(07-06-2014, 05:45 PM)Val Wrote: I totally get that! Perhaps I should have used restorative magic rather than the phrase "white magic." I understand that White comes from the elementals and that there are certain things in place keeping people from using it. But the point is still rather constantly being missed that in game mechanics =/= RP, which is what I've been trying to get at :p
I get that. Â But, there are also Lore reasons (that are reflected in game mechanics, in some places) that back up what I'm saying.
Truth is, you can call your character whatever you want. Â I can call myself an Awakened Mage. Â You can claim to be Ironman. Â And that is, ultimately, totally up to you and me. Â The player is the ultimate arbiter of what they are playing.
That doesn't mean Lore would back it up. Â But you can play whatever you want, and I'll be the first person to go, "More power to ya, bro." Â I just might avoid the character in question. :-P
To me, a bigger concern is that when we're dealing with classes for which we have very little or almost no lore on, we may very well be setting ourselves up for a serious issue later on down the line. Â A lot of people assumed that Scholar in FFXIV would be like Scholar in FFXI, and they're basically not the same at all. Â What happens if, a year down the road in the expansion, they introduce one of those non-available classes and the Lore is completely and utterly opposed to everything you've been playing? Â I mean, how do you even reconcile that?
That would be my big question. Â I'm of the mind that if you're gonna do something that's not currently in game (or not entirely spelled out in Lore), you should keep it on the down low. Â Try to mimic what is in game as much as possible, and I personally wouldn't have that character ever tell another person what they are (unless there were some really extenuating circumstances). Â That's just me, but I am not entirely sure of the point to coming up with rules here when they could just as easily get tossed into Pluto in the next few months.
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