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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.
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Tafye (Felt) / Sun Sign

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-09-30 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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Now Fall

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-09-30 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
standard gravity manip!

- can cancel an object's gravity/make objects weightless, up to the volume of 2 people
- can move an object's center of gravity. if the target is a person, it throws them off-balance
- combining the above two steps can make the object "fall" into the sky unless obstructed
- can multiply an object's normal gravity, if this is too much then ignore this bullet point
- rule of fun time limit on PCs so characters aren't just stuck without a counter

utility

ADDENDUM

[personal profile] ticketmaster 2024-11-19 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
This feels like a lot of separate things for one power in my brain so just to re-word it so it feels more cohesive, we would suggest just having the ability to move center of gravity up to two directions. They can go up or down or northwest, and if they use up and down, it ends up making the person stuck in the air between the two.

Can do 1 person at a time, 2 only if they put in a LOT of energy into it and for a very short duration. Line of sight so can't just randomly do it to a person in a different room.

DOES THAT SOUND OK.
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Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-11-19 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
line of sight ok!! i forgot to put that in the initial request but ye ye

i'll go with up and down!! so just checking, if she moves the center up of a super heavy inanimate object, then physically pushing it along as if it's a much lighter object is ok? since it's not telekinesis and still needs a manual component. i'm talking about like, a super heavy box, not the great wall of china. volume limit of a car or half a car?

PCs can struggle/counter/whatever they wanna do

Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] ticketmaster 2024-11-19 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, let me clarify, she can have all of the directions NOT just up and down. I just wanted to specify that she can keep her [stuck in air] ability, it would just be interpreted as if she pulled up and down at the same time.

So at any one point, she can pull the gravity in two directions max. She can pull JUST north or NORTH EAST, does that make more sense?

And yes to the second question! IF I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO CHANGE IT, ILL COME BACK TO THIS.
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Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-11-19 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
OK OK yeah that makes a lot more sense.

all ok!
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Weight Of Your Worth

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-09-30 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
- takes a trait that the target has in abundance, and hinders the target based on that trait
- e.g. high self-worth/arrogance -> target is weighed down by gold chains, high self-loathing -> target starts burning
- NOT a mind-control power, it's a manifestation of self-perception that already exists in the target
- effects disappear when the skill is deactivated, to prevent characters from using it to cheese infinite gold/flames/whatever
- ideally the player gets to pick their trait + effect, but if that's too hard to balance i can limit it to arrogance + chains and self-loathing + flames, those are the two i really want
- this skill does jackshit against well-adjusted characters yup

defense

ADDENDUM

[personal profile] ticketmaster 2024-11-19 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
This also counts as multiple different unique effects. Weighed down by gold chains is restraint, targets start burning is physical damage. If you want this to be one ability, it needs to be a lot more cohesive and definitely more restraints. It is just too powerful as is especially since I think 90% of the ship is NOT well-adjusted even as AU (lols).

A suggestion I got is maybe basing it on a theme like seven sins with a specific pre-made debuff with either mental restraint or physical restraint.

The other option is "stocking" a couple at a time and maybe switching them out like I've done for other similar multi-effect type powers.

Even then it'll probably need to get a few more conditions on it, BUT I DON'T WANNA GO TOO DEEP UNTIL I SEE IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE OR ANOTHER IDEA. Do either of those sound an ok basis?
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Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-11-19 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
REASONABLE THANK U

do you have examples/links to examples of the 2 suggestions?
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Re: ADDENDUM

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-12-12 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
HI HELLO, how about this instead:

- self-immolate skill
- if the target has hatred in their heart, she can use that as "fuel" to make them self-immolate
- MENTAL SKILL, no physical damage. target will feel/smell themselves burning and see themselves engulfed in black flames and may feel shaky after depending in the person, but it's ~all in their head~
- only the target sees the flames
- 5-10 minute limit and she has to be within line of sight
- can be countered by focusing on things that aren't hatred or by breaking her concentration
- no hatred = no effect. unconscious target = no effect

APPROVED

[personal profile] showmaster 2025-01-13 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
THIS IS OK, if you still want me to give examples of the other one let me know. Only thing but like for all these mental powers, in the case it's needed for ooc reasons, you can say icly it can be broken with VERY STRONG WILLPOWER ALSO if there's ever a need for an ic excuse.

But the breaking her concentration/anti-hate brigade and such should be good enough (just u know, in case theres a need).
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Love Again

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-09-30 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
- summons the GRIM REAPER except it's not a skeleton, it's her dead mom (that she murdered)
- doesn't kill anything i just want the aesthetic of the summon

summon abilities:
- standard scythe swing (melee)
- standard scythe swing + black heart projectiles (ranged), like shuriken
- getting hit by either ability removes the target's proprioception in the affected area for a short amount of time. does no visible physical damage

summoning criteria:
- the absolute conviction that she murdered her mom out of love
- will tentatively lose this Blessing after some memory regains

offense
Edited 2024-09-30 14:17 (UTC)

CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] ticketmaster 2024-11-19 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
JUST TO VERIFY, it's noted that there's the standard scythe swing (melee) but also that it does no visible physical damage. So the swing (melee) literally does no damage, y/n?

I'm just making sure I am reading this right, ty!!!!
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Re: CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-11-19 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
NONE DAMAGE, whatever looks physical is actually a proprioception cut/"mental/soul" disconnection

literally doesn't work on inanimate objects
Edited 2024-11-19 04:01 (UTC)

Re: CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] ticketmaster 2024-11-19 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
ok ok, this can last like 1-5 mins, but the aftereffects linger for a while. The status effect can be cleansed off with other blessings (any calming blessings and such, maybe nightmare eating, etc), but otherwise, it'll take IC time to recover (up to character willpower on how quick).

The more pyew pyew projectiles she sends out, she uses energy a lot faster.

DOES THIS WORK
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Re: CLARIFICATION

[personal profile] causeplay 2024-11-19 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
WORKS FOR ME ARIGATHANKS