I never thought it was a totalitarian government that we were suggesting, it's just a government that has high restrictions on how magic is used.
Which is pretty reasonable. Look at how most first-world countries have handled gun control...and last I checked, civilian firearms couldn't control peoples' minds, destroy buildings with a single shot, or rip open rifts to dimensions full of things man was not meant to know. Although I hear all of those functions can be accomplished by some guns DARPA's working on.
How is discrimination against a set of people not like that? What if they did it to Jewish people or black people?
If the Nazis were putting people who could and often did cause death and destruction with nothing but their brains into concentration camps, they would...well, they'd still be villains, but if they stuck to the stage where they registered
Jews magic people and forbade them from setting people on fire with their minds without a permit, they'd be viewed as reasonable.
How is it at all legal to monitor people who can for example move a spoon one foot at exactly migldnight? Because that's magic as well and that would be something that needs to happen according to your suggestion.
"They're saying magic would be regulated and whatnot. Therefore the government goes 1984 at the first sign of magical ability."
Smooth, Mr. Scarecrow-Maker.
Why would you allow people to need to be watched over something they can't control like their eye color?
I wouldn't. I would, however, be fine with letting people be watched over for something they can't control like the ability to ruin lives with a thought.
that being said, many of the things IRIS did were illegal. Like you know, locking people away without trial? No matter how dangerous, that's not right. Production of weapons against international laws, (and geneva convention?) well dayum. and who knows what else. IRIS has a very busy time of paying tons and tons of lawyers ahead.
I'd say it's more likely to just be shut down.
Look at it this way, would a resonable character in X-Men think that the regulation is humane? If the answer is no then obviously it's not a good idea.
Well, since no one's suggesting making Sentinels, sending minor offenders to the Phantom Zone forever, or putting a team of psychopathic supervillains in charge of enforcing the laws, the answer is "yes". So that's irrelevant.
Pretty damn hard anyway to register unless the entire world bands together to do so.
Still won't work and no one will try it.
Say you get some person in, say they're magical but you don't know that, say you ask them "Do you have magic?", say they reply "Nope.", the fuck do you do then? You won't know. Hence trying it is futile.
Simple. Having magic and not registering it is illegal, just like it's illegal to have a rocket launcher without a permit.
Akroma said it's like gun laws. That means that besides no one needing a license for it in most of the south you need a license everywhere else or you literally are a walking violation.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that? Having a registry of who can teleport into bank vaults, control peoples' minds, and set people on fire is a good thing.
We can't base it off magical girl shows unless we do a complete reset, everyone is too old for it.
Angel isn't!
Well, why are we trying to stick to a genre that no one actually knows a fucking thing about?
Because almost everyone here is an idiot? And I mean that in a good way.
There was the sex fairy.
Am I the only one who sees that as proof enough that Xan should never be taken into account when we need an opinion on this game?
Yes.
And what have I said that's worse then just dumbing a character down to 'Sex fairy'?
You don't want me to answer that.
And it's not an inaccurate description of Conny, given its brevity.
To be honest if I was rebooting this I'd turn it into a proper magical girl game.
Then... why... don't you?
Because rebooting requires paying attention and other GMing skills?
No offense, Elf, I'm just pointing out that you haven't been terribly...active during your stint as "GM".
Sure as hell wasn't how I interpreted it.
Stop the presses. I agree with Emp.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have magic regulation handled the way RL governments would. That is to say,
they wouldn't sit on their lazy bums while magicians took over African countries and repeatedly came within spitting distance of ending the world as we know it!
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