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We know how to make them and they're useful, mainline production.

4 (33.3%)

They seem out of place and run rather counter to a fantasy setting, avoid them.

2 (16.7%)

Get outta here, nerd, nobody finds guns that interesting.

1 (8.3%)

Go ahead and have the NPCs make em, but not worth player input.

1 (8.3%)

Support, but they shouldn't be the standard weapons.

4 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 12

[Amperzand]

Clearly. Nerfing is my distinct preference. I currently don't have enough time to type out an essay's worth of argument, so if you'd be kind enough to offer a few ideas, I'll go get ready for precalc.

[Amperzand]

Having returned from precalc:

So, look. I'm not stopping you having a powerful character. You'll need to be powerful later on. Everybody who can use magic will be incredibly powerful if you lot ever manage to deal with Out East. The thing is, Powerful =/= Mary Sue. The solution to non-sueness is not to make you less powerful.

For instance, you chose to specialize in a form of magic that has extremely powerful, but limited, applications, then attempted to make it usable for everything. That's not making it more powerful as much as making it more sue-y. If you wanted, you could convince another magic-user, by which I mean a player or a GM-controlled NPC, to spend a few months teaching you something new. which would expand your ability to use magic for other purposes.

You also seem to be able to convince NPCs that don't have another human driving them of basically anything, which is fine in and of itself, but not as an unlisted ability that doesn't really mesh with your usual behavior, another suetiful trait.

[endlessblaze]

I was kinda under the impression that being a founder was like a +5 to my respect/authority.

Of course if you want me to have more trouble with convincing everyone I can phrase my actions where you decide if it works.

[Amperzand]

I was thinking more the random captured goblin, and the lots of other people along your journey you'd have to convince. Regardless, that wasn't really my main concern.

[4maskwolf]

So... what the hell are things looking like right now in the fortress?

[LordPorkins]

Im a Ninja Pig, Gwolfski is my partner in nuclear weapons crime, Fish hates our guts, and Chaotic jut deals. We are fighting over a magic box we found.

[4maskwolf]

Good to know.  Well, the fortress rune master has returned!

[Amperzand]

Huzzah!

[Gwolfski]

go put a sleeping rune on fish. It will help a LOT!

[4maskwolf]

I still need to explain how rune magic works don't I...

Eh, I'll do that later.  I know I promised to do it months ago, before I disappeared into thin air, but I promise it'll be done...

eventually...

[Gwolfski]

Do you have heat exchange runes?

[Amperzand]

The way Fish, Blaze, and myself hashed it out, Runic magic can be used to permanently alter the physical properties of an object, Glyphs can create an arcane holding pattern around an object {Flaming swords, reflection armor, etc.}, and Ritual magic can accomplish things directly. There's some other forms, but those are the symbol-related ones. You may feel free to contest this, obviously.

[4maskwolf]

The way Fish, Blaze, and myself hashed it out, Runic magic can be used to permanently alter the physical properties of an object, Glyphs can create an arcane holding pattern around an object {Flaming swords, reflection armor, etc.}, and Ritual magic can accomplish things directly. There's some other forms, but those are the symbol-related ones. You may feel free to contest this, obviously.

Define alter the physical properties.  My original idea for rune magic was rather complicated and somewhat difficult to follow.  I don't really have a say over it anymore, honestly: I started the use of rune magic, but I left for several months there and as I understand it we have GMs here now (plus, you know, I left something incomplete so it was completed for me, so kudos to those who completed it!)

[Amperzand]

I R GM and stuf nao.

Alter the physical properties: Make lighter, make harder, make softer, make heavier. Cause physical change to the structure of the thing, whether it be at the crystalline/grain level of a good steel, or the atomic level of a useable isotope, as long as it's reasonably solid, you can use runes to change it.

Keep in mind that I consider all three of the above together to be the same category, together making a full and versatile discipline of magic, and you can have all of them. Blaze certainly did.

You can also define your own variant if you like, a reasonable part of the point of our magic system is to be developed by discussion with everybody affected, so if you see changes that need to be made, or want to add something, talk it out.

[4maskwolf]

I R GM and stuf nao.

Hi five!

Context: I'm a GM in a game on TVTropes, so hey, why to give hi five's to a fellow GM?

I really should get around to defining things, but I got caught up watching Hetalia on a friend's suggestion.  I'll try for defining later.