Schradinger said
Five people all fighting each other with swords isn't interesting enough for you?

Vordak said
Well, my characters weakness is easily exploitable with the right weapons: he heals himself by transforming arcane energy into matter or just resealing the bonds between molecues with it, so the cost is directly proportional to the mass of the tissue replenished or overall surface of the injury. Large cuts and deep punctures wont be as bothersome as a burn or ruptured organ.Is it enough to balance out the capabilites of his power?

MelonHead said
This is something Skallagrim told me a long time ago, and frankly I agree with it. It honestly -does not matter- how awesomely trained your character is in any skill, because in the end, you have to post your actions and if you're not skilled, your character will be just as bad. The only time this really matters is in terms of pure speed or action, how quickly your character could 'aim' for example, but if your smart enough to post before that your character unhooked their weapon holster for example, then you have an inherent advantage anyway.

Schradinger said
This is true. Which is why I used "should be" instead of "are" or "is". Barring writer limitations, a focused character should have the capability to surpass an unfocused character in their skill/trait/ability of focus. LeeRoy said essentially the same thing in his review of Bushido's character.

MelonHead said
Perhaps, but then you get into annoying debates about how long-lived characters would have an inherent advantage, and frankly despite what people may have told you, we're not all born equal. Frankly, there's no logical reason why a being who can live to three hundred couldn't have devoted 100 years to swordsmanship and then gunmanship, and yet be worse than a soldier who's devoted twenty years to just gunmanship.

Vordak said
Then age should also be an ability! :D*badum-tsh*

Vordak said
Khan, i didnt say it was a weak spot,i just said that it's exploitable. It doesn't neccessarily have to be a weak spot to balance out the power, doesn't it?

MelonHead said
Perhaps, but then you get into annoying debates about how long-lived characters would have an inherent advantage, and frankly despite what people may have told you, we're not all born equal. Frankly, there's no logical reason why a being who can live to three hundred couldn't have devoted 100 years to swordsmanship and then gunmanship, and yet be worse than a soldier who's devoted twenty years to just gunmanship.

LeeRoy said
Nah, can't concern ourselves with a self destruct device. Because if you fired it in combat, you'd blow yourself into fine red paste.Because y'could nae escape the blast radius, Laddie.

So Boerd said
I'd drop it from space, of course.The self destruct is what happens if you aren't careful in how you kill the ship. There are 1600 kilograms of antiprotonium aboard, which is why he isn't usually allowed to operate in populated areas. The annihilation of all that antiprotonium would have tremendous implications, namely a 74080 megaton explosion. Garrett is flying the biggest bomb in history. Destroy the ship incorrectly, and that bomb goes off.

So Boerd said
I'd drop it from space, of course.The self destruct is what happens if you aren't careful in how you kill the ship. There are 1600 kilograms of antiprotonium aboard, which is why he isn't usually allowed to operate in populated areas. The annihilation of all that antiprotonium would have tremendous implications, namely a 74080 megaton explosion. Garrett is flying the biggest bomb in history. Destroy the ship incorrectly, and that bomb goes off.

Vordak said
woah woahLet that go off, and we will have one playable location less.

Vordak said
woah woahLet that go off, and we will have one playable location less.

Schradinger said
Wouldn't it be a 17,200 megaton explosion? Since the maximum yield of one kiloton of matter being annihilated is 21.5 megatons, and apparently half that gets released as neutrinos in proton-antiproton annihilation. Assuming Wikipedia hasn't been ninja'd.

So Boerd said
One kiloton makes a whole lot more energy than that!Just do E=MC^2