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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deinos" data-source="post: 5953901" data-attributes="member: 74998">Hence why I said its a binary state. There doesn't seem to be a way to stop him from blowing up a universe. Its a combination of cloaking device and invincibility mode, but that there's no transition or intermediary stage that allows you to stop it.Let me rephrase that. Well, basically my point is: he's a very, very, very (etc.) powerful being, of course, by intent. Still. Were he to be in mortal conflict with a given dimension, reality, or whatever, there seems to be absolutely no way to keep him from completely obliterating everything (or rather, something like ninety nine point nine nine nine (on to almost forever) in those *portions* of the universe he dislikes. I kind of think that's a problem. He's a powerful figure, which is okay, but there's not even (apparently) any way for a more powerful figure -- were he to be in violent conflict with someone, as the writeup doesn't really give much explanation as to what he wants -- to keep him from destroying *every part of the universe that matters to his enemies in the storyline.* That is what I feel the problem is. Not that he's powerful and beyond violent opposition (we know that there is no such thing in IH) but that in any such violent opposition, at any point that he is not currently cloaked, he can also nuke all your planets, all your stars, all your worshipers, and so forth, and the only way to prevent this is to threaten him into not doing it.There is MAD, but presumably there is an area where him conflicting with small amounts of demiurges or time lords won't draw infinite amounts of antagonism towards him. I think there should, perhaps, be some sort of grey area where, say, it takes one round for him to activate any of his offensive abilities after he decloaks, or something. He would otherwise be able to inevitably defeat any combination of foes that cannot travel across billions of light years (or whatever) and kill him in one round, a million permanent hit points at a time -- somewhat of a petty concern at this scale, but this is more problematic than Indissoluble, as it also permits him to make a perfect hit and run combo.That's what I was mainly asking, as I wasn't sure whether "Creation" was the same thing as "Universe." So he can only blow up one universe at a time. That's not so bad.This is, instantly, the only RPG genre where I can say that.So presumably, Omnipresent, would still only allow you to have your divine aura touch one plane at a time, right? They're not really connected to each other by space, afterall. Sniping one plane of existence at a time is a bit easier to manage than sniping all planes of existence (of his enemies).Ah okay.That's a lot of permanent oblivion HP to be down before the last boss...</blockquote>

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