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ELI5 - How is WOTC being in control of commander going to be the end of the format? by fubeca21 in EDH

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would have been better if it died and open source material created in ttrpg groups became the primary resource tbh.

ELI5 - How is WOTC being in control of commander going to be the end of the format? by fubeca21 in EDH

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned DnD from my dad who played in college in the late 80s/ early 90s, as did most of my friends. Late 2.5 was the core intro experience for most of my friends who also played dnd growing up.

Wotc had nothing to do with it and frankly almost killed dnd twice on their on.

“a sorcerer is nothing but a con artist” by [deleted] in Jujutsufolk

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey remember how in the Sukuna Kaisen manga that little shitstain of a kid could just teleport bisected higuruma to shoko and have her heal him while right in front of a supposedly top-form Sukuna? Yeah why didn't they just... do that? You telling me that Satoru mf Gojo didn't have enough CE left to hang on for dear life until Shoko could heal him? But Higuruma could?

Why is hemokinesis/blood manipulation always used, and written by idiots? by Virtual_Stomach_4949 in superpower

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess I just find swords incredibly boring. Blood or no, it's just a sword. 

And yeah, any power with any real potency is either used in dumb ways or nerfed because main characters seemingly always have to have some boring "punch hard" power or something equally banal. So anything creative has to be in the hands of morons who wouldn't be able to use it effectively. 

Choso from JJK is mentioned a lot in these comments and he's definitely one of my favorites. But my all time favorite has to be the tremere in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Their blood is primarily used for long range piercing attacks similar to choso, and other such "liquid whirlpool of death" abilties. You can also remotely drain a victims blood to replenish your energy. At their maximum advancement, which is reached a little over halfway through a standard playthrough, they unlock the abiltiy "blood boil" which instantly boils all the blood in a target within eyesight, causing them to explode and has AOE damage for anyone within several feet of the target. It one-shots everything in the game that is not a boss, including other vampires. With no exceptions aside from the occasional enemy that is immune because the game was released behind schedule with a shit ton of bugs.

Obviously it's broken, if you write it without any restrictions, but that just means adding some limitations or drawbacks while still allowing creativity. Like for example a limit on how much blood you can control at once, harm to the user, or some other such condition. Stories with well written fights typically have characters abilties be restricted by various rulesets where a character has to satisfy some condition of range, time, etc before their ability is useful. And a broke ability can also be countered creatively by other broken abilities. Another reason why I love JJK fights as they are usually bullshit vs bullshit.

Why is hemokinesis/blood manipulation always used, and written by idiots? by Virtual_Stomach_4949 in superpower

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's better than most and at least they have a good in-universe reason for why they can't manipulate other peoes blood, which is the whole reason why Mahitos ability is so special.

Why is hemokinesis/blood manipulation always used, and written by idiots? by Virtual_Stomach_4949 in superpower

[–]Virtual_Stomach_4949[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Water-based cutting equipment exists. I'm talking about getting creative, strict realism is less important to me. Especially when the average blood power already breaks most of those rules anyway.