[OOC] Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

[Green]

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

Hah. Touchê. I'm up for it either way.

[GreivousKhan]

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?

That's not so much a weak point as it is a limitation on his healing powers.

[Schradinger]

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.

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]

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.

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]

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?

[GreivousKhan]

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.

Come on now, everybody knows humans are just Op like that.

Elf lives for a 600 years and is only somewhat better then their human counterpart. :P

[Vordak]

Then age should also be an ability! :D

*badum-tsh*

[MelonHead]

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

Counter to age argument, I could train to be sneaky all my life, but a 6ft 4" Englishman is never going to be as stealthy as a 5ft lightweight.

[GreivousKhan]

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?

It's usually trading one easily identifiable weak spot, (I.E the brain/head) for another. But I'll wait to see the character as a whole.

[Schradinger]

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.

There is if he hasn't practiced his gunmanship in a hundred years... Lol. Even for immortal characters, skills have to be maintained. Practicing one thing for twenty years straight would logically make someone at least just as good at it, if not better, as someone who's practiced off and on for two centuries.

But in cases such as these, where claims are made of superior experience leading to superior skill, I say prove it. This is where it comes down to writer ability. I'm never going to make a character who claims to be good at everything with no flaws, regardless of what ability might let him do that, because I simply don't have the skill to write such a character. It would be rather embarrassing to make such a claim and then get stomped by an average joe because I didn't know something my character was supposed to.

[So Boerd]

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.

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.

To avoid a deliberate self destruct, you only have to kill Garrett. There is a two-man rule.

[Alphakoka]

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.

Let's see how many of the High chars would have the know how to destroy a ship right.....
BoT, Edmund and Doufarklaas't seems to have the necessary tech level. Oh, and there's S'kara.

[Schradinger]

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.

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.

[Vordak]

woah woah

Let that go off, and we will have one playable location less.

[Vordak]

double post

[GreivousKhan]

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

I'm telling ya, Self-destruct should just be banned. :P

It's kind of petty anyway.

[Schradinger]

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

Why? the earth deals with more energy than that from the sun every minute (or every two minutes in the case of the 70,000 megaton explosion). Sure, focusing it all in one place is gonna have some nasty effects, but it's not going to break the planet. Heck, big earthquakes apparently release more energy than that by several orders of magnitude... Erde could very well have more planetary damage potential than Boerd's entire ship.

Wikipedia ftw! Lol.

[So Boerd]

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.

One kiloton makes a whole lot more energy than that!

Just do E=MC^2

[Schradinger]

Oops... Sorry. I meant Kilogram. Heh. >_>

[GreivousKhan]

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

Not many are going to want to fight a flying ship/plane anyway.

Just ask anyone who had to deal with Wind's character airborne from Rilla's tournament.