Questions about proposed changes

[Sigfried Hunin]

Overall, I believe that the version of AD (Another destiny, if I haven't been clear) I played in (I can't be asked to check if it's the same now), the one that Alex/Piper made, is a far better system for the effects we're trying to achieve here on Chubbs.

I mean, we can all pretty much agree that our power sets have strayed from the classic DBZ fare, and that we are more people with powers in the DBZ universe than new DBZ characters.

The system that AD used was very modular, it allowed to create literally ANY character that you wanted to by mixing and matching different very basic power sets. If anyone is into pen and paper gaming, the similarities between the AD system and Mutants and Masterminds are obvious: basic, nondescript powersets that allow your character to be built up to who/what you want them to be.

THAT I think is by far a better system then the weird ass Abilities/Techniques system we have now. It does make any sense, you're forced into weird little power sets that seem to repeat themselves over and over again and, imho, the Ability set is DUMB.

I can shapeshift, and that's a technique. Anyone can get that. Ok, that's fine by me, but now you also have DARK KI and fucking INNER STRENGTH as abilities that you can only have two of. The selection of abilities just seems WEIRD. The place where AD differentiates from that system is that it makes EVERYTHING a technique so that you can do what you want with your character. Does this lead to characters being OP? No, because EVERYONE can do it, and in any order they want. It also takes the weight off of certain powers (namely abilities) and makes it a more even playing field for everyone that has powers.

You could even learn certain powers from certain NPCs liek it used to be if you wanted to give it a more DBZ feel. Easy peezy lemon squeezy.

Another thing: clearly defined parameters for powers. Regeneration, shapeshift, metal binding... all of this shit is just insane. You can do anything with them because there's not like, any kind of system defining how much you can use them or what they do or whatever. Once again, something AD tackles.

AD IS A CLONE OF CHUBBZ. It was never meant NOT to be. It's just like, Chubbz 2.0. It takes the basic ideas of chubbz and then makes them way fucking better. It wouldn't even be hard to directly convert over to the AD system RIGHT NOW. There would be changes in paperwork for the characters. Not hard at all.

EDIT: Oh, hey, I just read Belle's post so everything I said about power levels is obsolete.