(09-16-2015, 02:52 PM)Askier Wrote: Hey. Was just chatting with my FC last night and realized Eorzea, least the rp part of it, seems to be inhabited by many, many young people. But, where are all the older characters to pass own their wisdom and yell at the young to get off their lawns?
Thought it be fun to post characters age here and make a sort of census for ages.
So, for me, Ki is Mid-Thirties.
Yours?
Exceptions abound, of course, but most RPers will play characters a few years older than themselves, if not around the same age. Â This has to do with people feeling as though they're at the peak of their lives at the moment they're living in. Â You can traditionally (but, I stress, not always accurately) guess both the average age of a community and the players by their ages.
When I was 12-13, my characters were 17 or 18, usually. Â Those were, what I thought, the best years. Â However, when I was 18, I was playing characters in their early twenties. Â When I left college, my characters were in their late 20s to early 30s. Â Now that I'm 30, my characters are in their mid-30s.
However, I've constantly said that you can't play a character well that you can't simulate in your mind. Â In a way, I think age has made me better at my craft. Â I've very often played criminals, and when I was young, my "criminals" were assassins on a ninja anime level. Â When I was twenty, my characters became somewhat more measured, brutal, but sly. Â Still, though, they were like street gangsters. Â By the time I was well into my 20s, my people played thugs but were by then highly secretive and known for playing in the background, running money operations, and were becoming more "real".
Today, I think Orleans is the most realistic criminal I've played. Â He's based not just on decades of research on everything from biker gangs to Chinese triad organizations, but on my own maturity as a person. Â I'm not sure I was capable of playing this kind of character convincingly when I was younger, even though I think one of the reasons I play it so well is practice.
However, it's generally accurate to back the years off the average character age and you'll get the average age of the players. Â I'd say the average age of the players here probably are college age.
