08-22-2009, 10:44 AM
Guys. Think of it this way.
If in DBZ Canon, transformations were regarded basically as abilities, which you can't know how they were, because it was an anime, not a game, the RoSaT idea that's being proposed is perfectly fine.
The ROSAT is a place where you can spend a year in a single day, correct? And Goku and company entered it for a year to master the Super Saiyan state or surpass it, correct? That could be thought of as changing an ability. You can't be sure exactly what they gave up in order to get it. Maybe Goku had some absurd power he didn't ever use, so he gave that up. Maybe he got something from the afterlife, or something like that. Or maybe the canon ROSAT just adds a new ability to the ones inside. But of course, adding a new ability wouldn't work for us, because of the game mechanic, so the next best thing has been added.
Now, you seem to be missing the point about something. "But they came out a lot stronger." Yes. Because they TRAINED inside there. For a year in the span of a day. That's called EFFORT. It's nothing about the room itself. They could have just slept and eaten for that year and they would have come out a LOT weaker.
Thinking of it in RPG terms, they paid the entry, entered, and began training to give up, say, Random Ability #1, for a transformation. (It doesn't work that way in this RPG, but that's irrelevant. You could say they just did it for...Telekinesis.) And they began training. And by training, I mean posting. A lot. They trained there for a whole bloody year. And there's nothing stopping you from posting twice a day about the whole year you're inside the ROSAT, and all the changes that occur and leave you without the original ability, and with your new choice. That's exactly what Goku & Co. would have done if they were characters. There's nothing mystical about this point of the ROSAT, it was all their effort, no magical training being done faster.
QED, the ROSAT fits. Not perfectly, but enough to merit the name.
If in DBZ Canon, transformations were regarded basically as abilities, which you can't know how they were, because it was an anime, not a game, the RoSaT idea that's being proposed is perfectly fine.
The ROSAT is a place where you can spend a year in a single day, correct? And Goku and company entered it for a year to master the Super Saiyan state or surpass it, correct? That could be thought of as changing an ability. You can't be sure exactly what they gave up in order to get it. Maybe Goku had some absurd power he didn't ever use, so he gave that up. Maybe he got something from the afterlife, or something like that. Or maybe the canon ROSAT just adds a new ability to the ones inside. But of course, adding a new ability wouldn't work for us, because of the game mechanic, so the next best thing has been added.
Now, you seem to be missing the point about something. "But they came out a lot stronger." Yes. Because they TRAINED inside there. For a year in the span of a day. That's called EFFORT. It's nothing about the room itself. They could have just slept and eaten for that year and they would have come out a LOT weaker.
Thinking of it in RPG terms, they paid the entry, entered, and began training to give up, say, Random Ability #1, for a transformation. (It doesn't work that way in this RPG, but that's irrelevant. You could say they just did it for...Telekinesis.) And they began training. And by training, I mean posting. A lot. They trained there for a whole bloody year. And there's nothing stopping you from posting twice a day about the whole year you're inside the ROSAT, and all the changes that occur and leave you without the original ability, and with your new choice. That's exactly what Goku & Co. would have done if they were characters. There's nothing mystical about this point of the ROSAT, it was all their effort, no magical training being done faster.
QED, the ROSAT fits. Not perfectly, but enough to merit the name.
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A decade ago, I never thought I would be, at twenty-three, on the verge of spontaneous combustion. Woe-is-me.