Originally posted by long pig
Would Orion be too much? 😈
Just by a smidge...
Characters who get too small can go under the OHKO category... "Atom crawls in his ear and explodes him!" is definitely not happening. Big characters are always fun, but only if they stay within the limits. No one is allowed to amp themselves over the limits under their own power either, btw.
I always though power meshing would be half the fun... Oh well. If everyone agrees to ban it, guess what... BANNED.
Alternate universe characters are fine. (the caps all go by 616 characters though, so how one stacks up against Ultimate Thing has no bearing on whether they are acceptable or not)
Originally posted by long pig
Nay means no.But, honestly, I don't want anything where I can't find information about them. Random book characters are too hard to find info about. It's like you can make up half the shit and no one would know.
Actually, nay is the sound a horse makes. I just wanted you all to look like horses. Fools!
And yeah, obscurity is both an advantage and a disadvantage. (for the person drafting them, of course its an advantage) Somehow Khell always seems to pick actual comic characters like that anyway... The biggest advantage is that there are some RANDOM, amazingly cool people in books. If you need a warrior space monkey, there is a book about a warrior space monkey. With or without a plasma battle axe, naturally.
Book characters would still have to be within the rules, yes. Drizzt would be perfectly acceptable (and WOULD destroy you all!) but someone like Rand al'Thor would not be. (Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan... Dude's got God powers) The caps would still apply to book characters.
Originally posted by Dizzle
Actually, nay is the sound a horse makes. I just wanted you all to look like horses. Fools!And yeah, obscurity is both an advantage and a disadvantage. (for the person drafting them, of course its an advantage) Somehow Khell always seems to pick actual comic characters like that anyway... The biggest advantage is that there are some RANDOM, amazingly cool people in books. If you need a warrior space monkey, there is a book about a warrior space monkey. With or without a plasma battle axe, naturally.
Book characters would still have to be within the rules, yes. Drizzt would be perfectly acceptable (and WOULD destroy you all!) but someone like Rand al'Thor would not be. (Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan... Dude's got God powers) The caps would still apply to book characters.
Originally posted by grey fox
So it's a yay ? (as long as they stick in the rules)
Well, that's the thing. This IS a comics forum, which is the best argument for "nay". It's variety vs. the actual point of this forum. I'd say both sides have an equally valid argument, and so I left the entire issue to the contestants. It's really up to the other people at this point.
What I was saying is that if they ARE allowed, book characters would still be required to fit inside the limits. That's all.
Originally posted by Dizzle
Somehow Khell always seems to pick actual comic characters like that anyway...
For the record, I wouldn't mind letting in literary characters. No skin off my nose so long as the person picking them has an online source that gives us a decent description of what they can do.