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[TheBiggerFish]

inb4 thomas×lillian shipping

Why do so many people make expys instead of fully original characters anyway?

Because Harry Dresden is, like, awesome?

And I just reread the entire series over the past two or three days so yeah.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Why do so many people make expys instead of fully original characters anyway?

I'm lazy. Very, very lazy.
also i may or may not have fallen in love with lilly
help me

[Criptfeind]

It's a lot easier to make a character with depth if you're just cleaning up a hole someone else made instead of trying to dig it yourself.

Edit: Not necessarily better say. But easier.

[Twinwolf]

Why do so many people make expys instead of fully original characters anyway?

also i may or may not have fallen in love with lilly
help me

No help for you.
Only mercy *hands over a gun with a single bullet*.

Eh. I considered making a Tracer expy but then I had the idea I went with.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I mean, I use more original characters nowadays, but I do stick with using pictures of extant characters because it helps with visualising what they look like.

Anyway:

I'm just asking if a trained hero can have a magic device, basically, made by someone else. It's actually super important for multiple elements.

A few questions:

-I am considering having a character with powers based around light. If I were to take Elemental Control: Light, and take Movement as one of the powers that come with it, could the movement be turning into light for a moment and dashing a distance? Or would that be Alternate Form: Light?
-Do we specify backstory from before the character was at the town, or just how they've lived in it?
-When will players be selected? On what criteria, specifically?
-Will there be a waitlist in case a player drops out or their character dies and for whatever reason cannot return?

Quoting for GM-sama

[TheBiggerFish]

I had this idea for a character, but it would have been hard to make.  Sort of.

[Powder Miner]

I really don't like it when people try to wedge a co-GM into the game. It's like... it feels like a hijacking, the GM has no obligation to share the running of their game.

[TheBiggerFish]

We aren't trying to wedge a co-GM in, we're just talking about the potential effects of a co-GM...

[Twinwolf]

Hence my point about there not being one. Besides that, this isn't the kind of game that works with a co-GM anyway.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Hence my point about there not being one. Besides that, this isn't the kind of game that works with a co-GM anyway.

Yeah. One, there's not nearly enough people to necessitate it and anyway it's better if one person tightly controls the plot in this case than two people having to share notes.

[TheBiggerFish]

Good point.  But... Only 5 characters are going to get in... 

[Twinwolf]

Better make your character good then 

[IamanElfCollaborator]

inb4 thomas×lillian shipping

It's just occured to me that there are far more males than female submissions (Lillian and Radia vs Thomas, GW, Wrath, Libra, Aegis and Johnathan). Usually it's the other way around

[TheBiggerFish]

Must be that we're missing a lot of the players who make female characters and there are extra people who're playing guys.

[Twinwolf]

Funny enough, this is similar to the male-female ratio on a lot of super hero teams