(12-05-2014, 06:31 PM)Val Wrote: I keep hearing different things about them, and I've seen some people RP that they have good hearing, smell, and powerful legs. I've SEEN where SE says they have a great sense of smell and powerful legs, so I just made it to be a Miqo'te to show that it would be one I would at least be somewhat willing to accept.Oh, you should not discount the power of smell! Creatures with particularly good senses of smell are actually capable of navigating their environments exclusively through smell (and don't forget how blood hounds can track things across VAST distances purely by following their scent!). In fact, a blind Miqo'te with a very good nose could be an extraordinarily formidable hunter.
I'd say smelling through smoke would be harder than hearing someone, considering what you said. It would clog the senses and likely cloud over whatever scent the enemy has with that sooty smoke smell. Not to mention that being able to smell someone =/= knowing what that person is gonna do.
The hearing thing is kind of silly, though. I mean, perhaps Miqo'te would be able to hear better in the directions their ears are facing thanks to their cone-like shapes, but human (and by extension, elven) ears are by far the best for picking up sounds from every direction and is probably a big contributor to our survival as a species. I would seriously argue that a Miqo'te would be easier to sneak up on than any of the other races... unless you have a distinctive scent, of course. Then, of course, the solution is to approach from downwind!
(12-05-2014, 09:24 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: My motto is that if you need a special "thing", like not playing human or claiming to be a rare archetype (in this case, a Job), to make your character interesting...your character is probably not interesting.My thoughts exactly.
Not attacking anyone here or anywhere in particular, but I always thought it was something people could take into consideration when making a character.
There are plenty of stock-standard human beings that are very interesting indeed, simply because they've developed unique characteristics that stand out without actually being... you know, non- or super-human.
Take fighting game characters, for example. There are loads of iconic fighting game characters out there whose only schtick is that they have a nice design and a unique fighting style. Makoto of SFIII and SF4 is particularly noteworthy in this regard - she's just a tomboy in a gi and wearing a long scarf, but her build and brutal fighting style are enough to make her stand out. No special snowflake superpowers and she's perfectly human.
That's not to say that one should never play around with superpowers... it's just that they tend to be used as a crutch in place of any actual character hook or anything else. Crutches are bad, mmkay?
