I goofed on the limitation of a character’s ability

CrimsonGenius

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She has this ability where she can attach her aura to beasts or people with less conviction. Her drawback is that it last for twenty minutes and a 20 mile radius. It used to be 500 mile radius until I realized I made her range to vast and didn’t fully comprehend the distance until recent.
 

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This is an easy fix just apply the classic "through the power of friendship and love she was able to exceed her limitations!" :blob_teehee:
And lets add a twist on it, she has no friend yet. She's just recently got isekai-ed here.

And therefore, the journey is to learn how to make new friends, interact with these new people, and how to play nice with the new culture and use appropriate mask for the right target.
 

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One possibility - her power may be tied to some sort of astronomical or geological phenomenon and be more powerful at times, but stripped down at other times (i.e. when the moon is full during the winter her power has its greatest range, but during a new moon in the height of summer she barely has any range at all)
 

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She has this ability where she can attach her aura to beasts or people with less conviction. Her drawback is that it last for twenty minutes and a 20 mile radius. It used to be 500 mile radius until I realized I made her range to vast and didn’t fully comprehend the distance until recent.
Wait, what are the applications?

Tracking? Remote spying?
 

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She has this ability where she can attach her aura to beasts or people with less conviction. Her drawback is that it last for twenty minutes and a 20 mile radius. It used to be 500 mile radius until I realized I made her range to vast and didn’t fully comprehend the distance until recent.
Just edit previous chaps.
And apologize in recent one / say it to readers in a note.
 

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Honestly reminds me of a TTRPG game I ran with a very modular power system where you buy powers by spending points. One of the players was a wizard, who had a budget of points he could reallocate into any other power by doing a ritual. We all vastly underestimated how strong it would be.

At one point he wanted to find a necromancer in the city. The “detect” power doubled in range every time he added a point to it, and narrowing it down to detect only fairly specific things was not too expensive either. So he ran the numbers and asked me “oh, incidentally, are there any necromancers on Mars? I think I overtuned the ritual.”
 
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