Hmm. I still find myself quite liking the Radiant, but I can see how generating malice like a tank when you're squishy could be a Bad Thing. What do Perfect World's happybucks cost in real money? If they're mils as seems to be standard for most microtransaction models, the 5k for a freeform character slot would only be $5, and I can justify THAT much (even a bit more for some of the spiffy cash shop costume parts) if it would let me do a "radiant with better defense" build to use. Just noodling around in the character creator I made a power armor I've been calling "The Magenta Avenger" (All the other colors were taken, he says - yes, he, as the chest piece (Ancient Tech Armor) isn't available on the female model - Empyrean Armor is vaguely close but not really the same, or as spiffy) and come up with a ... not backstory, exactly, but the character background I'd be using if he was a PnP Champs character. You see, $name was always a superhero fan, and would fantasize about how things like flight and a touch of superstrength would make his job (owner of a yard work/tree trimming service) easier... so he hacked together a super-suit, if one with more attention paid to looking cool than real protection, and renamed his business. Now it's "Magenta Avenger's Superhero Topiary & Arboreal Service" and features slogans like, "When it comes to trouble in your back yard, whether the problem is crime or dead branches we're the MASTAS!" or "We don't just rescue kittens from trees, we can rescue your tree from storm damage or harmful pests as well." The healing powers of his suit are indeed handy if a bough is partly broken but not yet dead or snapped off, or to deal with blights and scales. And if being a liscenced supertech user means he's on call when crime waves or disaster strikes, well that's just his civic duty innit?
But mainly I'm amused by the Tiger and Bunny-ish idea of a superhero shilling for a lawn service as he rescues people or turns captured perps over to law enforcement in front of the cameras. Obviously there's little to do in that vein in a video game where the scenarios are written in the traditional four-color style and typing /says would greatly interfere with actually using the controls for combat, but it engages the role-playing aspect a little more...
It's a pity "hop on a motorcyle" isn't a possible "travel power" ala super-running, or I could make a Kamen Rider. Actually getting one of the gravbikes apparently takes a concerted effort and numerous high-level missions. (Or the cash shop, but I'm only willing to bend my principles so far.)
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
But mainly I'm amused by the Tiger and Bunny-ish idea of a superhero shilling for a lawn service as he rescues people or turns captured perps over to law enforcement in front of the cameras. Obviously there's little to do in that vein in a video game where the scenarios are written in the traditional four-color style and typing /says would greatly interfere with actually using the controls for combat, but it engages the role-playing aspect a little more...
It's a pity "hop on a motorcyle" isn't a possible "travel power" ala super-running, or I could make a Kamen Rider. Actually getting one of the gravbikes apparently takes a concerted effort and numerous high-level missions. (Or the cash shop, but I'm only willing to bend my principles so far.)
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows