rian_frostdrake

lone wolf reference? not that obscure. did you ever look at the mongoose pnp rpg based on LW/greystar? not bad stuff, wish anyone near me still gamed.

i love every bit of that idea.

i have wondered if perhaps the introduction of the coming storm wont introduce even more possibilities for powers. the well seems unnerved by the battalion, maybe we will need even more power to fight them. I am willing to bet that a number of people just screamed with annoyance at more power, and a number screamed out in joy, but it was just a thought i had. maybe omega wont be enough.

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immersion breking in a game where tailors can instintaneously change your body shape, musculature, graft robotic arms or organic arms, tails or wings onto your body and even change your gender? and this requires no recovery time, risk of rejection, physical disorientation or actual visable medical supplies?

and that trainer, is that the one that despite having a defined powerset can train crowds of multiple superheroes at once in any of the hundreds of the disparate powersets in the game including villian patron powers that directly draw power from elements so far never mentioned as existing in the paragon city. this is the part that makes you say nuh-uh? libs cant have a pda with an up to date inventory of icon and a quick delivery service ? but she can use her martial arts skills to train you psychic domination before you run off to get a gender reassignment that doesn't even make you late for a timed hostage rescue? that was the bridge too far? id boggle, but i can boggle no more. no, you really dont, you can make a shot in the dark guess, obnoxiously cynical though it may be, but outside of the developers, none of us can say with any certainty why a decision was made. it is just as likely that one of the first individuals you are directed to was chosen as a showcase of one of the game's strongest differentiating factors from other games and they decided it would be easier to get people hooked on the tailor, as many of us have for years without a direct financial incentive, if you were introduced to the ability to change costumes right out of the gate somewhere you would be going several times anyhow. bottom line we are both guessing, none of us KNOWS anything, and pretending you have figured out some great conspiracy to make things more convenient because they are only focusing on the money is silly.

hey now. the x men have that tiny dragon, the fantastic four had dragon man, who admittedly was an alchemically enhanced living robot, but they did cross dimensions to one filled with dragon riders. and if we get into asian themed heroes and manga, well, lets just say i can go on.

technically i dont see this happening for reasons mentioned here. also, mastermind seems like a weird fit, usually in situations where humans are put in control of dragons, they take one single one as a mount/companion, depending on the intelligence level of dragons in the mythos. but commanding multiple ones as disposable minions seems to diminish the usual majesty associated with dragons.

I gotcha, thats a reason why I specified a minimum level of coordination. some teams are hopeless, or contain enough hopeless individuals to destroy things. its still lower than the requirement on a lambda or keyes, though.

my take more is that people stick to the familiar. the keyes is not really hard but its different, the baf can be banged through by brute force and a minimum of coordination of a team. its one thing that you see not just in trials but in gaming in general, people complain about sequels and genres until you dont make a sequel or a clearly defined genre game, then people get confused and run away because they really really want sequels and genres.

mileage indeed varied, but without dragging on the first level forever, how much content did you really expect them to fit for the time it takes to level between 1-2 and have maybe 3 powers? heck, i usually skipped the tutorial and made that jump in about 3-5 minutes by just jumping a liuetenant hellion and his buddies and dinging right there. reality kind of limits what can be done there unless you want to drag out the tutorial which also would not have struck many as fun.

its about as epic as you can make the time when you have 3 powers(barring vets and that ..modest origin power), no inherent and next to no slots, realistically.if anything its mroe pathetic to me when both competing superhero mmos tried to make us look more epic in the tutorial, and really just made the sig characters look weak and push home the "gameification" of existing characters with established power levels. She isn't? i wish to see that changed.