(06-24-2015, 02:40 PM)Dogberry Wrote:Â Question:(06-24-2015, 02:28 PM)Sin Wrote:(06-24-2015, 02:11 PM)Dogberry Wrote: I tend to play out The Journey.So because the character is wearing weathered horas he's going to see things wrong with his body mechanics. Not just assume, nor think he sees, but literally you're going to assign wrong factors to the other characters mechanics because you know that that is a level 1 weapon and you've Inspected his level to be low?
Dogberry started out as J. Random Bareknuckle Boxer in pit fights so mickey mouse he couldn't even hack it in The Bloodsands. He trained, and now he's a world class fist fighter. By no means a kung-fu master, but on par with someone on the professional boxing/MMA circuit for sure. He did the same with the spear, going from a Limsa Lominsan whaler, to a bonafide polearm facewrecker. I didn't just start out with Dogberry claiming to be Eorzea's Muhammad Ali. I was more interested in playing out his rise from a nobody to something more. The time I spent putting effort into the character was the time my character spent training in an 80's movie style montage kind of way.
Maybe I'm a giant jerk, but if you're a lowbie pugilist pulling the Ali shtick, the in character response from Dogberry will be to see all of that bravado as foolish bluster, and when you hit Z to pull out your Weathered Horas, he's going to see a thousand things wrong with your body mechanics.
There are names for that kind of behavior in RP. They're metagaming and godmoding.
The journey can be roleplayed without game mechanics.
Yes. If you're a level 1 Pugilist, in my eyes, your character is a level 1 Pugilist. To me, metagaming and godmoding is claiming your character has abilities it clearly doesn't have. If you can't be bothered to level up a job to at least a level where you can pull off a look that fits the job beyond "freshly made character", then I don't see why my character should recognize the skills yours claims to have.
If you're going to RP a character and not level them, why even subscribe to the game? You'd probably be a lot better suited doing forum RP. Gaia Online is over there, bro.
Does this apply to old, experianced RPers, who play slowly and only have the evenings to invest in?
Do they have to go through the 40-50 hour story quest without being able to play their concept? Â Does everyone have to start as a fresh faced recruit because the game starts everyone at level 1?
Where is the flex allowed there? Â A lot of good RPers also have lives outside the game and, as we all know, the content pit of FF14 is pretty deep.
And since we're talking about Gaia Online:
Thank You,
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