Hmm... Now that I think about it, her two modes should do something for her other than allow her to use two skills. Should they also buff her in some capacity?
Perhaps, but how much and in what way?
That is a loooooot of buffs.
is that about Stella?, cause most of em are both positive and negative
True, you're only OP in the right environments. Heh.
Hard to tell, isn't it?
frankly, Kyle ignores any and all of the balancing rules. The armor is frankly broken, and by simply ignoring that powers run of the mag stat, you minmaxed Kyle to absurdity - exactly the kind of stuff you have been complaining about. Or was it when you said "there will always be minmaxing" you meant "I will always be minmaxing"? If you want to godmod, v3 might not be the game for you. Everybody plays by the same rules.
Pretty hard to pin down what, exactly, is unbalanced, isn't it? Oh, you know Kyle's unbalanced, but you can't give him specific examples of how he can tone down the power level while keeping the Kyle he knows and loves.
Again, if we were taking a page from GURPS as far as balancing abilities goes, it would be easier to figure these kinds of questions out.
It fires a beam of energy particles, not actual matter. And plus the energy is moving at 0.5c, but that's still pretty fast. Fast enough to not be able to be dodged.
As to the first bit, it matters little at those speeds. Unless you're firing neutrinos, but who would make a neutrino-based weapon?
Well, if you have a rifle that fires a lethal dose of neutrinos that really good aim/intel, you'd be able to snipe people through the planet 
Probably not the most efficient but it certainly does have a degree of style.
Not exactly easy, though. Assuming that you'r sniping that person from 2/3 of the planet's diameter away, the required neutrinos increase with the square of the distance (reasonable, since that's how most things roll), and that you're firing the neutrinos in about a 0.1-degree arc (unreasonable, but I need a number), you'd still need about 1.7
E-13 supernovae to kill someone with neutrinos like that. It might not sound like much, but supernovae are
freaking big. Assuming the same light:neutrino ratio of a supernova, your weapon would be brighter from literally a million miles away than detonating a nuclear weapon pressed against your eyeball (WARNING! Do not try at home). (Assuming xkcd is precisely correct and a supernova from an AU away is 10
9 times brighter than said nuke, they have equal brightness at 1.212 million miles.)
In case you haven't figured it out yet, my point is that whatever you're using to generate that many neutrinos is probably going to be more devastating than the neutrinos themselves. (Kinda like 500-mph winds.)
This !!science!! has been brought to you by Wolfram Alpha.
on different news
Not really. She has blue scales, said scales cover her whole body when she's even partly transformed, and that kind of expression and set of implied actions is completely out-of-character for her.
Wait, people had multiple active characters? That's a pain, especially if it gets metagamey.
You have no idea. At least we avoided getting metagamey for the most part.
Hmm... I wonder if true magic-based enchantments could be powered with doses of Stella's blood, specifically magical bullets, forming something similar to a Raufoss Mk211 thus using both its corrosive effects and magical properties to enhance the bullet's damage.
That depends. Is the person who is taking the doses doing so with consent, or is he in the hospital with horrible burn wounds watching as his darkest secrets get uncovered by some anonymous stranger?
I think for the setting, every player should write down 1-3 tidbits for stuff about the settings they'd like so, with explanations as to why they make sense etc, and then we compile them. If everyone adds something, already the setting becomes rather fleshed out.
Alright.
1. Out of the First-World nations, the United States of America is the slowest to accept magic into its everyday life. Why? Well, to start with, it's easily the most religious nation in the Western world, and just imagine how those people banning Harry Potter books would react if they met Harry Potter. More notably, they are (for better or for worse, depending on the issue) overall the most conservative of said nations. Finally, it's been established and never retconned that they had a blanket ban on using magic; this would have hindered progress. DARPA's ties with IRIS mean that the military might have a good amount of enchanted gear, at least for special forces and such, but aside from that and occasional toys for the rich...not much.
2. Japan, on the other hand, has accepted magic quite readily, integrating it with everyday life and technology. First off, there's Yuri's family, which would have been a great boon in making the nation more magical (especially since Japan's small size makes it easier for such things to proliferate). Second off, Japan is perhaps the greatest indisputably successful example of a backwards nation quickly advancing to the State of the Art, and it hasn't really lost its momentum. Finally, think of the implications: Train Cars of Holding, giant majitek robots, and maybe the occasional kaiju.
3. Dragons are still trying to find places to fit in. They don't like humans terribly much, what with dragonslaying and such in bygone ages, and they don't really fit in human cities anyways. (Not that they want to; they have the whole "we'll still be here when you are all gone" thing going on.) They're finding places to live in uncharted rainforests, polar regions, ice caps, and the like, but there's still a bit of tension, not helped by the occasional would-be dragonslayer or attack by a hot-headed wyrmling.
hmm three points, I wanna do something with the dragons but that was GWG's plot-line, lemme think for a bit
I'd like to hear your ideas.
a) Shape-changers are required to register as such and must carry identification for all of their forms where identification is required, if an unrestricted shapechanger they must settle on a base form for ID and be chipped.
Ooh, good one.
I think shape-shifting registration falls under magic registration.
It's a different, probably more restrictive registration.
It's...um...I hate to use this example, but it's like the difference between having a criminal record and being on the sex offender registry.
Wait, wouldn't people only need registration for magic usage and not for possessing magic? I mean, if they don't use their magic, no one's going to find out and enforce the registration nor would there be much of a need to.
It's one of those laws that's on the books but pretty much unenforceable. You're still gonna get busted if you use magic without registering yourself, and most people are going to be getting registered anyways.
not just for me, but also for PN, Cado, Usec, Kansa, Wolfchild, Sanure, Projeck, GWG (I would assume?)...
You assume? I'm trying to add in a system for the express purpose of making the acquisition of balanced powers and perks, and you have to assume?
As a child I didn't have a dramatis persona that I had been using for two years before the stick incident.
If those horribly unbalanced stats are a vital part of your dramatis persona, your persona is a Mary Sue.
Poll
2 (8.7%)
Author
Topic: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 OOC: MOAR LAMPSHADES PLEASE (Read 1023473 times)