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Tooold you. Shame I really have no reason to want or need a third cell phone or I'd seriously be doing this from work. And since I've stopped sleeping I could inundate everyone with questions and rule the world.

It was more an addition to the other guy's comments about 'ERP' tags. From my experience, 'All RP' means the same, but isn't as obvious. On the other hand, what I said about 'ERP' tagged people applies to 'All RP' tagged ones as well. Though I really do think that when people write 'All RP' but mean 'ERP' they're being a wee bit... disingenuous about the whole thing. So in that regard I'd prefer a straight-out 'ERP'.

I'll thank you for not interpreting beyond the scope of what's legally there. I made a point that all powersets and their open-ness to interpreation comes down to in-game effects and graphics. It's disingenuous to infer anything beyond that. You can have an opinion, but you can also expect it to splatter against the windshield of reality if it's merely based on your imagination.

Ah look, now you've gone and made me get all poetic on you.

I'm perfectly fine with people playing Peacebringers and Warshades as Kheldians, even though the taste got soured a bit for me when everyone and their mother made Kheldianized versions of their mains back when they first came out.

But the backstory is still not very enticing. Kheldian shards are basically a deus ex machina on the level of Dyne (which makes some people super-strong but gives others entropic powers). Shards either allow you to bond with a real Kheldian, just tap into their powers but at a lower level... or become a ******* Werewolf. WHAT? All Kheldians can shapeshift, but only into two pre-programmed forms mimicking creatures they've encountered before. Huh?

Yeah, sorry if I don't think it's the greatest story ever told. I can see what they were trying to do with Kheldians, mechanically, and I think it works well. But the backstory is just... well, if not for the revelations of the ITF, I'd have long since assumed that they just tried to forget all about it themselves because they realized how silly it all was.


Classical argument: It's my money for the subscription. You can start telling me what to do when you're paying the bill for me.

More seriously, though, I already allowed as much in the post you're replying to. But since you're too hell-bent on reading what you want to read rather than what's actually being written you obviously didn't notice. 'Angel' is almost as wide a field as 'mutant' or 'spellcaster'. It's pretty much carte blanche for power selection. Moreso with power customization.

But we might want to step away from the idea of 'Angels' for a moment anyhow because I'm not comfortable discussing beings who have neither souls nor free will. It's... icky. What people look for when they pick a Peacebrings to represent something non-Kheldian is a 'being of light'. You can turn it any which way you want to, but no AT in the game will represent that better than a Peacebringer with their auras and beams. Whether you like it or not, some people play the game in such away as to find the AT that most closely matches their concept, then superimpose their concept onto that AT, no matter what it is meant to represent.

I hold that to be a legal approach, you don't.

I have a Claws/SR Scrapper who's built to be a Blaster really, cause I don't like Blasters and was looking for another way to build a ranged attacker that wasn't one of my dozen or so Defenders. Should I be put to the stake now? I obviously went above and beyond the traditional definition of the Scrapper AT.

Well, for starters characters themselves come from a lot of directions from me. Sometimes I have a concept I want to translate into a character. One of my guys mixes the Celtic association of hooded crows with fairies with the Germanic belief that their coming heralds storms. I was actually attracted to the birds because my city is chock-full of them, often replacing pigeons as the main 'cleanup crew'.

Sometimes I simply have a powerset or powerset combo I want to try out, look at what the powers do and derive a concept from that. I wanted to roll a Fire/Earth Dom to see how the combo of Hot Feet and Mudpots would work out for me. The combo seemed to call for a volcanic concept, and the result was a mutant who'd actually been worshipped as a volcano goddess on her Pacific island home, rolling some inspiration from the X-Man Storm into this one.

And very rarely I just stumble on a name I want to use and the rest follows. Witchslap kinda came that way. The concept kind of fell around the name, but of course it didn't necessarily call for a very tight one.


I can't really claim there's a definite easy method to arrive at a concept. Knowing a lot of trivia and having a multitide of interests helps, but it all still needs to fall into place and you need to like the end result. The only thing I can say for sure is what's not a good way to come up with a solid concept: Trying to be too original. Truly original ideas are one in a million. Do something, anything, well and the fun will follow. End up all over the place and you may end up with a mess.

While I don't have any of either type of character setup, I'd like to point out that just cause someone is into ERP or has extra parts in their pants doesn't mean it's all about sex for them at all times. Though there's certainly more than one example of players hung up on getting laid ICly, tags advertising the possibility of this occurring actually strikes me as less dreadful than people without such tags turning out to be just as sex-crazed or worse. Also, there's still some discussing with regard to what 'M(ature)RP' stands for, as for some people it means ERP, and for some people it means 'not naive RP' apparently. And then there's the ever-ominous 'All RP' tag which to me always suggests that the player'd like to get laid, but is too timid to ask and doesn't want to blemish what they perceive to be their rep.


There are a lot of sets which are open to interpretation. Fire really isn't much of one, nor are any of the weapon sets. They have very clear in-game representations. Your personal explanation as to how you do actually create fire or why your gun is more efficient than the average PPD rifle is the only leeway you're getting. But for example Energy or Rad Blast (with the exception of Neutron Bomb) are just straight beams, one which does KB, one which makes affected targets easier to hit. There is per se nothing wrong with defining your Energy Blast as a telekinetic punch, a burst of concussive force, a beam of hardened light or even a spout of water.

Likewise, a Peacebrings defined as an Angel is perfectly fine. Peacebringers shine like crazy diamonds, they're the 2nd coolest lightshows right behind Stormies. If any AT ever was made to portray an Angel, this is it. Never mind that the Peacebringer background as presented in the game is really lame, and any story is better than that. And that said, an Angel is such a loose concept that there's tons of other ways one could portray one. Fire Tanks, Rads, Illusionists, Archers, Broadsword Scrappers... they all work just as well.

What I'm trying to say here is, I think this is a fairly silly point for its majority. Yes, the Fire Blaster insisting he's shooting water is silly. But as long as the concept doesn't run counter to the in-game representation of their powers (and with Ancillary Pools and Temps it's quite easy to pick up extra powers beyond the scope of your AT) I really don't see the problem, nor can I see it as a necessary extension of a player's RP abilities as compared to how well the game can accommodate their ideas.



Mind you, I expect the worst everytime I drag my **** into the D, and more often than not, I find it. But I feel I can and must judge that on a per player or even per character basis. I've had terrible nights out with people whose every emote was sheer poetry but who were unable to weave a cooperative yarn. I've had a lot of fun with people who had a hard time constructing a grammatically proper sentence and whose character was obviously designed to be a sex toy. Prejudice is probably the least recommendation to give to anyone just setting out on exploring Virtue RP.

The really creepy thing is that Night Man is based on an actual comic book, published by Malibu comics back in the Ultraverse days.