Thread: Why so much god mode?

sirix said I have a feeling my own character is included in this group of over powered god mode people. I don't mean to come off that way if I am, and if I'm not, well I think I can still help answer this question for you. I think your completely right in most aspects of what you have said. What I'm about to say is my opinion and not actual fact, DON'T FLAME ME. It is an entitlement, I'm special, and the dreaded I need to one up the last guy situations. I try not to fall into this group but, I will admit that I do. However anytime I make a character that I feel might even have a chance to fall into this group, I try to give reason to their overpowered demeanor through a back story, but that's just me. I think that everyone at one point has, is, or will fall into this group. I wish it wouldn't happen but it will and it is certainly unfortunate. Well I think that's enough out of me, and it is probably going to be the worst post on this thread. So continue on everyone. Click to expand... Okay, so, since you went ahead and volunteered your character as part of the OP God Mode crowd, let's just take that example and run with it. So, and this is a great example of how it always seems to go in any given RP with anyone, Sakura just walks up and Punches Bel hard enough to make him poop himself, before stating that he would destroy him completely except for the school limiting his power and all that jazz. Okay, let's break it down into the component parts of god mode. First, you have an act of violence without any preamble. That's kind of part and parcel to the GM character, a person who doesn't ever check himself when it comes to violence. And then there's the automatic hit. You never see a person post I swing my sword and hope it hits. They post in the form of I swing my sword and it eviscerates your guy and then an absurd statement about the guts flying everywhere or something. Or in the case of super beings, you see it in the form of an energy blast that all but destroys you completely, or a punch that automatically damages the hell out of you. So, in this scenario you don't just see them deciding that you've been hit, but also declaring the degree to which you've been damaged. A good RP is equal parts give and take, and with a good partner you can trust them to give you the opportunity to decide just as much as them. Then you get to the other side of that. Everyone is god mode, but everyone also has to be the goddest of the god modes, and so they have to be even goddier than the next guy. So when the GM player gets hit with something, even if the other poster already declared that they were eviscerated or burnt to a crisp or whatever, they tend to react in the manner of the average Dragonball villain, emerging somehow completely unscathed and deriding the attack as child's play, then countering with their own god mode nonsense. So we have two parts to the combative side of god mode, and that is ultra attack and ultra defense. Neither are any fun to play with, and all you have to do to be a better player than that is to give a little bit of ground on either side. But then there's also the emotional side of god mode, where the GM character's attitude is also impervious. In explanation, we ourselves do not have impervious attitudes. They are vulnerable to the events of the day and the course of any conversation changing them for better or worse. But what you see in a god mode character is someone who keeps the same exact attitude, is never flustered, can never accept that they might be wrong, never changes their tune, just the same exact tone all throughout an interaction. Two god mode characters talking to one another is like listening to two deutsch-bags at a bar try to out-brag one another as they make up pretend achievements to try and impress a girl rarely works unless she's already drunk lol. It's just a constant escalation of the exact same thing, and each character is claiming that, with but the slightest effort, they could wipe out the whole world or some other bullshit. Okay, I've rambled for long enough on the topic for one post lol.