(12-02-2014, 06:46 PM)Melkire Wrote: Unless there's another race that appeals to me, I usually play as humans in both roleplay and video games. XIV lacks bangaa, so I went with hyur. Midlander specifically, since I wanted something small, agile and nimble to complement the character's background, origins, etc. Only other XIV race I was interested in, Lalafell, I ended up using for an alt.
(12-02-2014, 06:12 PM)Coatleque Wrote: And midlanders looked too scrawny for melee combat.
I'm going to just quote Caine on this. (Fictional character, mind you, written by a relatively-well-versed martial artist)
Quote:Idiots pretending to know something about fighting sometimes say shit like Other things being equal, advantage lies with the longer weapon or Other things being equal, the fighter who strikes first wins. My favorite is Other things being equal, a big man beats a small man.
Know what makes them idiots? Wait. I'll show you.
[The ogrillo] finally commits: with a grunt like a rhino's cough he launches a full lunge, jamming that spear straight for my spine by way of my navel. I slap the spear aside with a clank, and his eyes go wide at the sparks the knife up my left sleeve strikes off his blade.
Before he has the faintest fucking chance to figure out what just happened, I'm spinning toward him along the spear shaft, left hand grabbing his nearside tusk while my right clears the knife past my left cuff, and when his reflexive sideways yank rips his tusk out of my grip, that same yank shows me the back of his skull. So that's where I put the knife.
The blade's only seven inches. The point doesn't quite come out his mouth.
Get it?
"Other things" are never equal.
(12-02-2014, 07:12 PM)Verad Wrote: Because playing an elderly, bearded Duskwight peddler stands out far more than a Midlander, the original choice. There was no way to not make Verad look like a drug-dealer as a Midlander.Isn't that what you do anyway? Â >_>
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