(08-20-2013, 03:06 PM)Uther Wrote: I'd contest that. There are a handful of super heroes who can take Superman in a fight, and plenty of villains have brought him to his knees. Either way, you have a point about the potential for godmode characters to be interesting, but the examples you gave aren't comparable to the average joe. Superman being the last surviving Kryptonian and Dr. Manhattan being a quantum being. Superman being good at everything compared to a Midlander Hyur makes perfect sense, whereas one Midlander being good at everything compared to every other Midlander makes much less sense. In short, if someone RPs a Kryptonian, he's allowed to be better than the rest of us. If someone RPs a Midlander black mage and then tells me he's also better at using spears than my dragoon, I'm going to take issue with it.
I picked those examples specifically to be hyperbolic.
(I've also been on a comics analogy thing today, it seems.) I think we agree on the point about having narrative support for your areas of expertise, we're just getting at it in different ways. I would say, though, that I'm not sure I agree with PCs in XIV being average joes -- but that's a matter for a different thread, I think.
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