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((also gwg, just look around a bit, I made two longer posts, they are easy to spot. it's not gurps))

I also just checked whether I could vote multiple times, turns out, I cannot. So unless @KJ got other people to vote or circumvented it, which I doubt simply due to it seeming unlikely he would go through all that effort just to tamper with a poll, I would presume he didn't. Perhaps people voted for the old system at first but then changed their minds?

also I will point out that the Poll started yesterday, while the idea of the system I proposed started today, Between the old system and gurps, of course everybody would want the old system. nobody voted other because at that point, we had no other

I will write up a complete summary once the remaining points have been adressed, mainly the problem that as it stands with str vs def going up straight, physical damage is too low, or even nil. Unlike magic, you can't just dump more mana into a spell to get damage.


my suggestion is that the quality of armaments, whatever they may be, grants a bonus to the damage roll, so that damage will almost always, unless the rolls are very unlucky or someone has very high defence, the damage will out-do the damage absorption. unless there are different ideas, or suggestions regarding what levels of quality there are and how much damage they deal, I will think about that and put it out in the full post tomorrow

So... what's the problem with people putting more energy into their punches to hit harder? Because that's basically what putting mana into a physical attack is. I don't disagree with equipment giving stats but I just think that's a bit silly.

The language is a bit more complex then simply cutting words it seems. Use of proper nouns seems to indicate respect; High ranking people are never referred to as "He" or "She" or "They", but always by their name and, in extreme cases, their entire title as well. Likewise, it seems that using your own name when with someone of higher rank is seen as rude or presumptuous.  In fact, it seems like equals refer to each other and themselves by pronouns unless they're friends or more intimately involved.

"... Well, it probably would have been more subtle to just ram the APC in..."
Kyle says watching the scene with a look of near awe.

Quote from: Yoink on May 29, 2014, 09:49:37 pm

"So uh... everyone alright? Do try not to do that again. Let me know if you need the APC moved closer, or anything. "
Jobasio speaks through the comms, watching proceedings from the driver's seat.

Grab a cold one from the APC's built-in bar fridge, sit back and relax. Oh, and uh, keep an eye on things. Yeah.
Rummage about between the seats for a convenient music cassette or equivalent, left there by a previous owner.

what.


what.

((Wait, I could jump down the whole length of it without trouble? How?))

I dunno, somehow i think its far more likely that youll be forced to build your own ant farm.

Also no stealing my ideas.

Yeah but if you get bitten and die you forget everything again including what you were doing and why.

On the rtd-out-of-control: what are the plans for the gm? Will you have 1 gm? Will the players govern themselves again? A rotating set of gm's? A few people that only step in when things go out of hand? A permanent team of gm's?

No, do it once, let the word spread, then drop regular pills with sugar that look exactly the same. Just to screw with their heads.

*slides in on butt*

Hijack?

Logically, shouldn't the strength requirements for weapons be reduced in low gravity and eliminated in zero gravity environments?

Because he's a famous magic user who would inevitably be given a deal he doesn't want by some government and if he tried speaking out against this idea he would probably be made out as a villain and have a fall from grace and really it's just simpler over all to fake his death or go into hiding.

Yes, he goes into hiding because... well have you seen the Incredibles? something like that would probably happen.

So in other words, he's even more paranoid than Cyrielle.

Donations from big companies.

Anti-magic generators for one.

Lots of data on magical threats, some purely magical weapons, and the schematics for Kyle's power armor.

They use a completely custom coding language, if people attempt to take it by force the base is nuked, and if the employees take something that could be a real problem they are put on d-class duty. Less severe punishments are given for less severe or more beneficial deals.

And D-class duty puts you with the mean stuff. Not deadly. Just painful.

How the hell was magic unknown by the general public prior to the Layar invasion if major corporations knew about it already?

I think the question is, What were Yuri's family and IRIS doing before the invasion?

Fairly certain this is falling into GM jurisdiction since Scapheap was the one that let Yuri's thing go on and Elf is the one who was okaying the lore for IRIS.

And really now's a bit late for you to bring that up.

How did Cerberus from Mass Effect do it?

...I also said something somewhere about this NOT being Puella Magi, I'm sure of it.

And @SmurfingtonTheThird has now given a takeover bid hijack offer. Not entirely sure if it's still considered a hijack if he politely offers it

You gotta get past Simus first.
somehow i think that she will want the flesh pits to be used to make actually useful sods, so good luck with that.

6 foot tall bulletproof termite/mantis hybrid with monorazor scythe arms and the capability to disguise themselves as a guy wearing a raincoat by folding their wings over themselves and covering their face with a two part bone mask.

Oh and in before grate gets bitten by a snake and dies again.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 30, 2014, 09:08:17 pm

Second off, if I have to design a first-gen-testing homunculus, I'm going to be accelerating the growth process quite a bit. It doesn't have to be as clever as a sod, nor as tough; it just has to be humanoid, have a hominid biochemistry, and ideally be capable of movement.

Don't forget size. We don't know how size affects the results of the pills, but if it's a nonissue or can be compensated for, there's no reason you'd need them any larger than convenient. Mouse or cockroach-sized sods are probably quite a bit quicker to grow than slightly-larger-than-normal-human ones.

How about testing partial doses as well? Like half a pill? Or a bit of powder?

Who knows? Maybe a tiny bit of manipulator pill powder mixed with something else could function well as a suicide/kamikaze pill.

Is it as crappy as everyone says?