I guess I'm one of those people who chooses a few skills and sticks to them but puts a cap on them IC and won't really level up all the classes on one character. Â For example with Khaze'toÂ
His main choice of weapon is his spear. Â I will be taking him up the dragoon route as well which means that I need to at least have a little pugilist training. Â What I'll do though is say that he learnt the requirements needed and no more. Â IC that is, Â I probably won't stop leveling it because its probably quite fun, doubt I'd pick up monk though because hes just not that good IC. Â He would also get beaten IC if I started doing hand to hand combat with an IC better trained pugilist/monk.
Same with the bow. Â A life of hunting with spear and bow means hes quite proficient at putting arrows in things. Â There is no way he would go all the way to bard though as that doesn't fit his character. Â He also can't sing and isn't very musically minded anyway.
He can cook, fish, make some basic potions and leather gear and hes not bad at carving wood for his masks. Â However its hardly fine dining, his Alchemist knowledge is limited to basic healing salves and the like and his leather work whilst functional is very rough. Â And with the carving all he can really do is make pretty things. Â Don't ask him to make more substantial things with wood as he wouldn't know where to begin.
When it comes to being able to use different kinds of weapons as someone trained in close quarters fighting there are so many different styles. Â Western to eastern sword fighting for instance or broad sword to rapier. Â yeah sure a sword is a sword and to quote game of thrones "stick 'em with the point end". Â I'm not saying your character couldn't be trained, far from it but picking up a new style takes a lot of work and thats just swords of a similar length. Â Look at the medivil long sword against the roman gladius. Â They can both stab and both cut but to try and use them in the same way would not work very well. Â
Also an axe/mace is used very differently to a sword, Â Swords are slashing and impaling weapons vs the hacking style of the others, Â Axes and morning stars use the tip of the weapon to do the most damage and some people just really can't go from one style to the next, again you can train but it takes time and effort.
When it comes to the mixed training vs specialisation I have always seen it as if you are fighting with a sward and have say some hand to hand combat skills and you are fighting a pugilist you should have some insight on what moves they are going to try and use. That is on a basic level and if you both know the same technique, If they know a very different style to what you know they could catch you of guard quite easily. Especially as hand to hand often had a lot of disarms and training against people with weapons in their hands. It could go either way and tbh that's is part of what makes role play so rich for me.
Sorry for the long rant but I guess this is something that interests me a little bit and you always get worked up about things that interest you. Â Just my two gil.
Tl;dr (never had to do one of these before
)
Sure you can be relatively skilled with a variety of different weapons and styles but it takes much time and effort to get GOOD with them. And mixed martial arts might have some advantages over s specialisation but then it also works the other way.
His main choice of weapon is his spear. Â I will be taking him up the dragoon route as well which means that I need to at least have a little pugilist training. Â What I'll do though is say that he learnt the requirements needed and no more. Â IC that is, Â I probably won't stop leveling it because its probably quite fun, doubt I'd pick up monk though because hes just not that good IC. Â He would also get beaten IC if I started doing hand to hand combat with an IC better trained pugilist/monk.
Same with the bow. Â A life of hunting with spear and bow means hes quite proficient at putting arrows in things. Â There is no way he would go all the way to bard though as that doesn't fit his character. Â He also can't sing and isn't very musically minded anyway.
He can cook, fish, make some basic potions and leather gear and hes not bad at carving wood for his masks. Â However its hardly fine dining, his Alchemist knowledge is limited to basic healing salves and the like and his leather work whilst functional is very rough. Â And with the carving all he can really do is make pretty things. Â Don't ask him to make more substantial things with wood as he wouldn't know where to begin.
When it comes to being able to use different kinds of weapons as someone trained in close quarters fighting there are so many different styles. Â Western to eastern sword fighting for instance or broad sword to rapier. Â yeah sure a sword is a sword and to quote game of thrones "stick 'em with the point end". Â I'm not saying your character couldn't be trained, far from it but picking up a new style takes a lot of work and thats just swords of a similar length. Â Look at the medivil long sword against the roman gladius. Â They can both stab and both cut but to try and use them in the same way would not work very well. Â
Also an axe/mace is used very differently to a sword, Â Swords are slashing and impaling weapons vs the hacking style of the others, Â Axes and morning stars use the tip of the weapon to do the most damage and some people just really can't go from one style to the next, again you can train but it takes time and effort.
When it comes to the mixed training vs specialisation I have always seen it as if you are fighting with a sward and have say some hand to hand combat skills and you are fighting a pugilist you should have some insight on what moves they are going to try and use. That is on a basic level and if you both know the same technique, If they know a very different style to what you know they could catch you of guard quite easily. Especially as hand to hand often had a lot of disarms and training against people with weapons in their hands. It could go either way and tbh that's is part of what makes role play so rich for me.
Sorry for the long rant but I guess this is something that interests me a little bit and you always get worked up about things that interest you. Â Just my two gil.
Tl;dr (never had to do one of these before
)Sure you can be relatively skilled with a variety of different weapons and styles but it takes much time and effort to get GOOD with them. And mixed martial arts might have some advantages over s specialisation but then it also works the other way.
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