Riskbreaker Kit v7 released!

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The new version of Riskbreaker kit is available now. The kit's abilities are nerfed even further (while keeping the kit's interesting features, of course). Hopefully, it's now fully balanced. Read everything here.

 

I see, haha! I was wondering when you'd cancel the innate ability of Timestop.
So this is supposed to be the final version right?

 

Yes unless players report that the new "Improved Blur" ability is also too powerful. It needs to be tested in practice.

 

I am so glad that Time Stop was omitted, to tell you the truth it really made no sense to me from the start. I may just get the mod now, but I really do not play with fighter-type PCs. Riskbreaker can be soo cool for a MP created buddy though, yay!

 

Silverstar, I guess it was meant to be some kind of speed so extreme that the time seemed to stop around the Riskbreaker. So, essentially, the said Riskbreaker used the ability, and the time slows down to nothing. And on everybody other's point of view they had never even stopped, and the Riskbreaker moved quicker than they could see. Scientifically speaking, such speed would have made the Riskbreaker weightless, if I'm not mistaken

 

Well it still did not make sense to me, a mage studies for a life time to be able to cast a Time Stop, and then a fighter kit gains it as an innate ability? Me being a mage fan makes things all more complicated too..Well...

I still like the new version better. Cool abilities and a lot of hindrances, this makes for a balanced mod.

 

Hmmh... I think it isn't actually meant to be Timestop anyways, but a really sudden burst of speed. Thus, it isn't a spell at all, and the casting animation would be more fitting as something else (shame no such animations exist). So it wouldn't really be even close to what timestop is if I have understood it right. Whereas a Mage would stop time, Riskbreaker would move so fast the time would seem to stop for him, but not for anyone else.

Anyways, I think this newer version is a lot better, as well. Whatever the reason for the Timestop was, it was overpowered.

 

Yes, Goli Ironhead is right about the justification behind the previously existent "Time Stop" ability. Perhaps, it could have been better called "Faster than the Eye!" rather than "TimeStop".

The main reason I dropped it was that it was overpowered, plus if the Riskbreaker moves so fast to mimic timestop, then how a demon prince could have been immune to it?! Does the demon also run with the same speed?!

 

Goli Ironhead:
What you said about Time Stop (very fast movement => others don't notice it, he feels it as a "time stop") is a good practical approach/explanation. (As long as relativistic effects such as time dilatation are negligible, but this is not a sci-fi world that creatures can reach so high speeds )

You don't have to be a RiskBreaker to feel weightlessness, just jump from a building to reach the state of free-fall

I'm not entirely sure what you meant by 'weightless', perhaps zero mass? At the speed of light, it would be infinite mass -- but even this isn't accurate. Although this is AoDA-like material, I would like to clarify that the change of relativistic mass doesn't cause any physical change in the object. This is often overlooked in the media or by certain books. (If someone is interested, he or she can read more e.g. here.)

[ February 12, 2007, 02:50: Message edited by: Baronius ]

 

I quite like this kit, but one complaint I have about it is it isn't really thematic- it really feels more like a function rather than a philosophy.

 

Baronius, I'm not actually all that sure about it now that I think it again. In school we were taught that there is a maximum speed in freefall, because you would undo gravity with any more speed. Can't remember how my teacher exactly told it, but it was something like that. But I'm not a scientist or anything, so this might be a mistake.

 

No, there's a maximum speed of freefall because beyond a certain point the gravitational acceleration is matched by the drag. Falling with any greater speed won't "undo gravity" or anything so horrific, but you'd experience upward acceleration until you'd slowed down to terminal velocity anyway.

 

This is all true, I just didn't (and don't) get why the Riskbreaker should be weightless when he moves very fast...
(Free-fall is just a school example for "everyday" weightlessness, of course you won't accelerate any more because you're not in vacuum -- the object will fall theoretically at a constant speed from the point the resultant force gets zero. What you remembered from school was not totally wrong; your teacher might have said "the gravity force is compensated by...", and not "undone".)

 

Probably he did say so. English is not my native language, and so the less ordinary discussion can get a little difficult at times. But still, I'm happy that you understood what I meant.
Anyways, is there, theoretically, any kind of maximum running speed? Seeing that freefall is quite different from running, I'm not sure if the rule there applies here.

 

I would guess the maximum speed any object can achieve is the speed at which the slowest particle moves... then again, it's gonna be difficult to test in practice due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and that when particles are accellerated to a high enough speed, they have a nasty tendancy to change into other things - muons, quarks and so on.

 

BTW I've replied your posts, but since it would've been off-topic, I opened a topic "Running at high speeds" in AoDA.

 

In regards to the original announcement: the kit is looking better (yep, I didn't like the whole Timestop part). OTH, I still don't like so many parts that I probably won't be playing with it. I guess I'm just not destined to be a Riskbreaker fan.