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Hero In Training - Superhero Quest

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Tylonius said:
It comes down to this. It is easier to control a melee weapon than a bullet in flight. You can hit harder or softer as needed, you can dull blades, and you can pull a strike. But there isn't much you can do with a bullet. Any spell that makes it less danergous makes it less useful, and even non-lethal rounds aren't perfect. Neither are melee weapons, but the risk is less.

But do remember, using a gun is still a perfectly valid option.
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Well, I'll keep my vote unchanged for the nonce. Speaking from personal experience, that kind of control mid-combat is expert-tier stuff, and we won't be there for a long time.
 
[X] Use a different weapon
-[X] Swordstaff

How about a sword staff?
 
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Briefvoice said:
At this point anything but a quarterstaff or a gun is basically throwing your vote away.
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Well I want something a little less bland than a quarterstaff. and I don't really mind a gun but would prefer something that could maybe help with our magic, be a good weapon,and look cool. (and btw voting and not picking a side does have a point when given two options you don't want. Offering another option and "Silence is generally taken for acceptance".)
 
Tylonius said:
It comes down to this. It is easier to control a melee weapon than a bullet in flight. You can hit harder or softer as needed, you can dull blades, and you can pull a strike. But there isn't much you can do with a bullet. Any spell that makes it less danergous makes it less useful, and even non-lethal rounds aren't perfect. Neither are melee weapons, but the risk is less.

But do remember, using a gun is still a perfectly valid option.
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So, even in the HQ of a superhero team, which clearly has at least some level of better-than-normal technology, and has Beam Kevin on the team, we ourselves get no real options for non-lethal ranged combat?

Plus, we're going to be slinging around blasts of fire and lightning and such all the time, but that's okay to modulate non-lethal?

Can we not get, I dunno, taser-bullets or something?
 
[X] Use a gun

Is this for our primary weapon or for something we know how to use. If our magic ever gets canceled out I want somethings that won't depend on enhancements. Although it's lethality is a problem if we at least know how to use it effectively it could mean al the difference in a major event. I am good with the non lethal route but we are to squishy without the enhancements to use anything else to maximum effect. Unless of of course this is for our main weapon the. In that case I would pick quarterstaff. We could also just pick a sheild to go with the name.
 
[X] Use a different weapon
-[X] Quarterstaff

come on people, using a gun will really change how we're viewed, so let's not.
 
Fabled Ranger said:
Is this for our primary weapon or for something we know how to use. If our magic ever gets canceled out I want somethings that won't depend on enhancements. Although it's lethality is a problem if we at least know how to use it effectively it could mean al the difference in a major event. I am good with the non lethal route but we are to squishy without the enhancements to use anything else to maximum effect. Unless of of course this is for our main weapon the. In that case I would pick quarterstaff. We could also just pick a sheild to go with the name.
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If you look at how the Gryphon fought in the interlude, mage combat seems to value having a nice melee weapon to finish things off.

So no, this doesn't have to be "just a back-up". It could be a main weapon and part of Hunter's standard fighting style.
 
[X] Use a gun

Actually, I'm curious just how our image would change. We aren't a vigilante and the gun voters expressed we'll only regard it as a last dirch weapon but that's not what the public will see.
 
I like the idea of the glaive and even the quarterstaff could be pretty cool. But with us trying out divination I also like the idea of using it to duel a bit. Would make for some interesting mind games as we try and sort through possible futures.

[x] Use a different weapon
-[x] Quarterstaff

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Sickul said:
I like the idea of the glaive and even the quarterstaff could be pretty cool. But with us trying out divination I also like the idea of using it to duel a bit. Would make for some interesting mind games as we try and sort through possible futures.

[x] Use a different weapon
-[x] Rapier
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Sorting through the myriad possible futures of split second combat, in real time? Sure, its possible. But it's pretty much master-grandmaster territory.
 
[X] Use a different weapon
-[X] Quarterstaff

It fits the classic wizard image better anyway.
 
Briefvoice said:
We're being given an explicit warning that most heroes don't use guns and believe they have good reasons not to use guns. Are you really not willing to reconsider?
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They do, but as others have pointed out, we're already slinging around blasts of magic with more collateral potential (fire burns), as the QM has pointed out, it won't impact our image to the point where we become a pariah, and as I've pointed out, melee weapons aren't something you can easily control the consequences of as a newbie. If a novice or even an adept fighter tries to pull a strike, they'll either feather it and do nothing, not do enough and still cause serious injuries, or rarely -- if they're very, very lucky -- actually pull it off. But more than that, there simply is no safe way to knock somebody out. The safest way to incapacitate somebody in melee -- as in, fewest unintentional side effects -- is to break limbs, because at least that doesn't risk brain damage or heart palpitations should you overdo it -- and neither of those things are easily dealt with using judgment calls. I want to use a gun because there are so many people talking about using this backup weapon regularly that I fear they don't respect the damage that trying to use it as anything less than an expert will do. If we use a gun, though, people know that this is something risky. They will respect the damage it can do.

From what the quarterstaff voters are saying, and again, from my own experience, I don't believe they respect the levels of expertise that using a blunt object in melee "safely" will require.
 
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