Origins Pack - Natural Auras and Capes

Sooooo

Natural isn't about martial arts, guns and training anymore?

It's about the fury of nature?

Natural is martial arts, training, military, alien, inherent abilities... it is actually the most diverse of the origins in my viewpoint. The auras is more a case of "what can we add which may fit?"

The should have done something like this for natural so all us normal powered heroes really on firearms could fell included in this booster.




That hand grenade border could really pull a coustume together.

Maybe that could be a natural cape pattern?

Technically, most Natural characters probably don't have Auras.

In the game canon, particularly in the Origin of Power missions, Natural powers are about training and self focus. This happens to mesh very well with martial arts (no caps - I don't mean the powerset), athletics, and maybe old-school eastern-style (non-mutant, non-magic) psychic power.

I think it's worth noting, though, that in CoH Natural characters are taking that to rather Dragonball-esque levels of achievement. A lot of people on the forums do things like eschew travel powers or avoid flashy powersets (like Fire Blast) in the interest of mimicking levels of power a "baseline", if exceptional, human would have. But based on the Origin of Power dialogs, I think that in CoH, your level 50 Natural character is standing next to the Tech, Science, Magic and Mutant ones and beating face on true par with them.

I don't care how well trained and self-motivated you are, you have to be doing something pretty special to deal the same damage with your fists or feet as the guy in the high-tech power armor, the guy charged with the Power Cosmic, or the half-demon son of a god. Even if you're causing high damage because you have preternaturally good aim and timing, you're still doing something pretty superhuman.

I think the implication is that it's fine to be a Natural flier or super-speeder, a Natural Fire Blaster, or a Natural Stone Tank, even if you're human. You've figured out how to unlock or unleash something within yourself that lets you do things that other humans can't without having mutant genes, chemical alteration or bombardment by strange radiations. Many of the origins have some tendency to overlap conceptually, and I think "natural" power at this level is borderline mysticism, but I think it's worth considering that "Natural Origin" may mean a lot more than just highly trained and athletic.

So a natural aura would be a constant rain of shell casings. Or a combat aura of boards breaking as you move. Or a furious swirl of paperwork.

Unknown_User pretty much paraphrased what the in-game description of natural is: if it's possible for anyone (of your species) to be able to do it, then it's natural.

The grey line, of course, is that lower-level tech and magic (guns and swords, spoken-word spells, etc) can usually be picked up by anyone, but then it's up to you to decide which origin to use.

I have a natural origin demons/dark mastermind.

She's totally natural. This origin is, in fact, one of the reasons that wise people might be a bit wary of her efforts to "dispel old superstitious myths about demons".

*shrugs*
Actually, I thought the natural stuff fit. Would leaves be magical? Meh, not always. Tech? Heck no. Science? no...leaves are natural. Natural origin fits.

FAR better a fit than the "mutant" in my opinion. Fire and a demon tail cape. Huh?

See... Now me... I'm looking for Au Natural costume pieces.... That's where the only thing you wear are the blurry bits you see on Sims characters...

I have a Natural Origin Earth/Storm; she's a Sidhe. She doesn't use magic - she IS magic. Command of the elements is as natural to her as breathing.

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Originally Posted by UberGuy I think it's worth noting, though, that in CoH Natural characters are taking that to rather Dragonball-esque levels of achievement.

Or to be more comicky, Karate Kid, who beat Superboy because he was Just That Good. And the Black Panther once got the Silver Surfer of all people in an armlock.

As to the whole 'natural origin' thing, I view it simply as this: you were born with whatever power it is you have. Your genetics may be unique, but there's no mutation. (No 'accident' in the DNA) Whatever powers you have came directly from hereditary sources, and cannot be removed via outside means. Even without weapons and armor, technological or magic equipment, you're still a force to be reconned with.

Ninja/kunoichi with sakura petals! Yesh, I say!

Not an issue at all...
Every single origin has a wide variety of possibilities and no small sample can cover it all.
People complained about the Martial Arts Booster being a poor representation of the Natural Origin as well.

Relax, Frances.




On another note...
I did think of another type of cape that could be included under a natural origin theme (that goes along with the OP's expectations of natural origins)...

A leather cape, possibly with pockets and such.

A lot of the low-tech types that some think of as good examples of the Natural Origin could use some more pouches and pockets for putting all of their stuff.
Plus, the leather material can be sort of a more down-to-earth style for a non-flashy type (if it is old Indiana Jones type leather... not pleather type stuff...)

Oh well... we'll just have to get some more stuff for free instead!!