(09-03-2013, 01:45 PM)Mewnie Wrote: I'm sure we will soon (or already have) characters with robot arms and magitech eyes-
So far I've known two characters with 'robot arms' to some degree or at least prosthetics that they had some explanation for. Neither of those people seemed particularly stupid, in fact I think both were pretty well liked, nor would I have lumped them in with 'escaped demons'. Generalizing doesn't do any good, really. I also don't see an issue with magitech eyes-- Maybe I'm too used to fantasy settings with alternative methods of seeing though. If you sacrifice your physical vision in order to see heat or magic or something like that, then if your method looks legitimate, I'll accept it and it'll likely be the first time I ever heard it in this setting. If you were -already- blind and there -may- be some way to use what's in the world to your advantage to give you some semblance of sight (assuming you're not an Elezen, and according to some people Miqo'te ears won't help ya) or some other sense that can help, then why not?
Siobhain is a paladin, mostly my first real 'tanking' character other than my Orc warrior. I let the class I choose help me develop my character's personality-- or rather I develop her personality around it. She is strongly religious, naive at points, but this depth of her faith keeps her running around and even fuels her limited capacity for healing. I'm debating whether to delve into integrating any paladin reinforcement spells or chants or hymns or runic markings or -whatever- they use, in some small way, over time to allow her to develop as she needs. So far, she's a glorified brute with room to improve but I have no intentions of starting her off as a superb healer or a weapon-master. I'd like to actually learn some things from some people over time, or at least evolve what she knows to a greater extent. Maybe someone will teach her to wear make up or ride Chocobos? Anything can happen.
I like to invest my time, finding the gear I want to wear for RP or getting my levels in. I started out doing RP-PVP and I lost the majority of my duels, but if there is one thing in the RP community that bothers me more than ANYTHING else-- it's the tendency of people (not even just low-level people) to shoot their mouth off because they can, offend a ton of people, and then stand there and virtually laugh at the fact that as long as they don't accept a duel or attack, text-based or otherwise, it's not going to happen. Being on an RP-PVP server where dueling was an integral part of dictating fights lessened that number considerably. I think there are very, very many well-read and intelligent RPers who don't fathom in the slightest that writing up a mouthy character with the refusal to back themselves up or even acknowledge the attacks they might earn is 1. Different from being trolled by random PVPers and people who are just wearing better gear than you and want to take that opportunity to make their character look better and 2. It's meta-gaming. That scary, scary word that I so despise because it's so quickly applied to a situation that doesn't sit well with a person or two-- taking something out of character (your personal unwillingness to risk your character's health or reputation + whatever aspects of yourself that you used to make a super abrasive character) and using it to influence what's happening in character.
People don't have to fight all the time or like PVP or grind for gear or even consider their classes and spells in RP if they don't want to; but it should never be an excuse for people to break that IC/OOC line or intentionally troll people ICly just because they refuse to acknowledge any form of repercussion for their character's actions.
I'll still grind the levels and the gear and the classes because I like my avatar in game to match my character as closely as possible. Also, because it feels like I'm misrepresenting my character by going in at a low level and asking to be treated like I'm a high level who's spent time wandering Eorzea and reading quests and working on my levels and gear without the intention of actually doing any of that.
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