Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-25936766-20170707012956

HookshotHotshot wrote:

Would consistently Lucid Dreaming work as a passive, do you think? If not I could just take out the passive entirely. In my opinion, no, but not because the idea is "bad" or anything, but instead because people severely misinterpret what "Passive effect" means.

In the current Template, there's "Active effect" and "Passive effect". People think "Active = What the Semblance does, and Passive = Some extra side effect". But no, that's wrong.

The passive effect refers to the effect that works passively, and the active effect is the effect when the Semblance is truly activated. For example, Yang: Acquiring energy from being hurt is Passive, using it to power up is Active.

On paper, that's what the 2 sections were supposed to be used for when that version of the Template was made:Describe the passive effect and the active effect of the Semblance. But people did not use them for that.

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That's the reason why, in the previous thread, when I proposed another Template, I took out "Passive Ability". Because regardless of what it was supposed to refer for initially, people treated it like "The guy can shoot fireballs. Obviously, the passive ability would be to walk through flames without being burned".

But that idea was rejected because most of these people don't like changes to the Status Quo in the slightest ("If not broken, don't fix it" does not mean "if not broken, no need to improve it"), while those more inclined to it seem to have forgotten it entirely.