Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25309478-20140908212228/@comment-5974425-20140918113504

SsVivid wrote: ColossusRS wrote: Just gonna interject, I disagree with this observation. A vampyre will almost always be more powerful compared to a human, but the words powerful and overpowered don't mean the same things. Powerful just means powerful whereas overpowered means powerful to the point that it's destructive to to the roleplaying experience. I think most morytania rpers wouldn't say that the physical advantages of vampyres destroy their ability to happily rp in mory. I agree with this. A powerful character is a character that is reasonably powerful in their setting, much like how vampyres still have power in Morytania because they're powerful entities. Most of my powerful characters had to work up in-character to get where they are currently, which is a preferable way to get a powerful character, but as a rule I give them limits to their power. Overpowering would be saying something like your vampyre character killed Veliaf, that he's immune to blisterwood because necromancy=P, or that he was good enough at dark magic to wipe Darkmeyer out of existence, and all of this being done with a brand new character. To sum up, overpowering is powering up a character to the point where everyone can unanimously say, "That's just rediculous."
 * The term "overpowered" secondly is not interracial. A vampyre will always be "overpowered" compared to a human. That's how lore dictates. It is not necessarily negative.