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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #105 on: July 14, 2007, 01:17:43 PM »
I'd do Vandrin County, but seeing as it's been ripped apart right now, I think it would be pretty pointless. Maybe after the battle is done.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #106 on: July 17, 2007, 12:27:50 AM »
I made another new character!

Valiko

Hope he gets approved.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #107 on: July 17, 2007, 02:47:27 AM »
Drannic, it becomes exceedingly hard to keep up with all your guys... 12 characters is a little... too much, I think... but, who am I

Another thing is that your character is a little... Haralduresque...

(oh no! he said THE NAME!)

I mean, all basic destruction spells mastered? Like, being able to cast a near-molten stone rock encased in ice and propelled by lightning? Hmm...

And everyone can sense his power? None is more powerful than him in combat other than Retan? Well, we've never actually seen Retan fight all-out, have we?

Unknown essence? From your description, he's a Draken... I doubt that a creature with only "Draken heritage" would be able to transform into an actual full fledged dragon. Even the move's description states that it's basic for a *Draken*, but it doesn't say anything about a Draken halfling (or however much Draken he has in himself). Needless to say, he probably wouldn't be able to be as much of a full dragon as, say, Retan would be. Anything in between would be a little grotesque (imagine a gigantic dragon with, say, human legs...)

12 hours of invisibility? That's a whole chapter. So he flies around stealthed bombing towns and cities (and characters) without taking any damage?

Then again, I also have a character somewhat like that - Kronos. But all he does is sit in his castle and gives the occasional order to take over Gaian (again -_-), without actually doing much himself. Your character doesn't seem to control a particular faction - which leads me to suspect the worst (a rampaging god). Looking at his alliances, we see "all but Crimson Empire and Dark Empire" - so you created him to oppose the two? What was he doing before that? Why didn't he show his godlike powers before? He could've well started a cult around himself and tried to destroy the two empires 10 times over. Moreover, that effectively kills your excuse for having him being brought in from another dimension, if you were going to use that. How could he have, from his other dimension, learned of (and actually began to dislike) the Dark and Crimson empires? Why would a being of such power come to Gaian in the first place, just to destroy two empires out of spite? What I'm saying is that maybe you might want to spend a little time developing your character to the power level you describe (even to a small degree - for example, back in chapter 9, Kronos took 3 posts to mass-resurrect 8,000 zombies - now he can pretty much resurrect 10,000 in one, though that has never happened. As I said, he pretty much sits up in his tower and bosses people around, which is what Retan appears to be doing, as well).

Phew...

I'm not at all opposing the approval of your character, but I'm just saying that maybe, just maybe, you should... you know, spend some time on him. Maybe you won't even like the guy. What would you do then? You've already thrown in a god whose aura can be felt by anyone - so everyone notices it and it just vanishes...? Give it some time, let his character develop... Throwing a god into DAL this spontaneously is a little strange, I think. I mean, we've already got Jenia's rubber dude, who looks pretty bent on world domination... and trust me, omnipotent characters aren't as fun as we'd think them to Razz

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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #108 on: July 17, 2007, 05:49:49 AM »
Quote from: "D. Ein"
we've already got Jenia's rubber dude, who looks pretty bent on world domination...


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World domination? My rubber boy? No way! Lies, I say!
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #109 on: July 17, 2007, 11:06:48 AM »
Drannic your new character seems pretty cheap with his powers and they could be easily abused. As I was reading his powers, Cloak of Shadows seems cheap enough already, 12 hours is around an entire chapter and that used with Energy Tap would make him 100% undetectable. Which would be fine if he was a weak character but then you go of and have him mastered all of the basic destructive spells. Basic spells can still pretty deadly, especially if he's mastered them all, that pretty much means that he can use any spell except the MDAA, CDAA and the Uber Shield. And then he can transform into a dragon and he's 1000 times cheaper then he already is.

Yes, you do state clearly that's he weaker than Retan, but ...
A) Retan is Xorlak's character
B) Xorlak in the admin and is allowed to bend the rules
C) Retan just sits in his castle all day long, letting other people do his work, like a good Final Boss should.

But I'd have to totally agree with D.Ein on this one. Build up your character first. Duilin started out as a total pushover who literally got knocked out by a smoke attack from Draven. I'm not saying you should take you 13 chapters to get a character as strong as Duilin, in fact I'd have no problem if you just made a character as strong as him. In fact Bjendell seems like he'd be around Duilin's strength.

Actually, what you could do, is maybe spend I dunno have a little character development story for your character, just so people get this idea what he's like, and other people can think of ways to survive getting in a fight with him (Yet in my opinion I'd still want you to tone him down).

I also noticed that you have the {{{Image}}} thing under his name. To prevent that, don't delete the "|Image=" part just leave it blank.

Another pet peeve I have is that from what it looks like with his Alliance, he would be a good guy. Personally, (note that I'm only stating my opinion here) is near god like good guys that never take a scratch *cough*Haraldur*cough*. Your character seems like one of those guys, with his uber stealth and all. I just think it's best to have the bad guy be the strongest, until like at the very end or something, it's just a thing I have...

The only exception to a good guy who is better than everybody, is somebody in an action movie/game like Duke Nukem or John McClaine, but even McClaine takes a few hits and seems overwhelmed at times.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #110 on: July 17, 2007, 08:36:50 PM »
Ein and DM have already voiced my concerns on the character.

And just an FYI, Jenia and I have been working out our little story arc with the crazy summoned god via PMs for a while now.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #111 on: July 17, 2007, 09:04:13 PM »
Xorlak and everyone else,
I am very sorry for the drop off in my posts over the past few days, and i apologise in advance for the time off over the next few days as well. I am dealing with some personal issues and wont be able to post for a bit. I still want to be apart of this and hopefully I'll be posting again asap, thanks. And until i return Druid is an imdependant character so no need to worry about him, but i give my good friend DudeMan power over Coriko till i get back.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #112 on: July 17, 2007, 10:07:30 PM »
No worries, Coriko.  Come back soon!
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #113 on: July 18, 2007, 12:31:02 AM »
I'll make sure not to screw up your character, Coriko. I'll just think "What would he have him say?" when I write dialogue for him, just to avoid making him mute, while you're gone. Cool
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #114 on: July 18, 2007, 06:21:29 AM »
Meh... I merely wanted to see what one would say if I added another Draken character...

I'll get to work and post a (hopefully) better version of Valiko when I'm done.

Also note, he's mastered the BASIC destructive spells... as in he knows very well how to cast fire ball, not infinate fireball of godly and epic destruction... he just knows how to cast it without wasting much magic...

EDIT POST:
There we go!

Here's the newer version (and possibly much fairer version) of Valiko.
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Blarghul-flarggen... Idk, I would have put an awsome quote down here, but a demon baby ate most of \'em, and the rest, everybody else has. So there...

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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #115 on: July 18, 2007, 01:01:34 PM »
Much better Drannic.  Cool
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #116 on: July 18, 2007, 05:57:44 PM »
Yay!

Sorry... I just had to...
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #117 on: July 19, 2007, 12:10:07 PM »
Drannic I noticed you have Jacobie listed as a B-Class lizard man, but he doesn't seem to fit in that area at all.

He has a spell which can kill like 100 people at a time. That's a pretty strong attack (not saying that's a cheap because you don't seem to abuse it), and B-Class lizard men aren't supposed to have strong spells since in the description for them it says "they have little to no magical abilities".

Also it also says "they are generally dull and olfish" and Jacobie doesn't seem really that dumb, more so like average intelligence. I think he'd be better off as an S-Class...


Oh yeah, not like this is a big deal at all but I noticed every single character's info box has a gold title at the top. Seems rather repetitive and makes gold less special (IMO), but if you want to keep it that way go ahead.
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #118 on: July 19, 2007, 08:45:14 PM »
Come on, post something already!
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Re: Dark Age Legends, Chapter 14 -- Sign Ups
« Reply #119 on: July 20, 2007, 12:00:12 AM »
Have patience my young padawan.

Also what say you on Jacobie's Lizard Man class? I still hardly think he fits into the B-Class area. But maybe he isn't strong enough for an S-Class. Perhaps he could be a tall A-Class or something. Heh...
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