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(10-08-2014, 10:41 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I'm hearing the point, I'm just not agreeing with it. Those armed guards are all armed. To bring up my point earlier: It's still going to hurt if a six year old hits you with a hammer, and you're still going to bleed if they cut you with a knife.
Training to fight lalafell is undoubtedly a thing that happens in militaries and forces and whatnot, but again, you're still 1/5 as likely to be fighting them. You'd spend 1/5th of your training against smaller opponents. It doesn't make sense to focus on battling combatants that small when it cuts into time for the rest of the "normal" battlefield.
I still feel that, in a real skirmish, most people are instinctively going to keep their eyes up to look for perceived threats. Lalafells running around below the radar so to speak would be a viable tactic: If your shield is up you can't see through it, and if your arms are in your face to attack or protect, they aren't blocking down low.
It just still strikes me as silly and unreasonable to think that lalafells don't have to adapt their fighting styles to fight anyone and just treat combat like they're a normal-sized individual. I know people freak out when physics come into play, but there have to be SOME ground rules, and given that gravity works and carriages are still drawn by beasts of burden and everything else seems to work just like it does on earth, I don't think it's too unreasonable to assume muscle mass and density work the same, too.
Edit: I'm still talking specifically about unarmed lalafell punches knocking down roes being my hang-up here.
I have to say I agree with you entirely here. I can only suspend my belief so far when it comes to imagining lalafell doing feats of strength.Â
As odd as it may sound, I need a healthy dose of "realism" in my RP to find it enjoyable. Were I to see, in real life, someone the size of a lalafell competing in some Highland games and doing just as well as the other burly men (and women) that are more than double their size... I'd question if something was slipped into my breakfast, if I was dreaming, or if there were some divine intervention going on.
The same holds true for in the game. I just cannot bring myself to believe and accept that a lalafell would be able to do the same physical feats that require brute strength as nearly any of the other (playable) races within the game. Maybe come close to miqo'te, but still no.Â
To bump it up a scale, I would have a hard time accepting that a roe could lift the same amount of mass as Titan (going by sheer size, not primal/aetheric/magical energies).Â
As much as people may dislike it, I feel there is a need to apply real world physics to this game just for the sake of a sense of scale and realism.Â
Lalafell dashing about like little flashes and hitting blindspots? Sure!
Lalafell possessing the same amount of brute, physical strength as the other playable races? No.
Raandal Bennett (Deceased)