BellaStrega

I think you mean "psychopathic." "Psychotic" is more about delusions, and most people who are psychotic are no more likely to be violent than anyone else.

I disagree with several of the details, but I do think that regarding particular posters (I wouldn't count you as one of them) the post itself hits the mark.

I do think that there should be a sash for male and huge characters. But when you have guys coming into these threads complaining about numerical equality and ignoring situational equality (as in, do male and female characters both get similarly useful pieces or do the males get the useful/badass pieces and females get the sexy pieces), that the definition of equality is pretty self-serving.

Don't your scrappers know about Crit Panther?

So, what is the point of having those unique pieces for males? What exactly do you intend to get out of having unique pieces as opposed to simply having a wide variety of pieces?

I don't care so much about having unique pieces as I do about having pieces I can use to make my characters look good. While I don't think my characters look unique (as many characters as exist, I am not concerned with this) as they look distinctive. I don't get this from having pieces that male characters can't access - most of my characters use pieces available to all models - but from how I assemble a character's look.

So, what precisely do you think that having a quota of unique pieces will net you? Do you feel like you're actually losing something because female characters are getting a few more pieces than male characters? Because that's not even logical.

The problem with female costume pieces was not the number of pieces available to any given model, but the type of pieces. The gunslinger pack gave female characters the saloon girl look and nothing else. That is to say, that male characters could be bad-*** gunslingers, and female characters got to be sex workers. That was, and remains, problematic. You could have doubled the number of pieces available to female characters but stuck to that theme and it would still be a problem.

The only way you have the remotest chance of making the situation look unfair to male characters is by making it about a strict numerical count of pieces.

This isn't about feminists or feminism. It's about people on this forum who were dissatisfied with the costume options available to their characters. You don't seem to actually be dissatisfied with your options, so what is your real problem?

Yes, people do that in general. Like the guy arguing that stalker buffs will be detrimental to scrappers.

I mean, are people saying this in this thread? In that particular debate?

Thanks much.

Is anyone really doing that in this thread? The discussion you jumped into had to do with whether team buffs and debuffs were overpowered or not, and how this supposedly makes scrappers irrelevant, not whether other ATs are irrelevant because of scrappers.

Also, what on Earth does the "Mo" in "Mo*TF" mean?

I wasn't handwaving, what I said is basically how Prometheus explains the well, or at least what I understand his explanation to mean.

I've been asking them to fix this for years.

Also, "go see the hazard zone security chief" missions.

Said character isn't a stretch of the idea of comic book "natural." I actually have a good origin/explanation as to how it worked for her, and it was a deliberate attempt to stretch the definition. In this case, it was a riff on the kind of origin stories that super martial artists tend to have, although in her case she achieved through training and meditation the power to "emulate" a mountain.

Even those superheroes who don't have such stretched definitions tend to exceed normal human capabilities (Batman is an example here). In the past, in my own games (tabletop RPG) I tended to go with the idea that there was a level of human potential that basically existed so exceptional people could be more exceptional. It was just how people worked, or rather potentially worked. Someone like Batman would technically be superhuman, but isn't because the idea of "humanity" encompasses someone who pushes beyond normal human limits for the sake of an ideal, or a mission, or whatever.

In that regard, the Well makes sense to me as what it is intended to be, which is a level of potential that truly extraordinary people can access. Of course, the game didn't need to say explicitly that everyone who's a superhero or supervillain is already accessing the Well.

Well, uh, my natural tanker can naturally coat her body in ice and naturally cover her fists in stone or conjure a stone hammer out of the air, so, hmm.

She can also naturally throw fireballs.

So, stepping sideways a bit, is the Power Cosmic magic or science?

I don't think writers are limited to a false dichotomy of "either/or" here I also recall a discussion in which you argued that magic must be systematic in a manner similar to science - there was a bit of a quip about finding a stone with every possible spell engraved on it, ending with an apology.