Talk:Alyss Poole/@comment-24441949-20140511190237/@comment-24911350-20140524141947

I feel like these rules actually encourage creativity infinitely more than they stifle it. Every single semblance I've ever seen outside of this website has been "Can shoot aura lasers", "Can control Grimm", "Can teleport", "Can fly", the least creative, and most stereotypical stuff.

Most every single fan-character I've seen outside this website is the equivalent of a super-powered neko catgirl whose village was destroyed by bad guys, but she survived and she's out for revenge. Having these limits and rules encourage creative, effective weapons, semblances, and characters as opposed to stupidly OP, unimaginative characters who completely bastardize canon in an attempt to be special little snowflakes, which fails horribly every single time.

It's fiction, but that doesn't mean there aren't rules in the world, it's means that those rules aren't the same as our world. Like they've said, it's to keep characters balanced and fairly represented. If a superpowered guy with 5 tons of armor and infinite aura walk in on your RP, and uses his mind control semblances to turn your character into their sex slave while they use their infinitely-configurable and powerful weapon to kill all the Grimm in the world in one shot, you're NOT going to be thinking about how creative that is for some very simple reasons:

-It's not, at all

-It's entirely ruining your experience, and others'