Dinh AaronMk

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VitaVitaAR said
... The come from different universes. Magic functions differently in different universes. It's not some homogeneous force across all of them. It's like how people have different blood-types, they can't use blood from a person with a different blood type but nothing stops them from interacting with it.

It's almost as if we were on the same wave-length...

I'd assume no-one will decide their character explodes when they touch magic from another universe.

Nothing like this is ever an issue in any crossover RP I've ever seen, it won't be an issue in this one.

But then this.

They may not explode. Or they may not have any effect. Or their magic is just a light-show. The important part is that outside of their universe their cut off from the source of their power and now in a new universe with new natural rules. They most likely can not draw from their old rules and there's something in the new universe that commands them.

Now, perhaps in this higher plane there's something that can allow them to use their power. In a literary sense this may create an incentive for people to act more since it comes with a reward of being connected to this as-of-yet-unknown-plot device. And with there being so many unaffiliated characters it'd be an extra material weight for when they feel naked without magic missile as they know it.

This also allows for a sense of balance between abilities. No one has the useful loopholes writers eventually write into their own magical systems so the hero can defeat the villain at the end. This creates a mechanical balance and keeps already wild abilities in check.

And no one may have ever brought it up because no one stopped to think about how disastrous someone joining as a character with infinite mind-reading potential can be and who can summon black-holes on a whim without any thought of how this happens in their universe in the first place and if it's compatible. Or folk are too polite and afraid of offering out feedback, as I've seen here. There's a lot of confusion about giving criticism with being rewd.

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VitaVitaAR said
@Dinh AaronMK: I'm not particularly certain that it will be an issue given I see no reason for rules from one setting to somehow overrule others in any capacity. Just because characters originate from different settings with different rules does not mean that they cannot interact within a crossover RP. I see no particular reason that, for example, Saber's magic resistance and vulnerability to magical weapons cannot apply to all settings across the board. I expect a magic sword to hurt her but magical lightning to have no effect.

This is a small point in the entire issue, not all of it.

First and foremost it's the nature of magic that can end up conflicting. Questions like, "Where does magic come from" demands consistency or else you end up with a wild tied-up string of nonsense that leads no where and just leads to the inevitable "I have developed a game-over spell".

In some universes magic is innate in a person and can be brought out in training, as often seems the case in things like Elder Scrolls. Where as magic can only be born into a person as in Harry Potter or The Witcher as per genetics passed down or mutation. And in other rules magic can only be given through use of items, or is made incredibly easy as in Runescape.

These things are not necessarily compatible and leads to issues when they meet. It's in the same sense as someone crossing into another dimension where the physics are different. You may burn when you touch water. So what's to stop someone from exploding if they touch a trace amount of someone else's magic? They could go on a sub-atomic principle with universe-unique particles lending "magic" or it's more spiritual with the dead; though then if you're summoning the dead what's to say you can actually call them if you're in technically a higher plane of existence as them, that being the multiverse?

Or is everyone already dead and all fights will end up being like Sisyphus' bolder where they effort to finish the fight but can't?

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Raineh Daze said
Stop being antagonistic towards the DM. :|

This is Interest Check. It's still in the clay molding phase to work out imperfections.

Lost Cause said
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of Anonymous that it's a concept, not an entity with defined characteristics?

Maybe around Tumblr and the concept of posting Anonymously. But it's also evolved to become a character, which often takes on the general personality of a homogeneous community. So there can be one, or there can be many. In one instance of a general I like to frequent, Anon IS treated as a character.

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VitaVitaAR said
I can easily point out that he appears to have no actual personality(you say it changes from one monent to the next)

D.I.D

and his abilities are completely undefined.

I could also point out the lack of definition in the thread itself which leaves a lot to be interpreted. So there's not only a large diversity in abilities people may choose to have; which may or may not compliment each other in the literary sense. Given these characters come from their own worlds with their own magical rules, and we now expect them all to work in one setting will lead to a lot, "Well the rules of my character's world has this exception for that therefore I can win". There's nothing re-defining the perimeters of power or ability, and regulates that. At least in a story-telling capacity.

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VitaVitaAR said
@Dinh AaronMK: Er. I'm not even quite sure what to say here, but I don't think I can really except this. It's not so much a character as a slice of users on an imageboard?

Oh contraire. He also features as a character, and there are many interpretations.

And:

VitaVitaAR said
except this

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So Boerd said
How can too slow be a problem?

Because gotta develop tanks fast.