Quote Originally Posted by Cosi View Post
I don't think you can make "negate other abilities" all that interesting. Mettle and evasion are not interesting abilities. They're reasonably powerful abilities, but they're not super interesting. The issue here is that "doing things" is interesting, and you're trying to stake out a space in which characters don't do things.
I don't think this is entirely true. A fighter being shot by a mage or a dragons breath and resisting it, pushing and walking thru is, is an awesome image. I think theres plenty of "nopes" in fiction that are way more cool than the hero swinging his sword and cutting the dragons head off.