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The Power(Harry Potter/The Gamer)

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Dr. Bob Doom said:
@Halpo133 question - if we were to dedicated an action to interacting with the menu non-verbally, would the Gamer's skill creation ability make a meta-skill that allows for telepathic control of the menu, or is that too out there?
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It would greatly increase your abilities with the interface. There are soft commands and hard commands, and this would let you make use of soft commands.

Soft commands would let you do things like open a menu, close a window, allocate points, and so on without speaking or waving your hands like a loon.

Hard commands are things like using abilities and you need to dedicate an action specifically to that if you want to use them without speaking, and not the interface.

Further, spending time with the interface would get you things like the settings menu(which I'm not sure if The Gamer has, but I will.)
 
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Halpo133 said:
That's the movieverse. I'm going by the books. That said, not really important. None of this really is. If there were a choice of books and one of them was sword fighting, sure. If you had stat points to allocate, again, sure. But right now you're picking spells(2 from 2nd level or lower mage spell list in AD&D), and deciding if you visit Dumbledore or the Minister first.
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Generally, except where they contridict each other, both are considered cannon.
He sunk the sword to the hilt, unless the upper half of it's head is atleast 3 ft thick, it should have gone through.

And I did ask a question, if when we got ESP and Legilimency, if we could combine them for a better form of Mind-reading?
Halpo133 said:
Further, spending time with the interface would get you things like the settings menu(which I'm not sure if The Gamer has, but I will.)
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It does, but is only ever vaguely explored. There was a option for auto-entering IDs, and that's why he always wandered in. I will see if i can find the page.
 
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Halpo133 said:
It would greatly increase your abilities with the interface. There are soft commands and hard commands, and this would let you make use of soft commands.

Soft commands would let you do things like open a menu, close a window, allocate points, and so on without speaking or waving your hands like a loon.

Hard commands are things like using abilities and you need to dedicate an action specifically to that if you want to use them without speaking, and not the interface.

Further, spending time with the interface would get you things like the settings menu(which I'm not sure if The Gamer has, but I will.)
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Awesome. I'm going to refer to this next time we have a weekly vote. Because this is excellent.
 
[X] Mirror Image
[X] Detect Evil
These are two that I usually go for when playing dnd as a wizard.

Quick question, for the dnd spells that are listed as reversible , is Harry also able to reverse them? e.g. the reverse of Detect Evil will detect good.
 
Trondason said:
Generally, except where they contridict each other, both are considered cannon.
He sunk the sword to the hilt, unless the upper half of it's head is atleast 3 ft thick, it should have gone through.

And I did ask a question, if when we got ESP and Legilimency, if we could combine them for a better form of Mind-reading?

It does, but is only ever vaguely explored. There was a option for auto-entering IDs, and that's why he always wandered in. I will see if i can find the page.
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That's right. I vaguely remember that now. I really should go through and reread/catch up on what all I've missed. I remember the major points and all, but details...

Blue Odin said:
[X] Mirror Image
[X] Detect Evil
These are two that I usually go for when playing dnd as a wizard.

Quick question, for the dnd spells that are listed as reversible , is Harry also able to reverse them? e.g. the reverse of Detect Evil will detect good.
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It requires another spell slot, or finding the appropriate scroll. You can't just decide 'I'm going to take this detect evil and cast it as detect good instead.' But if you pick the spell or find the scroll, absolutely.

Edit: Also, you already have Detect Evil as a first level cleric spell, rather than the magic-user version.
 
solodark28 said:
To be fair the snake was blinded.
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Your logic has no place here!

More seriously though, even blinded it was rather vicious and quick in its attacks and movements if I remember right. Not... Well... That slow.

I've only reread the first book thus far for the purposes of this quest, so my memory could be misinforming me. It has been a while since I've read the others.

Edit: Changed it's to its, because it bugs me when I make that mistake. It's like mixing up there, their and they're.
 
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Trondason said:
And the answer to my question is...?
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I overlooked it. And no. You could use the two as a base to create a mind reading spell(though legilimency is already pretty much that, just single target.) But using them both would just give you the effects of both. It wouldn't let you read deeper thoughts of everyone around you. Not counting mana-manipulation you need to unlock spell creation before you can combine spells. And event then you can't really do that. Just create new spells that have the effects of two or more spells.
 
[X] Meet with Minister Fudge first.

[X] Mirror Image
[x] ESP

Point of consideration.
One of the reasons for Fudge's obstructionism in canon is his perceived, one way rivalry with Dumbledore(Dumbledore didn't WANT his job to begin with), and that he thought Harry was backing Dumbledore. Wouldn't it be a better idea to meet him first so he doesn't get jelly?
 
Van Ropen said:
But massively useful against everyone else, given the rarity of Occlumency. You have a point about ionizing overlap though...but doesn't that apply to Stinking Cloud too? That's an effect we should be able to duplicate as well.
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Well, the GM clarified. Honestly I'm not sure we'll go down the Leglimency skill anyways - yeah, it's useful, but while Occlumency is rare, it happens to be present in just about every major character whose mind we might want to read in depth. Probably something to grind later rather than sooner.

Stinking Cloud... I'm not sure we could. On an individual target? Yeah, there's a lot of debilitating stuff. However, the Harry Potter universe seems to have a distinct lack of AOE spells, which Stinking Cloud is, rather having a focus on single target spells instead.
 
Our rate of progression is really slow compared to Han Jee-Han. He could lvl up 4 times fighting zombies in two hours. We take most of the day, and not quite level up once.
 
Trondason said:
Our rate of progression is really slow compared to Han Jee-Han. He could lvl up 4 times fighting zombies in two hours. We take most of the day, and not quite level up once.
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Yes. That's because I'm not a fan of big numbers for the sake of big numbers. There are other factors too. Han Jee-Han was a gamer before being The Gamer. He knows how to grind, he knows how to break a system. Harry... Doesn't. You all might, but Harry doesn't. He hasn't played video games or even pen and paper games. He's learning, and as he does he'll get more efficient. But he's new to this and to the very concept of gaming a system.
 
Dr. Bob Doom said:
More of them pop up, but the books don't explain how dementor reproduction works. Or if they even reproduce as we conventionally understand. The non-being/unkillable thing is straight out of canon/supplementary materials, though.
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I could swear...

Oh yeah, it was the 6th book. During Fudges conversation with the Prime Minister about Voldemort and his retirement, he mentions that the Dementors breeding causes fog.
 
Halpo133 said:
Yes. That's because I'm not a fan of big numbers for the sake of big numbers. There are other factors too. Han Jee-Han was a gamer before being The Gamer. He knows how to grind, he knows how to break a system. Harry... Doesn't. You all might, but Harry doesn't. He hasn't played video games or even pen and paper games. He's learning, and as he does he'll get more efficient. But he's new to this and to the very concept of gaming a system.
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Even without the back-ground knowledge, I think the approach would be rather obvious. Kill more zombies. Kill lots of zombies. Get lots of experience from killing all the zombies. Then make more zombies.

Anyways, is there a actual cap to our skills? Earlier you were talking with someone about the prodigy stat, and how eventually the skill will cap, but I thought it would just upgrade to the next version of the skill after reaching 100.
 
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