Now i'm envisioning Harry Dresden dumped in the middle of Weirdness Central telling bob to stop giggling like a schoolgirl.
Anyway this post right here gives me yet more warm fuzzies about the place since it makes the core philosophy a less bitter pill to swallow. It'd be hard to explain here so I'll wait til we have 'face' time.
But i like you I think, or at least like the direction you're going with things and accounting for the fact that, gasp, not everyone that apps is going to want to play miss frillykins of the sugerplumb kingdom and those people are also going to be important.
Re: The Major Split between Wizards and Fluffy Magical GirlsgamergeekgirlAugust 14 2013, 02:56:03 UTC
I think most of your points are reasonable. We, too, have considered and agree with the point that most mages take the slow and relatively painless path, but don't get much power out of it; compare and contrast MGs and their rocket -- exactly! You put it quite well. Any mage on Battle Fantasia, though, is on some kind of rocket, or else on the sidelines, not a real combatant.
However, in case it's unclear: Harry Dresden and other generic mage themes are inappable on Battle Fantasia. It is a magical girl game, through and through, and while we allow OC mages through various means (Cardcaptor Sakura, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and Magical Sensei Negima all provide example frameworks for mages-within-the-genre, and OC generic mages from original themes that follow PtP are also okay), we are /not/ an urban arcana game, and the purpose of the PtP is not to facilitate bringing in non-magical-girl canons.
It's certainly possible to make most any theme work within the PtP framework, but that doesn't mean that they SHOULD be. :)
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Anyway this post right here gives me yet more warm fuzzies about the place since it makes the core philosophy a less bitter pill to swallow. It'd be hard to explain here so I'll wait til we have 'face' time.
But i like you I think, or at least like the direction you're going with things and accounting for the fact that, gasp, not everyone that apps is going to want to play miss frillykins of the sugerplumb kingdom and those people are also going to be important.
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However, in case it's unclear: Harry Dresden and other generic mage themes are inappable on Battle Fantasia. It is a magical girl game, through and through, and while we allow OC mages through various means (Cardcaptor Sakura, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and Magical Sensei Negima all provide example frameworks for mages-within-the-genre, and OC generic mages from original themes that follow PtP are also okay), we are /not/ an urban arcana game, and the purpose of the PtP is not to facilitate bringing in non-magical-girl canons.
It's certainly possible to make most any theme work within the PtP framework, but that doesn't mean that they SHOULD be. :)
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