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So, we all get to that point of generating a power where we like the broad strokes, but know it needs more.

What I like to do, and will do for anyone who requests, is take a 4 digit code (#0001-#1320) and use it as a color number in a paint color deck that I have handy.

Say I have a flying blaster, and I want to use a friend's birthday, 11/12 (#1112). That color's name is "wishful thinking".

Now I interpret. With that connotation, I now have a cape who forms a flying blaster projection, too weak to carry their physical form when flying. Tragic!

I just re-read Migration and looked through the WoG thread, but I couldn't find anything on this other than the (rather extenuating) circumstances and unreliable narration involved with the Travelers.

Pre-GM, if a cape from another, previously uncontacted world made an appearance, what would their response be? How does the response change based on the possibility of others coming from the same world? The cape's level of power? If the cape goes villian, do things go differently should they be arrested?

I'd be greatful for any help ya'll can give me, even if it's just pointing me at some WoG that I missed.

Hi, wall of text incoming.

I'm currently planning a post Gold Morning story that has a very strong focus on characters within the Dragon's Teeth.

Inspired by Setanta, I've imagined the Dragon's Teeth to have evolved into something of a paramilitary organisation- a counterpart to the parahuman centric Wardens. However, what I haven't considered is how the Dragon's Teeth would be funded.

Even in the final epilogues, it's clear that the Wardens must be well funded to have an extensive infrastructure and roster, but similarly, their source of income isn't clear either.

My current, basic idea is that the Dragon's Teeth might rely on the sales of tinker-derived tech, as selling their services, however this conflicts with what I imagine would be their ideology of serving the people as the PRT did before them. Without a centralised government, would it make sense, both practically and ideologically, for the Dragon's Teeth to collect taxes to fund themselves?

An alternative might be having the Dragon's Teeth behave as something similar to a stereotypical Knight's Order, potentially even like Fallout's Brotherhood of Steel. However, the long term prospects and rampant xenophobia typical of such organisations could prove problematic to integrate story wise.

I'll include a synopsis of my story, tentaviley named 'War Games', below:

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Hi r/Cauldron !

I was pondering today, thinking about how the Tarrasque (one of, if not the, strongest statted monster in D&D 5th Edition) would fare against an Endbringer. Superficially, the Tarrasque and the Endbringers have a lot in common: Them showing up to a city gives good odds of the city being wiped out, even the greatest Heroes cannot solo one of these beasts, and they have distinctly inhuman goals. That being said, the stat block of the Tarrasque seems pretty "meh" compared to how I would envision an Endbringer, especially since most D&D classes, even at high levels, don't have the staying power or outright offensive power of high-tier Parahumans.

With that in mind, can we try to stat them? It's pretty clear that there's an Endbringer basic template, that includes the Endbringer core and the escalating durability of the rest of their body, with each Endbringer getting some kind of at-will abilities related to their domains. But I'm having trouble phrasing the abilities of the Endbringers in ways that make sense (in D&D terms).

Some suggested Endbringer Template stats:

Endbringer Durability: The Endbringer's AC is increased by a value equal to its missing hit points.

ALTERNATIVE Endbrigner Durability: Endbringers reduce damage received by a value equal to their missing hit points. This reduction is ignored by damage dealt by weapons with some sort of Phasing or Sting trait.

Endbringer Core: If the Endbringer would be reduced to 0 HP from a non-magical source, instead reduce the damage to 0.

Endbringer Regeneration: Endbringers heal (some amount of HP) per turn, probably on the order of 30 HP?

I made a spreadsheet to simulate cape casualties. It's based on the Leviathan arc, listing relevant capes (either previously mentioned in canon or the ones that end up mattering, so no Chubster or Strapping Lad in the list).

I used the overall survival odds based on Legend's speech, (roughly 1:4 chance of dying), adjusted for experience and a bunch of fudge factors (e.g. plot armor, being a non-combatant). There's column to check if the odds make sense, predicting your survival chance if you participated in all Endbringer battles (60ish, up to 2011) with those odds, so we can see the single encounter odds for the Triumvirate must be pretty good for them still be alive with a decent chance.

The spreadsheet updates every minute, giving you a new scenario.

Endbringer Casualties Simulation

I need help naming an team of alternate triumvirate, here are the powers:

David is a power tinker. He creates tech that replicates the effect of powers. His tech can effect other's power, strengthening or weakening it. Personality is more or less the same as the original, but more stable thanks to Hero.

Hero survived the S9, and his power is basically Stilling but is less refined than scion due to limited brain power. Has a passive force field.

Rebecca has a time field, able to cause her surroundings to slow down to a considerable point. Those under the effects of her power see the world at the same speed they are moving, so Rebecca looks like a blur to them. She is able to do stuff like quicksilver in x men, but no running up walls since she isn’t actually moving fast.

Keith has speed force with no space/time powers and a force field made of the electricity he generates while running that protects the world from his speed (Tactile telekinesis but looks like electric field).

So a strange idea popped into my head while playing destiny the other day and it won't leave.

I have no idea what type of trigger could possibly do this, probably something with ether. Or maybe a cauldron vial but the idea of a twelve foot tall kell Taylor in the bay cracks me up

Just a fun little brain exercise I was interested in talking about, in regards to the Corona Pollentia, as well as the Gemma while we're at it. If these sections of the brain hypothetically existed, which brain sections would they move out of the way? (Or did they take the form of a brain tumor like structure?)

I'm trying to understand if I got the fictional anatomy of it right, for fun of course, this shouldn't be taken as a serious Anatomical inquiry, as I am only an amateur when it comes to the brain and it's anatomy.

And more importantly, do we have any reason suspect this portion of the brain wouldn't be made up of traditional nervous tissue and cells? With Neurons, Glial Cells, etc, with maybe Synapses connecting them and all that good stuff? With maybe one or more neuron's Axon corresponding Synapses leading to a Microscopic portal that leads to a giant brain monster in another dimension?

Do I have that down more or less?

The Endbringers have inorganic, crystalline "flesh", which apparently only reads as organic to the Manton Effect because of shard shenagigans. But what happens if a non-shard power (especially if the scenario is a crossover) that affects inorganic matter hits them? Would it treat them as organic or not?

What villains put little/no effort into hiding their identities in canon? I know Bitch never had the chance, and I seem to recall that Lung never saw the point because he didn't care about anyone and could overpower anyone who tried to take advantage of his identity, but I'm not sure if that's true.

Hey everyone. We’ve got a bit of news and a question for you all. The news is pretty short, so we’ll do that first.

As you can see in the sidebar, we’ve set up a Discord server for /r/cauldron, which you can access here. Discord is a free chat service that provides a much better medium for having proper conversations than reddit’s forum format.

Now, on to the question. We’re new, and right now there’s not much going on. What we want is to know is what you want from us. We want to make an active and vibrant sub, but to do that we need to fulfill your needs as well as our own agenda. One of the suggestions put forth was to have relatively frequent events. These events would take place optionally on the sub or on our helpful Discord. Some options are cape-genning marathons, “writing parties”, betaing parties, and other fun group activities (if you want to hear about some of these ideas in more depth, I’d be happy to explain some of the possibilities on the Discord or in the comments). Does that seem interesting to you? If so, how frequently do you think would be convenient? Once a week, or maybe twice a month?

On to the next point: How can we make the sub more helpful or convenient for you? Would you have preferred more rigorous advertising to hear about us earlier? Should we have more regular posts/events (sort of like how /r/parahumans has weekly “Whose Line is It?” posts, except maybe a monthly thing)? This could let those who don’t have the time to visit our Discord to get in on the worldbuilding activities. Any other suggestions, please feel free to comment below. Thanks!

Hey guys, not sure if this is a great place to post this, but it seems to be more focused on helping people with Fic issues than WormFanfic is. (I figure it's more for posting/discussion).

I've recently started a fic that has GU in a prominent role, and coming up with fancy names for all the Capes is...a challenge. (Now, for the record, I did go back and see that she didn't refer to everyone with special names. She used Marquis' cape name at least once, but it just doesn't seem to carry the same clout, you know?)

So, yeah. Any help/pointers for coming up with these names?

Doesn't have to be a cape, as long as it's a flat and soft material.

I wanna make an original character triggering from his crush rejecting him. I can't think of a any powers from this. Anyone got any ideas?

Short

here's what going on in the mind: after she said no in the halls feelings of self hate and intense frustration began to flow. Thoughts of why doesn't she like me, what did i do wrong, how can i get her to like me, why am i not good enough for her filled my mind. Then after that we began to slowly to drift apart i just can't take this anymore i didn't want this to happen i want things to go back to normal trigger

Long

Here's the story: at first you didn't like her she seemed annoying but as time went on you began to notice the good points. you spend time with her you, get to know her, you form a connection but you know you can't be her because she's with someone already so you stay friends. But one day the unthinkable happens she breaks up with boyfriend your heart races this is your chance. You can finally be this amazing girl you work up the courage to ask her out and then she says no. As she walks away all you can think is why doesn't she like me, what did i do wrong, how can i get her to like me, am i not good enough for her. As the days go buy you notice she slowly starts to drift away from you. She hardly talks to you anymore. As you stare at her across the room you think why is this happening this isn't what i wanted i want things to back to the way they were trigger.

p.s if this isn't trigger worthy then feel free to add something that will make it trigger worthy

p.s.s if you need more details just fill in the blanks yourself

Where would Sydney, Maxima, Dabbler, Vehemence, Anvil, Pixel, Krona and Harem from the Grrl Power webcomic rank on the Worm power scale?

I had an idea for a cape that can duplicate inanimate objects he's touched, and control the duplicates for a short time (with a mass limit for how much he can manifest of course). Any tips or advice, ideas a trigger?

So, we know Chevalier, Miss Militia, and Mouse Protector were original Wards. I've been wondering on the other 3 (Since I've had an idea for a fic centered on them.)

Anyone have any interesting ideas on their powers?

I will not be silenced

I had an idea for a Blaster that uses gun as a focus for their power, increasing the power of the weapon and allowing him to use multiple types of blasts, in part depending on the type of gun (or any projectile weapon, but he prefers guns). Would that get past the gun stigma, like with Miss Militia? Any tips or ideas for trigger, etc.?

Under what circumstances would Theo have triggered, if it could've been done earlier? I was thinking of making him 'want' to be a hero more than usual, and possibly trigger due to changed circumstances of the world around him.

So two main questions are, how would his trigger have changed, and how would it have affected the difference in power? I liked how Cenotaph handled Theo's trigger difference, and I was thinking of borrowing an idea from there, but I still haven't decided yet.

Another question (if that's alright for this sub) is where would Theo have ended up if he triggered much earlier before the Endbringer attack? Could his father have convinced him to join the E88, but have a vigilante styled role like Purity did after she left? Was the Wards even an option for Theo since his father was Kaiser?