I stick to something I've seen true in a lot of people. The P+H+D category.
What is your profession?
What is your hobby?
What is your dream?
People who choose a lifelong profession or vocation are, generally, quite skilled at it. In this example, we'll use my character Rhaya, who is a businesswoman. She is a skilled trader, specifically a manager and broker for a team of crafters, and while she's not the best in the world, it's how she puts food on the table.
Her hobby is music. Not like a bard, per se, but she knows how to play the piano quite well, and can play the violin passably. As this is something she enjoys doing, she practices it whenever she gets a chance, as it is what she does to relax.
Her dream is to save people. Specifically, to heal people. Her natural inclinations towards a conjurer help with that, and as it is her dream, she fervently seeks out more knowledge to this. If she became a powerful enough conjurer, she might drop her profession for her dream.
She has weaknesses, of course, but I'm not a fan of the whole idea of someone min/maxing, as it were, saying that BECAUSE they're flawed in x and y, then they're really good at z.
Now, some people might have overlap in those three fields, which is fine. But that's the formula I've found to work.
What is your profession?
What is your hobby?
What is your dream?
People who choose a lifelong profession or vocation are, generally, quite skilled at it. In this example, we'll use my character Rhaya, who is a businesswoman. She is a skilled trader, specifically a manager and broker for a team of crafters, and while she's not the best in the world, it's how she puts food on the table.
Her hobby is music. Not like a bard, per se, but she knows how to play the piano quite well, and can play the violin passably. As this is something she enjoys doing, she practices it whenever she gets a chance, as it is what she does to relax.
Her dream is to save people. Specifically, to heal people. Her natural inclinations towards a conjurer help with that, and as it is her dream, she fervently seeks out more knowledge to this. If she became a powerful enough conjurer, she might drop her profession for her dream.
She has weaknesses, of course, but I'm not a fan of the whole idea of someone min/maxing, as it were, saying that BECAUSE they're flawed in x and y, then they're really good at z.
Now, some people might have overlap in those three fields, which is fine. But that's the formula I've found to work.
