Curryman's Meta-Amalgam Tourney!

Originally posted by Digi
Speaking of examples, take someone like iron man. To get the suit do you draft the body, powers, or mind? And if body, do you get powers that aren't strength and durability? I'm not considering tony, but I have a similar situation.

Originally posted by Blair Wind
To get the suit, imo, you would have to draft mind (since it's equipment). Same could go for Green Lantern (as an example).

I guess a case could be made for power (since pre-extremis he was just a human guy and the suit was his "power"😉. You would have no idea how to actually use his suit though.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I would think that base equipment should fall under the "powers" category. Equipment created using the thirty minute prep should clearly be "mind" though.

Thirty seconds. And you can't create anything in prep.

- Good call on the speed limit. Do the judges have any suggestions/preferences on where it should be set?

- You can raise forcefields in the prep-time, but it's 30 seconds and this is also where you grab gear so it's best not to try anything overly complex.

- Like Blair Wind stated you may not create anything in the prep-time.

- You need to draft Mind to get access to equipment.

Feel free to direct any questions to Oliver North or the other judges. I'm in GMT +8 🙂

so....mind control is still legal?

this will be the first time in a tournament where i have to worry about not controlling my own characters... 🤨

Originally posted by curryman
- Good call on the speed limit. Do the judges have any suggestions/preferences on where it should be set?

Then I'm going to go with mach 10 unless there are any explicit objections to that 🙂

Originally posted by psycho gundam
so....mind control is still legal?

this will be the first time in a tournament where i have to worry about not controlling my own characters... 🤨

I didn't add a rule about it, and here's why.

Normally it goes like this, in the comics;

In order to control someone's mind you need to fully and completely overwhelm their psychic defenses. This is very hard. This is a contest of wills.

In order to mental blast someone, you just need to attack them.

If you're in a position where their telepathy is so far above your amalgam's telepathic defenses then mental control shouldn't be your biggest worry, because their mental blasts would do such a number on you.

Like I've said before, if you've drafted a mind-character without any kind of telepathic-defenses/real willpower feats, then the fault lies not with the rules.

I could throw down a ban mental-control, but I don't think I have to. While I don't consider telepathy to be the end-all be-all in this tourney, it needs to be considered. You can't throw out an amalgam with no way of warding off a telepathic assault 🙂

I'm happy with mach 10. If you get mind controlled, it's probably your fault. I'd be okay with a ban on it, but I don't think it's necessary.

Thanks for the IM clarification. Helps me immensely.

I've suggested Mach 10 cause as I've said that's what the fastersr IRL atmospheric aircraft was clocked at.
Damn, with tourney host living at GMT+8 suddenly a GMT+2 timezone is a blessing (it WAS a blessing in Illadelph's Champion's League too cause 10-hours difference between Eastern Europe and California was good for last-minute post-blitzes).

i've lost it in the thread. when are drafts again?

On the 6th of July at 2PM GMT+0 (10 AM in New York).

hrm, there is some irony happening here. i won't be around for the draft. 🙁 i'll need to find someone who can/will FOR CERTAIN be online at that time and who can make my picks for me. any takers?

That's 7am in Cali. Sorry Brotha.

lol i was gonna pm you. ah well. hopefully someone else can make it....

We might look into some kind of draft-reservation or something.

Where you'll suffer a time-penalty but can send me the first draft in advance or something.

I'll submit Leo's draft. He wants Toad for his body pick

fdog

Originally posted by curryman
We might look into some kind of draft-reservation or something.

Where you'll suffer a time-penalty but can send me the first draft in advance or something.

Originally posted by Digi
I'll submit Leo's draft. He wants Toad for his body pick

fdog

Originally posted by Digi
I'll submit Leo's draft. He wants Toad for his body pick

fdog

😖hifty:

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Well, I suggested Mach 100, but as I also said I believe it doesn't really matter if you're at Mach 10, 20, 50, or 100 because any character who can defeat a Mach 10 speedblitz will probably defeat a Mach 100 speedblitz (it's nigh impossible to gauge speeds like that unless exact numbers are given, which is a rarity in comics) but charlotte suggested Mach 10, and that might be a neater number.

Do you suggest we raise it to Mach 11?