Task 15: Combat Skills
Happy Fourth of July, players! We have another quick and fun task for you all: ranking your characters’ combat strengths and skills. (click the bolded statement for the stat list to copy and paste for completion)
In a setting where there is a lot of fighting happening, it’d be interesting to see where each of our characters’ lie in terms of certain combat abilities––if they even know how to fight at all! This could also be helpful for everyone to determine what specific skillsets, strengths, and weaknesses everyone has.
When doing this, players, PLEASE BE HONEST. Not every character is perfect, and we find perfect, invulnerable characters to be boring to write with. If we’re seeing characters (especially those who are Loners who haven’t fought a day in their life) with 9 and 10 stars in each and every category, then that’s probably an issue. That’s not to say that characters can’t rank 9-10 stars in certain categories, however, just don’t overcompensate if the character is truly not deserving of a high ranking in a category they’re weaker in.
Also keep in mind that characters who have been in C.A.R.M.A for at least over a year would most likely have more rounded skills than characters in the Rebel Army since they both have different training methods––C.A.R.M.A agents would have better team building, fitness, medical and weapons/tech training than Rebels, and most Rebels don’t even use weapons or gadgets since they focus more on how to use their powers safely and effectively. The longer a character has been training in either C.A.R.M.A or the Rebel Army, the better they would be compared to someone who just started training in either affiliation about six months ago. Players with characters who are Loners, Heroes, or Nephilim should also keep this in mind when ranking combat skills.
Important things to keep in mind when ranking:
How long has your character been training in combat [if applicable, how long have they been training in C.A.R.M.A/Rebel Army/Hero Squad/Nephilim/Moxxi’s Madhouse?]
Have they been focused on one area or a few specific areas?
Are they self taught or did they have a mentor [if they had a mentor, consider: how much experience did their mentor have in the area(s)?]
What are they weakest in? Even if they’ve been training for years in certain areas, they can still be weaker in that skill(s) compared to others (i.e. some Rebels are not very good at team work, and some agents don’t have completely perfect accuracy with shooting).
For Metas, how long have they been aware of their powers? How much control do they have? How offensive is the ability in terms of dealing an attack/damage to an opponent?
While this task is NOT required for all players, we would love to see as many of you take part in this task as possible, since we always want to know more about the awesome characters in WOTNA. Players with more than one or two characters partaking in this task MUST do this task for AT LEAST TWO of their characters. Please tag all posts for this as wotna task and title them somehow as “Task 15.″
This task will be due by 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, July 18th. If players have any questions about the task, please feel free to message the main!
