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When someone's powers/abilities section is longer than a CVS receipt— personally, i'd rather see a powers section that's too detailed than not detailed enough
there's some sites where just going with bullet points works fine (fs is one of them, thank shiva, my soul needs the rest) and it's all good. but. i think there's some genres (superheroes, panfandoms, open-lore fantasy) where you kind of have to have that detail, just because of the scale + nuance you need to telegraph (since like imo "super strength" includes both lifting a car and lifting one hundred elephants one-handed but both of those are p different scales, and along similar lines, "advanced healing" brings up a lot of questions about, like, can they regrow limbs or how do they handle poisons or can they get drunk / deal with painkillers).
idk. just. i'm old. i'm tired. i want to know if you're bringing in evil superman before i approve the app and suddenly find myself dealing with you throwing a man through a wall and flying off at the speed of sound. I have mixed feelings of this. I think it really all boils down to what the site’s systems are and what they expect from players. I’ve seen some sites that require as much information as possible. While others what just the general overview and rely on their members to make mature decisions on how that ability interacts with the world. My rule of thumb is that if it’s a single ability it shouldn’t be over 1-2 paragraphs. But if it’s a broad overview on your magic/mutation that could be much longer. you do have to expect staff to potential glaze over or outright skip these longer abilities as it’s probably really time consuming on their end. They might end up spending an hour going over your one app or spend that hour going over 3-4 more manageable apps. If that’s the case, I’m sure it’s hella frustrating but you as the player need to keep that in mind.
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