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I mean, it still applies there. Just to a lesser extent. Batman’s effective “tier” is dramatically higher than what you would expect from what he is physically capable of. Taylor in Worm is similar; both of them have (by the time they reach their peaks) a lot of skill at adapting to people with...

It’s worth noting that, in something like a military setting or when you’re dealing with an experienced adventurer or what have you, almost everyone will have some kind of counter for almost everything if they know it’s coming. If you are a Bronze Age army and the enemy can summon stone golems...

I’ve had some luck loosely organizing my combatant characters into power tiers, with each tier equalling (in my head) about a doubling in power. I reference the tiers in the text but generally not during fight scenes. So 2 tier 1 fit but untrained civilians would be able to plausibly threaten a...

I do not read it in public, but I’m another person who writes it at work.

A hero is someone who, when the chips are down, acts in the way that the storyteller’s ideology says they should rather than the way they could be cynically expected to. Being brave instead of being a coward. Being selfless instead of saving their own skin. Being clever instead of panicking...

First thought I had when you described hp as a tangible thing that people can use was Aura in RWBY. Then my brain supplied me with this: All people have a field of energy that they typically use to protect themselves from harm. It’s an ablative barrier, and doesn’t necessarily block all injury...

As an extremely horny Litrpg flavored thing where I go into detail on how everything works? Fairly hard in both the technical and ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) senses of the word.

I have readers that get surprisingly salty whenever my MC takes an L, especially when one of the entities that runs my story’s System (who are established minor characters) does not favor him. My MC is a bit of a narcissist who thinks with his dick and has personally offended one of the three...

Start of story? Time to see if actually understanding how the system works from the very start is a big enough edge to compensate for having a functioning moral compass. From a utilitarian perspective my MC has really solved a lot of problems and made the world a safer place to live, but only...

I am fond of Envy as a copycat power. Either direct shapeshift and perfect copy of one person’s appearance and abilities instantly, or setting it to a target and then slowly altering reality and yourself to get more of the things that person has over time. Either by stealing them or just...

I genuinely couldn’t tell you. That one was one of the pics I put to a vote. I have a minor character that has an inexplicable fan club and that pic is what people decided they liked for Tony the promoted starting zone thug.

My story has a set endpoint but is hazy before that. All power creep is bringing the MC closer to punching a specific godlike entity in the face. When he does, that’s the end of the story.

In my story Well At Least I’m a Magic Pirate Now I am trying to capture the dynamic of a player and a player character in a TTRPG. It’s an isekai into a tabletop RPG and the MC’s “cheat” is that he has a character sheet that allows him to let him go into autopilot. I’m trying to write Autopilot...

Having the three be different with different missions does add the internal consideration of which task is the most/least difficult and most/least distasteful. Having to decide between killing a retired marine with a family that he single-handedly supports and is a loving father to, do 10,000...

Total loss of his powers and all manifestations thereof? Immediate civil war among the supporting cast. The people who he’s forced to join his army would probably try to kill him and maybe 20% would stay loyal to him without his powers. He doesn’t have a backup plan except to frickin hide and...

Start of story? 2 with a huge asterisk to represent the irresistible mind control necklaces he gets from his patron (trouble comes from getting people to wear them…) Current point in the story? 7-8 for personal power, and the asterisk has grown to encompass an entire page to account for all of...

The things I’ve posted on the forum? Not much. The 300+ chapter mind control smut fanfiction is something I wouldn’t want associated with my real name in meatspace though.

Idk. Most complaints about Aloy I’ve heard have focused on the fact that they went out of their way to make her less attractive in game 2. In particular she has a much rounder face with a wider, flatter nose. She was reasonably attractive in a “post apocalyptic girl next door” way in Zero Dawn...

What’s the difference between being nice and being kind? When you are willing to make sacrifices. Nice guys just want to be liked, kind people actually want other people to be better off. It wasn’t the first time that Erich wondered if he was a terrible person. He certainly wasn’t a good...

Almost any light based power is either going to have a lot of fine control, is going to focus the light to the point of shooting frickin lasers, or you have the blunt asshole options where you give people cancer with radiation, microwave them, or create flashbangs without the bang. Not to...