Shamitako

So this is a story I'm writing (no duh) based on an RP I did like half a year ago on another site that died. Feel free to comment your thoughts, sorry for the terrible grammar >_< I'll be updating this whenever I have time to finish a chapter, but no more than once per day Pokemon: Veins from the Soul Prolgoue Chapter I: Pilot Chapter II: Dazzled and Confused Chapter III: Sharks and Minnows Chapter IV: Wet and Dank Chapter V: Damp Dragons Chapter VI: Samantha and Delilah Chapter VII: Rock and Roll

Eh, that feels waay too sci-fi and not enough fantasy (But it's a really neat idea, gaah) I think Ima stick with Citicea owo Also, everyone but the lizards are fantastic racists, because they all feel the other are inferior due to not being as good as them at something or other. The lizards are just normal racists that think the other races are all racist, pompous assholes P much, no race likes any of the others, the lizards are just willing to put up with the others due to being less extreme in their veiws

Hmm. I was more saying that my powers were more sci-fi-ish in that they were mostly random. You don't study them, they aren't based in any elements or following some system of magic, they're just abilities. But now I'm curious about your thing I've decided to definitely do lizard-people for the basic species. They're literally going to be giant sentient lizards. They'll run on all fours and walk on two legs, to help emphasize their versatility. They'll also live in all regions, but be considered inferior to the people there. For example, in Nixus, how smart you are is the measure everyone is placed to. And compared to the Nixian humans, these lizard-people are generally dumber. Thus they are seen as inferior, despite being stronger and faster than humans. In the strength place they'll be inferior by being weaker physically, despite being smarter and faster, etc Speed people will probably be insectoid, leaning towards mantises or maybe dragonflies (And they would literally be giant sentient variations of that, though the mantises would have grasping hands instead of claws) Oh, and Huk, these humans aren't exactly what we have either. I mean, we have dumb humans and strong humans too, so I'll be pointing out in my races thing that these humans don't have the genetic code to be stocky or have low brainpower (Like, the minimum IQ for them would be average for us) They're human in name and appearance, but they're still quite different. So yeah, that could be an issue with people not having a proper baseline to compare things to. But just imagine if everyone had a B average or better with little to no effort. Still, you do have a point there, and of course I understand. It would still be fun to have the baseline be something else Also we're /not/ jacks of all trades at all, we're very physically lacking and can't reach very high speeds or strengths without assistance. What we have going for us is our innovation and smarts allowing us to survive. Thus, using us as a baseline automatically limits the speed and strength races

I could certainly use some basic outline ideas. I know one of them will be a moon shape, but beyond that IDK Also PC loses internet in three minutes, so not going be doing anymore major work tonight, but I will probably stick around to read and reply to suggestions from my 3DS

Still not luck :/ luck requires it to be out of both player's control, so that it can go either way. The unpredictability aspect of Greninja makes it "impossible" for the player who doesn't have it to predict, thus placing the player with Greninja at an immediate advantage due to having greater knowledge. Disproportionate knowledge =/= luck. You said guessing/coinflip, but those are two different things. A guess can be based in what little knowledge you do have, a coinflip is beyond anyone's control. Just because you guessed wrong doesn't mean you were unlucky. And I do suppose that wording makes it sound like I'm saying you could have known better and made a better move, my apologies for that, because it isn't what I mean. You couldn't have known better, but you could have picked a better move. Thus, again, it's a difference in knowledge placing one player at an advantage, not a roll of the dice Whether the Greninja player is at too big of an advantage or not does not change the fact that it still isn't luck. You weren't lucky if you picked the right move--unless you literally just clicked a random move, but then that's you making it about luck, not Greninja--you simply made the best guess you could based on the information given and managed to overcome your disadvantage in knowledge. And it's the same if you make the wrong choice, except you don't overcome your disadvantage

Animal hybrids had crossed my mind. Issue is, those are humans with animal powers, and I don't want humans to be the basic race Alright, so I have one continent down: Nixus, the Ice Mountains Home to the Great Compendium of Knowledge, a massive library that has stood for as long as the oldest texts, and the Human race. Nixus is harsh land, its inhabitants must survive not by strength but by innovation. The human residents have created large cities in the heart of the mountains and use thick insulation and heat brought from inside the land to keep warm. In these cities they study the world, and the most prestigious even study Abilicology, the study of the mysterious abilities possessed by certain people of Coticea (that's the world's name, I literally just made it up) Humans are considered to be the most intellectual race in the world, and the scholars of the Compendium are considered to be at the pinnacle of all knowledge

I was literally just working on a basic concept for the world. Thinking three Australia-sized continents each housing it's own country type thing for the landmasses Oh, you know what I could use some ideas on, races Give ten minutes to put together some more terrain stuff... Feel free to give ideas for some different race concepts. I want a basic mediocre one (Thinking something like lizard-people for that?) Then I was thinking on having three main aspects outside that. Those being smarts, strength, and speed. I want to have a race specializing in each. Humans are going to be the smarts one (Which I'm sure sounds weird, but just imagine if everyone was a nerd )

You continue to come off as that quiet guy who's really funny when you get to know them, but I haven't spoken with you all that much so don't trust me

So I have a whole ton of ideas and I kinda want to turn them into an RP, but I wanted to see what people would be interested in first To begin, I want it to be a fantasy RP, but I kind of have a Sci-Fi power system? Actually, IDK where that was going, so let's just ride this disjointed train of thoughts on to the power system So basically, you'd have a base ability that did fairly weak stuff, for example I'll use mind reading. And then you'd have two augments focusing on two aspects of that ability. So augment #1 could allow a mind reader to communicate two-ways. And augment #2 could allow them to overpower the targets mind with their powers of suggestion (FYI, that would be way OP on a character) How to activate the augments is still on my list of things to sort out Next, I want there to be several races, but I want the basic race to not be humans, because humans are always the mediocre basic race And finally, I was leaning towards making it a cliche'd and overdone type thing, because I enjoy and am good at that. So a nonexistent fourth wall and a super-overdone storyline with obvious character archetypes and whatnot Thoughts? Suggestions? City names? (I suck at location names >_>) Plot Ideas (In order of most cliche'd to least): Adventuring party out to stop an evil takover Faction war Natural disaster #1 will probably be what happens, because I have an idea for it Setting: The World of Coticea Nixus, the Ice Mountains Home to the Great Compendium of Knowledge, a massive library that has stood for as long as the oldest texts, and the Human race. Nixus is harsh land, its inhabitants must survive not by strength but by innovation. The human residents have created large cities in the heart of the mountains and use thick insulation and heat brought from inside the land to keep warm. In these cities they study the world, and the most prestigious even study Abilicology, the study of the mysterious abilities possessed by certain people of Coticea. Humans are considered to be the most intellectual race in the world, and the scholars of the Compendium are considered to be at the pinnacle of all knowledge Races: Reptans, the Average Reptoids are the most common species on Coticea and also the most versatile. They inhabit all lands to some degree Humans, the Smart Humans are the smartest species on Coticea, though they lack in strength and even more in speed. They inhabit Nixus Manti, the Speedy Manti are the fastest species on Coticea, though they lack in smarts and even more in strength. They inhabit Vitrus Ursi, the Strong The Ursi are the strongest species on Coticea, though they lack in speed and even more in smarts. They inhabit Silvus

Eh, I can see you being pretty cynical, but honestly you're a bit too positive for that imo. Unlike me, who gets her best friends to call her cynical frequently owo

OMG yes. Thank for expanding my vocabulary, Sensei <3 EDIT: Google even has "bitchy" under its informal synonyms OMW

Oh now this is a deep one Back when I first came here, I probably would have said hateful, maybe depressed in a few cases Up until recently, pained and hollow would have been the only ways to describe me But having found myself recently, I finally know the word to define myself. I guess it's not really an emotion, but it's the closest I've got. I'm vicious, no other word for it. Vile~

...Stratego. Extremely fun, but not too long, and I don't always win (just most of the time) And yes, I know this was intended to be video games, but shh

I love how my battle is randomly sitting there Dobby and I are of one mind, or however many minds I have now

Pixelmon, has changed. It has become much more epicz Now if only I could decide on a theme for my island

...Give me ten minutes

Okay, so this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine FYI, trying to figure out what set it is does not make it "luck based." Luck would require it to be random, beyond either player's control, and capable of going in either player's direction depending on what was rolled. Just because it's unpredictable doesn't make it any less a contest of skill. Your lack of knowledge of its moveset doesn't make your failure to predict its movements bad luck, it simply makes it unpredictable. It was within your control to have picked a better move. I still stipulate that there isn't any issue when there is actual luck involved in the game, however, unpredictability is an issue And thus I have a segway Unpredictability by definition literally means that something can't be predicted, in case that wasn't obvious. Prediction is a very important part of the meta and, alongside team composition and RNGesus, is one of the biggest factors in determining who wins or loses a match. To be truly unpredictable is to be above this factor. Essentially, by being so unpredictable, Greninja automatically moves the game to the player using its advantage. You can never prepare for all possible moves it could be carrying, and thus your opponent has to make a mistake to allow you to properly remove it. Or, it just has to not be carrying whatever move The thing is, while Greninja doesn't appear to have many weaknesses, like so many other things it still suffers majorly from Four Moveslot Syndrome, Sure it could be carrying Grass Knot, thus allowing it to completely screw over your Rotom-W (oh, actually, just did calcs, NVM that), but what are the chances it actually is? It's practically required to have Hydro Pump/Surf, and not having Ice Beam takes out a lot of your coverage, so that's two moves that are essentially guaranteed. Sure you can not run one of those, thus giving you an advantage of unpredictability, but to do so you sacrifice a lot. The movesets that do the most damage are the most predictable, and the ones that are the least predictable, will do the least damage once they're revealed. There's no reason you shouldn't predict it's going to Ice Beam your Landorus and go ahead and switch to that Rotom-W. To not do so is overthinking the situation, and if you're overhtinking by that much, you're going to lose anyway To emphasize the moveslot syndrome, Alakazam can run moves that let it kill most of it's counters, but it's still laying down in UU. It doesn't have quite as good defenses as Greninja IIRC, but it's still worth noting that you can calc just about anything to make something look invincible, but it will still be limited. However, there is one major factor that puts Greninja above all others in unpredictability (This next bit is a bit ranty and repetitive, there's a TL;DR down below if you need it) The main issue Greninja has in unpredictability, and the thing that makes me think it is truly unpredictable, and thus above 1/3rd of the meta. It can run physical and mixed sets, and it can run them well. While the special set in and of itself will always be limited and you can generally assume it has such and such moves, until you've seen the team around it, you can't guess whether Greninja will be physical or special, let alone which moves it has. Of course if you're actually good you can do that once you've seen the team, thus removing the unpredictability, but I digress. Greninja has several factors that make it completely above predictability. Unless one is skilled enough to solve its moveset based on the team it's built around, it's going to get at least one kill, probably more. But therein lies the question, if this is really about skill, and a skilled player can predict the "unpredictable" Greninja, why should that be a factor to whether or not its considered overpowered? Banning something just because you personally can't figure out how to beat it isn't competitive at all. I still can't figure out how to beat Talonflame half the time, and that's not even that good (At least compared to Greninja) That's long winded and probably doesn't make any sense with all my apparent back and forth on where I stand, so here's a TL;DR for all that: Greninja is insanely versatile, and completely unpredictable to many. It requires legitimate skill to best. But it's also relatively easy to best for those who possess enough skill. To finish, one more question: Where do we draw the line? When is there too much skill necessary to beat something? We talk a lot of how we want this game to be skill based, but if we remove things we consider to hard to beat just because we aren't skilled enough to do so, even though with enough skill it is technically possible. Are we being competitive, or just wanting to win more? Because believe it or not, those are far from the same thing. But then back again, when is there too much skill required? (Whoops, that was more than one ) I remain uncertain of where Greninja belongs, and thus, these are my reasons as to why it should be suspected

Lol. I nearly commented on how I thought his glowing eyes looked weird. Now that you mention they're rolled back that is actually pretty damn funny. Also now that you mention it, eyes are one of the first things we spot for facial recognition stuffs, so the whole drakness and glowing about Shyv makes a lot of sense Koggy still looks derpy AF In other news, I randomly decided to try Poppy. And my god once you hit around level 8 or 9 you completely wreck everything. Even the tank cannot withstand your might for long