(06-24-2015, 09:00 AM)LadyRochester Wrote:But their life didn't begin at lvl 1. Their training didn't begin at lvl 1. Their story began long before the ooc player ever set foot in Eorzea. Â That's why it's called a BACK story.(06-24-2015, 08:52 AM)Hammersmith Wrote: I Â don't tie my char's accomplishments or abilities to in game mechanics.
Hammer's a siege smith and a gearhead, but most of his real "power" sits in his ability to grease the wheels of a war machine and get large-scale logistical work churning out weapons and war supplies on a large, ugly, mass blacksmithing scale.
There's no in game equivalent class for that. Â Blacksmithing exists, but it's not going to stock a platoon's armor racks anywhere in game. Â It means he knows a bit about black powder, but doesn't mean we now have trebuchets or cannons in game outside of the Ishgarde instances.
Conversely I'm working on culinarian with Hammer, and he is NOT A GOOD COOK (Unless it's meat). Â He enjoys singing and song but I'm never going to call him a bard and will probably never level the class. Â Having (some) of the points of a class does not require you to have that class leveled.
In short a char's life experience isn't defined by game mechanics. Â Really you can claim anything and bam, it is. Â The trick is, as it always is in RP, knowing what not to claim and embracing the flaws/shortcomings/lack of knowledge in your char and making THAT fun as well.
See, I never said anything about high level characters not having flaws. Flaws are absolutely necessary for a character, OP characters are boring and annoying to RP with. My stance is that between two good RPers, if they are fighting (without rolls and no OOC arrangement) I will not be able to take a level 20 character as seriously as the level 55 one.
I once had someone oocily make veiled threats towards my character, claiming she had been "an expert ninja and dancer and sorcerer" because she was "trained all her life".
She was level 18.
She was threatening my level 50 character OOCily.
I'm sorry, perhaps I am horrid, but I find that laughable at best. Perhaps it was the unprovoked veiled aggression that left a bitter taste in my mouth towards such individuals.
Does it mean I would never allow my character to get beaten by a low level character? Absolutely not. In fact, she has lost many fights and has been nearly killed by low-level characters. But I believe that for such scenarios, there has to be an OOC agreement beforehand (and trust), while I am more open to a level 50 random seeking a fight with my character.
Ooc lvl has absolutely nothing to do with it. Dnd rp is not the same as mmo rp
