MOD POST: GOD POWER Q&A

[asgardmods]

god power questions & answers. Hello hello, friends! It's Faith here with your friendly neighborhood power rangers to try to answer any questions you may have about the god power system in Asgard Genesis and how it applies to your character. This mechanic was designed completely from scratch and tested live in the first app round, so we've had our work cut out for us in terms of figuring out how it should work to remain fair and playable. While we've tried to remain in open communication with you all as we tweak and adjust things, we also want full transparency in the decisions we're making as we create material for you guys to play with. In the interest of this, we want this to be an opportunity for you to ask questions about your power set, someone else's, how X was designed with Y in mind, etc etc. Whatever you've got in mind! I've got a question for you myself that I'll leave in the comments below, but please use this post to discuss literally anything at all that you have in mind about the god power system. We'll be using this information to help us going into the December app round; we'll also be having a gamewide HMD in December, so this will be useful in preparing for that as well. If your power application is still in processing, please know that we are working on it and will do our absolute best to have everything finalized before December 1. Thank you so much everyone, and as always, please leave any questions/comments/concerns/dirty jokes in the comments section below or hit us up on the mod contact page! navigation.

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MOD QUESTION: GETTING YOUR POWERS ICLY

[asgardmods]

I was asked recently about when characters get their god powers due to the lapse between when a character is accepted to the game and when their power application might be approved. The mechanic as it is designed was meant to grant the god powers immediately upon your character's entry into their god house (their first day in game), but the discrepancy between the time it takes for you to get your powers approved has lead some to play it as though they "got" them then instead of right away.

This was unintentional, but it's absolutely something we can work with if you'd like to play it this way! The IC/OOC time bleed is unfortunately unavoidable with how much work goes into approving a power set, so you only really have two options for this:

1. handwave/retcon: you assume your character got their powers on their first day in Asgard, regardless of when your application is approved OOCly. all characters get their powers at the same time and there is no disparity.
2. real time: your character receives their god powers when their application is approved OOCly. almost every character will receive their powers at a different time with no consistency.

Either of these options is fine to play with, but I'll need to know if folks are intending to have their powers manifest in real time like this so that I can come up with some kind of lore justification for it. Something I'm almost always happy to do; coming up with excuses to do nonsense things is a mod's true purpose. Haha Let me know what you guys think and I can plan accordingly!

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[demonicbeauty]

Speaking just for me, I would go with real time. If I had known that Ariadne had the ability to shapeshift from day one, my interactions with her would have been completely different. I acted on the assumption of #2 anyway, which I think worked out well? Gives characters a chance to get their footing, before they deal with WHAT I HAVE POWERS NOW!?!

[imahealerbut]

Luckily for all involved, Wen Qing's first-level power is mostly used in a combat context (she can use it in normal medical practice but...... patients need to feel pain to stay out of trouble) so she wouldn't have used it right off the bat anyway. Either option works for me.

[keybearing]

I mean ooc I would have assumed any upgrades to powers would be. You know, after the ooc approval from the mods. I had Sora ic take a bit to figure his first power ic because of being busy with other stuff and still doing basic training in general while figuring his power out since iirc it isn't like there's a handbook for this specifically for each character out of all the different sorts of powers they might get. That and his are kinda more combat specific too.

[skittering]

i definitely played it as 2, since it involves a lot less retconning and takes a lot of the pressure off of the mod team to hurry and approve apps so characters are actually playable, but i can work with either one!

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[secondplacescrow]

I'm defiantly gunning for 2, since it makes it easier to keep track on my part.

[mindseer]

Quick Minor Question RE: God Powers - I expect that the answer is "We're still working on it" which is 100% A-Ok, but I did want to get a feel for if we're expecting the update on god powers for Tier 3 apps soon, or if I missed the update somewhere in the mix? (Quite possible)