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Reliant at 00:04, 7 March 2025

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 '''Threat to Player Characters:''' MCM requires that all player characters are capable of being threatened by reasonably significant bodily danger. Serious enemies and hazards should always be able to present as credible risks to PCs regardless of theme. Though what matters might vary from PC to PC, there is no way to "switch off" the potential for consequences to a character.
-'''Intensity of Effect:''' Almost no Advantages are absolute. When someone “attempts to do a thing to you”, it's preferable for “something to happen” rather than “nothing to happen”, but we leave specifics to the affected player. Transparently, there isn't, and shouldn't be, any way to enforce through rules that Avada Kedavara automatically kills any target, or an Exalted Perfect Defense automatically negates any attack.
+'''Intensity of Effect:''' Almost no Advantages are absolute. When someone “attempts to do a thing to you”, it's preferable for “something to happen” rather than “nothing to happen”, but we leave specifics to the affected player. Transparently, there isn't, and shouldn't be, any way to enforce through rules that Power Word: Kill automatically kills any target, or an Exalted Perfect Defense automatically negates any attack.
 '''Range of Effect:''' Any Advantage that targets another PC is assumed to use a delivery mechanism that is avoidable, even if it doesn't in the source material. To put it another way, Everyone Gets A Save Against Everything. All combat powers are assumed to function with range and methodology which permits meaningful interaction between all players.

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 '''Backup Box:''' The character dies, but revives at a remote object or place, often defended for obvious reasons. The success of the mechanism is rarely ever a question. Disabling or destroying it is the obvious method to fulfill the Catch. At ●●● this means the character is almost never in fatal danger unless an enemy significantly plans for their demise, though there should still be some pertinent reason they'd hesitate to actually drop dead. At ●● it means that the process could be compromised in some way more accessible than doing the full dungeon run to destroy it,though it'd still take some effort to acquire a means to interfere, or locate it. At ● there is some intensely limiting factor that makes its primary defense just the surprise, such as having to be kept within 100 meters, or opening a portal directly to itself the character’s soul slips through.
-Character examples include Voldemort from Harry Potter, 2B and 9S from Nier: Automata, and every single Lich ever.
+Character examples include 2B and 9S from Nier: Automata, and every single Lich ever.
 Note: A Catch like this cannot ever be defended or secured by a conceit or fixture of a theme at large. Requiring an enemy to turn a critical fixture upside down or inflict mass casualties to threaten the PC results in being behind multiple shields of extra consent and dissuasion.

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 {{!}}- class="LogRow"
 {{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Immortality'''
-{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character doesn't die, or at least doesn't stay dead, when fatally injured. Voldermot from Harry Potter, Alucard from Hellsing, Cell from Dragon Ball Z, and the Chosen Undead from Dark Souls, are examples of this Advantage in action. All Immortality on MCM requires a "Catch"; a set of criteria where the character can actually die for real, or is otherwise "not a Player Character anymore"; there is no infallible immortality on MCM.<br>
+{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character doesn't die, or at least doesn't stay dead, when fatally injured. Alucard from Hellsing, Cell from Dragon Ball Z, and the Chosen Undead from Dark Souls, are examples of this Advantage in action. All Immortality on MCM requires a "Catch"; a set of criteria where the character can actually die for real, or is otherwise "not a Player Character anymore"; there is no infallible immortality on MCM.<br>
 '''Required:''' The Catch, as well as information on where and when the character reenters play. Since this can sometimes be difficult to nail down, some examples of commonly accepted types of Immortality Catches are listed on this page.<br>
 '''Investment:''' The Catch becomes more difficult to fulfill. Again, the list of Immortality Catches should give a good idea of what tier of relevance this has.<br>

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 '''Investment:''' More detailed information and/or a greater variety of appropriate situations.<br>
-Minimum ●●● for obtaining information about things one or more scenes in advance.<br>
+Minimum ●. Minimum ●●● for obtaining information about things one or more scenes in advance. Maximum ●●●. Hint cannot be an Incidental Advantage.<br>
 '''Related:''' To gain information about something of specific interest, look at '''Analysis''', which allows a character to target a scene element and learn desired details about it. To simply pick up on special cues within a scene, '''Extraordinary Senses''' may be appropriate.
 {{!}}- class="LogRow"

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	While MCM leaves the standards of writing trappings and designing Advantage space mostly up to the players, there are certain stylistic matters of policy that are mandatory. These are necessary to make sure Advantages do what they say, and not accidentally something else.		While MCM leaves the standards of writing trappings and designing Advantage space mostly up to the players, there are certain stylistic matters of policy that are mandatory. These are necessary to make sure Advantages do what they say, and not accidentally something else.
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		+	===Jargonization===
		+	Advantage trappings must be understandable even to players with no knowledge of the character's source media. Any special terms and theme jargon appearing in Advantages must be (briefly) explained, or made implicitly clear what they are (ex. "Shinra Inc." is clearly a fictional corporation, but "Shinra" is not), including ordinary words used as proper nouns by the theme (ex. a Meister, a Doll, a Dragon, the Filth, the Flood, the Warp, etc.).<br>
		+	Words that are conspicuously capitalized as proper nouns ''will be assumed to be theme jargon, and require explanation''.

	==="Conceptual" and "Molecular" Terms===		==="Conceptual" and "Molecular" Terms===

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 {{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can treat others to heal or dispel harmful abnormalities and afflictions. These afflictions may be physical, but also possibly mental or magical, like dispelling curses or curing madness. Curing someone doesn't treat the basic effects of "taking damage", beyond perhaps pain. Final Fantasy' Esuna spell and Pokemon's status clearing items are examples.<br>
 '''Required:''' The scope of the variety of abnormalities and afflictions the character can cure. This may be a little open ended by necessity, but must be clearly limited.<br>
 '''Investment:''' A greater breadth of curable maladies and/or greater efficacy in curing severe ones.<br>
 '''Related:''' If you're looking to heal someone from the damage they've taken, '''Healing''' is it. If the character themself shrugs off status effects on their person, see '''Immunize'''.

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 {{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can inflict detrimental effects and adverse conditions on others to disrupt and hinder enemies. Video game-style debuffs, paralysis, freezing, etc. easily fall here as the most generic example, but things like pressure point strikes, riot control tools, various drugs and poisons, physic hallucinations, gravity or slow fields, or even tabletop spells like magically sticky floors, are solid examples of this Advantage, as a broad catchall.<br>
 '''Required:''' The overall thematic of the debilitating effects the character inflicts, with clear bounding.<br>
 '''Investment:''' Greater variety and/or potency of effects.<br>
 '''Related:''' An effect that would take someone completely out of an interaction, like "realistic" paralysis, strictly falls under '''Incapacitation'''. For something that directly suppresses a specific kind of power, see '''Anti'''. Though generic "poison" or "burn" conditions can appear here, they tacitly acknowledge that they can't seriously injure someone on their own, and exist as a complication; '''Combat Options''' or '''Arsenal''' would deal real damage.

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 '''Required:''' N/A, though it's encouraged to provide what the theme of the immunity is.<br>
 '''Investment:''' Immunity to higher tier effects, from both PC and NPC sources.<br>
-Minimum ● Maximum ●●<br>
+Minimum ● Maximum ●●● including Credit.<br>
 '''Credit:''' ●<br>
 '''Related:''' If the character would possess both this Advantage and '''Reading Immunity''', '''Intrusion Immunity''' is intended to be the more efficient choice for a character that is going the extra mile in their investment.

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 {{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Power Copy - Derivative/Mirror'''
-{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to make use of the Advantages of another character, in some form or imitation. Because Power Copying is an Advantage that can be almost any other Advantage, the full details of [[Power Copy|Power Copy]] are covered in their own article. This article is mandatory reading for characters who want Power Copy.<br>
+{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to make use of the Advantages of another character or the attributes and abilities of another target, in some form or imitation. Because Power Copying is an Advantage that can be almost any other Advantage, the full details of [[Power Copy|Power Copy]] are covered in their own article. This article is mandatory reading for characters who want Power Copy.<br>
 '''Investment:'''Power Copy - Derivative is always ●●● and Power Copy - Mirror is always ●●●●●<br>
 '''Surcharge:''' ●●●● for power Copy - Derivative, ●● for Power Copy - Mirror.<br>

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 {{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can heal their injuries and physical damage they've taken. They might do this passively over time, or by using special healing spells or techniques on themself. This Advantage concerns "HP loss" and only strictly related symptoms.<br>
 '''Required:''' N/A<br>
 '''Investment:''' More effective healing.<br>
 '''Related:''' If the character is able to heal other people with their powers, they require '''Healing''' to do so. '''Immunize''' is the Advantage for purging or shrugging off "status effects" done to the character.