Character Applications

[yhlee]

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[yhlee]

Hello! This is a great concept, but is a little more overpowered than I had envisioned (especially the direct ability to manipulate calendrical values/technology/magic). My initial thought is that the basic idea is fine, just maybe tone it down? For example, Cheris and Kujen are superpowered in the sense of understanding how to change the system to their tastes, but they still rely on having masses of people to fuel the consensus reality, whereas it sounds like Alaric can basically change local reality on his own at will. Could you give me a better idea of possible limitations?

(Sorry for the delayed response--we're in the process of moving house.)

[slybrarian]

Yeah, I worried about that when I was writing it, but it was late and I wanted to squeak an application in so I cribbed off an existing character from another game.

Maybe it would be better as more of a "White Rose"-style null, if you're familiar with the Black Company or 40k Blanks? Basically preventing exotic effects from working but not affecting invariant technology, in a limited radius. (Like a football field or smaller, unless there's extensive preparation; certainly not enough to affect space combat or things like that.)

[yhlee]

It's fine--with freeform it's hard to know where the limits are. I've only read the first Black Company book where the White Rose's ability is hinted but not 100% explored or confirmed, but a football-field-radius null would be fine. Do you want your character to be able to turn the null effect on and off at will? The reason I ask is that if it's an "always on" effect, he's going to attract attention. Which could be fun, if that's what you're after! But I don't want it to come as a surprise.

Anyway, we can hash this out--this looks pretty good, and welcome to the game! We are now full up for a starting roster of players.