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Thats kinda cool.

Yeah and I think when you have those kinds of things going on I think you add another level of complexity to the game. Because then you kind of add a double edged sword to the resource management aspect of the whole thing. You also get more role play opportunity but I know that's not everyones cup of tea.

Most powers rely on contact to actually work. Actually, I'd say that, for all intents and purposes, probably 9/10 do, because they're usually touch/range/ray/bolt/etc.

All of Deitric's abilities are based on punching, kicking, kneeing, etc. Dashes, spins, modified attacks, all reliant on actually hitting his opponent. That includes his single real ranged attack, which is a lightning bolt that moves at like 50-70 mph or something, which isn't even that fast when you consider that a fast pitch in the MLB is considerably faster. His only abilities that aren't reliant on hitting his opponents are self-buffs such as Vision Shift or manipulating his CNS to make himself stronger for a couple of posts.

Tres's are the same. He's a psychic, but all his powers are reliant on actually touching an opponent. He doesn't just use telekinesis to arbitrarily grab and shake his opponent without giving them the capacity to respond or anything.

I don't really consider an ability being dependent on striking an opponent to be a drawback, so much as a requirement for MOST attacks that aren't manipulating the environment in some fashion (ice slick on the ground, s**t like that). Same with an ability having a cost; that's not a drawback so much as an intrinsic property of most abilities.

Otherwise you may as well make a fire mage and be like "I summon a giant sphere of fire in the same space my opponent occupies and he combusts in a giant pillar of flame."

That would be awesome though wouldn't it?

Tres made this one device that served as an investigation on how he could replicate the powers from schools of thought that his mind was not capable of. He did it by reproducing those powers as psionic items.

So he made this device that would create a brief but sudden snatching pull against the opponents head towards his person with about the amount of force as a average sized human pulling against it. It had a range of about 30. It had like two charges.

Then I realized...

Thats really broken....

So I got rid of it and forgot it existed or ever happened.

But I'm assuming at this rate she could blink and destroy an entire city at that level.

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@Darth: Same here. Back when I did have a character with fire powers I had him slinging fireballs from his hands that had to already be flaming, and I believe he actually pitched them. If not, I certainly limited the speed to a pitcher's throw because I looked all that up. So lots of telegraphing. Plus they didn't do all that much damage anyway, but at least allowed him to maintain some form of threat at a moderate distance.

Cost/cooldowns or "charge-ups" should only be considered a limiter, but not a sufficient drawback by themselves. I'm starting to think it doesn't even matter if you're only trying to lead up to some super explosive attack that's just a high-speed, high-power knockout. Like "I spent 10 posts charging, so this attack has to land and there's no way you'll be left standing!" Kind of makes the whole rest of the fight pointless.

That makes me think of Damnatus.

The use of the warp conveniently came with the drawback of mutation. They also had other familiar limiters such as material, somatic and verbal components. I think they may have had a power point cost too but I can't remember if they did or not.

When I first saw him, and didn't read his posts but kind of skimmed, I thought "Wow that sounds really OP and stupid."

But when I learned more about it, it sounded really cool, and I wanted to fight him and sell the ******** out of the mutations because it seemed like his opponents tried to avoid that when it was a great opportunity for RP.

What's funny is that Tyra's been pacing her rune use naturally anyway due to having to resort to various tactics beyond "I swing my axe, hurr", and she doesn't randomly activate runes for no reason other than to gain Runic Power.

On a technical level, I could have been gaining it every single turn without interruption, even when my character was defending or standing idle, like Fierach's passive energy gain (which is arguably just as bad). I didn't though, because it doesn't make sense and is just ******** cheap.

Right now, she's in a flurry of activity driven by lust, so she's using a lot of runes and RP rapidly. As the battle ebbs in a different direction, she'll probably fall off for a few posts again before surging back in. (Well, the fight will end before then probably, but, you get the idea.)

Her power hasn't increased any, just the frequency of her strikes. There is a desperation and bloodlust welled up in her and she's going balls to the wall to try and finish James off instead of hanging back and taking it apace.