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Mobile Suit Gundam: Return of War.

I am always up for Gundam. Recently rewatched the UC stuff.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@CaptainSully 's why i'm asking.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@Weird TalesIf there is a cap on Saiyans, does that include my character?

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@Weird Tales Alright, that's fair. But you didn't answer the question of would it be alright to just drop Zhao down to an NPC?

@Double Oh, i agree with the part about people not wanting to be in an RP where there is one guy who refuses to lose, but i just don't think there are specific character builds in freeform RP's that are inherently overpowered, just people who play their character as overpowered. My description of "Overpowered" in rp's like this is "Character played by someone who clearly wants a power fantasy, mostly at the cost of everyone else's ability to enjoy the game." Rule of narrative is important. It's why the Justice League works, when Superman is clearly superior to everyone else combined, because his player knows that, when he needs to take a shitkicking, he'll take that shitkicking. If you disagree, i won't tell you that you are wrong, but that's my opinion on the matter, you are free to take it or leave it.

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@Double Look, i respect our differing opinions on the matter, but i would rather not get into an argument with you in chat, so i will simply post my usual rebuttal to arguments along these lines:

RP's like this are less of a game and more of a group story-telling activity where we work together to try and amuse ourselves and each other with characters encountering situations as set out by the GM. Plenty of people argue over what is and is not an "Overpowered character" when the answer is simple. In freeform RP's, there is no such thing as an overpowered character, just someone who wants to play an overpowered character. OP characters are created when someone decides to start ignoring the rules of narrative, one of the key rules being "If character X needs to lose a fight to character Y, then they will do so, regardless of how much stronger character X is." E.G. If Broly needs to lose a fight to Krillen in order to facilitate the narrative, then Broly's going to lose.

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@Double The history of the Kamehameha is well documented, the history of the Galik Gun is not. Hell, as far as i remember, he's only actually used it twice. After looking it up, i was incorrect, over the course of Z, he used the move a grand total of 3 times (Fun fact, this means that, in Super, Future Trunks used the move more than his father did in Z, using it 4 times) His move of choice was always Final Flash or Final Burst Cannon. So, don't treat the move as if it has some epicly important implications. It is stated during the first fight between Goku and Vegeta that the move is very similar to Kamehameha, so it would make sense that the Galick Gun was invented by someone familiar with the Kamehameha.

Also, i'm essentially answering the question of "What if the saiyans had kidnapped Roshi and made him train them in his form of combat?" There's no goddess worship, more like the respect that everyone gives to Roshi. Hell, even after Krillen far surpassed him in Z, he chose to train with Roshi when getting ready for the Androids.

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@Weird Tales That is fair... Gonna have to give me a bit to decide which one, then, because they are pretty tight together. Would i be permitted to use one as a non-combative NPC?

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CS:

To

Name: To
Age: ? (Physically seems to be in his early 20's
Sex: Male
Race: Saiyan
Appearance:

Personality: Multiple.

To has a rather submissive personality, Although being the prime personality which the other 3 are an offshoot from, To is friendly enough, but his power is barely anything and resents this fact.

Ma manifests himself as a confident, well-spoken being of many words and most of them about his own superiority. He allows To to keep control of their body for the most part, but sees himself as their protector, manifesting himself as some form of Ego.

Toe is the Id of the personalities, a brash, unfeeling, sociopathic montrosity that is desperate to get out at all times. Several times, people will see To beating himself up (literally) and wonder where this came from. This is Toe's desperate attempts to break free. He manifests himself in the form of a much larger, much more brutish variant of Ma, he is an unstopable murder machine. He cares not for people, planets or agenda's. Destruction is his only goal. A Saiyans tail is not only one of their greatest strengths but also their greatest weakness. Not so much with Toe. If one grabs either To or Ma's tail, then all of their mental focus will waver and shut down, allowing Toe to take over without hesitation.

Es, upon first glance seems like the most violent and brutish of them all, being that he manifests himself in the form of the Uzaru. But, people underestimate the actually gentle giant. Es is the Super-Ego and a being of peace, of self defence and with a great love of nature. Es spends his time, mostly, within the psyche, desperately trying to keep Toe under wraps.
Power Level: To's Usually hovering around the 100 mark, with it reaching as much as 600 as Ma, but once Toe takes over, it shoots up to 800 and sometimes beyond.
Abilities:

Chaotic, yet controlled, mind (Due to 4 different personalities and minds rattling around inside of his head, he is almost impossible for telepaths to read or attack the chaotic mess. It also means that attempts at mind control are very difficult.)

Strength through Clarity (Es suspects that, should the 4 minds find a way to coexist and even fuse into one, unimaginable power might be achieved.)

Transformations: None
Techniques:

Judgement Rain (Ma fires a large ki ball straight upwards, which splits into hundreds of smaller beams that seek their target.)
Great Rage (Es blasts a large blue beam from his mouth.)
Sadistic Glee (Toe's melee special attack. Grabbing his opponent by the leg or tail, he will proceed to spin them around his head before smashing them against the ground and wall a few times, before finally grabbing them in both hands and smashing their spine with his knee)
Overflowing Power (Beams of ki rush across his skin as he holds both hands above his head, the beams rush up his arms to his palms and a ball of ki forms, before bringing it down to his chest, holding it whilst he taunts his opponent. He then lets loose a beam of power unlike anything the other personalities can muster.)

History: His earliest memories are of fire. Lots of fire, but the one he can remember most clearly was that pod opening and looking upon the face of the woman he would call "Mother" As the young boy exitted the pod, he quickly collapsed due to exhaustion from such an unusally long hypersleep. He next remembered being cradled in the arms of the old woman as they lay in a bed. Of her telling him how beautiful his new home was to be. As he finally grew strong enough to walk, he ventured out and onto the island. The woman began to teach him, how to fight, how fend for himself, how to act around people. Although, she quickly learned what the message of him being a monster meant. The first time that she bathed him and tried to clean his tail, she found herself in for a battle for survival as his power level had just catapulted through the roof. It was only thanks to her telepathy that she was able to calm him.

This is where she learned of the others. To was the boy she had found, but living in his head were 3 others, the first she had met several times, the smooth-talking, happy-go-lucky Ma, who was the one that came out in battle. Es she had yet to meet, due to there not being any Blutz Wave's produced by the planets moon, and Toe, who was the sadistic monster that had come out when she had grabbed his tail to try to subdue him. She raised him, teaching him the ways of combat, until now. She told him of one of his kind being here and that she couldn't tell him what to do when he met them, but it was his choice.
Other:

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2 quick questions about character creation:

1) It says no transformations by anyone, does this mean that all Saiyan characters have to be tailless so they can't transform into the Great Aape?
2) Being that my characters that i have in mind are very much loyal to the Saiyan Empire, would my characters be allowed to show up on earth when Vegeta arrives and fight on his side? Considering that the Earth has a lot of protectors, he may just need the back-up on this one.

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You still accepting new applicants?