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Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Hey, we've got a Masquerade character, awesome. My Ghoul character is based off Ghouls from the Masquerade, though I'm not that far into the lore of it all, just played one game.

Also, there shouldn't be that much concern if your character is human level is some regards, remember T3 is only just above human, and T4 is a few steps removed. Ultimately Yoshua you can still fly, which as many past tournaments have proven is pretty much the best advantage you can have for the low-mid tier fights.

Allaria Ch. 4: Rescue and Escape

Your characters should be headed, or already in, the 'Moving' resistance camp to start the mission. Since it's on the edge of Kyut Forest, where the bulk of the RP will take place.

The other bits are used to flesh out the story past and present. Usually, the bit really concerning you guys will be at the bottom, sometimes.

In other words, post getting to, or already being. In the resistance camp.

@Rilla

Your post didn't really make it clear where the camp was or what it looked like. There were allusions to it being underground, but also in a forest, and lots of other confusing remarks.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Next time you run a tourney. Next time you make the rules and you get to decide. HE IS BEATABLE.

@Skallagrim

It's your tournament, as I said, you reserve the right to completely disregard my opinions. Apparently no one else has any issue, so I'm sure they'll be perfectly happy fighting the character. I was only suggesting to Vordak how he could nerf the character after he asked, and from my experience deeming the character far above what is commonly seen as low-mid powered.

I'm sorry if I came off a little strong in my confusion Vordak, I've probably fought close to sixty different characters in the last three years so it's easy to forget people don't have my experience with the old tier system. It seems at the moment people are going through a particularly high powered phase, so it was an easy mistake to make on your part to make a character a lot stronger than the average.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Vordak's character is not that tough and he is exploitable. I would rather you guys trusted my judgement on characters and their acceptance instead of questioning every time YOU feel they are unfair.

@Skallagrim

Well, I literally only have what he told us to work with, run at 80 m/s, hit with enough force to kill many humans at once instantly, durable enough to sustain sitting in the sun for five seconds, completely immune to a wide range of magics, and obviously protected from many other forms of magic by the nature of his durability.

Having a weak-spot inside that sort of structure is really a moot point. That's like saying the weak-point of an M1 Tank is the dude inside, well great, but I'm going to get fucked up before I can reach him.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Good luck to you Yoshua, fortunately you might be the only person here with a character type capable of defeating such an opponent, maybe.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Do you not realise how having only one single spot -inside your superhumanly hard- body, presumably not even a large one, as the only spot on your character that can be reliably damaged is overpowered? Humans can be cut and bled out, poisoned, suffocated, knocked out, debilitated from attacks to almost any part of their body with enough force, frozen, boiled, burned, electrocuted, blinded, deafened and just outright beaten up. Your character has literally none of these weaknesses, despite T2 being within human capabilities. So taking for granted you're making a verrrry high end T4 character, you've cut out every single exploitable weakness and replaced it with a glowing light protected by what I can only assume is the shell of a tank that can regenerate to boot.

It's so fucking easy to defend one small part of your body when you can just BS your character's body regenerating over the spot as much as you like. Something like that can't be fought.

Anyway, not my problem, which is why I don't host these things.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

My character is a massive glass cannon, he has an incredibly limited amount of time to unleash a lot of devastation, and can be killed easily in physical combat, almost as easily as a regular human. With that in mind and all the sacrifices my character's made in other stats in order to maximise his damage potential, he'd still be completely unable to damage that character, while also being killed in a single punch.

My advice, remove the majority of your magic resistance, having passive near immunity to a wide range of magical effects is BS at this tier level. Reduce the damage of his hits, or reduce your movement speed, because at the moment your character is fast while also packing an insane punch while also being near impervious to harm.

Remove the BS 'weakspot' shit that no one can exploit without meta-gaming. Have your character have a highly finite amount of resources, because regenerating isn't supposed to be that efficient at this tier level. He could still be relatively impervious to physical harm such as small arms, physical blunt damage, etc, but he must still be harmed by prepped physical attacks and explosives.

That's how I would balance it anyway, ultimately it's up to Skallagrim how you balance a character that's not really weak in any particular physical stat while also being highly durable and resistant to magic of pretty much every kind.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Well, the way i have him now, Ijok is impervious to any purely magical influence - fire summoned by magical means, or an earthbending attack will hurt him all the same, but something like Metz's Death Hand would be quickly nullified.

And to top that, he can harden the entirety of his body up to the point where it is just as tough as boron carbide - albeit, 4 times denser. If you cut off part of his body, he can just re-attach it, and the only ways you can permanently damage him is by hitting him in his weak spot, which is a grapefruit sized crystal ball protected by his body, and by burning him, which would require either potent chemicals, or prolonged exposure to temperatures of 1500 celcius and higher for any noticeable effect, even plasma as hot as 6000 degrees burning only 10-20% of his total body mass in the span of second.

To top that, he can throw punches at about 120-150 m/s (about 500 feet per second), containing over a million joules of force, and sprint at 80 m/s, which is far more than Shin is capable of, even though he is a melee superiority fighter as well.

When i was thinking mid-tier, i expected there to be characters who pick their teeth with with loaded guns and wrestle dragons to death before breakfast, so i made him very strong compared to my usual characters.

@Vordak

Yeah you were way off, this is a low powered tournament, that's a high powered character. If you had anything resembling an exploitable weakness it would probably be alright, but you don't really. T3-4 is Vampire/Werewolf level stats.

I'm really unsure how you managed to miss the mark so significantly to be honest, didn't it occur to you that you might be making a high-powered bordering on demi-god while writing that temperatures hotter than the sun would still take up to five seconds to burn through your character?

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Well, that really depends on the nature of your character's durability. For reference my opponent's character is impervious to basic physical assault, so punching, kicking, shooting, stabbing, none of that would work against them, and for the record their main attribute is actually speed. So if your character's main attribute is durability then you might as well make yourself rock-solid, no physical attack can damage you past high-ordinance, and magic has to pass through a barrier.

Nexus of Worlds- Darkness Rising- A Guild Tournament

Since i think i'll have to rebalance the initial version of my character, could everyone please give me an idea of what you consider your own most powerful attack?

No need for any details, if you want to keep that secret, just a measure of said attack's strength, so i could know what the upper limit for my characters' durability should be. It's one of his major abilities, so i'd naturally want to tone it down as little as possible, unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.

@Vordak

I don't understand, I assumed characters were all final now.