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I feel like measuring people's "super modes" is a little excessive, but maybe that's just me.

And Chen must have been retconned at some point. What, between the "styles" thing he's been doing IC and the fact that the Chen that was in Unity certainly wouldn't have had a "magic" score of 0.

I like how some people actually believe they RP as anything but 'super.'

It was kind of a joke, but on the other hand, if you carry around a thermite cannon automatic weapons with large piercing shells... you probably might as well have a "fiery death" and a "bullety death" spell.

And unfortunately, I read everyone's first round in HoH but not the second rounds or all of the golem fights, so if Chen had any fights beyond the one with Adrinai I missed them.

I just kind of assumed that he was not using his powers against Adrinai out of sportsmanship.



...and Tenkai coming off at a higher number than Ryugi seems off to me.

I was already tempted to put a number into Kael's energy projection and claim that he had an aura of badassery or make some allusion to sexual prowess. He actually is magically enhanced at any given time, but people tell me he plays like a normal guy, and I didn't think "ghosts have an easier time ******** with his head" or the like was the kind of thing I should be bouncing that up for.

Seconded.

Yeah, I know.

In fact, I think the problem is the "energy projection" category.

All it does is measure the type of energies and the various uses of said energy. It says nothing about how powerful said energy is.

Tenkai may be able to use projectile energy attacks with his sword and other things, but I typically tone them down to fit into Levi along some sort of KOF-style thing. He's not exactly a DBZ character when it comes to using energy.

I've seen Tenkai do some big stuff for about an instant, but everything Ryugi does seems consistently on a larger scale. And yeah, the magic level does kind of go on a way that can get wonky, much like a couple of them do.

But like I said, I used the tier level at least as much as the descriptions for my decisions. Nikolai certainly didn't deserve the magic score I gave him, but since he can eat up power too, it seemed appropriate to boost it one notch.

Then again, I've also been using this to measure the character as a competitive fighter or normally. Because Nikolai in a plot moment can be a veritable monster- far beyond what he's statted at. Even Kael can up the ante in a dramatic tension sort of way when a lot is on the line.

And Rivven... will just be a funny thing to do.

Since his magic will be his highest stat, and how high I put that depends entirely upon how much natural water supply there is, how much it's a natural body or man made, how complex and time consuming of incantations or rituals he's able to use, or if he has to do it on the fly.

Because Rivven, at sea, with enough protection that he can focus solely on casting is wtf broken magically. I'd have to stat that as a 6 in an instant, though he probably falls more around a 5 or 4 for terms of this thing. I mean, Damnatus is probably an easy 6 too if you give him a week or more time of preparation and resources.



Edit: Also that the magic stuff has been tricky to stat in terms of utility. Hard to talk about it as anything beyond blasting magic without getting excessively complex. Especially when one person might use multiple elements all to do same level blasting spells and that would be much the same as having just one, to me at least. But someone who can use D&D wizard style utility on the fly or can heal/buff in addition to that certainly merits an increase for it.

Whole thing is very subjective and is more of a "make a guesstimate" than accurately by the stat descriptions.

lol, don't think we can be "accurate" unless we make a full D&D size rulebook of "buy powers and stats until you have your character, use this chart to record the costs and stacking".

Which would be a HILARIOUS next reincarnation of this.


...and the more I think of "plot powered" vs "competitively powered" I find the need for separation hilarious. Because I've never seen Sun magic blast a continent in half in a fight, but clearly he was capable of doing it once for huge plot purposes.

I still proudly hold the titles for most 1's.

Also, zombies.