(10-20-2014, 02:38 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Honestly, if I got a major lore point seriously wrong and that point of lore were key to the character concept, I'd probably throw the character away and start over -- not that I'm advocating others do this, of course! If, for instance, I wrote a character who was a high mage for a powerful Ishgardian house acting as a diplomat to the rest of Eorzea on that house's behalf, and we were to find out in 3.0 that no such things could possibly exist (for instance, mages are all part of the church, Thaumaturgy is banned, or spellcasters aren't allowed any political power), I'd probably ditch the character entirely.
That said, I generally try to keep speculative bits minimal, vague, or easily removed so I don't have to worry about this. I like to think I have enough experience to guess where devs are likely to clobber and where they aren't.
(10-20-2014, 02:43 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: I don't know. In the event something like that turns out to be completely wrong, I think trying to dig out could lead to more interesting RP. If your Ishardian High Sorcerer ends up becoming impossible... Why not heel-turn the character? He was a lying liar from Liesville the entire time.
Your secret Garlean-spy was a double agent the whole time and was trying to dig up enough evidence before turning the cell over to the Flames/Adders/Maels.
Your White Mage isn't actually channeling Succor - they might have just thought they were, and it was just conjury (because who would have ever been healed enough by conjurers and the few white mages to even have a comparison?) or perhaps they were selling snake oil, trying to bring prestige onto themselves by riding on the coat tails of the actually powerful.
Throwing away a character is just a waste of a potential story no one saw coming.
(10-20-2014, 02:58 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I guess the issue for me is that I may not want to do a face heel turn (or, depending on the character, a heel face turn; this is Ish-"It's Called Witchdrop For a Reason"-gard we're hypothesizing about, after all ). If I were really into the character concept, having to alter it dramatically in a way that turns the character into a bad guy, a liar, or a fraud might not sit well with me. Sure, it opens up RP possibilities, but they may not be possibilities I want to explore.
Totally agreed with Freelance here. Â Sadly this is what happened to me with my character concept. Â I was very interested in it because it appealed to me greatly, however upon learning that it would be impossible to do I did scrap the entire character mid-way through his storyline. Â Just the only difference is that I didn't restart because my motivation suffered a crippling blow that I couldn't recover from.