01-26-2018, 05:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2018, 05:32 PM by Skeletor.
Edit Reason: to clarify my thoughts a bit better
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I think what this all comes down to is how "meta" you want your characters knowledge of the move system to be. It makes sense that someone who wants a weapon someone else has could make their own version. It makes less sense for Skeletor to see Sasuke use his Sharingan in a fight and decide that he will figure out exactly how to do that as well. Sure You could have him study Sasuke during a fight, (or have him look him up on the ultra-convenient Dataverse, because who needs to put in work to learn someone else's character-defining moves?)
TECHNICALLY, because of the way Omnilium works, and how it can be manipulated by a prime, copying moves from other people's repitore shouldn't need mimic. This has an analogy in several of our sources too. Goku acquires several moves from everyone else over the course of DBZ, but I don't think anyone would claim that Goku has the mimic ability. The difference really comes down to how fast a character can adapt to a new fighting style, and how much they are trying to become an amalgam of what they've seen vs. learning techiniques from their allies/enemies that they have interacted with and learned from. (as some examples, Strazio and Gamzee have been running around as a duo of woe for the better part of a year now, and Tearen had his whole going away party where he had a bunch of people copy his moves.) What becomes sticky is when you view the move acquisition as a player instead of as a character. For Skeletor to think that he can use Sharingan despite having no eyes is technically possible, and therefore allowable under the definition of the rules, but the leaps of reasoning that would be required to reach the point where he creates that move for himself using Omnilium is leaning heavily on this world as a game and far less about it being a real story.
So BY THE TECHINCAL DEFINITION of the rules, I agree with you. but from the perspective of a role-player and an author, I don't know that I can concur with that line of thought.
TECHNICALLY, because of the way Omnilium works, and how it can be manipulated by a prime, copying moves from other people's repitore shouldn't need mimic. This has an analogy in several of our sources too. Goku acquires several moves from everyone else over the course of DBZ, but I don't think anyone would claim that Goku has the mimic ability. The difference really comes down to how fast a character can adapt to a new fighting style, and how much they are trying to become an amalgam of what they've seen vs. learning techiniques from their allies/enemies that they have interacted with and learned from. (as some examples, Strazio and Gamzee have been running around as a duo of woe for the better part of a year now, and Tearen had his whole going away party where he had a bunch of people copy his moves.) What becomes sticky is when you view the move acquisition as a player instead of as a character. For Skeletor to think that he can use Sharingan despite having no eyes is technically possible, and therefore allowable under the definition of the rules, but the leaps of reasoning that would be required to reach the point where he creates that move for himself using Omnilium is leaning heavily on this world as a game and far less about it being a real story.
So BY THE TECHINCAL DEFINITION of the rules, I agree with you. but from the perspective of a role-player and an author, I don't know that I can concur with that line of thought.
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