(03-04-2015, 07:08 PM)Magellan Wrote: I have yet to come across a good OP character. I'm not saying its impossible, but things can (and often do) become such an epeen measuring contest, because there is no 'authority' (read, DM,) who can settle who does, in fact have the stronger character in a combat situation. You can settle on /random rolls, though that might be a little too basic for some people.
Usually, those are the ones that are picking powerful characters to RP for the wrong reasons.
See, I don't mind the result of a fight being left to Dice Rolls, having a powerful character fail is a challenge, and far more fun to me than just failing because your character was under-powered.
But honestly, I'm not much of a PvP player. Â That's where the Epeen comes from, I think. My character has power because part of her story is a question of how she deals with the consequences and mysteries of it. And, honestly, it mostly results in her running and hiding from it. She doesn't want to be abnormal, but at the same time, with the world so dangerous, can she really say she has the right to refuse it? This inner conflict got even more intense when it came to the battle of Cartneau and the aftermath. Losing so many of her friends dying to protect people, then being forgotten. She's traumatized but she's a legacy of those lost at the same time.
In the end the role play becomes more about the conflict of responsibility and personal desires, and the consequences of ignoring one's past than that of someone who's powerful. Lin does not feel like she's better than anyone, in fact she feels like a freak, and this gets compounded on by the mental instability inflicted by the trauma of the Calamity.
So, it's all in the approach, I think. Some people, especially if they're young or new to RPing, will tend to RP powerful characters for the sake of satisfying a need for importance or trying to meet story to game-play. But that's speculation. I'm ok with powerful character so long a they are kept in check OOCly, and that can be done with communication.
