This thread makes me feel them feels. I've been through a ton of "guff" with Wow RP, Guild Wars RP, Aion RP, the list goes on and on and it can leave a person a little hopeless after a while. My wife and I have dealt with it so much that one of us would suggest something for RP and the other would dash it instantly with "Man you are going to get crap for that"
On Guild wars alone, we simply made a Norn/Human couple and not even having RPd for a full hour were getting messages about how they could not breed together and other such things. We've avoided many of the MMO RP communities since then as it just felt like people wanted you to conform to the game over letting your creativity shine within the world of a game. RP has never been about rules for me as much as it has been about imagination.
Anywho! With my Miqo'te I had been a bit stumped on where to go with his story as I was holding myself back, thinking he would need to be ONE class and that it needed to be part of his play. I had the issue back in FFXI of wanting to play every class and level it but always thinking placing it into my RP would be too much and it might be seen as Power Gaming/God Modding. Ah well.. KUPO IT!
Mime Idea:
There is one restriction that makes "Mime" impossible for total immersion and that would be the inability to swap jobs in combat. That is fine, for RP purposes one could still be a "Mime" but the way I thought of playing it would place it more like a "Strategist" or "Tactician" or as he might call himself an "Opportunist".
Minor Backstory for F'ibril: Pretty much he was living it up with his tribe among the Seekers of the Sun, where his brother was the Nuhn. His brother lived the simple life, all he had going for him was being the Nuhn of their tribe so even though Fib wanted to have more, be a Nuhn himself, have his family.. he did not want to challenge his brother and take away his happiness so when a few of the females convinced him to start his own tribe and become nomadic with them.. he was all for it! Changing his name to F'ibril Nuhn, he headed off with his small pack for adventure and fun.. Crash of Lightning and bad things happening, he wakes up scarred and broken in the care of a Roegadyn woman who found him near dead among all of his dead female companions. As she helped nurse him back to health, he felt a mix of shame and anger.. not willing to run back home with his tail between his legs and feeling compelled to find who did this and get revenge but he has no clue as to who did such a thing!
Fast forward some time and he has spent his time among the other races in the cities, watching people, learning what they do and over time has come to pick up their mannerisms, fighting styles, and mingle them together. He has no clue who his true enemy is and therefore no clue which is the best way to handle the situation so he mimics everything he sees, learns all he can, and tries to be the best at each discipline so that he can match any foe he comes across with the proper manner of defeating them! All while forming a non traditional tribe where his breeding females may not be miqo'te (tee hee)
So instead of being a Mime in the sense that he mimics what is done around him at the time it is done, he instead learns things he sees done and stores the knowledge, ready to use it when he needs it and adapt to situations his allies may need him to do.
-shuts up now-
On Guild wars alone, we simply made a Norn/Human couple and not even having RPd for a full hour were getting messages about how they could not breed together and other such things. We've avoided many of the MMO RP communities since then as it just felt like people wanted you to conform to the game over letting your creativity shine within the world of a game. RP has never been about rules for me as much as it has been about imagination.
Anywho! With my Miqo'te I had been a bit stumped on where to go with his story as I was holding myself back, thinking he would need to be ONE class and that it needed to be part of his play. I had the issue back in FFXI of wanting to play every class and level it but always thinking placing it into my RP would be too much and it might be seen as Power Gaming/God Modding. Ah well.. KUPO IT!
Mime Idea:
There is one restriction that makes "Mime" impossible for total immersion and that would be the inability to swap jobs in combat. That is fine, for RP purposes one could still be a "Mime" but the way I thought of playing it would place it more like a "Strategist" or "Tactician" or as he might call himself an "Opportunist".
Minor Backstory for F'ibril: Pretty much he was living it up with his tribe among the Seekers of the Sun, where his brother was the Nuhn. His brother lived the simple life, all he had going for him was being the Nuhn of their tribe so even though Fib wanted to have more, be a Nuhn himself, have his family.. he did not want to challenge his brother and take away his happiness so when a few of the females convinced him to start his own tribe and become nomadic with them.. he was all for it! Changing his name to F'ibril Nuhn, he headed off with his small pack for adventure and fun.. Crash of Lightning and bad things happening, he wakes up scarred and broken in the care of a Roegadyn woman who found him near dead among all of his dead female companions. As she helped nurse him back to health, he felt a mix of shame and anger.. not willing to run back home with his tail between his legs and feeling compelled to find who did this and get revenge but he has no clue as to who did such a thing!
Fast forward some time and he has spent his time among the other races in the cities, watching people, learning what they do and over time has come to pick up their mannerisms, fighting styles, and mingle them together. He has no clue who his true enemy is and therefore no clue which is the best way to handle the situation so he mimics everything he sees, learns all he can, and tries to be the best at each discipline so that he can match any foe he comes across with the proper manner of defeating them! All while forming a non traditional tribe where his breeding females may not be miqo'te (tee hee)
So instead of being a Mime in the sense that he mimics what is done around him at the time it is done, he instead learns things he sees done and stores the knowledge, ready to use it when he needs it and adapt to situations his allies may need him to do.
-shuts up now-
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**WARNING**
This may not be -exactly- what my Miqo'te looks like
