAR, etc.?)
I did mention bending lightwaves and radiowaves around you, did I not?

So, exactly what I said, but the same, but worded different?

More like the effect you described but achieved by messing around with the laws of physics in a different way than you proposed.



And you certainly can't hold your breath for "several minutes" while exerting yourself. Try going for a leisurely run, no need to sprint, but it should be considerably faster than walking. Then hold your breath for 20 seconds, breath out and in as fast as you can, hold for 20 seconds, repeat. All while running. You'll be ready to collapse in no time at all.

Also, unlike in Fable 2, getting hit will not cost you a few hitpoints, it'll knock you on your arse. A factor of 4 is hardly like the matrix where it's "oh hey, a bullet" lean aside and have it pass you by. Evading bullets is not an option, staying out of another person's aim is, but dodging would tend to interfere with the indiscriminate mass slaughter you proposed.



And what about.

Eleor: *stealth* *sneak in* *place camouflaged bomb* *sneak out* *blow up room*
Everyone not Dead: *dying*



I think we need a word of god (JoonasTo) on this.