Swift, you've gotten defensive, here, and yet you still have not answered the three questions I asked at the end of my post. It's not combat effectiveness at all. You have got seven characters in this thread. That's more than all the rest of us combined. That's not as fun, because there's less struggle, less relying on us to use our characters alongside yours, because yours have taken the front lines ahead of us. It does not promote camaraderie, it promotes dependence on you, and I'd rather be a part of an effective team, not the B Team to your roster.
Hell, this problem is even a part of your PCs. Lennox has an ancient, ancestral named weapon, which is half a tier of power below the Legendary Weapons, and which has the power to burn those that are unworthy of it to death. Which he got from day one. Why would anyone have to rely on teamwork when we can just throw Len at them with Dyrnwyn pointed forward?
Now, when Shad and sometimes Lennox are by themselves, they're fine. They have to rely on their own skills, think for themselves, etc. With your plot power squad, he doesn't, he just has to follow the leader. Like the rest of us. And to answer your first response post, Marcus isn't in the RP, and Wolfram's in Bern, unless I missed something in the eight months I've been gone.
Like I said, we're not writing Hyperion Family Fanfiction here. The Hyperions have their own part to play, make no mistake, but you cannot make them the stars of the show by effortlessly achieving everything we need to do for us. We're not writing a guitar solo here, we're stringing together an orchestra.
Take 2g's last posts, for example. Paige freed a captive, knowing she could get in trouble for it, and I think that was what her player was gunning for, in order to help flesh out villain, setting, conflict, and set up a goal for the other PCs (namely, free her). But, instead of letting the rest of us act to free her while most of the fighters are snoozing and the rest are getting hit with a coffee crash, you have let an NPC run distraction (and kill two paper machete enemies -in passing-(which is a whole other can of bullshit)) while the dashing woman-magnet Shad cuts her free (and I believe it was mentioned that her guards are still awake), and somehow retrieves her confiscated/possibly dropped equipment from underneath the pile of twenty dudes that fell asleep on them.
Not entirely accurate, but the point is made.
Hell, this problem is even a part of your PCs. Lennox has an ancient, ancestral named weapon, which is half a tier of power below the Legendary Weapons, and which has the power to burn those that are unworthy of it to death. Which he got from day one. Why would anyone have to rely on teamwork when we can just throw Len at them with Dyrnwyn pointed forward?
Now, when Shad and sometimes Lennox are by themselves, they're fine. They have to rely on their own skills, think for themselves, etc. With your plot power squad, he doesn't, he just has to follow the leader. Like the rest of us. And to answer your first response post, Marcus isn't in the RP, and Wolfram's in Bern, unless I missed something in the eight months I've been gone.
Like I said, we're not writing Hyperion Family Fanfiction here. The Hyperions have their own part to play, make no mistake, but you cannot make them the stars of the show by effortlessly achieving everything we need to do for us. We're not writing a guitar solo here, we're stringing together an orchestra.
Take 2g's last posts, for example. Paige freed a captive, knowing she could get in trouble for it, and I think that was what her player was gunning for, in order to help flesh out villain, setting, conflict, and set up a goal for the other PCs (namely, free her). But, instead of letting the rest of us act to free her while most of the fighters are snoozing and the rest are getting hit with a coffee crash, you have let an NPC run distraction (and kill two paper machete enemies -in passing-(which is a whole other can of bullshit)) while the dashing woman-magnet Shad cuts her free (and I believe it was mentioned that her guards are still awake), and somehow retrieves her confiscated/possibly dropped equipment from underneath the pile of twenty dudes that fell asleep on them.
Not entirely accurate, but the point is made.
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