This is going to be a bit of a vent:
Why is everyone in this game, regardless of their background or training, the best fighter in the world who can't be beaten by anyone?
I RP a pretty tough dude. He's certainly not the toughest in the world, and I don't go around claiming he is, so it bothers me when I see people RPing sixteen year old girls who can take on armies by themselves because they carry some doofy daggers and believe in themselves hard enough. It throws off my sense of scale for who is strong and who is not in this world.
Look, I get that it's fantasy, and a lot of people like to bend reality's laws for the sake of some cool headcanon, and maybe I'm the problem here. When I made my character, I thought "I want my character to be pretty strong looking" so I bulked him up with muscle and size (Highlander, 100/100 muscle tone, 90/100 height). And there are now like... lalafell throwing tables through walls and whatever.
I don't pick fights with other characters, because it's a strange thing to RP. But it seems to me that there's very little humility among a lot of RPers, when I watch emoted encounters. Everyone wants to be Cloud Strife or whoever-the-hell the cool anime dude is now (idk, it's never been my thing) and no one wants to accept that there are people stronger or more skilled than they are. Again, not saying that stronger or more skilled person is necessarily my character, but RPing a "pretty good fighter" who knows his limits really puts you at the bottom rung of the ladder when everyone else is RPing Jesus of Nazareth.
Even when people bring up their shortcomings IC, it's never a physical thing. It's always some "I care too much/ I love too deeply/ I am haunted by nightmares" scenario.
This might be a bit too realistic of an outlook in a fantasy world, and I might be totally in the wrong. I just tend to look at other races from a physical standpoint of "He's bigger/smaller than I am, he's probably stronger/weaker than I am, generally speaking." Of course there may be a magic-wielding lalafell who could put me on my ass, or a miqo'te woman with daggers who is a lot quicker and stealthier and gets to me before I can do anything, but these cases should be rare, whereas "Big guy with an axe who is strong from being a big guy with an axe" is pretty common. I shouldn't have to explain to a 5'6 midlander why, no, his one-armed push did not knock down my 250 pound man. Amazing, Shaolin Monk style strength in shorter individuals should be the exception, not the rule, in my opinion.
I'm not really looking for a solution to this problem. More of just an ear to hear me complain about it, and this felt like the place to do it.Â
But yeah, I guess my message is: Think about your character's skill level. If they're the best at everything, they're probably pissing people off.
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Also, can we move some RP out of the Quicksand and the housing districts? I'm in a small FC, so I'm frequently looking for walk-ups and I know there is RP outside of these places, but it's always much smaller, harder to find, and more exclusive. There used to be a "Where are you RPing right now?" thread or something of that sort on this forum a few years ago, and I wish it hadn't gone away.
Sorry for the rant. Just something that bugs me.
Why is everyone in this game, regardless of their background or training, the best fighter in the world who can't be beaten by anyone?
I RP a pretty tough dude. He's certainly not the toughest in the world, and I don't go around claiming he is, so it bothers me when I see people RPing sixteen year old girls who can take on armies by themselves because they carry some doofy daggers and believe in themselves hard enough. It throws off my sense of scale for who is strong and who is not in this world.
Look, I get that it's fantasy, and a lot of people like to bend reality's laws for the sake of some cool headcanon, and maybe I'm the problem here. When I made my character, I thought "I want my character to be pretty strong looking" so I bulked him up with muscle and size (Highlander, 100/100 muscle tone, 90/100 height). And there are now like... lalafell throwing tables through walls and whatever.
I don't pick fights with other characters, because it's a strange thing to RP. But it seems to me that there's very little humility among a lot of RPers, when I watch emoted encounters. Everyone wants to be Cloud Strife or whoever-the-hell the cool anime dude is now (idk, it's never been my thing) and no one wants to accept that there are people stronger or more skilled than they are. Again, not saying that stronger or more skilled person is necessarily my character, but RPing a "pretty good fighter" who knows his limits really puts you at the bottom rung of the ladder when everyone else is RPing Jesus of Nazareth.
Even when people bring up their shortcomings IC, it's never a physical thing. It's always some "I care too much/ I love too deeply/ I am haunted by nightmares" scenario.
This might be a bit too realistic of an outlook in a fantasy world, and I might be totally in the wrong. I just tend to look at other races from a physical standpoint of "He's bigger/smaller than I am, he's probably stronger/weaker than I am, generally speaking." Of course there may be a magic-wielding lalafell who could put me on my ass, or a miqo'te woman with daggers who is a lot quicker and stealthier and gets to me before I can do anything, but these cases should be rare, whereas "Big guy with an axe who is strong from being a big guy with an axe" is pretty common. I shouldn't have to explain to a 5'6 midlander why, no, his one-armed push did not knock down my 250 pound man. Amazing, Shaolin Monk style strength in shorter individuals should be the exception, not the rule, in my opinion.
I'm not really looking for a solution to this problem. More of just an ear to hear me complain about it, and this felt like the place to do it.Â
But yeah, I guess my message is: Think about your character's skill level. If they're the best at everything, they're probably pissing people off.
...
Also, can we move some RP out of the Quicksand and the housing districts? I'm in a small FC, so I'm frequently looking for walk-ups and I know there is RP outside of these places, but it's always much smaller, harder to find, and more exclusive. There used to be a "Where are you RPing right now?" thread or something of that sort on this forum a few years ago, and I wish it hadn't gone away.
Sorry for the rant. Just something that bugs me.
