(11-23-2013, 09:47 PM)Kismet Wrote:(11-22-2013, 07:39 PM)M'raj Wrote: (( For reference: Lvl 50, Relic+1 MNK with stylish Gryphonskin Gear ))
Um, what do your character's in-game stats/gear quality have to do with your supposed IC 'mercenary prowess'? Using game mechanics and character level to denote IC power and/or experience typically raises some flags. Are you saying that if you were 20-30 levels lower, or didn't have a +1 Relic, that you wouldn't be as strong or credible ICly?
Sorry, but it doesn't seem to me that he is saying that.
Quote:M'raj wrote: Require an armed addition to your group? (( IC or otherwise ))"OTHERWISE". In other words, if someone needs help with the game and not just from an RP standpoint. In this case, we would need to at least know his stats and level.
I don't think his stats have to make him more credible ICly, but if I want to RP with him in a high-level, dangerous area then I would need to know that he is a high enough level to survive there.
Why would I RP with him in a dangerous area? Because, for me at least, staying in Central Shroud and pretending its (Insert very dangerous zone here) would feel kinda silly. Unless, the players were simply acting out a personal scene that they didn't want interrupted. However, a mercenary to protect my lvl 21 from little ladybugs is just boring. Again, that is just my opinion. I would wager that there may be others that feel the same way. Â
I don't believe game mechanics and RP have to be mutually exclusive. Whats to stop me from RPing my lvl 21 Thaumaturge as an elite Spirit Warrior from another planet? Lore? Nothing in the lore says we can't have space aliens. And if he was from another planet, why couldn't he be a spirit warrior? Because no one else is? No one else is a lesbian, Lalafell-phobic, Roegadyn. But would something like that be discouraged because it isn't normal or typical?
Notice one example goes beyond the game mechanics while the other doesn't. Maybe M'raj is just using the game mechanics as a guideline for his RP. No worse than using lore IMO because lore in this game is often vague (I had to manufacture a clan for my Keeper that does not exist in the lore because the lore does not specify names of Keeper clans).
The way I see it, he is just showing that his character is a kick-ass ICly and OOCly. Nothing wrong with that if he isn't being arrogant or cocky. I don't see any of that in his post.