SimplyJohn

Champions of Thedas - Dragon Age RP

@Saarebas The correct term is Guv', but Boss will do in a pinch. Or if you're a 'Vint transvestite.

Champions of Thedas - Dragon Age RP

@Saarebas I'll just be running this RP as a Casual affair, otherwise people may get a little edgy having to produce large blocks of quality writing on a short notice.

As for a CS, copy @Genni, she nailed it. :D

The Echo Game! Something Different! Always Recruiting! Exclamation Marks!

"Let there be... ...bugger... ...hang on a sec, the pilot light's gone out again..."

*fumbles in his pockets*

"...umm, does anyone have a lighter? Or some matches? Matches would do."

Champions of Thedas - Dragon Age RP

@Saarebas Not too much, I'll probably be running it as a weekly adventure so as long as you can make a decent contribution at least that often it should be fine.

Code of the Burned [FULL]

I don't think that's the kind of 'undercover' he meant. :P

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

@DJAtomika@RPforthatPR That could certainly work, although I'd recommend he be a low-ranking member of the crew who knew nothing about what had happened on the ship, apart from all the weird system failures going on.

BattleCorp™: Combatant Creator

If we regenerate 10 Energy per turn, any skill with a cost less than that might as well not have a cost.

Champions of Thedas - Dragon Age RP

@Genni Just a quick question. Will your character be very talkative, or will she only say "I am Hroot"? :P

BattleCorp™: Combatant Creator

I'd have to think about it. The energy system is a way to allow repeated use of skills, but I'm still worried of special attacks being spammed. I'm still thinking of ways of balancing its use, giving a short cooldown on the skill use (1 turn or two) before you can use it again. So a dog is unable to spam the "Bite" skill, for example.

@Behemoth542

If I bump Bumblebee's 'Speed Boost' cost upto 60 then she'd be able to use it on her first turn, her third turn, her ninth turn and fifteenth turn. If battles go on any longer than that the rest of the team would probably have been wiped out at that point anyways and any enemy she's facing will easily overwhelm her.

A cost of 50 would allow her to use it on her first, second, sixth, eleventh and sixteenth turn, which seemed a little excessive for something negating attacks.

If I switch it to being 'Evasion' instead, which would allow her to avoid being targeted rather than negating damage then the problem of generating XP kicks in, since her ability wouldn't deal, prevent or receive damage at all. The fact the cost is so low that she could potentially fire off her ability on her first, second, third, seventh, eleventh and fifteenth turns would be mitigated by the fact she wouldn't gain any XP for the battle, or at least far less XP than the others.

The team as I see it at the moment consists of:

• Bumblebee @SimplyJohn 4/2/20, Speed Boost, Cost: 60
• Metar @BCTheEntity 0/7/15, Taunt, Cost: 25
• Meat Mallet @rush99999 7/0/15, Rage, Cost: 5/Enemy
• Nightingale @Genni 2/4/20, Field Repairs, Cost: 25
• Master @Error 3/4/15, Master Power, Cost: 5

@rush99999 For 'Meat Mallet', if Passive abilities are treated as Traits and unavailable from the start of the game, perhaps something like 'Berserker Fury: Cost 20, Suffer 2 Damage. Double Attack this turn, but may not attack in the next turn' would be useful.

As soon as you could select a Trait, go for 'Pain Induced Rage' (or 'Blood Rage'?) which would then benefit from the fact you could damage yourself if the enemy wasn't targeting you. As you level up the stacking bonuses of Berserker Fury and Pain Induced Rage would make you into a very powerful attack unit, but a bit of a glass cannon who could be easily knocked out with a single strong attack.

As long as you stick close to Nightingale she should be able to keep healing you up should your health drop too low and begin to threaten your safety.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

@Feisty-Pants

The Mary Sue Litmus Test is a system used by writers designing new characters to be introduced to a pre-existing narrative universe to gauge how well they'll be able to fit in with existing characters, plots and locations. The higher the rating the more 'broken' and inappropriate the character would be considered to be as part of the ongoing canon.

Generally a score of less than 21 points would be acceptable for a character, stretched to a maximum of 29 depending on how rigid the story is to pre-existing canon. Any score over 30 should be avoided at all costs.

EDIT: Having done a quick calculation, Seven Of Nine, from Star Trek: Voyager, received a Mary Sue score of 37. When she was introduced onto the show she became an imbalancing influence not only on the crew but also on future storylines for the remaining series, completely altering the show at a fundamental level. However since this was the intention of the show's production staff, who were trying to boost ratings and bring new life to the show, she actually performed the job for which she was intended.