This.

Like, the whole “with great power comes great responsibility” trope is subverted in a setting like My Hero Academia where the conceit is that most people have some sort of superpower, so nobody’s expected to be a superhero unless they want to be

But most people don’t consider My Hero Academia to be a genre subversion, because that’s not usually what people are expecting to see subverted when they think of subverting the superhero genre.

But it’s a good example of how a subversion doesn’t need to be darker or bleaker. It can still be as optimistic and hopeful.

Tropius

Sugar Rush

You mean I can eat all the sweets I want and they’ll makes me jacked? Sign me tf up.

That’s a really weird thing to say.

Babe you’re on Reddit, we love piracy here. It’s fun, easy, and morally correct.

What makes you think I’m buying shit?

I generally dislike quirks that are “[basic aspect of physics] manipulation” because they’re so broad and so powerful. Like…

i was wondering which direction could i take with light manipulation? there’s the typical abilities

What typical abilities? “Light manipulation” covers so many things. Can the OC… project beams of light? are they just blindingly bright? or are they powerful enough to set things on fire with infrared laser beams?

But that’s just projecting light. If they can also manipulate light then they can… create illusions? become invisible? That’s an incredible amount of versatility right there.

But wait, manipulation isn’t just creation. It’s also destruction. They can dim light too, right? And create areas of darkness? Darkness is just the absence of light, so light manipulations should also be darkness manipulators by removing light from an area.

Between all of that, that’s enough different capabilities to be split up into at least half a dozen reasonably powerful quirks.

And that’s not even counting all of the wackier applications of light manipulation I’ve seen before. What about to transform into light? What about creating hard-light constructs? Or what about simply seeing into the ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray, etc. spectrums?

My suggestion would be to get more specific. Narrow down to one or maybe two of these things, and then go forward from there. Otherwise, “light manipulation” is too broad of a category of superpowers for anybody to help you with specifics.

Oh absolutely, and I’ll tell you exactly why:

If we call it 5.5, then it’ll make it super awkward if however many years from now they decide to release another rehash of 5e.

Because then what will we call it? The expectation would be that they need to move on to a full new edition 6e, and that would require effort on their part. As opposed to OneD&D and D&DNext and D&D2024 where they can rehash the same thing and name it D&D2034 or D&DNextPlus or OneD&DDeluxe or whatever.

Most folks already do call it 5.5.

You’ll never get WotC to call it that, but fuck them.

You are definitely not alone. It’s not all bad, but the third movie is definitely lacking compared to the first two.

Then what hero do you want to beat them? Work backwards from there. Do you want them to be beaten easily? With difficulty? Where do you want them to fight? Is it a recurring villain or a one-off?

Depends on the context. Is this for a hero student? A pro hero? A villain? A civilian having trouble controlling their quirk who’ll need to be rescued?

Yeah, that tracks. I suggest not worrying about DMing advice from people who are not good at DMing.

Your friend has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. I’d be willing to bet they have very little DMing experience, if any.

almost all of them tbh

I think it’s too 1-dimensional

Also, Starflow’s quirk is very interesting. Is there a reason you’re restricting this to items he’s holding? I don’t think it would be overpowered to let him be able to affects non-living objects he’s touching up to a certain volume or mass. That keeps the same amount of offensive power but gives him more utility and opportunity for playing with the environment.

For example he can heighten the durability of armor or even normal clothes he’s wearing. It’d give him a good excuse to have a cape and use it like a light-weight super-shield to protect others.

He could also play around with the environment for defensive or rescue purposes. Reinforce a wall to use as a shield to protect a large group. Reinforce a column in a collapsing building.

Just a thought. :)

This was a difficult to read because of the lack of formatting. Seems like you copy/pasted them in but didn’t fix formatting loss, so maybe watch out for that next time, because it really negatively affects the readability of your post.

When I made it past that, though, I really like them! I’m a weirdo who thinks that lower-power OCs are mostly more interesting than overpowered ones.

And I also think animal heteromorph quirks are very underutilized, so I especially like the villain. I could 100% see that character existing in the MHA universe.

I can only assume there are lots more urban legends. Everyone knows that unique, wondrous things exist.

Especially with discrimination against heteromorphs, I’d imagine people make things up about their quirks that aren’t true, and that becomes urban legends. “Stay away from the Bat Man, I heard he can scream so loud he’ll scramble your brain.” even though the guy can do no such thing.

Then there are quirked animals, which governments definitely don’t have records of the way they do people. “People see weird things in this forest, and legend has it there’s a tree with a quirk that creates nightmares.” even though there’s never been any confirmed claim of a quirked plant.

As for conspiracy theories, we literally know that invisible people, teleporters, shapeshifters, brainwashers, and reality warpers exist. Governments definitely employ them, groom them as secret agents from a young age, and deny their existence.

It’s like X-Men but in the future where mutants are the majority rather than the minority, so you only still get discriminated against if you’re one of the ugly ones.

You're apparently incapable of thinking that the DM maybe wanted to take his players desires into consideration

Taking player desires into consideration does not always result in a yes, conditional or otherwise. It’s possible to take player desires into consideration and then still say no.

There's nothing hostile about that, and I think it's really weird that you interpret that it is.

It’s very explicitly retaliatory, and I think it’s really weird that you don’t see that, so I guess we’re even.

I guess there's no value to be found in all the table agreeing on something together in a collaborative roleplaying game. Weirdo.

You’re just making shit up that nobody said to get mad about.

Sure. I disagree with your methods, but I’m still glad that it worked out for you, and I hope that y’all have fun. :)