User blog:Alyssa5582/What Constitutes OP?

Hey guys! So I know recently there has been a lot of talk about characters being OP (Over Powered), and that it isn't really regulated when things are OP and what exactly is OP. I think that a big reason for this is that everyone has different thoughts. What one person thinks is OP may be different than what someone else would  view as OP, which just ends up creating problems. So, in order to eliminate the issue of arguements over what actually makes a character OP, all of us need to decide together. I'll put my opinions below, and I need you guys to comment yours. Hopefully, we'll be able to pull all of our ideas together and create on cohesive definition of what exactly makes a character OP. That way it will be more easily regulated and everyone feels that everything is fair.

My Opinion
So, I think that I'm pretty flexible with OP, and think it's more how the character is being used instead of what special qualities. When a character starts abusing the powers they have, I think that's when people start to label them as OP. That being said, I'm going to create a few different categories that I think could be abused and give a character a significant advantage, and if a character falls into more than one of the categories, that character would then be OP. If you have any qualms with that, please let me know why and an alternate idea. I know there are categories that I definitely didn't think of, so if you have one, please say it so we can get it down.

Additional Magical Abilities
I define this as anything in addiition to the powers and magic "normal" witches and wizards have. This could be phsycic abilities, element controling, telepathy, animagus, metamorphmagus, etc. Personally, I don't think we should have a lot of additional powers that didn't really appear in the books, but I'm open to discuss that. If you're making a character that you want to have a special ability, I think it needs to come with good reasoning other than "I want my character to be cool" or something along those lines.

Extreme Wealth
I know this one is hard to regulate, and for the most part doesn't cause many problems. One thing that has always bothered me about this is when characters are wealthy for no reason and just going around dropping 100's of galleons everywhere they go. I think as long as people are being reasonable with this, it doesn't need to be monitored.

Races
I know this one has been discussed a lot and we have some rules on it alreaedy, but I thought it would be good throw in. If your character is part wizard/witch and part some other race, it definitely needs to be approved and shouldn't be combined with any of these others. This includes things like nymphs,werewolves,vampires, etc. Again, if you're wanting a character to be like this, there should be a good reasoning for it.

Positions
With this, characters that are in high positions, such as Minister of Magic, Head of Hogwarts, Head of House, Kings and Queens, etc, they shouldn't be all powerful people. Yes, I think they should be a little more powerful because of the positions they have, but they shouldn't be the best at everything.If they're going to be in a high position, that should be the majority of their power. I understand a skill in a certain area, for example Elmira is skilled  in Charms and Headmistress, but she doesn't have any additional powers besides control of Hogwarts. A part werewolf, that can control elements, and is also Head of House would be bad.

Others
I originally had a much longer list, but I lost my train of though..I know there's more things, so please, give me more so I can add them to this.

Now, what do you all think? What do you think defines a character as OP? What else should be added to these categories? How should it be regulated? Any thoughts you have and how you think we can procede to control OP characters

Sorry if this seems a little scramlbed and all over the place...I've had a long day. :P But thank you for taking the time to read through this and giving some input.

You are, and always have been, my dream.  I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. -Alyssa