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Clarste · 2013-01-28, 16:48

Well, the problem with that is that while the series does a pretty good job of making it feel like there are limitations and powerful abilities need to be balanced by powerful restrictions, in the end there's no hard and fast rule for it. The only limits that characters have are the limits Togashi gives them. We never see, for example, an ability that someone creates that ends up too weak to use because it has no restrictions. And even abilities without restrictions get a free pass if the character is simply powerful enough in Nen. I mean, what's the maximum force that can be exerted by Hisoka's Bungie Gum? I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. So no matter how much detail Togashi puts into the system, none of it actually limits what he can write.

So in order for fans to come up with reasonable powers, we'd just have to completely guess how many "nen points" any given restriction or ability would cost. There's no rulebook, so it's all up to GM discretion, and there is no GM.

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Clarste Human Join Date: Aug 2004 Age: 37	Well, the problem with that is that while the series does a pretty good job of making it feel like there are limitations and powerful abilities need to be balanced by powerful restrictions, in the end there's no hard and fast rule for it. The only limits that characters have are the limits Togashi gives them. We never see, for example, an ability that someone creates that ends up too weak to use because it has no restrictions. And even abilities without restrictions get a free pass if the character is simply powerful enough in Nen. I mean, what's the maximum force that can be exerted by Hisoka's Bungie Gum? I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. So no matter how much detail Togashi puts into the system, none of it actually limits what he can write. So in order for fans to come up with reasonable powers, we'd just have to completely guess how many "nen points" any given restriction or ability would cost. There's no rulebook, so it's all up to GM discretion, and there is no GM.