(06-17-2015, 07:22 PM)Griffith! Wrote: Combatant characters who aren't good at combat? It seems like every other lancer, gladiator, marauder and dragoon is super elite or teh bestest evah. You almost never see a struggling soldier or a fresh recruit Red Badge-ing it up out there. Just lots and lots of hyper-competency.
I know it's a power trip thing - who wants to be weak, after all? - but it does stretch suspension of disbelief when the sixteen year old paladin is just totally undefeatable with a long string of victories against unrealistically large and rare adversaries. Like dragons.
This is one of the things I have to agree with. I always see it as with age come the experience to handle combat. So I don't care how good someone thinks there character is, if the opponent training is more then twice then long as yours, at least make it a hard up hill battle. Asmodean has 4 or so year with his ax, if I was to fight a hellsguard with more then ten years under his belt, you better believe it would be luck not skill that makes Asmo win.
