Mechanics Issues

right|300pxThis is a spot for discussing things we'd like to work out with the mechanics of the game itself.
1) Armor
2) Keeping things interesting for each player in different ways
3) Making sure players don't/can't just copy each other's abilities (Aww man - LRB)
Luke's Proposed Fixes:
1) Armor = Damage Resistance - if DR(armor) > certain values, lower speed.
Armour also gets a Durability score that goes down by 1 with each hit.
Say the Stormtrooper armor has DR = 3 and Durability = 10. So we can take 10 hits before the armor breaks, and if we repair it (assuming we could), the Durability becomes 9, and so on.
This doesn't account for any special properties that armour has.
2) Resources - what do people actually call upon for their powers? Mark and Luke call upon M:TG mana, Steve calls upon Dragon Blood, Chris calls upon the Logrus and Topher calls upon (fire? Hell if I know), so Resources are the method used to quantify each of these. Using M:TG as the example:
Luke gets N black mana and X white mana, decided after each extended rest, up to (level,level + will?), and an additional mana dependent on the current plane (or maybe current situation?). Luke gets to decide how to distribute his mana each turn for any spells he casts.
However, Chris' Resource is his 'connection quality' with the Logrus. Depending on what he does (situation? stat? etc.) his connection quality increases or decreases, enabling different spells.
3) Specializations - each universe has a set of specializations. The number of specializations that a player can pick would be determined by awesomeness/DM willingness. Here's my example for M:TG.
White 	Blue 	Black 	Red 	Green
Manashaping (e.g.: Whitehand)	Manashaping 	Manashaping 	Manashaping 	Manashaping
Summoning 	Summoning 	Summoning 	Summoning 	Summoning
Protection 	Mind Magic 	Dark Dealings (e.g. Dark Ritual)	Chaos Magic 	Growth
Law Magic 	Elementalism (Wind/Water) 	Degradation (e.g. Darkblast) 	Emotion Magic 	Plant Manipulation (e.g. Rampant Growth)
Judgement (e.g. Carom) 	Metamagic (e.g. Counterspell)	Death Magic (e.g. Zombify) 	Elementalism (Fire/Earth/Lightning)	Instinct Manipulation
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