(07-13-2016, 08:59 AM)Virella Wrote: I'm a sucker for characters like that having experience due to age mostly. Like Avelyn, she's 45. She's a Fist. But could she beat the shit out of you with most close combat weapons? Oh yeah she could. Mostly due to having studied other type of fighters in her past, and trained in them to understand it better.Same, I think age and experience tend to make character skill both more believable and more engaging. Whether it's through RP or stories, you see the cost that being truly great in something comes with. Time. Very few people start with a talent for something, and even those that do end up still well behind those that devote themselves to the same task. So you have someone take ten, twenty years learning a range of familiar skills, and maybe they can outdo most in that arena, but what did they give up for that? Failed relationships, missed opportunities and more than likely a good pile of regrets.
Does she have an excellent skill in it? No not at all.
But yes when a young character would claim the same thing, I'm genuinely just roll my eyes OOC, and Ave will just brush them off as little bragging shits. While in the end it is your character, and we got magical animals talking and dragons kept in huge devices in FFXIV, most people do sort of kinda ish still expect your character to be an age to have had the time to gather that experience.
Then again, it is your character, your choices. Ave here is only excels at one thing in the of the day. Multiclass characters can be interesting to play, as long you play them for the story and not so much to go "SHE CAN DO EVERYTHING AND FIX EVERY SINGLE ISSUE WITH HER ABILITIES BASICALLY." And that comes from the person playing the muscle wizard.
Time and age are really one of the great weaknesses to explore, Flynt is on the wrong side of thirty, and only now starting to realize just how much he missed out on and continues to miss being so focused on training and refining his spearmanship. He's got the reading level of maybe a 4th grader, he can barely do any of the administrative work that comes with running a business and can't really hold his own in more 'educated' conversations or environments. Fighting with a spear is cool, but it doesn't do much for him 70% of the time.
On the other end I've a young wannabe monk who at 17 does nothing but get pummelled by almost everyone he fights. He's got a knack for fighting, and works at it doggedly, but he's 17, he just doesn't have the experience to do much, his RP is him earning those stripes so to speak.
It's been touched on a few times now, but I really think that framing things in time is much better than assigning an arbitrary weakness or intentional gimp. Maybe they are great with all bladed weapons, really they are, but what did they lose in the 10/15/20 years getting there?
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