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[Genon]

@Genon, hate to break it to you but your character's time on the Raid just got even more boring. Saiyans don't have recorded music to listen to to pass time. Sorry. No phones. No iPods. No laptops or tablets. Nada. They get jack. So he's stuck basically waiting and sitting unless something happens to throw him into a confrontation which he cannot win (which I'd highly suggest you get to work on soon). He'll never grow more powerful if he's not pushed to the brink.
Good luck!

Ah. It was sort of emulating DBZA, with the scouter scenes between Vegeta and Nappa. And now I've realized just how awful life as a Proud Warrior Race Guy can be. No music? No Internet!? THE HORROR! (TAT)(.A.)(>8U)


But I digress. I was under the impression that you handled combat, so you'd send an enemy after me. I guess I ought to get to work on one. If I put the enemy there, will you take over for the baddie or do I have to handle him?

 

[Kyero]

Ah. It was sort of emulating DBZA, with the scouter scenes between Vegeta and Nappa. And now I've realized just how awful life as a Proud Warrior Race Guy can be. No music? No Internet!? THE HORROR! (TAT)(.A.)(>8U)
But I digress. I was under the impression that you handled combat, so you'd send an enemy after me. I guess I ought to get to work on one. If I put the enemy there, will you take over for the baddie or do I have to handle him?

If you bring an enemy NPC into your post, it's officially yours and I cannot mess with it. The battle is yours to control as you see fit. But I do urge you to beat the ever loving s**t out of your character as much as possible. The worse his condition, the more powerful he becomes as you know.

 

[Genon]

If you bring an enemy NPC into your post, it's officially yours and I cannot mess with it. The battle is yours to control as you see fit. But I do urge you to beat the ever loving s**t out of your character as much as possible. The worse his condition, the more powerful he becomes as you know.

Alright, completed the fight.

 

[Kyero]

Alright, completed the fight.

Heheh...


Okay. Not bad. Not quite what I had in mind, but all right. I can buy that.

 

[Genon]

Heheh...
Okay. Not bad. Not quite what I had in mind, but all right. I can buy that.

So, are you going to DM what happens to Karas now? Because right now I'm just making random fight scenes.

 

[aonly9470]

you know that half of roleplaying is about the unpredictability of what the others will do

 

[Genon]

you know that half of roleplaying is about the unpredictability of what the others will do

Well, yeah. Of course. The only problem is that there are literally no other players nearby. None. Nada. Zilch. I'm the only one guarding the ships, and that means I'm putting on a one-man show until something happens.

 

[Kyero]

So, are you going to DM what happens to Karas now? Because right now I'm just making random fight scenes.

You're free to keep making him fight if you'd like.

 

[Genon]

You're free to keep making him fight if you'd like.

Well...I don't really like putting on a one-man show...

 

[Kyero]

you know that half of roleplaying is about the unpredictability of what the others will do

One role-player's opinion on the subject, and one only applicable to RP's that do not have a predetermined course to follow and encourage players to behave as they choose irrelevant of the outcome.


This is not such an RP.


But even so, this has nothing to do with the issue of unpredictability. This is a matter of you coming dangerously close to breaking one of my rules. Within the world of God-Modding exist two other types of playing which I do not tolerate: Power Playing and Metagaming.


Power Playing, as I'm sure you're aware, is when you write for someone else's character without their permission for the purpose of either making your character seem more powerful than they are or to escape an unwanted situation which you should not be able to escape from.


Metagaming is when you take IRL knowledge which your character should not possess and allow them access to it. For example a thief-type character who grew up on the streets without an education suddenly knowing about politics, banking, and farming skills.


What you did bordered on Power Playing. It may have been an NPC, but it was still my character to control and not yours. If you want to take control of a character I create, even if it's an enemy NPC, you need to ask my permission before hand. The same is true in reverse. Even if I am the GM, I am not allowed to take control of your character be it your primary character or an NPC you create.


When it comes to your own character, you're free to have them do whatever you want so long as it doesn't break one of my RP's rules. But when it comes to the rule of no God-Modding, which sits at the top of the Rules list, the limitations of your rights to control your own character trumps your "freedom" to act as you choose. You may not write for a character I create, be it Era, Sil, or an NPC I created specifically for them.


Saiyans typically fight alone, given their prideful nature which should be more than evident with the Goku/Vegeta dynamic of the original series.


So long as you write for your character freely, and give me a head's up whenever your character is going to interact with mine in some fashion, then I am content to let what comes take place as it may.

 

[Genon]

One role-player's opinion on the subject, and one only applicable to RP's that do not have a predetermined course to follow and encourage players to behave as they choose irrelevant of the outcome.
This is not such an RP.


But even so, this has nothing to do with the issue of unpredictability. This is a matter of you coming dangerously close to breaking one of my rules. Within the world of God-Modding exist two other types of playing which I do not tolerate: Power Playing and Metagaming.


Power Playing, as I'm sure you're aware, is when you write for someone else's character without their permission for the purpose of either making your character seem more powerful than they are or to escape an unwanted situation which you should not be able to escape from.


Metagaming is when you take IRL knowledge which your character should not possess and allow them access to it. For example a thief-type character who grew up on the streets without an education suddenly knowing about politics, banking, and farming skills.


What you did bordered on Power Playing. It may have been an NPC, but it was still my character to control and not yours. If you want to take control of a character I create, even if it's an enemy NPC, you need to ask my permission before hand. The same is true in reverse. Even if I am the GM, I am not allowed to take control of your character be it your primary character or an NPC you create.


When it comes to your own character, you're free to have them do whatever you want so long as it doesn't break one of my RP's rules. But when it comes to the rule of no God-Modding, which sits at the top of the Rules list, the limitations of your rights to control your own character trumps your "freedom" to act as you choose. You may not write for a character I create, be it Era, Sil, or an NPC I created specifically for them.


Saiyans typically fight alone, given their prideful nature which should be more than evident with the Goku/Vegeta dynamic of the original series.


So long as you write for your character freely, and give me a head's up whenever your character is going to interact with mine in some fashion, then I am content to let what comes take place as it may.

Oh, so that's what @aonly9470 was talking about. Thought he was responding to me. But yeah, @Kyero, I give you permission to send an NPC after me or have Korvalis call me to a big battle whenever you're ready. I may still create fight scenes of my own though. I just felt that if there's no other players doing anything with my character, what's separating this from just creative writing?

 

[Kyero]

Oh, so that's what @aonly9470 was talking about. Thought he was responding to me. But yeah, @Kyero, I give you permission to send an NPC after me or have Korvalis call me to a big battle whenever you're ready. I may still create fight scenes of my own though. I just felt that if there's no other players doing anything with my character, what's separating this from just creative writing?

Very well. I'll give you an enemy to face down.


But in essence this RP is precisely about creative writing. Saiyans are a proud warrior race who prefer to fight alone. That's the whole point of having your own Saiyan. They love fighting. They live for it. They relish it. But they do so alone. They'll talk to one another and travel together for sure as a group, but that's as far as the dynamic goes. Once the battle starts, they find their own targets and fight alone to win unless they find that there's absolutely no hope of winning in which case they will call for aid.

 

[Genon]

Very well. I'll give you an enemy to face down.
But in essence this RP is precisely about creative writing. Saiyans are a proud warrior race who prefer to fight alone. That's the whole point of having your own Saiyan. They love fighting. They live for it. They relish it. But they do so alone. They'll talk to one another and travel together for sure as a group, but that's as far as the dynamic goes. Once the battle starts, they find their own targets and fight alone to win unless they find that there's absolutely no hope of winning in which case they will call for aid.

What I meant, in addition to what I was talking about earlier, was that letting everyone decide the results of their own battles opens up some opportunities for bullshit. I could theoretically have someone with a 3 million PL show up, and have my 450 PL combat engineer (who isn't masking his power, mind you) oneshot him with no effort. Random mooks and slightly tougher enemies like the 800 PL guy I fought and killed are reasonable, but there is some regulation of that, right?

 

[Kyero]

What I meant, in addition to what I was talking about earlier, was that letting everyone decide the results of their own battles opens up some opportunities for bullshit. I could theoretically have someone with a 3 million PL show up, and have my 450 PL combat engineer (who isn't masking his power, mind you) oneshot him with no effort. Random mooks and slightly tougher enemies like the 800 PL guy I fought and killed are reasonable, but there is some regulation of that, right?

It's in the rules. Rule #1 is No God-Modding, and I'm also functioning as a Moderator in this RP. If I see something that's BS, I call it out and I can go in and change it however I wish. You may be posting, but I can edit your posts as I see fit if need be. But if someone tries to implement BS, I will call it and I will take care of it.


As the GM, that's my job.


Good role-players who are worth engaging always know and respect the rules and will respect the integrity of the RP.

 

[Genon]

It's in the rules. Rule #1 is No God-Modding, and I'm also functioning as a Moderator in this RP. If I see something that's BS, I call it out and I can go in and change it however I wish. You may be posting, but I can edit your posts as I see fit if need be. But if someone tries to implement BS, I will call it and I will take care of it.
As the GM, that's my job.


Good role-players who are worth engaging always know and respect the rules and will respect the integrity of the RP.

Cool. I know it should have been obvious for me, but the definition of god-modding I'm familiar with involved writing for someone else only, so I wanted to point that out. You didn't exactly specify in the rules, so to prevent asshole rules lawyers in the future you may want to make that absolutely clear in the rules section.

 

[Kyero]

Cool. I know it should have been obvious for me, but the definition of god-modding I'm familiar with involved writing for someone else only, so I wanted to point that out. You didn't exactly specify in the rules, so to prevent asshole rules lawyers in the future you may want to make that absolutely clear in the rules section.

I do.


"Rule #1 - No God-Modding.


Pretty self explanatory, and I know most of you know what this means. However, here are my four primary concerns regarding God-Modding in an RP of this nature:


- If I, as the GM, write in one of my posts that someone's character is damaged by an ambush NPC attack, and that player tries to write that they saw it coming and avoided it despite that I already damaged them... That's God-Modding.


- If someone damages their own character in a post, and another player decides to "undo" the damage by having their character step in to save them and writes that the other player didn't take damage (even if it looks like a noble effort)... That's God-Modding.


- Constantly avoiding incoming attacks to escape unharmed, or even relatively unharmed, against an enemy that is either in the "equal" range or "superior" range is God-Modding.


- If anyone decides at any point to execute a transformation to another level of Super Saiyan without first having received my permission, that's God-Modding."


Those are just basic examples, but it's pretty clear what is and is not allowed in this rule and what I consider to be God-Modding. As you can see, aonly9470 came close to breaking the second rule on the list. Era and Sil weren't truly damaged during the encounter with the enemy, but he wrote for his character to swoop in and help them without having his character take any damage despite the difference in power and the fact that these enemies can sense power levels which means the enemy would have seen his character coming.


That's why I'm on their case right now. They didn't break the rule, but they came close.

 

[Kyero]

Cool. I know it should have been obvious for me, but the definition of god-modding I'm familiar with involved writing for someone else only, so I wanted to point that out. You didn't exactly specify in the rules, so to prevent asshole rules lawyers in the future you may want to make that absolutely clear in the rules section.

Your NPC's are now in play, and your character has one hell of a fight on his hands.


Enjoy!

 

[Genon]

Your NPC's are now in play, and your character has one hell of a fight on his hands.
Enjoy!

What I wrote is OK, right? It's absolutely in-character for Karas to have modded his ship. I've stopped short of giving it weapons, though with the take from the mission he may add some later.

 

[Kyero]

What I wrote is OK, right? It's absolutely in-character for Karas to have modded his ship. I've stopped short of giving it weapons, though with the take from the mission he may add some later.

It seems fair enough.


Still, those two are going to focus on Karas and fight him head on now that he knows they're present. Even if this sneak attack on the ships failed, they won't let him get away.

 

[Genon]

It seems fair enough.
Still, those two are going to focus on Karas and fight him head on now that he knows they're present. Even if this sneak attack on the ships failed, they won't let him get away.

I'm actually going to edit my post a bit. As in the backstory, Scouters have an SOS function, so he's going to call for backup after scanning these guys.

 

[aonly9470]

ok. that makes sense.

 

[Genon]

@Kyero, I've noticed in the mechanics that Golden Great Ape is there, but not Super Saiyan 4. You mention SS4 by name, but don't actually have an explanation of it.


Also, where are you at in general? You haven't been here since Friday.

 

[Kyero]

@Kyero, I've noticed in the mechanics that Golden Great Ape is there, but not Super Saiyan 4. You mention SS4 by name, but don't actually have an explanation of it.
Also, where are you at in general? You haven't been here since Friday.

I know. I am a full time college student and have several projects due very soon that I've been working on.


I'll get a post in by tomorrow afternoon.


As for SS4, since it's not officially canon to the DBZ universe I have elected to remove it from the RP itself. When I transferred the text in the Mechanics page from a previous version of this RP, I forgot to remove that bit from the GGA form's information section. I will edit that out soon.

 

[Genon]

I know. I am a full time college student and have several projects due very soon that I've been working on.
I'll get a post in by tomorrow afternoon.


As for SS4, since it's not officially canon to the DBZ universe I have elected to remove it from the RP itself. When I transferred the text in the Mechanics page from a previous version of this RP, I forgot to remove that bit from the GGA form's information section. I will edit that out soon.

Well the GGA isn't canon either.

 

[Kyero]

Well the GGA isn't canon either.

I know. But it was cool enough that I wanted to keep it around. If you go SS and then go Great Ape, shouldn't it be that the ape carries the SS power over? Seems to make sense enough to me.


The SS4 was a bit of a stretch, concentrating powers higher just to achieve a half-humanoid half ape-like form. Doesn't make much sense to me so I decided to toss it. The GGA makes more sense from a natural perspective. The SS4, not so much.