Ability Approval

[Arc Lalatoya]

Ability Approval I

Username: Kolith Name of Ability? Farsight (revised) Ability Effects: Sense 1 (Sight, Hearing, Smell) (300) + Ongoing (100) + Indirect (100) - Concentration (50) - Limited (only works if an animal is nearby) (50) Descriptor: Using the spiritual powers awakened by the Elder Spirits, Kolith can...

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To follow up, talked about it on Discord, Jade/Chara said no Limited on Flight. My character signed up with Limited on Flight so I can't really much about that until I buy this which I think I still can without the limited?
The original point was that Blink only used Flight 1 to 'maintain position'. It does not use Flight's Speed at all to move around, just to zero out his own movement. If not 99% because 'moving' is what Flight is intended for, that's at least half of Flight's usefulness being removed, I can only slow down, not speed up, using the Flight effect.

EDIT: Well, the 'original' point was something less well thought-out . More of a 'I'm not getting everything out of this' reasoning.

To put it in a different way, wouldn't say, Speed 1 (Limited I can only use this to stop myself) work for a Limited modifier? Like,
Inertial Dampener (Speed 1 Limited)
Whenever I am moving, I can activate this to slow myself down. However, it only slows me down, and cannot be used to speed me up.

I'm not doing any different except with Flight in different words.

 

[Ridley]

honestly, for what you are stating here, as flight isn't used by itself to maintain flight, but just to jump up in the ifrst place, is unnecessary. Get blink, have the side effect of "briefly stuck in place", and that will do the job while being far less complicated. This is assuming you cannot choose to use momentum in such a situation, of course, but teleportation arresting your momentum is by itself somewhat of a free addition. I would treat it as flavor, particularly since teleportation as a construct has no need to keep momentum in the first place, due to the esoteric nature and application of the power.

 

[Arc Lalatoya]

How should I proceed then, just rewrite it a little bit and repost it here, or stick it on a form again?

Should I be concerned about this needing to be refunded or anything, as it was approved but now we are backtracking on the Limited Flight part of the skill?

(Also I'm going to rename it Dimensional Step, symbolic. Only because my brain crossed wires and mis-named it originally for the WoW spell it was probably based on at least in part)

 

[Ridley]

The Refund for this one will be free due to the initial approval, so don't worry about it. Post up the new version in move approval as normal.

 

[Arc Lalatoya]

Should it have Side Effect as a modifier? The momentary arrest of movement does hurt him and make openings, but to be honest half the reason it's there is so the usage of it is easier to write around. (The other half is how the anime depicted it a couple times, with Arc teleporting completely, then swinging the sword. Also how he Teleport-moves instead of walking and often through the sky by spamming it.)

Like I think it was you that said it in discord (Espcially without Flight) It'd be more of a specific use case with an up and a down instead of a side effect big enough to take a modifier. So I'll not actually put it in the modifier for now.