Incredible Cosmic Power... Itty-bitty living space.

...Damn. Now I just picture a fight between Liz and Leon. Dirtiest fight-talk in history? Probably...

Although it ain't happening until I IO that sucker

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

What is it about using a cannon to kill a mosquito?

Simply because you can mass-convert all "local" matter into energy to a distance of several light-years doesn't mean it's a good thing to do. ESPECIALLY in inhabited regions of space.

Simply because you can unleash blasts that can render planets down to fine powder doesn't mean you go postal during a superbrawl.

Heroes usually frown upon annihilating those you're supposed to protect.

And villains want to RULE the world. Not destroy it. Or if they want to destroy it, they want to do it in an emotionally satisfactory manner. Not *POOF! DEAD!* and start in on the post-KABLOOIE doldrums.

Essentially, "cosmic-level" characters are at a level where they could, with a bit of effort, destroy things at a speed and scale exceeding even the most destructive things in the universe (giant supernovas, galactic-core black holes, etc).

If all you want to do is render a thug (even a super-powered one) unconscious, opening up with that amount of power is a bit...excessive.

And, as others have said. RP'ing a character like this is...boring.

You have all this power and you don't use it.

SNORE.

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Along these lines I actually enjoy playing CP level characters that lost there CP level powers.

I have a Few guys that are cut off avatars of mytho gods. They had CP level powers once and they might get them one day but for now they are just a shadow of there former selves.

Tru Nembra for example is based off the outer god of the same name. In his case hes a vary tiny peace of that entity stuffed into a suit of leather. Far Far under CP power level but with a CP background. And his goal is to just get out of this realm.

Yet I still sometimes get the whole "Your stupid for playing a god its just stupid you stupid head" when he hangs out in D. Shrug to each there own a guess.

Personally I don't mind people playing CP characters as long as they are not god modding the RP all the time. I don't care if you could eat the universe as long as you don't eat my RP fun that I'm trying to have.

I think limitation is needed, I personally do not enjoy RPing extremely powerful charecters, I feel all the more heroic, villianous, whatever. when I have a weakness my charecter must overcome or avoid. For example, Brain Acid was born a mutant with very simple mental powers. He then forged his power, aka me leveling over time. To be able to dominate animals and plants.

However, when I ding 50; If I do. I will not claim him to be able to destroy the world. because that feat is impossible, You have to consider the other heroes, aswell as the big hitters for example; statesmen isn't a huge fan of the apolyclapse and I'm pretty sure Recluse would be peed if someone blew up his kingdom.

I also find my own RP alittle, diminished when I see world-crushing villians and heroes prancing around and being able to down obscene amounts of absinth.. but that's just me being, picky.

Mary Sue's, bad times.

I do have a pet peeve about people that throw around there cosmic scale powers and get all huffy when someone calls them on it.

God Dude "I can render this whole place ash moral stand aside!"

Super Ice Melt Man "What? No I had this seat first."

God Dude "Don't make me mad I'll turn this whole place to ash!"

Super Ice Melt Man "Um... I'm not buying that so no."

God Dude "I can I'm God Dude and have god like powers."

Super Ice Melt Man "Sure well then just do it if you can."

And then it degrades into OOC arguing about how SIMM needs to just move because GD totally can turn him to ash and thats that. And then it usually will degrade into bystanders putting there 2 cents in. In the end GD will usually storm off complaining how no body really understand how to RP correctly.

Now while it can be argued both are RPing poorly and SIMM could have just moved along and let GD have his RP ego trip. It just bothers me when people RP out of the blue this sort of thing thinking everyone will just bend over and let them go with it. I mean if you REALLY need to RP that sort of ego trip a friendly tell first would keep it from turning into a mess.

^ Heh, my main, Ellie, treats characters like that as kooks and has even once called social services to see if they're missing someone.

In another game I played, something equally stupid did happen to one of my characters. I just ignored it. He got very huffy. Since I actually ran the server and he didn't know, I won.

I'm finding my experience the reverse side of this, particularly with regards to AP herself.

She is, for RP purposes, a regular human. Cut her and she'll bleed: Cut her enough times and she'll bleed to death.

Game Mechanics suggest otherwise, and it's very difficult to do IC missions with her as she's very capable of slicing and dicing things.

However, I tend to underpower her. I'm not sure why, either. Perhaps it's something in the hindbrain that screams "Although it would be cool to have her backflipping, sticking a blade in a bad guy, and firing off a witty remark - don't!"

As for cosmic-level Heroes and Villains, their weakness (imo) is their cosmic level ability: Exploiting that power, or making the character realise what they are truly capable of, might just make said character collapse in a heap as opposed to using it.

It's a Cold War scenario, I guess. Plus if *everyone* ran around at that level, we'd need to come up with an even greater level. As not everyone I RP with does that, I'm happy (for the moment...) to continue underpowering my characters.

Plus I know that in the unlikely event of the World exploding (And being remade again - Actual Gods do exist on Primal Earth), somebody like Kata will always re-emerge.

Well if you don't object to one mad scientist and his Shivan business partner/bodyguard being dumped into the Patches universe I may give it a go.

Edward and Steve are pretty inseperable pairing, in cases where he lacks his mechanical family (being bots/FF) Steve provides the muscle he would normally have while Edward provides the brains, though Steve isn't dumb muscle (check out his blog on all things Unionverse, Shivan Steve Types!).