With the mind/body nonsense, pretty much each time an odd character is drafted, curry and/or judges can clarify what they'd have access to. Case by case is fine. As long as we know what's up beforehand, there shouldn't be huge problems.
Though there will undoubtedly be lots of substitutions in drafting.
Maybe not all. But yeah, at least a couple. The duplicators were just the most obvious.
More specifically, a lot of these things would have been lost to history if I hadn't cataloged them in the guide to hosting tourneys. That's where curry pulled these from most recently.
By the way, now that God Cable was mentioned, how shall we handle the characters that are in the meta tier only because of their body, with pure "powers" being in the herald tier?
THIS is a can of worms and not psionics/magic thing.
psionics are hardly a can of worms; it is either a mind ability or a power, and it has to be below the herald power level. Magic is imbalanced because it is a mind-power, so any participant who doesn't have the mind of someone who knows magic (or a learned telepath) is hindering themselves, unless they have a very specific strategy. Magic basically allows you to have the powers of 2 characters, and a good body selection gives you 3. So a Man-Thing body + Dr. Strange mind + whatever power, for example, is going to be a huge advantage over someone who goes, for instance, Colossus body + Cap's mind + whatever power. The imbalance forces contestants to either have a very good idea of the strategy they want to use beforehand or select characters that maximize the number of powers they have access to. In this way, magic or learned psychic abilities are nearly obligatory. I actually think this is what curryman intended, and I'm not against it, I'm just explaining my statement a bit better.
to your powers question Charlotte, if you drafted herald level powers, that would be banned... I can't see the problem you envision? Like, to God-Cable specifically, you aren't drafting "God-Cable", you are drafting "God-Cable's" mind. If his mind is above meta, it shouldn't be allowed.
the "real" issue I see at this point is going to be more about equipment. Say someone selects Iron Man as one of their characters, how much of his tech would they have access to? Or with Strange, would having his mind also give access to all of his magical items to equip during prep? There is going to be a major issue with this that will border on "amping", and I'm personally still unclear as to the upper tier limit for the amalgam in general. If a contestant selects the right characters to give them an amalgam that is clearly high herald (and I don't think that is improbable) is that ok?
LOL, jeez, I should probably hold back a bit on the rules here, not my call, sorry curryman, please chastise me if this is not what you had intended, I'll try to be a less neurotic control-freak...
Mind has always been more about equipment. Leo and Blair were the only ones who went round it (Leo more sophisticatedly with Spiral, Blair with Moonstone, but that's just because her power source counts as equipement).
"Usual" Mind picks in the latest tourney under those rules were Starks, Reeds and the likes.
I initially envisioned a prep-time where you had all three characters' equipment pooled, but realize that with only 30 sec prep-time this is too much. Considering how much of an advantage magicians have, how does this sound for a equipment.
You only get the equipment of the character you've chosen for mind.
Once the amalgamations are finalized I expect them all to be well over high-meta. The power-limitation is supposed to be on character drafting only, and kind of assumed that it would be impossible to draft 3 metas, mesh their strengths together and not come up with something at least low herald.
The restriction on power amping is specifically getting the powers of say Fabian Cortez and then boosting the hell out of Man-Thing's body and some magician's mind.
Technically shooting at Tony Stark with a machine-gun would be a OHKO. I made the rule to specifically prevent attacks that are OHKO by their very nature. Attacks that circumvent any kind of durability, force-field, etc. Such as Zatanna telling people to die.
There's a difference between a death-ability and a powerful attack, and I hope people grasp that difference. If not, rely on hard-ass judges to set you straight
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Yah! Equipment needs to be a bit clearer. Like say someone picking a mind character - ie. warlock or moondragon, would they're soul or mind gem be available? Same goes for the body - ie. Old drax with power gem in body.
And yes in regards to upper limit of amalgam? Is there a limit. I can think of a few with the right combination that can be pretty much indestructible or reality manipulator. With that they can pretty much make things up in battle.
That was usual thing in the previous tourney under such rules (high meta, mind/body/powers) so that's what I expected from this one. Though I think that it will be a nice and lovely thing of a tournament
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So if u pick Thor as mind u'd get mjolnir as well? Aight! but no equipment on the body even if its integrated directly on it. - ie Darkness, witch blade or taboo.
If it's a part of the body then it would be allowed, but it needs to fully be a part of the body.
If you drafted Thor's body then you wouldn't get mjolnir.
You would however get Engineers metallic skin (since the nanites were swapped with her blood), Metallo's kryptonite stuff, Grim Reaper's handscythe, etc
Hm, that seems like quite a speed cap for such a low tier. If someone drafts a speedster capable of traveling that fast, have fun trying to avoid a blitz.
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Yes, I know which meta-class characters can move at those speeds. All I'm saying is that unless both contestants have a speedster on their team, then a blitz at 99% the speed of light will be problematic to avoid. Not impossible, but [potentially] quite difficult.
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