About Character Balance......
Amarillo's every "special move" or "special attack" drain down her energy super fast (even in Gensokyo)so basically all these are one shots. (Multiple shots with super long cool down time = =, and they are not THAT useful.)
She is a 14-year-old girl after all.
Satsuki Rin is a GOD MOD, however her ability are all locked out currently, which I will explain that in the story.
Just so you know, the request was given out to everyone to review their characters, I wasn't referring to anyone specific.
Now, regarding your characters in particular, for now I'll let you decide what is godmodding and what isn't. The issue isn't really character balance. Otherwise I could issue a rule such that each and every power must have a corresponding weakness, i.e. a cool down period.
The issue is, I would like you to reflect, would it be more fun to spring into existence with an arsenal of powerful abilities? Or would it be more fun to develop them slowly, learn them, perfect them? Become a master through a long hard road of apprenticeship? I realize that your character doesn't have all the available lightsaber stances, only a few of them. However, that's still a great advantage. Didn't Luke Skywalker start from absolute nothing, having never touched a lightsaber, and work himself up to becoming the Master of the new Jedi Academy?
I personally think it'd be quite fun. I can imagine many scenes, subplots, where we all train together to become stronger, together. Where we come up with tactics and strategies for combination attacks together. Overcome obstacles together as equals. Defeat enemies who are ten times stronger than us using only our perseverance and endurance as weapons. Something like that.
It's really up to you. If you feel you will earn a sense of achievement and satisfaction from playing your character as he/she is now then I'm not going to stop you.
If anyone else would like to discuss their characters and raise any concerns, I'll be around for about another hour or so. Sorry for the inconvenience but it's best if we fix any issues now so we could have a nice enjoyable game down the road.
Good concerns man but yeah teh out of sync-ness could be hard to make the story follow and fun for anyone. I was wondering if we should throw all the factions in one story thread or something. If anyone can make their own setting then all we need to do is have all the enemies set up or you can set up the enemies since your like the DM (or GM lol). Yeah i'm sure we're aware of the powerful abilities we have but i think its somewhat fitting. The outside world has no magic but has science and technology while Gensokyo is vice versa with lots of magic and little technology. Oh and don't worry about my character I use him everywhere i go, video games, RP'ing everywhere. XD I'm no stronger than a A or B rank Touhou character (if you don't know what i mean by that i can post a pic o,o) All that background stuff is simply that background old history. My abilities are gone and I'm no stronger than Marisa or something. All that old stuff was just that...stuff as far as teh story was concerned. It will be fun and contributing i assure you ^_^
Yeah, I can understand RPG hopping with the same character (I used to do that a long time ago.). The thing is, sometimes we have to adapt an old concept for new settings. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I think we'd all be more comfortable being more or less around the same level, or at least human. Don't you think so? And when you say you're as strong as Marisa, the current Marisa is so weak she might lose a fight against a kid in sixth form. I seriously don't think your current Kojiro is that weak.
Yes, we can merge the factions if need be. But I think it's fun for some to roleplay members of the opposition. I think we should continue that for a bit and see how that goes. But as for merging the threads, I think that can be done, especially as the members of RAI Force 1 are moving to Karuisuwa.
Oh, I also invite everyone to raise any other concerns regarding the RPG now. I believe Helepolis also mentioned that we have too many threads. Does everyone feel it is so? If so, I'll ask a moderator to merge a few threads together.
Any other concerns? Let's tackle them as a team, people!
I was AFK for a good hour or two leaving my story window open ( trying to finish it up now ).
About the point you raise MTG. I too have read few DBZ / Naruto powerup things but I guess it is everyones way of RPGing. They probably power level.
Just incase someone is wondering the power outburst I wrote in during the Border fight. I'll spoil you this: It is not power which I learned or developped suddenly because I was in anger / despair. It did kill the fun with the first fight and MTG pointed it out, which is good. I kind of rushed there when I actually tried to write something else. But there is a bigger reason behind that outburst. Which I am keeping a secret so far but MTG knows where Taihou's development might/is heading. Ofcourse he can twist it if he thinks it doesn't fit, which I told him to do if needed.
Right now Taihou is nothing more than just a butler + nifty with his fists and with knives which he learned from Sakuya and Meiling. No special powers or Supersayan mode here. He only shares his life force to power Mokou, Keine or Sakuya but those already had powers.
I prefer to keep Taihou asmap nonmagic so no lightningbolts or "death" attacks, meaning he simply uses his knive/dagger or hands ( Nanaya style =P but without the death-lines ) to fight.
Basicly you can see him as a "tanker" in terms of RPG except without a shield and big ass sword.
Taihou is still developping his skills but that will follow.
Taihou is somewhat fair. Helepolis explained to me the nature of Taihou's powers in a PM when I first raise concerns about him. However, I've also asked him to develop his strength more naturally, more human-like, and I believe he has agreed. The power he exhibited at our first battle will be a plot device connected to our foe but one with strong repercussions....I won't divulge anything further for fear of spoilers.
I got myself lacking magical powers, but with great physical strength. Of course, this has its limitations.
I'm thinking of leaving the group during the night for a little...fun (no, not that kind of fun. I'm keeping it SFW obviously).
Gpop's character is quite acceptable. There is always variation between people and it's normal to have variation in physical strength in reality. However, it isn't very natural for a normal human being to have magical powers. That's all I'm saying. If you're going to have any, try and develop it from scratch.
Basically my opinion is that if you GOD MOD a character, you must GOD MOD two of their enemies.
The reason Satsuki got resurrection is simply because the enemy in An Age of Chaos: Touhou Heroes contains Sylar( 
Killing Machine).
It's easy to create stronger and stronger enemies for stronger and stronger player characters. However, remember, we started off as outsider humans. Plus, the point of an RPG is to play with friends. If you leave your friends too far behind, it becomes a solo game and the point of a multiplayer RPG is lost. If you're the super god ctulhu when your team mates are all mere mortal humans, what's the point?
Sorry for rambling again. I don't know how else to go about this, really. So I apologize once more.
