(09-24-2013, 09:50 AM)Uther Wrote: I read the OP and nothing else because I'm tired. So forgive me if I'm just repeating something already said.
I'll start by stating that the majority of Misericorde is between 29 and 40. Our youngest is 20-22ish, while our oldest is 48, I believe. We're not exactly geezers, but we're not the Hardy Boys either.
Uther is 31, and he's been going to war (not getting into fights, I mean big kid war.) since he was 15, so he has that "battlefield wisdom" that makes him seem older than he actually is. His mental age is probably around 35-40.Â
I think there need to be more older characters. In my opinion, there seems to be a disproportionate amount of teenagers fighting primals out there. It stands to reason that the truly effective adventurers would be the ones with military and survival experience. People who know how to kill and how to do business, not idealistic Jpop warriors. Players will always play what they want, and they have every right to do so. I don't avoid RP with young characters or anything, I just think the seasoned warrior archetype is underplayed in this game. Where are my Saurfangs, Gandalfs, Obi-Wan Kenobis, and Ra's al Ghuls? Old fighters, whether they be good, evil, melee, or magical, are awesome.
Wouldn't Eorzea have lost a healthy chunk of their older, more seasoned fighters during the battle at Carteneau? I mean, any situation like that seems to leave the age gap of fighters-- you have the even older ones who still have something to teach and might have to take up their weapons again and you have the ones who were too young or too rebellious to get involved. What were all our seasoned 30-40 fighters -doing- that prevented them from wanting or trying to get involved in protecting everyone from the Garlean Empire? Or was everyone that age affected by the 5 year jump?
Saurfangs and Gandalfs and so on were special cases to begin with-- People beyond a certain age, trailing on upwards towards their fifty-equivalents are probably focusing more on spreading their wisdom around now rather than risking losing it before they have a chance to pass it on. There'll be exceptions but in any game or story or even in history, people like Saurfang, at least, are excessively rare... And let's face it, people like Gandalf are pretty rare too. Louisoix is pretty much on par and then there are the Padjal who we can assume are quite old -but don't show it- but otherwise how many old warriors have we seen so far? Papashan? They seem vastly outnumbered in the story itself and I think there's a decent reason behind it.
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