Judgement power for a brutish non-magical Troll woman?

Why is this man holding his mouse with his left hand and operating a computer without a keyboard attached? *edit* Or a power cable?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'd say go void color it red and say its her "rage" overwhelming her foes in a fierce booming yell...

Ah, hey there, NT. I was actually looking speak with you about this After much deliberation and going back-and-forth between Ionic and Void, I think I'll go with the idea we spoke about last time.

Neuronia was kind enough to come over and show me all of the Judgement powers in person, and as soon as I saw - and most importantly heard - Void in action, I knew it wouldn't work. A suggestion was made that I use this as a sort of demoralising battle cry, and from what I saw in the editor, it seemed to work. Thing is, the editor doesn't have sound and the camera is WAAAY too close to see pretty much any of the Judgement powers well. When I saw it in person, I realised it consists of a gassy explosion, then a slowly-swirling black hole which sucks those gasses back in. I could sell this as a battlecry, but it's just too elaborate and too gassy to do so. And the sound of the power just doesn't cut it. It's a low, rumbling thump followed by the sound of howling wind. It's obvious to me that this power is not a battlecry, and I decided to err on the side of game consistency and went with Ionic.

With Ionic, I really don't have to pretend what I'm seeing is something other than what's happening on the screen. I coloured it bright, in yellow and white, so now it looks like divine lighting, and I'm selling it like exactly what it is - lightning from the sky that Xanta catches and redirects. I can pretend she does this with her sword, He-Man style, but that's not as important. What matters is this is the easiest of them all to sell as being dangerous, since Xanta has to be struck by lightning to use it, it looks the most "divine" which is important in this case, and it's just plain cool, whereas I can't say the same about Void.

I've decided that I'll go with different elements for every Incarnate power when it comes to visuals, so it looks like Xanta is sort of this wandering adventurer collecting bits and pieces of spells from here and there and amassing a grab bag of tricks. So her sword can set things on fire via the Reactive Interface, her gloves can redirect lightning and eventually her shoulders will be able to cast energy shields. What mattered to me was that the magic doesn't come off as one large, multi-use item that anyone else could use if they wore rubber boots, but rather a collection of smaller magical items with a variety of crippling dangers that only she can use as a package. What mattered was these were just a supplement to the core characteristic of my giant green warrior woman, which is that she's very big, very strong and VERY hard to hurt.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

What I find funny is, you essentially go through 4 pages just to come to the conclusion of "She's using magic"...

But then I can be pretty cynical about these things.

I still think it would have been more interesting to explore the magic-smith character to broaden the main character's story.

To the OP, I'd go with Vorpal. It supposed to be VERY FAST teleport type power, but you can easily rationalize that "with such brute strength, she's able to kick/swing at the air so hard, it sends a wave of force at her enemies!" At least...that's what I would do. Only drawback here is Vorpal's SFX, barely sounds like anything IMO. "shrugs"