0xp {Siren no Orakio} 3:26 pm: I have decided that I hate the word 'overpowered'
{Siren no Orakio} 3:27 pm: It's firmly rooted in the 'you're a level 3 peasant with no ability to change the world!' mentality
{Chaosmark} 3:29 pm: Very true.
{Chaosmark} 3:29 pm: Epic people sometimes need epic equipment.
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{Chaosmark} 3:31 pm: Jedi are a good example of "overpowered equipment isn't"
{Chaosmark} 3:32 pm: A laser sword that can cut through almost anything, and kills in a single attack.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:32 pm: Heh.
{Chaosmark} 3:32 pm: Extremely overpowered. However, GM Lucas was smart in controlling it.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: Well, the other thing is this:
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{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: When I am RPing or GMing, my feeling is that it's a story in which the PCs are supposed to be heros
{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: They should be capable of heroic things
{Chaosmark} 3:34 pm: Of course. Why play if you're just going to be a peasant farming a field?
{Chaosmark} 3:35 pm: We want extraordinary.
{Chaosmark} 3:36 pm: Re: Overpowered - I think the word itself has valid applications, but most of the time ends up just being used as an excuse for GMs to not have to be creative in their GMing.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:36 pm: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader had Light Sabers and the Force. King Arthur had Excalibur /and/ its sheath. Thor had Mjollnir. Kera gets.. the cloak of death
{Siren no Orakio} 3:38 pm: . A weapon which, technically, does 0 HP of damage.
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Excalibur was overpowered. Lightsabers are overpowered. Overpowered compared to what? The average, common weapons wielded by average, common people. A hero needs heroic equipment. The Cloak of Dusk is no different. When you think about it, how hard is it to actually wrap someone up completely in a cloak? Normally you can only do it when they're sleeping or drugged. Newsflash: you can get the same effect with a knife. Overpowered? Not hardly. Besides, this has the lore to back up it's power.

Nicely done Siren.