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modmaster ([personal profile] modmaster) wrote2024-08-05 08:33 pm

BLESSINGS (POWERS/ABILITIES) SUBMISSION

Good day!! I'll explain the process of how choosing powers will go, it's really easy, I promise.

• Make sure to read the blessings page. It explains the general principles on how this worlds' "magic" applies.

• In this post, make a top level for your character! You can submit your abilities underneath that toplevel. You do not need to make it overcomplicated if you don't want to! If you want fireballs, just putting down "fireballs" is fine. In fact, PLEASE don't make it overly complicated. Adding limitations and details can be great, especially to give extra flavor, ut if I must sit through eight paragraphs for one ability detailing the formulaic speed of light, I might perish (and more than likely simplify it for you)!

You can choose up to three abilities!

You do not have to choose them all right now nor do you need to have them immediately by game start. If you want to drop just one ability now and come back later with the others, that's fine. Characters can develop powers over time!

• Once you comment, I will reply back to your comment, making any specific changes necessary, usually to have them thematically connected whether its to your character's family or to help tie them together so they feel connected to the character.

• I'll also do any balancing if necessary. If it's way too strong, I'll help you scale it down or if it's too simple, I'll add a little more to give you more flavor. Powers should be level 30 on a level 100 scale but you can have stronger powers if you add limitations to it. "Can teleport anywhere but only once a day" or "has supergenius level knowledge but only in regards to cacti".

Announcement as of Sept. 24th: We do ask from this point on, any blessings submitted should be around 200-250 words per blessing, If it gets much larger than that, we reserve the right to reject them and ask to shorten it, SIMPLY PUT, IF IT GETS TOO BIG, WE GET SLOW CUZ WE OVERTHINK TOO MUCH, THIS IS TO HELP US STREAMLINE THE PROCESS A BIT. like obv there are some exceptions (like if you're indecisive between two types of limits or something and describing both) but an ability itself should remain about 2-3 paragraphs or so.


I am going to be honest, I do not have a degree in power and magic balancing. I will like make mistakes! If you find an ability way too limiting, you can come and make that case to me, and I can see if I can adjust it! Does one of your abilities never come up in play or you find it's one you don't find fun to play with? Feel free to come back to your toplevel and ask for an addendum, we can make it work.

The important part is I want people to have powers extend from their character as part of their personality/identity. It's not suppose to be about winning/losing/who is the strongest, etc, and hopefully by letting characters pick their own isntead of from a pre-selected list, it will help to do that!

And so with that siad, I am trusting people to be reasonable if these powers come into play at any time. By that, I mean, if you find yourself in a fight with a character, using powers, don't steamroll the other player without striking a conversation. Be considerate of the other person. Remember, it's important to go with the flow of the fight and see what feels right!

Your character does not need to win all of the time! Your character is not automatically better than anyone else 100% of the time. If you get into an ooc confrontation over who should win when it comes to powers, you must diceroll. I do not care if you have a five paragraph essay as to why your character should win, if the other rper is contesting that for whatever reason, make it fair and do a diceroll! Easy peasy! That said, diceroll is NOT a requirement all the time, it's fair to just see what happens! This is only a requirement if there is an ooc disagreement, if you ask me to settle it for you, I'm going to say "do a diceroll" first and go from there.

I GENUINELY DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE A HUGE ISSUE, my friends are chill and cool, but I am notating this just in case because we know sometimes things get crazy, emotions and excitement can get high, so this is the great neutralizer in those instances, ok? Ok.

Will this power I want be allowed?
COMMENT AND FIND OUT. Even if you feel its too insane, go ahead and comment, idc.

This power feels like it wouldn't go with this family.
THATS FINE, COMMENT AND FIND OUT. Even if I lack the brainpower to make it work, it's fine. Just like fashion and personalities, not everything has to be 1 to 1 with the family theme.

Can powers evolve over time?
SURE. It is not unreasonable to have a character's power being "vine whip" evolving into "thorny vine whip".

I just don't think I should bother putting the power in...
I HAVE BANNED ANXIETY, GO AHEAD AND COMMENT AND JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS, IT DOESN'T HURT TO AT LEAST TRY.


Okay, I'm done for now! Feel free to comment to this post ANYTIME YOU'RE READY and I'll reply (but please give me a few days ok).

Please see the first toplevel for a proper dumb example.

Re: ACCEPTED + CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] vitainmorte 2025-06-25 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah it's just the full transform o/ no additional powers and all physical upgrades are purely "this is a big animal that can fly" and "has decent vision" so there's not like. Super strength or anything. Someone with a real fight blessing could probably beat him easily
chronicpessimist: (024t)

Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] chronicpessimist 2025-06-25 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
yesss ty!!! if someone wanted to do something to see her that was always gonna be a down to discuss/for fun thing cause this is just meant to be silly canon flavor stuff
thefaultinthestars: (Default)

Re: ACCEPTED + CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-06-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
He absolutely still takes physical damage and all of the consequences with that EXCEPT 'oh god that hurts so much i cannot think' basically. It's more like 'i have registered i am in pain but i can work thru it' or 'this should be traumatising me emotionally but i am simply so distanced from my emotions that i can just focus on what matters'.

Doesn't do anything to prevent him from taking actual damage.

Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] makedown 2025-06-25 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I HEREBY PROMISE NOT TO BE WEIRD ABOUT IT

Unblessing

[personal profile] makedown 2025-06-25 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
As discussed above! Catherine can deny other people's blessings in a small radius as long as this is on, but honestly it will probably only ever be used one-on-one in threads with her because the alternative sounds like a complete mess. Unless it's a fight against NPCs with blessings I guess??? In which case the bigger the radius, the more exhausted she will be afterwards, or she might have a longer cooldown period, depending on context and what's more fun to play with.

Checking with players, rolling for full effect / partial effect / failure for each use unless it's OK with everyone and funnier not to have it flop.

And usage limit can work like that too, like if she denies something big and tries to use it soon after that, she will be Exhausted, or roll for full effect / partial effect / failure / FALLS ASLEEP.
mykidisthebest: (You'll see it's true)

Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-06-25 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yea that makes sense, I was trying to play off of his canonical "can't do anything except have other people/monsters help him out, he's fully a support lil guy" but also the reality is that we don't even do fite or pvp in limelight so I mostly expected the monsters to be for cuddles. which is the most important part of rp.

In terms of "actual utility of play" I think I'll get the most use out of animal transformations though! Can I make this current blessing "can turn into a roughly person-sized dragon"? And then I can sit on the animal summons idea and rework it for my third blessing later if I am still enamored with it. I'm sorry this comment went all over the place ilu
hailstormed: (It's just a grand illusion)

Flight Reflex

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-06-25 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
An aura-based AOE that inflicts a "fear"-like debuff on anyone within a few meters of him. It can be resisted with strength of will but those affected will find themselves suddenly full of adrenaline and running AWAY from him. If used in response to someone else's emotional/personality-changing Blessing it can either be overtaken or can overtake the blessing in question, depending on player desires. It feels Cold.
hailstormed: (I know a trick)

Natural Shaping

[personal profile] hailstormed 2025-06-25 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Biological materials (leather, fur, scales, grasses and other plants, etc) use for projects/crafts/clothings/etc can be bent to his will and shaped as needed with minimal need for cutting and patching. It does not work with anything synthetic or inert like plastic, metal, or stones, and does not work with living creatures (but CAN work with their fur/feathers/hair to an extent). It's like the material "wants" to be shaped rather than him forcing it one way or another.

Maelle | Roo | Eonia

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
maelleable: inkonic (12)

Smudge

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Can induce a feeling of doubt in reality to someone. It's pretty minor but mostly disorienting and Feels Bad and probably for people who are mentally weak prone to doubt it's stronger.
maelleable: inkonic (14)

Virtuose

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Physical boost (strength, agility, etc all around physical stats). The flipside of it is after she uses it she falls into a period where she's much weaker/slower.
maelleable: inkonic (06)

Cage

[personal profile] maelleable 2025-06-25 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Basically creates a temporary zone where no one can use powers and it only dissolves when there's a 'victor'. It's a thunderdome for fighting. Obvs limitations and whatever. Mostly used if people want to be in the thunderdome with me oocly ok. Also someone could probably just be like 'I concede' and it would disappear LMFAO but. It's the aesthetics that matter ok.
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Re: CLARIFICATION (prob accecpted tho)

[personal profile] suckingly 2025-06-25 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, it's a lot more like 'uses blessing, sees a cloud in the symbolic shape of a soul, drinks it through a straw'. So minimal. Very interruptible and not even that deep.

Re: CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] makedown 2025-06-26 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I had in mind! Mostly so I could have smth to play with in normal threads (emotion stuff) that could double as an offensive power if she ever needs it. Provided that she realizes she has this blessing at some point. Ha ha h

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