| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Info wanted... |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Apr 1997 01:33:24 +0100 |
<Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK> writes
>Maybe I was a bit too generic with the term "superheroes". It was used
>to generalise with characters that achieve soem pretty amazing feats
>without any problems at all, whether it be hacking a system, flying an
>aircraft in whether that grounds all others,
No fair, the snow in Chicago wasn't too bad. Read Lynch's latest for
real nightmare flying.
What I find _really_ scary is that the US Navy consider that to be a
necessary qualification: _every_ carrier pilot can do that with less
effort and hassle than Lynch. That was a bloody poor landing, and the
LSO almost literally kicked Lynch's backside for it.
I just wanted to emphasise that he's good, but sometimes only just good
enough.
>Death on wheels characters still exists on the list, they're just not
>doing a lot of killing at the moment.
Easy _is_ death on wheels, as long as she's only fighting gang members
and the like, and you bet she knows that :)
>That's part of the problem. In this case, I have several new
>characters, all of them low powered bar one, a couple of which are
>involved with some very heavy "old time" characters, this makes
>interaction with them difficult at best. I don't personally feel
>comfortable playing characters here that are the equal of people like
>Lynch or Kor, or Flux, but it becomes very difficult, when a player
>knows his character doesn't have a chance in hell of surviving the kind
>of situations these people get into. Logically five of my characters
>are going to have to be killed because of the scale of their
>involvement, and the state of the plots they're involved in, not
>something I would be overly happy about, but something that *logic*
>dictates must occur.
Power level is relative and I don't have a problem with it. I don't
personally see Lynch as being one of the most dangerous characters on
the list: if you want to be picky, he's a mundane. Cybered and skilled,
but still a mundane. While he's very very good, he can still be beaten
by surprise or by stealth or by skill. Yes, he's excellent in a stand-up
fight, but since that's widely known that's the last method you should
choose by which to take him on.
On a list like this, if two listmembers' creations clash, negotiation
between players is typically the best option: the best example I can
think of is when Lynch challenged Ronin to a duel. Lynch could beat
Ronin easily with a knife, but I'm much less certain of the outcome if
Ronin went unarmed (as Jaimie said he would).
Would one of the seconds then be justified in shooting Ronin? Not sure.
Luckily it didn't come to that: Jaimie merely added unexpected emphasis
to a plot point I already hoped to make.
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
