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So is FATE, uh... four, now? Any good? Reactions here seem to be suggesting so

I agree on line damage, though in a large space, throwing out balls or cones would have probably been more helpful on the final level. Prior to that, it was an instant one shot for just about anything I breathed on.

Not sure what the other colors get, but red dragons' (which I'd currently call the easiest color, without hesitation) top tier stamina talent is Inferno, which does line-breath level damage to everything in line of sight. Absolutely tremendous for the last level, you can probably clean out several of the adventurers on the first turn. After that, it's all about positioning and leveraging whatever AoE talents you have. Trample into wing buffet is a good way to kill a particularly dangerous batch of critters and moving the line breath around to hit the most number of critters is, of course, beneficial.

Not really sure if other colors have an equivalent. Red's the only thing I've managed to get full ability access with, so far.

Definitely echoing that line is likely the best breath, though. The rest just don't do enough damage. It's usually better to completely kill one critter in one turn than half kill two, since there's no combat degradation due to damage. Full health or half they're still doing the same amount of damage, but if half of them is dead you just halved incoming fire~

Eh, I like mine better

Perversion in general parlance is a very wiggly thing and very, very subjective and region-dependent*. I prefer something universal that covers all the cases I'd care to cover, heh. Gives me a better baseline to work with.

*How do you determine what's abnormal, anyway? Surveys? Illicitly viewing an appropriate sample size to determine statistics? What people say in public would seem to be a terrible measure. It's not uncommon for what they say and what they do to be wildly divergent, yeah.

So we should expect to see cumin-encrusted Mountain Dew sirloin with fish sauce?

Hell, if it worked I'd do it! Mountain dew goes fine on chicken and beef, from previous experience. At least with fairly light application.

Probably not, though. Don't do seafood, so fish sauce is likely out. Now, spicy duck sauce or whatever that is? Sure.

Actually not sure what I'd do about spicy stuff. I'm not fond of anything much hotter than, say, black pepper. The stuff in a shaker at restaurants and junk. I can eat hotter (much, much hotter) stuff, I just don't like it

Usually. Random may mean g'damn random. It's tempting to aim toward saving up some money and just buying one of everything from a grocery store's inventory, spice/sauce wise. Then probably digging stuff up out in the woods. Talk someone into programming or directing me to a multivariant randomization program and go nuts.

Hopefully nothing would interact negatively(?) and become toxic

Only works if you've already got the physical base to be able to work out to that extent, from what I've seen. There's nothing euphoric about an asthma attack tacked on to a heat stroke

Florida, yaay~ _Not.

Is there such a thing as overkill? I'm saying there is a level at which what you do to prevent an action becomes overkill.

If it helps the discussion any, legally, there is. Excessive reaction can affect the legal status of a self-defense case, though I don't know the details of it and it varies of place to place. There's been a few flare-ups about castle laws in the last while, iirc, which is basically what that's concerning -- the point that self-defense becomes excessive.

There's a bit of leeway, but you don't get to skin a person and salt the wounds for trying to mug you and suchlike. Permanently damaging a rapist's genitalia in the heat of the moment is probably not going too far, but knocking out the rapist and then carving up their nethers would be. Couldn't say where a device actually intended to mangle would fit in that spectrum.

Last one seems to still be unlocked, and I don't recall anyone being banned in it despite going on for a good 750-ish posts. It just kinda' went quiet. This sort of thing does tend poorly, though.