I second that tying powers to a Deity would be highly doubt full. Look how the Patron powers on the villain side worked out.
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They might go with the angle that the Well of the Furies is just a power source for divine power, and the only reason it has a Greek name is because the ancient Greeks were the ones who found out about it, so they gave it a name from their mythology.
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Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus
If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
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Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus
If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
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I know that is how States/Recluse got juiced, but there are many other of the core named Heroes and Villains (GW, Synapse....) that have nothing to do with deities of any pantheon. I am just not prepared to make the leap that the Incarnate System assumes anything at this point.
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Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus
If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
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Goodbye, I guess.
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Rather it follow a portfolio system similar to the powers of the gods in dungeons and dragons. Things like Body, Mind, Spirit, Life, Death, Speed, etc. Using this would provide the devs the ability to put out a multitude of powers and just slide them into their respective folder. Now guidelines as to what would be allowed to choose and or mix/max would have to be decided in test.
Quite simply, I'd be happy if it let you choose any two powers from your ATs power list. Example on my Elec/WP Brute take maybe "Against all Odds" and "FootStomp". Or my Fire/Rad Controller and take "Falcrum Shift" and "Siphon Speed". The choices are endless even then and would be easy or the devs to add. Although I would really like new powers.
I already am.... Just an imperfect one.
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Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus
If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
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Just remember that when you assume it makes an *** out of you.
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I'll choose Chuck Norris
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Originally Posted by flashrains
Now I want to make an incarnate of Glooskap just so people ask me who the heck is Glooskap. Or some unpronouceable Aztec or Maya diety. How about an Earth/Fire troller whose patron is Xiuhtecuhtli?
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Come now. You left out half the saying. "When you assume it makes an *** out of you *and me.*"
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Just remember that when you assume it makes an *** out of you.
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Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
I suspect it's going to be more like Healing Incarnate or Damage Incarnate, rather than specific higher powers.
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I'll be like a discworld athiest where denying the gods presents a very real danger.
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Come now. You left out half the saying. "When you assume it makes an *** out of you *and me.*"
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Agreed... or possibly "fire incarnate" "earth incarnate" "magic incarnate" |
Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
I suspect it's going to be more like Healing Incarnate or Damage Incarnate, rather than specific higher powers.
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I always took it that the "Gods" part of incarnates stemming from a misunderstanding. It isn't exactly that Statesman is an Incarnate of Zeus, as was once stated, it's that Statesman is the incarnation of a particular platonic ideal for our era and Zeus was an incarnation of that same ideal in the greek age of heroes.
... and there may very well have been OTHER ages of heroes farther back in time... each with their own incarnates of those ideals.
Am I the only one in the thread who gets the Glooskap reference?
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That's what I was getting at in another thread - the Well of the Furies has a Greek name because it was the anceint Greeks who discovered it - but in reality, it could just be a source of divine power that's not tied to any belief system.
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Agreed... or possibly "fire incarnate" "earth incarnate" "magic incarnate"
I always took it that the "Gods" part of incarnates stemming from a misunderstanding. It isn't exactly that Statesman is an Incarnate of Zeus, as was once stated, it's that Statesman is the incarnation of a particular platonic ideal for our era and Zeus was an incarnation of that same ideal in the greek age of heroes. ... and there may very well have been OTHER ages of heroes farther back in time... each with their own incarnates of those ideals. |
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Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus
If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
Will you pick from the rough and ready Norse pantheon? Odin? The mighty Thor, god of thunder? Loki? Kelllllldaaaa? Or perhaps the Greeks! Zeus! Apollo! Ares! BAMF-in-residence Hephaestus! Or, dare to dream, Dionysus! Egyptian? Ra? Horus? Osiris? Isis? Or will you be more obscure? Quetzlcoatl? Tiamat? Vishnu? Amaterasu? In-game gods like Tielekku and Lugebhu? |
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