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[@MelonHead] You are biased. That you have made clear but its not something I take offense to. Usually negative views on high tier combat derive from bad past experiences. I assume you had many and its very common since its so easy to abuse them. I've played against characters who can manipulate matter. It's pretty fun under the right rules but I digress. I also enjoy hand to hand and "semi realistic" styles of fighting and I can see the pleasure in both.

While lower tiers of combat require more understanding of the physical limits of the human body it doesn't compare to the overall amount of knowledge needed to fight competently when large scales of powers are involved. Someone could be throwing Psuedo science at you in one fight and then testing your ability to counter fantasy magic in another. It is simply the more unpredictable and entertaining experience in my opinion.

I'm not trying to debate over specific examples due to myself being on a phone currently but I'd be more than happy to introduce you to some of the themes I've worked with and how they can be used to tell stories which lower powers cannot necessarily replicate. Maybe we can even have a spar later on.

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Oh no, most higher tier fights I've had were pretty fun. They're completely stress free, absolutely pointless though. They always looked cool, but the characters were shit, no human can portray a near omnipotent being in a convincing fashion, almost everyone falls laughably short. Also, you don't really need to know jack-shit about physics or how physical combat actually works to write higher tier battles, in fact, you'd be wasting your time even trying to apply real world physics with such powerful characters. That usually tells in the end, as the person with the biggest dick comes out on top, rather than the person who clearly knows what they're doing and put some forethought into their moves.

I'd rather see smart play rewarded, I'd rather see fights grounded in real world logic, I'd rather see characters that are portrayed in a convincing manner and are interesting to read in the medium of combat. Higher tier fights can be pretty fun, but they're still quite often shit.

Doc, that is only the case if the two characters are piss-poorly equipped for actual combat, stupid, or carrying guns. Besides which, ordinary humans can only carry out so many actions in a short period of time, every post tends to cover just a few seconds of time, so a fight that lasts thirty seconds, relatively short by movie standards, is still covering fifteen posts of action from both sides.

If two people who knew what they were doing somehow got into a fight with chainsaws (evidently they don't know what they're doing for bringing such a shit weapon into a fight) the only thing likely is that their chainsaws collide and both break. That doesn't strike me as a fight that's going to end quickly, unless neither cares about actually living. I know some people fight like that, because they forget their characters aren't suicidal.

Unless they all are, who knows.