Agreed. Unless your character is a 10-12 ranked fighter, they're not going to hold a candle to the powered characters if powers come back. I get why people want the big cool flashy powers-destroy-everything resolution, but it's basically going to shut most non-powered characters out of anything other than background/support roles and that's no fun. Whereas without powers, most of the characters (even low ranked ones) have been through arenas enough times that they can contribute, and the gap between the most and least powerful is a lot smaller.
Without powers, there may be super skilled trained fighters but they're still humans and strength in numbers will be needed to win. Look at the actual books: children are sent to fight because they need to fill out those numbers even if they're not particularly strong. With powers, when the powered characters together have more strength than both sides combined, numbers aren't really needed and everyone else is essentially useless unless they have some special skill (stealth, science, medical, etc). Even if some people have their characters side with the Capitol, all the big battles will likely be powered vs. powered or powered vs. whole army, with little pockets of non-powered characters doing their own thing to the side and trying to pretend the powered characters aren't absolutely dominating the plot.
Alas, the vote so far is overwhelmingly in favor of powers being returned.
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wankgate2015-03-23 07:32 pm
Re: THE GAMES
(Anonymous) 2015-04-03 07:20 am (UTC)(link)Without powers, there may be super skilled trained fighters but they're still humans and strength in numbers will be needed to win. Look at the actual books: children are sent to fight because they need to fill out those numbers even if they're not particularly strong. With powers, when the powered characters together have more strength than both sides combined, numbers aren't really needed and everyone else is essentially useless unless they have some special skill (stealth, science, medical, etc). Even if some people have their characters side with the Capitol, all the big battles will likely be powered vs. powered or powered vs. whole army, with little pockets of non-powered characters doing their own thing to the side and trying to pretend the powered characters aren't absolutely dominating the plot.
Alas, the vote so far is overwhelmingly in favor of powers being returned.
+1
(Anonymous) 2015-04-03 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)