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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 3996387" data-attributes="member: 36160">I meant &quot;only users of power sources which are explicitly supernatural and represent something other than extreme focus of physical talent&quot;.It's because shooting fire isn't extrapolatable. Jumping tall buildings, making a thousand cuts per second, survivng jumping through a plate glass window, shouting loud enough to stun foes, and so forth, are all just &quot;doing what we normally do, but more so&quot;.Creating fire ex nihilo or what have you isn't. So I don't like it when monks (who are incredibly spiritual, oneness of mind and body, ultimate-warrior-types) get to jump straight into that arcane space.I don't mind that they get there eventually, so long as they chose &quot;I can project ki outside my body!&quot; instead of similar, slightly more extrapolatable (but no less potent!) abilities, like aforementioned plate-glass-trancendance, or ultimate death strikes, and so forth.I object to anyone who starts with &quot;I'm a spiritual warrior in peak physical condition&quot; getting abilities as flashy as &quot;I study arcane secrets&quot; or &quot;my god spoke to me yesterday&quot;. It's cool if all of their abilities result in the deaths of their respective targets, tho'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 3996387, member: 36160"] I meant "only users of power sources which are explicitly supernatural and represent something other than extreme focus of physical talent". It's because shooting fire isn't extrapolatable. Jumping tall buildings, making a thousand cuts per second, survivng jumping through a plate glass window, shouting loud enough to stun foes, and so forth, are all just "doing what we normally do, but more so". Creating fire ex nihilo or what have you isn't. So I don't like it when monks (who are incredibly spiritual, oneness of mind and body, ultimate-warrior-types) get to jump straight into that arcane space. I don't mind that they get there eventually, so long as they chose "I can project ki outside my body!" instead of similar, slightly more extrapolatable (but no less potent!) abilities, like aforementioned plate-glass-trancendance, or ultimate death strikes, and so forth. I object to anyone who starts with "I'm a spiritual warrior in peak physical condition" getting abilities as flashy as "I study arcane secrets" or "my god spoke to me yesterday". It's cool if all of their abilities result in the deaths of their respective targets, tho'. [/QUOTE]

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