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The maximum lifting capacity was 1200 lb.

Yep. I suspect it was deadlift, but in any case it's 100 lb over the maximum recorded human record.

I did this ages ago.

Luckily for us, no one actually listens to anything in this thread. Even if it's really long and tediously over explained.

I've read them. And you're right.

When he was just generally making comments first, about 75% of them were good advice, as most of it boiled down to "Judges should do their jobs".

The rest is him trying to wing a system that's not going to work and rambling about it.

It's important to realize the STANDARD is set by the regulating persons of the roleplay, be it tournament, event, or whatever. The system itself doesn't regulate your racial choices in any way, it just makes it so that if you decide to play a demon or an angel you play them at the same power level as your peers.

Basically, if you want to play a higher tier creature ( a demon or a devil ) on equal playing terms as a human, you need to dilute their core stats and extraordinary abilities. This doesn't mean you can't play powerful demons or angels, it just means that if you did you'd be playing on a different STANDARD tier, one where you'd be fighting against other, similarly powered creatures.

The template is designed to put characters into perspective, not to limit their options. It's the job of the people using the system to determine what is and isn't fair for their STANDARD of play, and then when something goes beyond that level may sure that it comes at the cost of something else. This only means limiting the available ability choices and things like that when they feel as though its impossible to make them fit into STANDARD.

Like if I had flash-stepping on my character sheet for example, with no energy cost or detriment to my other abilities the Judges might tell me that it simply doesn't work on the level of play in the GTB. ( It's already against the rules, but still ) If that was made the case to me in a comment suggesting revisions and such, I'd simply have to accept that as the reality of the tournament's power level and remove that ability.

This is a tool for uniform character interpretation, not a character sheet.

This has been asked of anyone doing any supernatural abilities in this tournament. Anything you cast just right off the bat without charging is no powerful than a magic missile.

It's a case by case basis. There are abilities that are used instantly, but have other down sides, such as marginal power usage and other consequences. For Hoshiko, she uses an ability that physical-based. Physical based abilities are those abilities that uses the body's movements and anything body related to execute: for example, using a lot more stamina than normal to execute an uppercut that causes a whirlwind to be generated in front of you.

However, it's going to tire her out in the long run since it's using immediate energy. There's a balance at stake. Now, this also means that her ability isn't as powerful as the steel ability she uses, and if she used this at the last second without some moment of reading it occurring, then it'll count against her in judging.

Make some summon rules.

Stop being Communist.

Increase our bribe-for-point quota. We're not rigging enough.