The similarities among the three disciplines of Aetheric manipulation are definitely little interesting bits of lore. That's what gave me the idea for L'yhta's magic theory, which is actually rooted in arcanima at its core -- but I digress. 
There are some very strong opinions on this forum on this topic, especially where WHM is concerned given the 2.x quest line and the 1.x lore.
I think it's safer from a "how many people can you RP with" standpoint to eschew most Jobs entirely, at least for a while; many of the Job storylines take the stance that you are the first if not only PC with access to the Job, and while it's easy enough to write around that given the Job descriptions on the official website, doing so will rub some players the wrong way. Of the Job storylines I've personally done, only PLD and SMN really lend themselves to "anyone could do/be this." BLM and WHM largely close that door, and SCH is extremely iffy (it depends on how common Nymian faeries are, which is presumably "not very"). All that aside, having three to four Allagan soul stones for Jobs and the legendary powers associated with them is likely to grate on some nerves because, again, the lore indicates that Jobs are rare.
Personally, I don't have any issue with people being able to do ICly what they've earned in game so long as they have a narrative justification for it that largely jives with lore. Further, since adventurers are a tiny subset of Eorzea's population, Jobs being common there doesn't make them common in the world, and so the rarity established by lore is maintained. However, not everyone feels that way, particularly about Jobs -- and thus my caution about going down that path with your storyline.
EDIT: Oh, and IMO, Mary Sue is less about the power and abilities of your character and more about how they're used narratively and you (and your character's) attitude about them. It's entirely possible to play an extremely powerful character that's flawed, human, and definitively not a Mary Sue, just as it's quite easy to play a completely inept character who whips out every Sue trope in the book.
(04-21-2014, 08:04 PM)JFrombaugh Wrote: Other RPers, however, seem to think that lorewise, it is very difficult if not impossible for a character to be a Job class and that the storylines are just a way of telling a story to make you feel powerful. So what do you think? Would it be pushing Mary Sue territory to have one or two Job classes IC?
There are some very strong opinions on this forum on this topic, especially where WHM is concerned given the 2.x quest line and the 1.x lore.
I think it's safer from a "how many people can you RP with" standpoint to eschew most Jobs entirely, at least for a while; many of the Job storylines take the stance that you are the first if not only PC with access to the Job, and while it's easy enough to write around that given the Job descriptions on the official website, doing so will rub some players the wrong way. Of the Job storylines I've personally done, only PLD and SMN really lend themselves to "anyone could do/be this." BLM and WHM largely close that door, and SCH is extremely iffy (it depends on how common Nymian faeries are, which is presumably "not very"). All that aside, having three to four Allagan soul stones for Jobs and the legendary powers associated with them is likely to grate on some nerves because, again, the lore indicates that Jobs are rare.
Personally, I don't have any issue with people being able to do ICly what they've earned in game so long as they have a narrative justification for it that largely jives with lore. Further, since adventurers are a tiny subset of Eorzea's population, Jobs being common there doesn't make them common in the world, and so the rarity established by lore is maintained. However, not everyone feels that way, particularly about Jobs -- and thus my caution about going down that path with your storyline.
EDIT: Oh, and IMO, Mary Sue is less about the power and abilities of your character and more about how they're used narratively and you (and your character's) attitude about them. It's entirely possible to play an extremely powerful character that's flawed, human, and definitively not a Mary Sue, just as it's quite easy to play a completely inept character who whips out every Sue trope in the book.
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