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Well, if a character has the ability listed then why are you complaining about them making it too complex or something or entirely unreasonable as if they don't understand the anatomy or something? You're suggesting to do the exact opposite of what you were talking about earlier.

You can pretty much assume that all real world physics apply. Something needs to exert X amount of energy to perform Y amount of work, gravity, if somebody's heart stops they die(assuming human), etc. So reaching for somebody's thumb can't be nearly as complicated as any magic type ability. You don't have to justify why you can contain a ball of fire and it's not burning you besides resorting to "it's magic".

Most of my fights don't end up in NO U fights, only two of them have. At least any two which you would have seen. And they didn't really go into NO U fights over physics, but because there were feelings that rules regarding fairness were being broken. But strict rules of physics can't be abused, because there wouldn't be conflict regarding those defined rules. If I were to make an RP and one of the rules was "Nobody can lift anything above 50 pounds" then there's no conflict. There's no room for misinterpretation. We can argue if something weighs 50 pounds or not, but besides that there's nothing that can be abused by the rule. Where as I could have an open ended rule that says something like "Nobody can lift anything big". That's not strict at all.

Well written and detailed spell lists can be a nightmare simply because they can be applied in different ways. So you have a fireball ability? Well, what happens if the situation calls for you to hit the fireball in such a way for it to form into a different shape and this situation is so isolated that nobody would have thought about listing it in the written properties of the spell? Grappling isn't really that hard to deal with.

Lina could probably cast Dragon Slave in 2 posts. But then I'd just ask you where does this spiritual, why and how she can use it, etc.

You know, I don't even remember what this is about anymore. I started spamming shout for currency and s**t and lost track lol.

What the ********/> This s**t started?

DDD:

WTF GAIZ.

Vintrict;

THE DRAWING?!

h2h is relatively easy. There's just a minor problem concerning if your opponent understands how their own body can/can't flex in certain ways.

I'm going to go ahead and apologize for my fight in advance.

Because I've been completely out of an RPing mood lately with this going on the last two weeks in my hometown before I move to St. Louis, I've been spending a lot of time catching up with friends and not putting a lot into this lil' shindig.

Just in case you were wondering why our fight was only on like post...8 or something.

In my heatedness over the absurdity of some actions in my fight, I forgot one of my golden rules.

All absurd actions have a fallacy somewhere that undoes them.

Fortunately, 10 minutes of Bang Install - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGy7t8XLqY - have reminded me I am justice.

I think it's more of a contrast of experience.

I too was with the power scene, hanging out with guys like Magus and Lin_Celestine. In fact, Kalar is SO old that Kalar_rouge_Darkangel is actually an early yahoo screename.

After the huge T2/DBZ flood in Yahoo Chats I retreated primarily to Yahoo and MSN groups, which is probably where we got our separating experiences.

But I did a lot of school-group fight roleplays, a lot like Ikki-Tousen like settings as well. It was there I learned that more 'realistic' settings tend to be a hell of a lot more argumentative, and people are more pron to say "No, you can't do that, my move automatically works because: ________" rather than roleplay through it or kindly seek a third party without argument.


So based on observation, I'd say the level of BS, proportionally, is even. What makes it seem that powers are more "BS" in most circumstances is just from the sheer volume of people who use powers. The population difference is huge, therefore problem seems less for Physical fighters.


If there WAS an overall observing separation that split the different populations, it would be close-knit groups of people who are more familiar with each other, vs more open participation roleplays and competitions, which reflect on your observation on co-operation being the major component in any roleplay, competitive or otherwise.

It's why I think Gaia's better roleplayers could stand to get out of their shells more and get to know other groups better. The more familiar you are with people the easier it becomes to get along and anticipate difficulties.