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Any-who.

I'm the luckiest ******** in the world.

I wouldnt know; I've never played the real D&D. But eh.

Yeah I know him personally. And you can have your opinions about D&D, I've long since stopped caring about what people think of me for that.

The main difference between RP and games like D&D is the dependency on stats. It give actions, such as battles, a little more ordered structure but it might not have as in-depth of story or give the freedom that the RP will provide. RPs also keep people from power gaming which I've seen a few tries at in these. Hopefully Hamatula can keep from that, since he is the biggest power gamer among our group.

The written RP needs variations of powerplay.

some people are just plain stronger than others. But its when you lose focus and become the wunderkid at everything that the element is lost.

Welll, the key is to make sure everything thats a plus also has something negatvie too.

I mean, force users are most often violated so much, the line between powered and gming is ery thin. i mean, if you are a weak user, you can have more skills like slicing, mechanics, etcetera. I hold a general rule of thumb. If you are a crappy force user, you can have four major skills. An average force user gets three, a good one two, and if you're the biggest badass on the block (ferno), you get one major skill (flying) outside of combat.

However, the point of the RP is to have fun. If you excell in every stat, not only is it not fun for everyone else, but the biggest problem is that its no fun for you. So you have the biggest lightsaber? So you have a personal army and can still kick everyone's butt? So your ship is the Falcon and you're Mace windu that has mechanical skills and can sing, dance, and fart all in grace simultaneously?

If you don't have any thing which constantly impedes you, the fun becomes non-existant because there's no challenge. Ferno, despite all his power, has a moral code. A code of honor. May not be much on the outside, but so few people realize just how tricky it is for an assassin to have one. You don't think it's hard, just try it. If someone is knocked over, instead of going for the kill, wait until they stand back up and at attention. Try it, see what happens. Instead, you get these overpowered people waltzing through battles like nothing, expecting things such as common physics to just disappear for them.

We all love drama. But when everyone starts competing for the spotlight in every area and occasion, the bulb breaks. Everyone knows this; not everyone understands this.