I am a Voidsent Potato. Â 
In all honesty, I'd say I relate somewhere between Adventurer 1 and Adventurer 2. Â One of my characters is frighteningly strong (my main), while some of my other characters are painfully average, and I enjoy them all equally. Â I don't view characters in terms of 'power' as much as I do personality, and will.
An "underpowered" character with a strong will can beat out an overpowered character in terms of the type of individual I'd rather play with, if they present their story well. Â At the same time, a world full of average joe's is what we live in, and if I really wanted to deal with that, I'd go outside. Â I love RP for the diversity in characters, the strong ones, the weaker ones, and the ones striving to go from one side of the table to the other. Â
I've got characters that range from the top of the spectrum to the bottom, and really have no issues accepting similar characters from others. Â
I do understand what people mean when they refer to people only showing off the perks of their stronger characters. Â Glioca, for example, after she separated from her ex-wife, went on a training binge. Â She lost the curvy figure she had to muscle and being too thin, spent all of her time exhausted and staggering around, and was so out of it from fatigue that she got swiped in the face during a fight with a dragon - something that never would have happened to her before, because she has great situational awareness. Â
She could have healed that wound, and made sure it barely scarred, but she wanted to keep it as a mark that she herself was not infallible. Â She was still subject to the rules of the world, despite how strong she was. Â She could make mistakes, be careless. Â She spent a month or more after her hardcore binge recovering, and was exceptionally weak, physically, until she started taking better care of herself.Â
I like to see the weak side of strong characters every now and again, if only because it reminds me that these characters have a more human side to them, out of their scope of power.
In all honesty, I'd say I relate somewhere between Adventurer 1 and Adventurer 2. Â One of my characters is frighteningly strong (my main), while some of my other characters are painfully average, and I enjoy them all equally. Â I don't view characters in terms of 'power' as much as I do personality, and will.
An "underpowered" character with a strong will can beat out an overpowered character in terms of the type of individual I'd rather play with, if they present their story well. Â At the same time, a world full of average joe's is what we live in, and if I really wanted to deal with that, I'd go outside. Â I love RP for the diversity in characters, the strong ones, the weaker ones, and the ones striving to go from one side of the table to the other. Â
I've got characters that range from the top of the spectrum to the bottom, and really have no issues accepting similar characters from others. Â
I do understand what people mean when they refer to people only showing off the perks of their stronger characters. Â Glioca, for example, after she separated from her ex-wife, went on a training binge. Â She lost the curvy figure she had to muscle and being too thin, spent all of her time exhausted and staggering around, and was so out of it from fatigue that she got swiped in the face during a fight with a dragon - something that never would have happened to her before, because she has great situational awareness. Â
She could have healed that wound, and made sure it barely scarred, but she wanted to keep it as a mark that she herself was not infallible. Â She was still subject to the rules of the world, despite how strong she was. Â She could make mistakes, be careless. Â She spent a month or more after her hardcore binge recovering, and was exceptionally weak, physically, until she started taking better care of herself.Â
I like to see the weak side of strong characters every now and again, if only because it reminds me that these characters have a more human side to them, out of their scope of power.
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