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This came up several times when I was judging profiles, with people have super strength and being able to run really fast. To avoid what happened in the last GTB from ever happening again, speed and strength restrictions are placed so that everything can be kept to a level that acts as an average for each fighter.

The max speed is 80 mph, and the max lifting weight is 1200 lbs. However, those who go at tops speeds over 20 mph won't be able to stop on a dime, many coming to a stop instantly. They'll have to slow their movement down first unless they want to face some tumbling and rolling, which still has their body slowing them to a stop. The higher the speed, the harder it is to stop. Not only that, but going at high speeds also constitutes for lowering your reflexes. For this tournament, going near the max speed has your character having a less accurate view on what's around them. Going in circles is okay, but say if someone drops something on the ground that is not that huge to be noticed will be a disadvantage for the runner.

When it comes to strength, picking up something then hurling it right away, especially if it's heavy, won't be that easy. Picking up something will require placement of body, lifting, fighting any resisting forces, stablizing, then finally launching if you are able to. If you have a character who orientates in strength, then they'll have a better time in doing all of this quickly. And if a character is heavy and big, then it just means their bodies are harder to affect with opposing forces.



The issue of how strong attacks are and people acknowledging those attacks comes up often, too, but luckily I am here to clarify on that. Attack preparation is when the fighter does some process that results up to an attack. Preparations can go from charging an attack by gathering energy, to speaking chants, or even setting up some things before you can use the attack, like drawing magic symbols, etc. This is important because the amount of preparations an attack takes is proportional to how powerful they are in the end. The easiest example of this is someone standing in place and gathering energy to use their fireball attack. The longer they charge, (this means per post without doing anything else), the greater the fireball will be in the end. If a person's character is able to, they can store the charge to do something else, but cannot do the same thing in the same post. This means, Fighter A can charge a post. But in his next post, he is being attacked, so he holds off going for a second charge and dodges. He still has the charge from the previous post, however, and continue to gain it in later posts. Just remember that if you want to keep charges stored, you cannot use any other energy ability. If you do, then that stored charge is gone and you'll have to try it again. This is to keep fairness in those who try to use attacks while trying to charge another attack, too.

Therefore, when preparing attacks, no matter what way you do it, just know that it costs a post to do whatever you are trying to do. And one more thing: the post when you activate the ability cannot be the post that you prepare, too. This means, even after you have all the charges you need, you have to wait your next post before you can use the ability you built up.