Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20161227080015/@comment-25936766-20170104152702

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

1-Air Bubble by Ahpolki Inika : Basically, a giant dome of air forms around the user or their target of choice.

2-Alacrity by SpiritedDreaming: Users aura regenerates much faster than normal.

3-Albedo by Shadow at Morning : Alters the reflective properties of objects, from black-body to white-body. Can (for much higher Aura cost) make objects trans-white-body and trans-black-body, altering the temperatures accordingly.

4-Allure by Phantomlink959 : The user's touch can send others into a suggestive state, the longer the contact the more powerful the hypnotized state.

5-Amalgam by LiveandSound : The user temporarily gives a Dust the properties and traits of another Dust type using their own Aura.

6-Ambiance by VedranTheII : A semblance that allows the user to change the temperature of his aura.

7-Amplify by VedranTheII : Increases the user's strength when subjected to loud noises.

8-Angel's Fall by LiveandSound : The user stomps the ground, creating a wave that can knock enemies and if it does also makes them unaffected by gravity. They forcibly crash when the effect ends.

9-Animal Companion by SpiritedDreaming: User is able to summon constructs to aid them, and can see through their eyes.

10-Animationby SpiritedDreaming: User animates objects as though they were being wielded/worn by the user. 1) Simple, yet it works. The only problem I see is that I cannot for the life of me comprehend how or why it would grant that passive ability...but then again, I question that section generally. YES.

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2) I cannot comprehend how it would work. Regenerates Aura faster, but how? Constantly-active Semblances may be a thing, but in Qrow's case it's pretty different from Alacrity. With Qrow, one can infer it doesn't cost Aura except when giving someone bad luck.

So, it's more like a turret that is always active but only fires when there's a target, otherwise it wastes no ammo.

With Alacrity, meanwhile, it's effect is that it regenerates Aura faster. Semblances cost Aura when used, it's the "ammo". So you're wasting Aura to recover Aura. Which makes no sense. A Semblance that recovers Aura, I can understand....just not Alacrity. NO.

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3) This is what I don't like about very-intelectual smartasses...they just can't follow the KISS principle. The hell does "cost is superlinear" means?

The effect is simple, but easily OP. It makes things reflect less or more light. So you either make someone see no shit, or blind them so much they see no shit. I cannot understand what he means by "superlinear costs", and from what Shadow says a few comments below, the cost is lower than it sounds, and one can easily fill a room with it.

So, NO unless it's limited more. If it is, then YES.

4) It's simple, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it. Feels a bit boring though... YES.

5) I see nothing wrong at all with a Semblance that requires Dust to function. It's the same as Semblances that require X to function, which people happily never criticize.

Nora, for example. She absorbs Electricity to become stronger. Did all of you happily forget that her Semblance is just as useless as a Dust-less Amalgam if there's no Electricity to absorb?

Semblances that require an object to be present to work at all, are possible. So, to Amalgam I say YES. The worst I can see is the possible Reflection of Personality, but Semblances seem to reflect just 1 trait of the person. I'm pretty sure Qrow has more depth than "Bad Luck", Blake has more depth than "Coward", and Nora has more depth than "Genki Girl".

6) Same as 4. YES.

7) It's basically Yang's, only with noise instead of damage. Some bits could use some working on, though. The "Dust Interaction" with Wind is absolutely unnecesary since if you control Wind you already make a sound. You can achieve the exact same just by using Dust normally, especially Fire or Gravity.

But overall, YES.

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8) I don't see any problems with it....in a similar way to Amplify, some bits could use some work. Define how much is "big-and-heavy", for example. Neutral YES.

@Piscean: How is it overpowered? It can be broken out with Aura, if you're big and heavy enough you are not affected, and it's effectiveness depends on how quickly you were falling before touching the ground, which in itself requires you to survive the fall. To quote him, "A simple stomp likely won't lift anything".

@Phantom: You mention it being based on a videogame spell as if it deserved to be cut out just for that. Are you fucking serious? No one cares what it's based on, it's irrelevant. What matters is the Semblance itself. Talk about the Semblance, instead of saying "No, because it's taken from a game, I think".

Besides, it's not entirely taken. BBS's Zero Gravity spelll: 1) Causes damage. 2) Doesn't make enemies come crashing down. 3) Far less limitations. 4) Doesn't require you to be falling to be effective. And so on. It's not a 100% copycat, and I'm perfectly sure you didn't even know, much less care, about that.

If you want to take out a Semblance because it's based on a videogame, then there are quite a number on the list that you might want to look at. Like Spirit's Semblance that was inspired by SUPERHOT. Ah, but how convenient that you never criticize them for that, unlike LiveandSound's. Do you want to take it out simply because it's Live's?

I would be angry with the way you "review" it if I didn't know you better.

@Spirit: You know, I don't think mentioning Weiss's Glyphs is fair. Those glyphs can do all kinds of shit. Push people, shoot magic/Dust projectiles, Speed Boost, Summoning.....if they can't do it on their own, then they can do it with Dust. It's like comparing a red pen to a rainbow.

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9) I only have 1 problem with it: The part of "Gravity=Double Carrying Capacity and nothing more". Which is also a very petty problem. YES.

10) It's fine, no real problems with it. At most, some clarifications could help. Like, how does the user give them commands? Mentally? Because objects have no ears. Or does he just swing his arms like a twitching monkey mummy?

(I also miss the reference in the notes).