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Mecha Game In The Style of Super Robot Wars

@clanjos
Sounds good! I'm actually really surprised I'm not going to get more OGs, to be honest.

@Lmpkio
Cool, I think either of those is pretty doable.

@Flamelord
I don't know why you'd throw in for a game you weren't enthusiastic about but sure thing friend. Any ideas for your character?

@FallenTrinity
Yeah, I'll probably be posting the actual thread, along with the rules, tomorrow.

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@Mercurial
To be honest, I feel like the biggest issue is that 10-15% figure in the OP.

I mean, that's literally over a billion people worldwide that can do magic. There are an equivalent or greater number magicians than there are African Americans in the US in this setting, assuming equal distribution across the world. That's a lot of people.

I mean, if all of them can do their own magic with no issues it just seems pretty weird to me that they'd be considered rare or strange at all. With those kinds of numbers, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know a guy who can shoot lasers from his eyes.

And I mean if there's that many and they have no issues exploding you at will and probably know some other guys who also have no issues exploding you at will then why would you go out of your way to harass those people?

It's just hard to wrap my head around, is all.

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I just wanted to understand how the setting worked and suggest something that made it work a little better so this sort of issue didn't come up again but I guess you can call it whatever you like, friend.

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@Scio
Alright so I'm not sure if I'm parsing this correctly so let me read this back to you and you can tell me where I'm getting things wrong because I'm pretty sure I'm getting something wrong here since it's not making sense to me.

-roughly 10-15% of the world's population is capable of magic and thus has the potential to be a wizard
-wizards are an oppressed minority who are regularly the victims of hate crimes
-wizards are also a rare and strange phenomenon
-magic interferes with all forms of technology, but technology does not do the same to magic
-if technology also caused similar issues with magic, it would make wizards vulnerable to the hate crimes they are commonly victims of
-if technology also caused issues with magic, it would make wizards rare because it would suppress many people who have weaker potential for magic
-for these two reasons, making magic and technology have a mutual interference effect would not work with the way the setting was written
-Four Winds is an area naturally clear of magical interference, so adding interference would not pose a problem

Could you tell me where I'm making the mistake here? Because I'm pretty sure I may have interpreted at least one of these entries wrong since a couple lines seem logically incompatible and I'm not sure where I went wrong.

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@Letter Bee
Ah, my bad. I always get the oWoD and nWoD titles mixed up.

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@Scio
Issues where? It's important to list the issues in question when you're discussing issues.

I mean I could also point you towards Mage: The Awakening, where physical law itself is actually fundamentally the same as magic and is the result of a shadowy cabal of wizards (the Technocratic Union) who have essentially tricked the entire world into playing by their rules but that's a lot of lore to sift through and it got really silly after a while for other reasons.

@BassDropp
See you say that but you have to remember this became an issue in the first place because people didn't want Sodium's character to enter using a helicopter. He was just trying to have fun in his own way, right? And then everyone kept trying to come up with reasons why he couldn't. Pretty much anyone gets prickly when they're being ganged up on like that.

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@Scio
I really hate to say this but it actually doesn't at all.
It mostly just sounds arbitrary and excessively complex and sort of reminds me of Turn A Gundam. Or Arcanum but instead of going both ways and having mundane things mess up magic too you've made it a one way street.

If I can offer a suggestion I'd say it might be a better idea to stop trying to explain this with soft sciences like that. Maybe do it like Arcanum, and have relatively complex technological devices dampen magic, too. That way you can still justify your mountain hermit Hogwarts by simply saying complex devices are banned due to interfering with the student's development. It would also explain how magicians still face persecution despite having a population of something like a billion people worldwide, since the proliferation of common everyday electronics and the like has made them as a whole exceedingly weak and a lot harder to notice. Kind of a two birds with one stone, right?

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I can't help but notice everyone seems to be making assumptions and bringing up reasons why things would/wouldn't work, but nobody has actually asked Sodium anything directly. The only post that pings him is another player telling him to change his post. As a suggestion, maybe you should address the player and ask him to clarify your concerns first?

Mecha Game In The Style of Super Robot Wars

@Dead Cruiser
You do that, friend.

@Keyblade87
So probably Setsuna, then? I guess he would technically be classed as a hero.

@Raineh Daze
To my knowledge there's no such thing as a generic Gundam since outside the Victory all of them are one of a kind pieces. So I guess you don't have to worry about that.

@Lmpkio
Alrighty then. I'm guessing you're going with Unit 01?

@Nanashi Ninanai
Well I haven't seen Majestic Prince but all of those sound like pretty solid ideas. Plus is my favorite Macross, honestly.

@FallenTrinity
Oh yeah you've had some bad luck finding a game for this guy. This is, what, your fourth try?
But yeah, your guy should be pretty easy to make so no worries there.

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It was obvious that Varus had read the files of everyone and knew of their upbringing.

@Scio

Wow this school is pretty messed up.