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lol instant super energy blast.

At least things are getting interesting now.

So what is the opinion on characters designed to counter magic/supernatural abilities? Anti-Mage expys and the like, I mean.

Like anything else.

It can be good, or totally stupid.

Anti-magic fields as a rule of thumb is something that I really dislike, even as a guy who is mostly into martial arts.

Because while it may be effective to just completely negate a characters abilities consider that you are removing a lot of that characters flavor and a large portion of that characters design.

By using anti-magic stuff, if its anything like the typical anti-magic field, then you prevent that character from displaying his skills and looking good.

You want your opponent to look powerful and effective, because when your character contends with that opponent it will make you look just that more powerful.

Though you can take the other approach, and rather than negating the supernatural abilities you can form strategies against them...which is cool

because its forcing your opponent to use their powers in a less conventional manner.

Mana Burn.

25% resistance

Going for a light weight gear set up to lean towards avoiding their powerful attacks or sticking close to them to disrupt them.

Edit: Lord Cameron's character s**t on Sokoya cause he just spammed clones with mana burn and shut her down.

There are two concepts I have come across recently which I thought might make legitimate anti magic disciplines.

You need both, the first is called pathing, and it lets by stepping into the path of the spell or ability take a percentage of the damage, and absorb the remainder of the energy.

This has the advantage of not being traditional and requiring interface with the ability itself. On the downside, if you dont do anything with the energy you get major backlash.

To this end there is grounding, which allows the path to channel the energy through physical motion back into the atmosphere or the earth, negating the majority of its stored hostile energy, or allowing the path or ground to refocus it into a specific point.

When most people use anti-magic concepts, they're really using a "anti-supernatural" approach, which is problematic.

Is an anti-magic purely useful against magic? What about psychic abilities, or ki/chi/etc? What about purely elemental abilities not derived from magic, or other supernatural abilities that aren't necessarily reliant on magic?

That's usually the problem, is that a lot of "anti-magic" characters will say "all of the above" and it won't be particularly fair because the ability is so pervasive, and usually passive in some fashion.

Blink 1150 units every 5 seconds and steal all your mana with two basic attacks.

RPing: It's all about the level of cooperation.