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Kewl Powers

Started by beejazz, October 14, 2006, 10:57:51 PM

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flyingmice

#30
October 16, 2006, 11:07:10 AM
Quote from: GrimGentStrictly speaking, those two have "kewl t0yz" instead...

Bingo! Much easier to wrap my head around.

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Bagpuss

#31
October 16, 2006, 11:49:28 AM
So fantastic training is okay, and fantastic gadgets is okay, but fantastic powers arn't? :confused:

So a laser gun is okay, but laser vision or eldrich blast isn't?
 

jrients

#32
October 16, 2006, 11:50:15 AM
I like the kewl power where if you fight a monster your guy might win.
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flyingmice

#33
October 16, 2006, 12:44:32 PM
Quote from: BagpussSo fantastic training is okay, and fantastic gadgets is okay, but fantastic powers arn't? :confused:

So a laser gun is okay, but laser vision or eldrich blast isn't?

Right. Inside that shell, Iron Man is just a normal guy. What's so hard to understand about that?

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Bagpuss

#34
October 16, 2006, 02:47:40 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceRight. Inside that shell, Iron Man is just a normal guy. What's so hard to understand about that?

That's not hard to understand, it's just hard to understand why kewl powers coming from technology are fine, but coming from some other source isn't.
 

flyingmice

#35
October 16, 2006, 02:54:29 PM
Quote from: BagpussThat's not hard to understand, it's just hard to understand why kewl powers coming from technology are fine, but coming from some other source isn't.

Because a guy walking around with laser beams coming out of his eyes is not a normal guy.

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Mcrow

#36
October 16, 2006, 03:00:31 PM
I don't mind Kewl powerz in supres games, then I don't like supers games anyway. :)

Spike

#37
October 16, 2006, 03:00:45 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceBecause a guy walking around with laser beams coming out of his eyes is not a normal guy.

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Sosthenes

#38
October 16, 2006, 03:02:01 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceBecause a guy walking around with laser beams coming out of his eyes is not a normal guy.

So someone who straps himself into an experimental suit that hurls him across the sky is normal?

Believe me, I don't know much, but I do know that people who are into tech _that_ much surely aren't normal. So give the computer geek closest to you a big hug.

This public service announcement has been brought to you by the PWTCAF (Programmers Wanting To Cop A Feel).
 

flyingmice

#39
October 16, 2006, 03:06:26 PM
Quote from: SpikeIt is in MY neck of the woods....

I'd say the same thing if I were an insane pika of DOOM instead of an avenging aerial rodent. :D

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James McMurray

#40
October 16, 2006, 03:12:49 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceBecause a guy walking around with laser beams coming out of his eyes is not a normal guy.

I'm looking around my cube farm and thinking back to my time in various schools and various social places and it seems to me that guys walking around in giant suits of armor and/or trained in mystic martial arts while using self-invented techno toys to fight crime are also not normal guys, nor are their toys normal.

Bagpuss

#41
October 16, 2006, 03:13:26 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceBecause a guy walking around with laser beams coming out of his eyes is not a normal guy.

Yeah but roleplaying games cover more genre's than just normal guys. Why have a thread about a hate on for Kewl Powers, when Iron Man has the same sort of Kewl Powers as Superman, or a D&D Wizard or Vampire/Werewolf, just from a different source?
 

Spike

#42
October 16, 2006, 03:17:24 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceI'd say the same thing if I were an insane pika of DOOM instead of an avenging aerial rodent. :D

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flyingmice

#43
October 16, 2006, 03:48:20 PM
Quote from: BagpussYeah but roleplaying games cover more genre's than just normal guys. Why have a thread about a hate on for Kewl Powers, when Iron Man has the same sort of Kewl Powers as Superman, or a D&D Wizard or Vampire/Werewolf, just from a different source?

Who said anything about hate? We're just talking preference here.

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flyingmice

#44
October 16, 2006, 03:50:22 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayI'm looking around my cube farm and thinking back to my time in various schools and various social places and it seems to me that guys walking around in giant suits of armor and/or trained in mystic martial arts while using self-invented techno toys to fight crime are also not normal guys, nor are their toys normal.

I'm sure if you ran a battery of medical tests, they'd register within the human norm. Mr. Hot-Melting-Glances would be a tad different.

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