This came up because of a 'debate' in our LS. 
Like I said there, I'm of a mind (personally) that everyone's going to do what they want. But, it needs to be within some kind of limits (aka varying levels of skill in the various things) and make sense IC-ly. Having a character who is a master paladin/black mage/white mage/bard all at once IC-ly is just...over the top to me.
Yes, we all have access to cross class skills (and how much of that is IC is of course going to vary from person to person) and given enough time someone could potentially master everything but a large majority of characters are in their 20s-30s which, unless that's all you did for all of your life, it doesn't really make sense (again in my opinion) to say you've mastered half a dozen varying things...some of which have taken other characters a significant part of their life to master.
It's very 'your mileage may vary' and only really comes up when people's thoughts on it clash. I mean, it makes sense that people can (and do/should) dabble in other things. Adventurers have lots of skills, usually pretty diverse ones (thus cross-classing) but master of all...yeah not so much.
Like I said there, I'm of a mind (personally) that everyone's going to do what they want. But, it needs to be within some kind of limits (aka varying levels of skill in the various things) and make sense IC-ly. Having a character who is a master paladin/black mage/white mage/bard all at once IC-ly is just...over the top to me.
Yes, we all have access to cross class skills (and how much of that is IC is of course going to vary from person to person) and given enough time someone could potentially master everything but a large majority of characters are in their 20s-30s which, unless that's all you did for all of your life, it doesn't really make sense (again in my opinion) to say you've mastered half a dozen varying things...some of which have taken other characters a significant part of their life to master.
It's very 'your mileage may vary' and only really comes up when people's thoughts on it clash. I mean, it makes sense that people can (and do/should) dabble in other things. Adventurers have lots of skills, usually pretty diverse ones (thus cross-classing) but master of all...yeah not so much.
Martiallais Heuloix - Duty. Honor. Faith.
Armand Tremaux - Justice, like lightning.
"We're all snowflakes in a great blizzard." - Virara 2017
Armand Tremaux - Justice, like lightning.
"We're all snowflakes in a great blizzard." - Virara 2017
