I pretty much stated my thoughts on combat and expectations. However, the balancing of my character is something I didn't do in my previous post.
Kiht is easy to balance. She was built to be a scrappy "underdog" type. Not someone who looses all the time, but one who is not unfamiliar with loss. Eorzea is a dangerous place, and every defeat or injury is a lesson.
Kiht began training at age 11. She has been hunting and scouting since age 14. She gained a year of intense education and combat training at age 17. Since age 18 she worked with the Twin Adders for two years, did adventurer's work and fought to survive alongside her family in the Twelveswood. She is now 24 years old. Still young, but she has 10 years experience as a hunter and scout with 6 years experience in adventurer work and combat.
That isn't 20 years, but it's still hefty. However, Kiht is five feet tall. She is not a great, big, strong thing. Finding reasons for her to loose is not hard, but I also don't like when some seem to OOCly discount her. I totally expect people to underestimate her ICly, but OOCly people get too fixated on strength and size.
If strength and size were such major factors, humans would not be the apex predators of this planet. We use our -tools- for survival. Weapons and armor change things. One of Kiht's weapons of choice is a guisarme. It doesn't matter how big or strong a foe is if she manages to get one of the guisarme spikes into a fleshy spot.
Then again, I think some of you are referring to combat in controlled environments like the Grindstone where weapons are blunted or peace-bound. When the advantage of weapon effectiveness and lethality is removed/reduced, strength and size does become a bigger factor. That is why MMA and Boxing have weight divisions.
Kiht is easy to balance. She was built to be a scrappy "underdog" type. Not someone who looses all the time, but one who is not unfamiliar with loss. Eorzea is a dangerous place, and every defeat or injury is a lesson.
Kiht began training at age 11. She has been hunting and scouting since age 14. She gained a year of intense education and combat training at age 17. Since age 18 she worked with the Twin Adders for two years, did adventurer's work and fought to survive alongside her family in the Twelveswood. She is now 24 years old. Still young, but she has 10 years experience as a hunter and scout with 6 years experience in adventurer work and combat.
That isn't 20 years, but it's still hefty. However, Kiht is five feet tall. She is not a great, big, strong thing. Finding reasons for her to loose is not hard, but I also don't like when some seem to OOCly discount her. I totally expect people to underestimate her ICly, but OOCly people get too fixated on strength and size.
If strength and size were such major factors, humans would not be the apex predators of this planet. We use our -tools- for survival. Weapons and armor change things. One of Kiht's weapons of choice is a guisarme. It doesn't matter how big or strong a foe is if she manages to get one of the guisarme spikes into a fleshy spot.
Then again, I think some of you are referring to combat in controlled environments like the Grindstone where weapons are blunted or peace-bound. When the advantage of weapon effectiveness and lethality is removed/reduced, strength and size does become a bigger factor. That is why MMA and Boxing have weight divisions.
