Raineh Daze

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Do you know who he even is?

@IncredibleBee

Yes, yes I do. But it's hard to actually keep posting in the area if it's impossible to tell what one character's doing. Whether brooding or walking off in some direction or having managed to attract yet another bloody apostle. :P

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@IncredibleBee Guts' got no response to the now-on-fire building? Or the people? XD

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-Begins plotting how to steal Yoshika.-

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I'm not quite sure you get the gist of what this multiverse RP is about. It's not about the titans of a setting coming together and having a great big punch-up. Sure, a lot of people are doing just that, but bringing in Kotomine Shirou is ludicrous!

@Earnest Evans

You are not the GM. You're not a co-GM, either. Can you please stop complaining about character power levels before the actual GM's had any comment? Especially Servants.

A Certain Academic City

Who said that the level 4's are unaffected? More likely that none of them have blundered into it. :P

D&D 5E: Waterborne Adventures

Perception's your ability to see things. The old spot/listen/search all rolled into one. It is not your memory. That would be... your memory/ability to take notes OOC. Or knowledge results, if appropriate.

A Certain Academic City

A world first! Someone actually recognised the level 5! XD

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Yeah, so if it drains all your mana and instakills the character the second they make an attempt at it, is that ever gonna come up? And then without it it's just a kind of shitty version of the other swords, so it's like why even have it when you could use that space for something cooler?

Like, I dunno, Kusanagi or Tyrfing or whatever. Something fancy.

@Zobozun

Death-or-glory. It's a powerful attack, yeah. But you're knowingly killing off the character doing it.

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@Earnest Evans

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand things about NP's. The cost of their abilities is not a randomly variable thing, and being a higher rank doesn't inherently mean that it's a better sword in combat. Excalibur, even if NOT projected, is not a OHKO sword of doom in melee. Rho Aias is not a feasible defence against anything you're not expecting to promptly annihilate you if it hits. Results aren't something you can just dial down; making Caladbolg II a quite literal artillery piece. Not a highly-versatile short-range explosive.

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I'm unfamiliar with Fate, but wouldn't that mean that there'd be no point in having Excalibur on the CS in the first place if it's too expensive to ever use?
I mean, if it's that draining, then just summoning it would deplete her mana and cause her to cease to exist the second she tried it, right? So, like, that's not even a suicide attack, really. It's just flat-out suicide.
That seems a bit silly is all. You might want to trade it out for something cooler and more usable.

@Zobozun

Eh, Archer never projects it; Shirou only projects it to use it. Arguable that it can be projected (though that seems more mentally damaging) but there's no worth in it without activating the ability... which drains all of Saber's mana for ONE attack. Saber eclipses them. Hence the suicide.

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It barely matters how "crippled" these weapons are compared to their true forms, because their true forms are only not immediate game breakers because of plot armor. Excalibur is one of the greatest swords in the setting almost purely because of its innate abilities (it's almost Red Key-tier sharp and can be swung about as quickly as a damn lightsaber).

Our only idea of how "bad" Rho Aias is is when it's compared to motherfucking Gae Bolg. Even a severely-crippled Rho Aias would be an impenetrable shield on par with just saying "it doesn't hurt me"!

Caladbolg, meanwhile, completely ruined Caster in one blow and, even when it didn't beat Berserker, it turned a large portion of the cemetery they were in into a smoking crater, and then destroyed a hill top with it. Even severely crippled, Caladbolg is basically a man-portable bunker buster.

Beyond that, there seems to be a severe issue with how you've listed them as usable by Ilya. If these weapons very nearly killed the original Archer while using them, why even list them as possible for the apparently weaker Ilya? It's guaranteed to kill her if she makes them!

This is exactly why you need to strictly define what you can summon up and how draining it is to do so. Otherwise we run into situations where Ilya will be able to make objects that the other Archer very gave himself a hernia doing so.

@Earnest Evans

Er, Excalibur's only notable strength is its ability. A fragile, breakable variant of a sharp sword is not actually that big a deal. Also, projecting said thing isn't an option outside of heroic sacrifices.

Rho Aias is an extremely mana intensive shield against ranged attacks. So, it might shield people from an equally-powerful attack, but there goes most offensive ability.

Caladbolg: so we're comparing it with actual artillery? In that case, I don't see the problem. It's nothing special in the RP.

Exaggerating.