The action’s heating up now! And by action I mean dialogue.
Hmm. Our hero seems oddly detached from her situation. What could the reason possibly be?
Who’s who.
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If it was an invisible force field, the light would be redirected on the other side. Buuuut this is a see-through force field…
You make a good point. Now I’meven more interested in this comic… :)
Not really. A forcefield that limited the intensity of light passing through it could be transparent and fulfill Sydney’s requirements regarding sunlight, but still block damage-causing lasers. So the GM could have defeated Sydney’s lawyering by saying that the forcefield only passes 1 kW per square meter (approx. value for direct sunlight)
In the immortal words of Eli Wallich in “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly…” “If you’re gonna shoot….. SHOOT! Don’t talk about it.”
But what if you shot the guy, and your bullet went right through without causing damage, or veered to the side, or something?
Bricks would be shat
Mutants and Masterminds fan by any chance?
As with many RPGs, I’ve made characters for it, but the group never got around to actually playing it.
I love Kopy Kraut, that and trying to mimick (randomly put on a German/Russian accent) his voice. Also I love the line “Fine. But that shit’s gonna roll both ways.” and shall forever spam it. :P
Looking at this page, the next, and the cast bio pages…
The DM is arguing about how force-fields work with someone who actually has one. This does not sound like a good argument to get into…
I’m enjoying the comic and hope to see more.
That being said, the first three or four installments almost had me tapping out. Any DM/Keeper/GM out there can attest to this. You’re making the heroine the know-it-all “rules lawyer” – one of the least enjoyable player types I’ve ever encountered. It’s why I always threw out a “BTW, this is my game, my rules interpretation” disclaimer whenever I used to GM at cons.
Oh, and she’s wrong.
Example: I used to wear clear glasses that protected against UV. Also, I now wear see-through (always good in eye protection) laser protection at work when necessary. Both allow visible light to pass, but block certain other wavelengths of light. Also, it doesn’t have to be opaque in order to stop wavelengths of light (or other electromagnetic energy sent as directed photons) – when you put on sunblock, does it stay white, or does it appear clear? In a UV camera, it would appear black.
Anyone roleplaying about being a superhero in an alternate universe where force fields exist need to allow for certain flexibilities in their knowledge gaps. For example, is the force field a variable one, that quickly scans existing energies, determines safe limits, and deflects the remaining portions?
What you did was create a strong rules lawyer player, and a weak GM – one that couldn’t think on their feet, and only attack back in anger. It happens, I’ve done it myself when frustrated beyond belief by my PCs. Honestly, I would be kicking her to the curb after a couple sessions like this. Luckily, you quickly moved on and got off the rules lawyering…but it irked me so much I had to comment.
Oh, and just so you don’t think I think my stuff doesn’t stink…I’m a “Funny Guy” player that has trouble taking serious campaigns seriously, and a Monty Haul-ish GM.
I forget who wrote the original article naming all of these types. I still have the Dragon maqazine it was published in, though. I’ll have to look it back up when I get home.
Well every group has its dynamics, as you see later, Sydney’s got quite a forceful personality, so while the GM might have been able to argue or reason her down (I can think of several ways a transparent forcefield could reflect visible light other than the ways you listed) he might have figured it wasn’t worth the time. Also, as is established on the next page, we see that she’s already a superhero at this point, and to be honest I haven’t really figured out the relationships in this group yet, so it’s possible some or all of the players are a little starstruck. I mean if… I don’t know, Felicia Day came and sat down at a tabletop game you were manning at a con, you might not be as much of a hardass with her right off the bat. Maybe you would, I don’t know, but I guess my point is that not everyone is a tyrannical GM, some of them even hand out XP for coming up with logic like this.
Speaking as another DM, I’d roll with it. I don’t think it’s really “rules lawyering” but applying “sense” to a supers universe – of course this depends on the rules set. Aberrant ST wouldn’t make a distinction with a Force Field (as it does with Invulnerability) – in other games it depends. Of course, doing this all the time would end up disruptive and annoying, but this seems like a rare outburst. Anyway, I’d go with keeping the game moving as the main point.
To each DM to his own though.
Wouldn’t it look like a heat shimmer then?
Reminds me of an early X-Men when the Mimic, his power is to gain the powers of any who are near him. (So he had the muscles of Hank, power eyes of Cyclopes, wings of Angel etc) and they were doing battle with the Adaptoid. An artificial device that copies powers and appearance of those near it. The last ones it fought wer the Avengers so it was a mix of them from Captain America to Wasp. When they clashed they each tried to use their powers on the other. Do you know what happened? Since Mimi’s power is to reflect others powers it couldn’t do so with the Adaptoid. the Adaptoids synthetic powers couldn’t do so of the reflecte powers of Mimi’s so they short circuited each other! Wish I still had that issue.
If you have a force field can you alter its reflectivity? However making it opaque can be a problem if you keep it that way too long. You could overheat yourself. Does it cut off the air too?
I know next to nothing about RPG’s, but I find this really funny! Could I be recognizing too much of myself in Sydney’s trying to outsmart her opponent?
I’m going to sound like a know-it-all here, but most force field are filters, only allowing non-damaging amounts of energy through. Otherwise, the users would be blind, deaf, freeze to death in a matter of minute, and be hurdled off of the planet by the Earth’s rotation! :P
An example of this is Canadian Hero, Vindicator, who increases the filter on his force field to allow him to be launched 1,000s of mile away in a second.
(I also believe they explained this in the Marvel Heroes RPG. <3))
Marvel also used to have a villain who’s only power was a major class forcefield. Unis the Untouchable. In one issue his forcefield got ramped up in power to the point that it repelled air molecules and Unis suffocated.