Lol, I work with countering Buffy’s abilities all the time and there are numerous ways to ruin her day or at least temporarily thwart her –
-Curse magic (silence) – Her biggest fear. She carries a good supply of dispel potions and scrolls to recover, but it certainly sidelines her for a moment.
-Detect life – Makes her easy to find, and mages who use it scare her plenty.
-Melee – if a foe actually manages to get tooth, steel or claw into her, she’ll crumple like a butterfly.
-Allies - On her own she often survives by disappearing and slipping away. She is loathe to abandon allies however and is therefore ironically dependent upon them to protect her, even as she supports them.
-Imperfect thinking in a crisis. This one is hard to quantify and is controlled by me. Buffy is not a quick or nimble thinker. She relies on ‘pre-canned’ panic responses and if confronted by something unexpected, may very well freeze or cast the wrong spell. That is, she relies on her extensive training to try and compensate for not being able to think quickly on her feet. I will routinely employ this before letting her appear overpowered.
Sorry to jabber so much, but her full background is literally over a quarter million words so I'm trying simultaneously to do her justice while keeping her where she does best - as a 'supporting' character. In this party, that is looking to perhaps be in the role of mage and healer.
And, of course all this RP stuff is new to me.
This post has been edited by Acadian: Jan 29 2013, 12:41 PM