Ellri

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

A lot of points are rather irrelevant when it comes to that test, yes. But its a decent test to verify just how terrible a lot of characters are.

When it comes to RPs in the higher parts of casual and in advanced, you rarely see anyone wanting their character to be a Mary Sue. Thus, when a character is blatantly so, using the test can help them understand that it actually is one.

Vampires?

universe as in: "Twilight" or "Underworld" or "World of Darkness" or the two hundred and eighty thousand or so others that exist.

Vampires?

No problem.

having a few aristocratic families would certainly be a way to both stabilize and destabilize such a society.

For simplicity's sake, we'd also recommend primarily sticking to a single universe of vampires. That will save a hell of a lot on the lorebuilding. The art of worldbuilding is not something that is quickly done. Its easier when you base it on the "real" world, but still quite a lot of work.

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

Nothing is like having RPs where the player characters can, and will, die. Its not necessarily fun to end up with a total party kill, but if the players are foolish enough to set themselves up for such, then they deserve it.

We're actually wondering how many characters worthy of this thread we'll get when we relaunch our current RP project... Its been in remodeling hiatus for 11 months now...

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

Insane is very hard to play "right". Its easy to take care of the bit about sometimes being nonsensical, but more often than not, the acts of the insane aren't nonsensical. They're entirely justified. In their own minds, that is. While its no doubt fun to play the vampire that slaps his or her prince with a fish, that same vampire, presuming he or she is insane, is more likely to kill someone for wearing a blue shirt than to slap someone with a fish.

The best playing of insane results in true chaos for everyone. And of course the level of insanity varies greatly. Some of the insane have no self control at all. Others are simply a bit... off-kilter.

we've found it interesting to run the worst character concepts we get thrown at us as a GM through the universal Mary Sue litmus test. Its unfortunately rather common for them to fail it. Miserably.

Vampires?

It would be interesting with something rather casual on a vampire theme... We peeked at it the other day, but got distracted by something shiny...

The scenario above isn't really all that unique... As vampire stories go, witches and werewolves are among the most common groups to be with them. Not to mention... Vampires tend to have all sorts of physical advantages... granting them a reprieve from the daylight makes it very easy to end up with them being very much overpowered.

The most common form of vampire hunter that we've seen is the kind where they secretly hunt vampires, trying just as much to hide the truth as the vampires are... It varies whether they're more powerful than baseline humans or not, but both of those are pretty common...
A scenario that isn't often seen is that of hunters trying to reveal vampires for what they are and the vampires doing their best to disprove their own existence.

Quick thought:
Are the vampires born as vampires, turned into vampires (by other vampires) or will either of those work?
(the last alternative can create multiple "classes" within vampire society, with the born ones considering themselves superior to the turned ones)

As for the weaknesses for vampires: those seem to make sense.

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

One of the worst examples we've come across was a guy in a star wars RP. The RP was limited to Jedi/Sith, and the guy apparently had a Mandalorian Sith who walked around in Mandalorian Armor. Suffice to say, the character wasn't permitted to post IC.
Even before that, there was a rule in place "No mandalorians" or "No bounty-hunters". Can't remember which one ('twas old guild and updated many times afterwards, so any copy of that is now lost)

Another example from the same RP was sometime after the RP had filled its quota of Sith. One of the Jedi players turned to the dark side simply by being in the proximity of some Sith. And then he actually expected the Sith to trust him.

RPGC #2 -- POWER

good. Can't exactly ask more yet.

RPGC #2 -- POWER

Perhaps it is time to get it out on the contests thing up at the front page?

RPGC #2 -- POWER

Certainly an easier theme for us to work with...