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RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Paradox - 04-18-2015
When it comes to my characters, the list goes as follows.
A'rklonn Sargonnai: A solid 2.5 no doubt. In between 2 and 3 suits him best. He's got a diverse skillset, and incredibly good skills with most kinds of sorcery (barring the fact he heals like a wet duck; he's only good mostly with offensive conjury or using healing effects for body reinforcement). However, it isn't raw power alone but also his magic combinations/multicasting and thinking outside of the box based on lots of experience that adds to the raw power. This character has a long history outside of the FF universe though, which accounts for a lot of his strength. Still, no one is unbeatable, and finding out his weaknesses means he can be defeated.
Oriane Pelderain: Oriane is a 4 when it comes to using any kind of ranged weapon or thrown weapon/explosive. Someone who took an interest in gun weapons and magitek appropriated from Garlean sources after coming up as a heretic hunter in Ishgard, Oriane prefers range over close combat. She knows a little magic, but not very much; just enough to heal her wounds and keep a barrier up to protect her from other long ranged types. In hand to hand combat she's painfully mediocre; she can fight decent enough with a knife or sword to survive against your usual NPCs, but a skilled melee combatant would shut her down if she didn't have a small gun handy. She's most effective working in a two man cell with her partner.
Charlotte Snakesinger: Charlotte is an odd mix; if she's allowed to use all of her abilities, she counts as a 4, more or less. Charlotte is also not the sort of person who fights herself in most cases, preferring to use deception or use her thralls to fight for her. While she's very good at Black Magic and a few special arts she's loath to show off, much of her unique abilities are for subversion, subjugation, and mental disruption that takes time. Add to the fact she has to siphon much of her Aether from outside sources, and there are some disadvantages there. Physically she's a martial artist, but her martial skills are mostly based on leverage, throws, pressure points, and redirection of force meaning heavily armored opponents can shut her down hard. Her raw power is highly lacking if she's forced to fight 'normally'.
S'vanoh Tia: Van is a 4 for the most part. When it comes to mudra shaping, he's quick and efficient, and in hand to hand combat, he's good with knives and fists. However, outside of martial arts and ninjutsu, he doesn't have a lot of other talents other than knowing poisons. He combines physical strength and agility, along with good Chi levels, but his Aether is at the low end of the spectrum and he's basically incapable of magic. He's not a bad planner and is good at reading an opponent, but he's also used to working with a partner, and while he can win most one on one fights with someone near his level, he can be outsmarted. Tends to have a weakness for a cute or pretty face.
Vaelen Sargonnai: Vae is a 3.5 for the most part. A magic fencer like his father, who combines swordplay and magecraft. He prefers single sword or sword and shield style fighting and is best with those. He's got some martial arts skills from his mother's training, so his fighting is well rounded and he's adaptable in combat. Vae's biggest weakness is like his father, he tends to be quite cocky.
I have a few more characters in the works; one I need to namechange, and another that's going to be an Au Ra so I can't really designate what they'll be yet, though I have an idea. Also, to this:
Quote:I wonder are there any people who seriously, and non-terribly, RP 1 or 2. I saw a few people who were on level 1, but they were fascinatingly awful about it, and their characters were juvenile and angsty Mary Sues.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Leomoon - 04-18-2015
Id say Tana is a 3. Unrivalled Master
shes suppose to be powerful and strong but not invicable because she is more in line with Guts from Berserk. Right now in story shes recovering from all sorts of things that would put a warrior out.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - ArmachiA - 04-18-2015
I try to keep all of my characters somewhere between 4-6 just because that's my style of RP.
Armi is a solid 5, though can be pushed into 4 if the situation is desperate enough and can be a 6 is she loses confidence.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Hyrist - 04-18-2015
I'm not really sure I get all these power tiers. I can't help but look at them and think their a touch on the shallow end.
It's all really relative. Tier 1 is obviously posed to look like Gary Stue/Mary Sue and the rest works down as referential material down the line. But if we're going as far as making references, rather than rate players base on power level, maybe we should speak more along the lines of which character in comics/books/stories/anime.
Some examples using my characters:
Eric Verus bases himself on mystery/spy and some more lovecraftian-style stories. Power wise, there's something odd with how he interacts with Aether which gives him some default defenses against magic. But physically, he's just a man.
His real talent is his mind. He has a hobbyist's expertise in swordsmanship (fencing style) and is a crack shot with firearms due to his origins. All of these is due to his hand-eye coordination and analytic skill.
Hyrist Verus isn't any really odd skill wise. In fact, he's unable to attune to Soul Stones. Could be that he's yet to find one that fits him, or simply he doesn't have the talent. Unknown at this point. But he makes up for it by training with weapons. If he can wield it, he can use it. His strongest talent being swords.
Thing is, he doesn't respect his weapons that much. He has no qualms putting a sword into a position where it will break, if braking it can give him an edge in a fight somehow. But he also has an unreliable fighting drive due to his origins. This makes his 'skill/power' cap very erratic. He could take down a grandmaster or he could lose against a lucky novice, and he'd feel the same way about either one of them. He has no pride in his combat skills.
That said, he has little experience fighting beast/primals/voidsent/etc. His training in his weapons was for fighting other people. He'd avoid a fight against the wild or supernatural if he has a choice.
Lin Celistine , however, lives by her spears. She has a borderline unnatural drive to push the limits of her skills with a spear to the breaking point. She studies all styles and methods and when she runs out of methods, she studies other weapons only for the perspective of what concepts can be applied to her spear usage.
She can make the average Ishgardian Dragoon look clumsy in terms of agility, and her strength easily belies her small frame. Style wise, however, she prefers to hunt creatures rather than fight people and PTSD concerning all the lives lost at Cartneau actually makes her less effective when fighting people.Â
Magically, she can't handle even the simplest of spells without straining herself (and flat passes out when she pushes her limits). And she's just as vulnerable when it comes to magick attacking her.
These are the 'strongest' three characters I have in the group, in my consideration, out of six
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So, everyone has strong and weak points, and, in the proper circumstances or assistance, they may even be able to topple someone on that tier 1 category.
But these traits don't make the characters. Their facets of the character that are reflections results, or foreshadows of their stories.
You don't read a Superman comic because he 'might lose' against the antagonist. It's about his interpersonal stories and internal struggles as he balances his heritage and powers against his upbringing and values.
Its those factors that make characters interesting for me. Strength, skill, they just establish backgrounds for me to work from.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Caspar - 04-18-2015
I feel sort of the same way, in a sense. The levels work as rough guidelines, but ultimately, I think that character strength in fiction is situational. Given the right circumstances and the right enemy, the invincible foe becomes reachable, etc. Like you might have the knack for the specific engagement you get into right at that moment, and then suddenly you're the one to beat. I think that happens often enough in fiction that it can safely be said even rp characters should be expected to fluctuate wildly in combat proficiency, to say nothing of other things such as negotiation or investigation.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - GloryRhodes - 04-19-2015
The reason that I chose power levels instead of character descriptions or comic book/anime references is specifically because it is less descriptive of the subject at hand. Â Superman can beat up Green Arrow all day long unless there is a specific narrative reason why Green Arrow will win. Â Goku absolutely destroys Light Yagami in combat, but Light could kill him instantly if he learned his name. Â It's much less useful for the purposes of this examination.
I was not looking at power level as a description of character, but rather as a descriptor. Â Truly, it is not normally the essence of who a character is, but it does play a significant role in how that character interacts with the world. Â Thor reacts to the world around him significantly different than does Daredevil in large part due to their relative power levels. Â And this would be no different than Buff van Darkblade and The Basement Exterminator reacting differently.
This isn't really a matter of who could beat who in a fight, but rather about how their abilities cause them to interact with their environment, other characters and events. Â While Buff van Darkblade might wave a hand and turn a mugger to ash, or completely ignore them, One of Seven Samurai would be more hesitant to engage in violence if they were numerous and armed.
While I understand that this chart does not encapsulate the whole of a player's character, or provide an accurate picture of their personality and situational abilities which might give them the edge over those more powerful, that is not the purpose of the list, and thus it will not be edited in a manner duplicitous to its intent.
I will, however, include, at great request, Rank 4.5. Â Please see the original post for details.
[split] [split] What's Your Powerlevel? - Leggerless - 04-19-2015
*checks Fate-14 Sheet for clarification*
3.5
Better than a four, but definitely not the best fighter around. There's always a bigger fish.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Alothia - 04-20-2015
Even though this is a silly thread, let's try to keep it on topic, please. If you want to have silly conversations, keep it on topic.
I'm cleaning this thread up.
/AdminHat
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - ZacharyVolfire - 04-20-2015
I usually try to make characters 3-5 but give them weaknesses or flaw in their fighting style so it's not unfair or people can make counters to my character however if I make 1 or such i lay on several ways to overall weaken characters so that they can be taken down.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - CrimsonMars - 04-20-2015
Chiyo would differently be a 4.5.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Chill Man - 04-21-2015
Javert is a 4. A very nasty, dirty 4 who would rather run or hit below the belt than fight.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Mergen - 04-22-2015
I imagine Rehlan to be a 4.5, but she doesn't like to fight. She'd more likely manipulate someone else to do that for her.
RE: What's Your Powerlevel? - Flickering Ember - 04-22-2015
4.5 or 5
Ember can go up against monsters fairly easily. She knows how to approach creatures out in the wilderness more than actual people. She's capable in that she's lived off the land and was forced to take care of herself on her own for so many years. Other PCs have access to things she mostly hasn't--more advanced weapons and armor. Or they have had formalized training.Â
Ember's fighting experience comes from not being killed by a pack of wolves on any given night instead of serving in any kind of army or being somebody's pupil.