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(01-12-2014, 07:08 AM)synaesthetic Wrote:(01-12-2014, 06:52 AM)Tiergan Wrote: I'm quite lax about whatever people choose when it comes to RPing the Jobs however - as long as they don't suddenly say "I AM THE ONE AND ONLY CHOSEN WHITE MAGE EVER"
Amusing, because this here is the reason why people are so against letting people roleplay a white mage. Because the lore says that very thing, that you (the player) are the only Super Speshul Chosen One White Mage.
Clearly this cannot work, so it must be discarded. Any time an MMO storyline turns you into the Chosen One, it must be discarded, because every player gets that same storyline and every player is therefore the Chosen One. When there's supposed to be only one of those Chosen One... Ones... then how do you get a whole server full of them?
Unless, of course, your lore takes a third option and explicitly makes lots of Chosen Ones. RIFT does this very well in both the Defiant and Guardian storylines; it's explicitly stated that you are not the only Ascended and that nothing you do is really unique or super-speshul.
I should clarify that I meant I'm lax with people RPing that they are white mages as long as they don't RP that they are The "One And Only White Mage Mentioned In That Quest No One Else Could Possibly Be That Except Me"
Kind of like I'm lax with people RPing parts of the main storyline so long as they're not the Champion of Eorzea that single-handedly defeated all the primals, defeated Gaius, defeated some Ascians, etc.
I'm also not saying that the way I do things is the right or wrong way. I just don't mind going with the flow whether an RPer wants to RP the Jobs or not.