If I may add some clarification to my last post, I want to add something from my own RP as an example.
I like to joke and imply that Chachanji and Gogonji's father - Zozonji Gegenji - has a business deal with Rowena brokered between her and his wife. The result was that all the Doman-inspired tome gear (the Asuran stuff), in my head canon, was being churned out by the head of the Gegenji family to be snatched up by adventurers who were really into Doman fashion after the mass immigration caused by the razing. It was amusing to me (and I suppose a minor plot point) that Chachan's father was churning out these - at the time - incredibly powerful gear like it was nothing. A hinting to how skilled the Gegenjis were at their craft.
Does that make it the case for anyone else? Nah, but I like the idea in my story and people are free to decide whether or not that's the case for them - and I make a point of not really mentioning it unless said people want to include it into their RP. Otherwise I just leave it a vague point that Chachan's parents and Rowena have a business deal.
Meanwhile, while I do have Chachan as a 60 BSM and ARM, I did that mostly for the outfits. And if I were to truly match what you were suggesting, would that mean I would have to grind out making hundreds of smithing items for the achievements and titles connected to them? Or do all the turn-ins so I could have all the recipe books? And keep on the loot treadmill to keep all my crafting gear at tip-top level and melded perfectly?
How much OOC proof would I have to provide that Chachan's a good smith in this situation? Not asking any of this out of any malice, of course. I'm just curious as to what sort of baseline would need to be set in this kind of situation. Because that seems like an awful lot of extra work to do for joint story-telling, and time that I - as someone who works a full time job - honestly couldn't see myself doing.
I like to joke and imply that Chachanji and Gogonji's father - Zozonji Gegenji - has a business deal with Rowena brokered between her and his wife. The result was that all the Doman-inspired tome gear (the Asuran stuff), in my head canon, was being churned out by the head of the Gegenji family to be snatched up by adventurers who were really into Doman fashion after the mass immigration caused by the razing. It was amusing to me (and I suppose a minor plot point) that Chachan's father was churning out these - at the time - incredibly powerful gear like it was nothing. A hinting to how skilled the Gegenjis were at their craft.
Does that make it the case for anyone else? Nah, but I like the idea in my story and people are free to decide whether or not that's the case for them - and I make a point of not really mentioning it unless said people want to include it into their RP. Otherwise I just leave it a vague point that Chachan's parents and Rowena have a business deal.
Meanwhile, while I do have Chachan as a 60 BSM and ARM, I did that mostly for the outfits. And if I were to truly match what you were suggesting, would that mean I would have to grind out making hundreds of smithing items for the achievements and titles connected to them? Or do all the turn-ins so I could have all the recipe books? And keep on the loot treadmill to keep all my crafting gear at tip-top level and melded perfectly?
How much OOC proof would I have to provide that Chachan's a good smith in this situation? Not asking any of this out of any malice, of course. I'm just curious as to what sort of baseline would need to be set in this kind of situation. Because that seems like an awful lot of extra work to do for joint story-telling, and time that I - as someone who works a full time job - honestly couldn't see myself doing.
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