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Toukankishi
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:57 pm


Greetings all I am the hardly known Toukankishi and I present to you an idea.

My idea
It has come to my attention that many RPers don't know just how to gauge their own character's power. This is not directed towards anyone, I'm just saying that this is what I have seen. The host of a thread can gauge it in many ways. Some like to use the character's profile to determine the strength of a character, others just in relation to the host.

Now I prefer basing a character's power based off of how well the can explain their bio, powers, and personality. I have seen some wonderful profiles of characters that are really well done yet they make their characters not that powerful. There are also those who do the same but make their characters to be really powerful and yet show great control over their character's power.

Then there are some which have hardly any information at all in them and they claim to be a god. Such as saying in their bio that they don't remember their past, or no one knows about their past, or anyone that knows them they have killed, or even that they are this all powerful being that has done little to this point. That just sickens me, they expect to be really awesome yet they don't really explain to you anything about their character. Then they expect to be allowed to do what ever it is they want, constantly exploiting their power, being able to do things they didn't explain they can do or know how, making themselves to be a big shot in the RP and yet they have no history to back it up.

I want to come up with a way that will allow one to have as crappy of a profile as they want yet still be at the same power of everyone else. And then those with really good profiles to get little bonuses because of how they explain it.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:57 pm


So my proposition is to create some sort of way that people can use to show just how strong their character really is, within reason of course. I would like to introduce stats into an RP to show just how strong a character is. Anyone who has played a table top RPG might know of what I'm talking about. So far I just have a basic idea of what to hand out. I want anyone who wants to to add in anything they thing might seem useful for my little idea. This is what I got so far.

The Stats

Strength. The raw physical power you have, how much you can pick up, how hard you can punch, etc.
Agility. How easily you can move around, how fast you can run, etc.
Intelligence. Just how smart you really are, how easily you can come up with a plan and it actually working, the ability to see your opponent to something and knowing exactly what to do to counter it, ect.
Vitality. Just how much of a beating can you take, is it one punch that all you can handle or are you a tank that sits there laughing while you are getting beat up on.
Elemental resistance. What minds of magic are you less likely to be harmed by, what are you immune to if possible.
Charisma. How good are you at convincing others at doing what you want.
Elemental weakness. There has to be something that will hit you harder than anything else, everyone has a weakness to something, no one is invulnerable to every little thing.

Toukankishi
Crew


Toukankishi
Crew

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:05 pm


I'm open to any suggestion such as different stats that are possible, how many points each person gets, bonuses that one gets from their profile, anything like that. I'm actually constructing an RP that will use this system so that no one feels over powered by anyone else, well to a point...
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:14 pm


I do agree with you to a point. I never really liked the stats idea for the faxkt it constricts the roleplay and some characters slightly. I tend to care more about the interactions between characters than who's more powerful...but that's probably Cus I have..well have 3 major power characters
than but I try not to abuse that. But I've seen people worse than I with it. So I do understand. And maybe we could try this stats idea with a separate rp to see how it goes.

0_cloud strife_0
Vice Captain


Toukankishi
Crew

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:21 pm


Well I have a fighting RP I'm planing out. But to keep it from having one person seem so overly powerful and they don't explain why. I would like a system that would keep them in check so they don't go overboard with it. So I would like to further imaginate this system before I start using it.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:24 pm


Strength
vitality
Agility
intelligence
Elemental resistance
Charisma
Maybe elemental weakness or dislike

0_cloud strife_0
Vice Captain


0_cloud strife_0
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:35 pm


Ya. Ill do what I can. Also the davions have so much more than what's in there bio
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:05 pm


I like where you went with those, now did I describe them to how you might say they work? Or was there more you were thinking of that they fit with.

Toukankishi
Crew


0_cloud strife_0
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:59 pm


As in I have much more story to the da'vion family.
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