(10-29-2015, 11:38 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Still, you'd think that over the years there would have been someone who made themselves famous or infamous if they discovered they had untapped power to just BE elsewhere. This goes back to my "Are we overthinking the powers of aether" type thing: We have no real supervillains in a world with dozens and dozens of superheroes.They left it up to us to tell those stories. We're the weapon X projects, we're the ones capable of playing the supervillains. The teleporting lore is for US. Most of us are just too biased against it to use it -- which is fine, but the setting itself isn't really cheapened by it other than it not being what some of us want it to be -- and that's -our- problem and limitation, not the lore's. It's just a thing -- and it has ALWAYS been a thing, very little of this is new! A lot of us have managed to make it work well with our stories already, and the people who WOULD take undue, disruptive advantage of it have already been doing so. Business goes on as usual!
You'd think there'd be stories of world-famous explorers who were able to go places no one had ever been because they could spirit themselves away safely. Tales of horrible crime where the culprit could never be caught because they would vanish in the middle of a crowd, literally.
Don't get me wrong, it's entirely possible that these stories do exist in the fiction but haven't been told yet, but I've just always felt legit, seemingly-unlimited teleporting powers cheapens a setting, not enhances it. I know there's a rarity and a cost and some caveats but they're not really too substantial when you consider that there should have been at least ONE attempt to make a Weapon X project out of people found with the ability to leave a crime scene without incident. Politically they'd be the most sought-after folks for wetworks and it just...
I don't know. I appreciate SE giving us lore reasons for game mechanics, but it just feels bleh to me. Of course I'm biased against it in the first place, so take all of my grumbling with a pillar of salt.
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