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http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/journal/poll/2105940/

Please take a look at the referenced pics and give some comments

I'll note one piece of art was $300 from Genzoman who does work for Blizzard

the other was $120 from someone who does private commissions (my funds are tighter than before and a fund-raising campaign failed)

the closest comic book to what we have is probably Gold Digger

Gold Digger has a D&D style fantasy world, a post Evil Dead style undead world, a freaky physics bending middle space, a superpower fighting circuit that crosses between Streetfighter and Professional wrestling, a society of adventuring archaeologists/treasure hunters/seekers of the unknown, a JLA style superhero group that decided to become an MIB style group to avoid giving a public target for supervillains to latch onto, space aliens that crash landed on Earth years ago, leprechauns with voltron style combining robots (Vaultron, to be precise), a GIJoe style evil mercenary/terrorist group and a GIJoe style group of elite pilots, ninja, magic, werecreatures, Washu-level mad scientists, and pretty much anything else you can think of

the main problem they have is that the basic engine and came design for CoH was not made with PvP in mind and would have to actually be designed from ground up to be a good, balanced system

you've never seen a really well designed Invuln in action, have you


I must say it is SCARY

Small team task forces

Soloable missions and story archs

stuff for those of us that want to have the incarnate story flavor but for whom raids are boring

yeah, I know it's been asked for before

This doesn't even have to be a full new AT, you can just do mastermind sets with melee powers instead of ranged powers

given that I know a lot of the time I end up not even taking my attack powers, it won't change that much

if you did it as a new AT, then the "captain" would probably have a defense or self-buff power set and then a "following" power set that included 3-4 melee attacks and 2-3 summon powers....leaning toward less summons than a mastermind given the higher survivability defense or self-buff/heal would grant

Okay, let's start with the list of what I wanted that I've gotten:

Power sets spread out to multiple groups: yep, at least we've started...I haven't seen any single-sword or MA Tanks or Brutes yet, or Superstrength Scrappers, but guess we're getting there

Power EFFECTS spread out to multiple groups: getting there, yep, no dark for trollers or dominators yet, and none of the control sets are blatant gadgets a la Traps/Devices yet, but, eh

Animated tails: yep

Better animal features: yep

Side-Switching: yep

Wings and trenchcoats: yep

Power and weapon customization: yep

Ability to have a skin texture and still have a character be wearing something: YES! YES! HELL YES! (yes, I know that was one of the first things done with the addition of the shirt, robes and jackets types, but still...THANK YOU)

More realistic martial artsy animations: Ironically, mostly in Super Strength, but yes

Wu Xia-ish martial artsy animations - Kinetic Melee says yes

Ability to switch height, weight and gender across costumes: yes (though only really used it on my toon which is supposed to represent a brother-sister tag-team duo)

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Now, a lot of this is stuff I've asked for since the beginning, or even before that, given I'm a Beta-Vet, and a lot of it is stuff people told me "no way that will ever happen" but, eventually it did, so I'm still hopeful and here we go for the list of impossibles I've moved on to:


More non-human enemies, I don't particularly care if their actual skeleton is just a cylinder like with the jaegers, I'd like to fight dinosaurs, wolves, bats and giant bugs that aren't robots or cyborgs

Desiring a legless-lower-body male and female builds (similar to the snake enemies) is in there, but I know creating new builds is going to be hard

Extra arms - Kali/Deva style....this is something I suspect might require a new build as well...but put it in here just in case.



semi-like this, four-arms would be plenty

broken weapons for costumes to represent desperate, last-ditch actions

I'm up for any Ancient/Future time setting in extension of the ones we already have

Asia (not just Japan)

Musketeers

Egypt

South/Latin America

World War I

We know that this world has a long history of superhuman beings and that the Ouroboros war takes place across time

Having "in the past" missions or settings is a great way to show how superheroes in the past have altered the world

The incarnate content of the BAF and Lambda so far has not been a real challenge...about the only real obstacle I had in the Lambda was that my computer would pull fits inside the corridors in the search for weapons section and I'd have to either die and hospital out or be ported out so that I could get back to where I could move without a slide show

everything else is rather humdrum and easy...reports from other players in my circle state that the BAF is unchallenging with even as few as 16 people...we've been wondering if we could try it with 8 or so but wonder if the game will let us...

as for the regular content...incarnate powers make things ridiculously easy...we practically ROFLstomped the Lady Grey task force...complaints have been made that players don't want to do the incarnate stuff because it makes the game too easy

repeatable content that does not require more than one person or a handful of people is necessary

not sure what you can throw at us to make it actually a challenge...all judgment is is more damage, not really a game changer, but giving everyone a quick recharging nova that doesn't kill your endurance the way a blast nova does is a game breaker

perhaps persistent effects that can be minimized by using Destiny powers that affect all players in a particular mission

or, perhaps an event that detoggles everyone on team that pulses every so often...requiring Destiny to be used to fill the gap while powers are turned back on

points that must be guarded and thus require you to leave behind a lore pet on Stay/Aggressive mode to act as a guardian while you do something else

Interface is easy to work with in current game environment, not a game breaker

judgment makes minions through bosses into cannon fodder and incarnate centric content should probably have more bosses, elite bosses, AVs and giant monsters rather than minions and lieutenants...

more hit points will not fix the problem, just make it take longer to run out a boring fight

more damage will not fix the problem as it does not require any change in tactics as they are currently used

new behaviors and new effects are needed

It keeps trying to automatically update and launch Test rather then the Live server...how do I stop that?

I'm a firm believer that every AT should have access to every power source and blasters, trollers and dominators are currently the only ones that can't get dark powers.


Granted, the thing that convinced me to post right now is trying to think of the best way to play Lusca Kraken from this snippet and plant/dark blast would give tentacles yes:

So finally got to see the 3rd OAV series which sidelines Ayeka and introduces a new character who is fine and interesting, but given that the series lasts merely 7 episodes, her plot and development are rushed through pretty horribly

Anyway, this prompted me to look at TVTropes.org and find out that Mihoshi's goofiness has something of nasty back story.

For those of us that have seen most versions of Mihoshi, we know that in OAV she's pretty lazy, friendly, goofy and unfocused on a regular basis, but who does seem to pull together in a "let's get dangerous" manner whenever she knows there's something dangerous around making her more of a genius ditz than a dumb blonde.

This is as compared to the Universe Mihoshi, which barely more than an adult child and massive trouble magnet.

Anyway, the apparent reason Mihoshi is so goofy is apparently she had a relationship with a powerful entity of some kind. There was an accident and her psyche broke as a result. She survived at all because she's descended from Washu. So apparently Mihoshi is an example of what happens when making out with cthulhu goes horribly wrong.

So, I test a command that has my minions howling or laughing or plotting

if I type it out I get the howl, laugh or plot

if I put it in a bind, I get this in the spoken chat: "<em Howl>" "<em EvilLaugh>" and "<em Plot>"

which kind of works since they're supposed to be video game characters come to life and are code-speaking demons, but still wonder why the emotes aren't working in binds

Event One: (Scion)

Sang Yoon Koga and her girlfriend, Ariel, are being harassed by a hexenwolf outside Las Vegas and having a hell of a time killing it off. Sa-Yoo's magical pet fox teleports around taunting it so that it will run from place to place while Sa-Yoo and Ariel prepare. Then Sa-Yoo, speaking from cover convinces the Hexenwolf to remove the magical belt that gives him wolf form so that the two women can give him "the surprise of a lifetime". He takes the belt off, Ariel hits him with a magical sleeping arrow.

Event Two: (Scion)

Sang Yoon again, in a street battle involving player Hero level scions, several fenrir wolves, two lindwurms, a dragon, an enemy scion and a bunch of ninja, Sa-Yoo manages to convince one of the wolves that his pack is going to betray it and to attack the pack.

Event Three: (HERO - homebrew campaign)

The heroes have tracked down the nigh-immortal serial killer Orsornio to a corner of a spaceship and incapacitated him by reducing the oxygen levels. However, he fell unconscious both invisible and desolidified and even though they can track him, they can't touch him, except for my character, Greyskin, whose dimensional based strength allows her to touch Orsornio. While the other players discuss what to do, Greyskin takes the desolidified (except to her) Orsornio and throws him through the wall of the space ship.

*table has dumbfounded look*

"You don't get to complain about us killing people anymore."
"It's Orsornio, he can't die! He'll come back to life...whenever he makes planetfall."

Event Four: (HERO - homebrew campaign)

A minion that specializes in defense and has two shields is facing Greyskin, a phasing-based superstrength character, considering the double shields, she performs a haymaker with her double-knockback strength (currently enhanced by another player's powers) straight down into the ground. The actual hit stuns the bad guy causing his shields to drop, then he hits the ground and the KB damage splatters him.

Greyskin: "uhhh...ooops, sorry?"
Me: That's my presence attack on the remaining aliens.
Other Players: "Isn't that what happened to the telekinetic?"
Greyskin: "But we brought him back to life so he doesn't count."
Other Players: "What about Orsornio?"
Greyskin: "He'll be back! He doesn't count!"

Event Five: (D&D)

Playing a wererat (hengeyokai stats) rogue/paladin and convincing much of the party that she is just a human rogue without lying or breaking the paladin code for over a year of Play by Post game play.

Event Six: (D&D)

We've been running the campaign ending battle set on a narrow bridge spanning a massive chasm for three hours real time with a Mystic Theurge necromancer/death priest and he's managed to successfully kill one of us (thankfully a potion we'd taken before brought him back to life) and we've thrown just about every spell and attack we had at him and vice versa so that it's beginning to look like a stalemate. Eventually something happens that shows me that the villain is vulnerable to reflex save effects, so my only reflex save effect: the Grease spell.

I cast it on his area and he slips and falls down, but manages to get back to his feet and back out of the Grease spell. He gears up and casts a boatload of buffs on himself while defending himself from our attacks. And then he's ready to charge forward.

Me: "Doesn't he have to go through the grease spell?"
DM: "Yes, yes he does."
*the bad guy's saving throw failed, he wasn't so lucky on where he ended up this time*

Event Seven: (Exalted)

Facing a death knight assassin who has pretty much given the combat centric characters of the party a string of responses such as "perfect dodge, perfect dodge, counter attack, perfect dodge + teleport, counter attack" every time we met him while he tanked up on essence by killing bystanders. He's attacking a military outpost and we're not sure where he is except that he is in the area. My character, Katchiko, the social monkey, runs up stairs and starts writing some words on the door of the VIP targets using Letter-In-A-Letter to put a charm into the writing and target it to a specific person. The other players end up in the room and, in the midst of planning how to deal with the coming attack.

"I surrender"
Other players: *stare blankly*
Me: "You can thank me later."

Event Eight: (Fate - Dresden verse)

Fighting a fae badass, fae are vulnerable to iron and steel. It burns their soul and body. He's basically the headless horseman/fae grim reaper and causing us no end of trouble while he tries to collect one of our player's heads because he had died before and been resuscitated (in his background) and was thus breaking the rules of death. I, playing the shintoist Greek-Japanese wizard "Jocaste" consider the fae armor he's wearing and use it as a focal point for a spell.

Me: I magnetize the fae.
GM and other Players: What?
Me: We're fighting on city street, metal, metal everywhere, including the hummer with its supply of WWII grenades and the construction site. I magnetize the Dullahan...force 10 (artillery is around 4) attack.

After that, he was still alive, but we sealed him up and then buried him in the ground magically.

Event Nine: (Fate - Dresden verse)

We've been sent to the future where a massive ritual is underway to summon the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, we're trying to interrupt the first of the four rituals (which are taking place all over the city). Jocaste sets up a circle to make a symbolic link with the bad guy's massive ritual circle which she then uses as a symbolic link to the other three circles around the city and sets up to duplicate all the massive damage the other players due across the whole ritual covering a major European city.

Event Ten: (Fate - Dresden Verse)

Channeling enough energy to and my character's life force to turn a summoned shikigami wolf into a kaiju sized critter capable of attacking and holding down the Cloverfield/Cthulhu beast attacking us out of the water so that other party members can apply their own powers.

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