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How do you justify Adventurers being multiple [Character Classes] instead of everyone being Generalists in fantasy settings?
You specialize because being really good at one thing in a fight is better than being mediocre at several things. If you are moderately good with the mace, the axe, and the sword, and you are ...
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How do you justify Adventurers being multiple [Character Classes] instead of everyone being Generalists in fantasy settings?
In a tabletop RPG context, skills can be classified into 'best of party' and 'worst of party' categories. This isn't perfectly clear, of course. There are situations in between.
With a 'best of party'...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Let's start with why are they fighting and work from there.
In order for these IronSteel Men to be important in combat they have to be effective against other troops. It's powered armor, so it's ...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Reflex speedup: a subjective flight speed of 10m/s would be quite fast with normal reflexes, especially in the vicinity of obstacles or other suits. This means that at Mach 3 (which equals about 1km/s)...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Throw tiny things
Let's skip the problems of the armour, like that smashing into each other at mach 3 will magically protect the wearer so they'll survive. You say it does, so it does.
The fact that ...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Aerial jousting.
They have long lances and fly straight at each other at high speed.
Spectacular, knightly, requires great courage and skill. Pennants and streamers for added visual effect, aim for ...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Throw rocks at each other
You've got moderate impact resistance and weaknesses.
Your best defence is to always be moving fast enough that an opponent with a small light weapon can't get to the gaps in ...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
NotIamNot, welcome. It would be similar to how plate-armored knights fought each other. They too had armor that could withstand most weapons of the time, but had gaps and weak points which could have ...
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
Frame Challenge
Okay - so - 2 of these Steel Men can survive an impact where they are both going at Mach 3.
A single Steel Man, massing 500 kg, travelling at Mach 3, has a whopping ~264 MJ of energy. ...
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When does it makes sense for Sword Masters to use a sword beam as a one-time killing move?
The Right tool for the Job
A Sword Master can be presumed to be well-versed in all manner of Combat and would think carefully about how they deployed their skills and Weaponary.
So, let's think of ...
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