guest super (Guest) Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 8:03 pm

I had an interesting idea for a power, but I'm not sure if it would work. And it makes filling out the form difficult. Basically the power is that after x number of days (I'm thinking something like every two weeks or every new moon or something) the character transforms into something new. It would only be a human/oid creature, and would have size limits. So s/he could potentially transform into another human, something like a cat/dog/lizard person, or some sort of humanoid mutant. But s/he couldn't become a giant or a dwarf, anything inorganic, or an actual animal. The character has no control over this transformation, it always happens at the set date and only then. The character never knows what this will be or even what gender. Basically - can I use this power? This is just the premise, but is it possible to use it?

The Dark Monarch (Darkm) Monday, March 16, 2009 - 4:58 pm

sounds very intriguing and gives rise to some very interesting story lines. The only prob I could see is that every character needs certain powers which are balanced with certain weaknesses so everytime you transformed you would have a new set of powers but also a new set of weaknesses to come up with does that make sense?

Dannandy McDoggle (Mcdoogle) Monday, March 16, 2009 - 9:54 pm

yah if you could get a mod willing to do this for you, it would be ok

Deputy Carp (Carp) Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:02 am

I think it’s a good idea... I’m not a mod, but I would think that if the transformations were limited to some degree e.g. various combinations of claws, teeth, horns, scales that perhaps only one set of weaknesses would suffice. It would be labour intensive for a mod to have to confirm a balance every change.... The suggestion from this side of the peanut gallery would be to provide a list of powers such as say... Offensive: teeth, claws and horns of various types and dimensions, spikes, venom, acid, stink Defensive: Scaly armour, tough hide, thick fur, loose skin, super healing Travel: Wings (flight or gliding), gills, wall crawling, leaping Sensory: Enhanced senses, 360 degree vision (e.g. multiple eyes), night vision, sonar Other: tail, extra arms, legs, slippery, stretchy, super digestion, enhanced strength Then balance those by saying that she/he can only have a couple of powers from each column and then must pick from list of weaknesses that would apply to each power... e.g. Offensive: Limited to brawling (e.g. no distance attacks beyond the range of spitting), all weapons are organic and part of body = risk of injury (e.g. breaking a nail), venom/acid only harms certain substances like either organic or inorganic matter. Defensive: Enhanced vulnerability: choice of heat, cold, some kind of alergy to something common like silver, electricity, ultraviolet Travel: limited distances (specify for flight, wall crawling, water breathing etc), perhaps some kind of food or fuel (must eat 17 Power Bars for every hour in the air, under the water, etc...), limitation where power works (e.g. flight is gliding only, wall crawling only on porus matterials, waterbreathing, only in fresh water). Sensory: Loss or limited sense (e.g. enhanced vision, reduced hearing), ultra-sensitivity (e.g. to sound, smells, light), tunnel vision Other: Freakish/conspicuous appearance, leaves slime trail, encumbering (e.g. can’t wear certain clothes, fit easily fit in confined places like small cars, crowds etc), very heavy, very light, glows in the dark, bad smell, sanity/intellect diminished Example: So on Saturday the Darwin’s Nightmare has claws, scales that can stop small arms fire, wings and a tail. His claws are part of his fingers but are so long that he has trouble holding a pen, typing, couldn’t pull a trigger etc. He is vulnerable to cold and gets sluggish if the mercury drops below freezing. His wings only permit gliding – has to jump off a building or take a good run, his tail won’t fit in a pair of pants so there’s no hiding his super identity or being particularly modest. On Sunday, DN’s in his best. Acid saliva, super healing, sonar, wall crawling, and super digestion (can eat anything). His spit has a range of three feet and can only affects organic material, silver burns his skin, he can only climb porous materials, super sensitive hearing -loud sounds painful, glows like a beacon in the dark. So the idea is that you pre-define your balance. It would be a bit of work but it could certainly work.

Dark Heart of Flame (Darkfire) Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:13 am

go one further let him be able to sometimes force a transformation, but only rarely, this lets him sometimes have completely normal forms... if you want him evil, have that ability require he eat human flesh to look human... or a housecat to have a chance to be a cat...

Dannandy McDoggle (Mcdoogle) Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:27 am

could make it come from parasites threats to them could make him lose control and do terable things... like if a hospital tries to remove them he would kill the staff tring to escape... they would require him to eat several times what a normal human would or they would take over then to... and not be so picky about what they eat... they could be messing with his DNA tring to optimize the host body for serviablity.... some things would stay other would change day to day as it tried out vearious things.... some things like super strength could be a weakness too being that he can't control the powers.... he can't turn it off and everything he dose is with insane amounts of force... ripping doors of handles braking hands when he shakes them... or super speed could leave him over shooting things, and talking so fast people have a hard time understanding him.... flying could give him a odd form at first that makes it hard to run or stand up right just various things untill the char balances out some with some more suttle weakness in each... but as that happens they are more bound to him so he starts picking up there weakness too.... like maybe serten foods that just made him sick now are poisonus.... more vonerable to exstrem tematures.....stuff like that... and there be no way to remove them with out killing him save maybe with some crazy combination of magics and tech like in that one comic I've been reading where they are turning the guy to stone and drilling out the parasite, then plan to heal him, and turn him back to normal.

guest super (Guest) Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 9:09 am

actually - I wasn't thinking he'd have new powers each time. but you've given me stuff to think about - so I'll go ahead with it.

Dannandy McDoggle (Mcdoogle) Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:44 pm

in that case you could try a list of forms that he randomly shifts between... just get them all aproved together Form1: bla bla bla Form2: bla bla lba listed like that in both weakness and powers