(05-03-2014, 03:26 AM)LandStander Wrote: You know...I always thought of this question myself. I think it comes down to preference. I personally prefer to just play more normal people. None of my characters are jobs IC and only classes. I think the lore around the jobs makes a lot of them too difficult to put into a good story that obeys the lore. But then again my view has always been that it takes years and years of training in order to really achieve something like advanced classes. I have always twitch a little bit when I see teenagers and people in their early 20's running around with this advanced form of magic or battle abilities. Denn has literally been trained since she could walk in the art of warfare and combat and yet I keep her a pugilist IC and yet she still kicks ass. I don't think you need to play the advanced jobs in order to have your character be a skill combatant. Conjurers can heal, Arcanist can summon, Thm (Im not going to try to spell this
I tend to rp the same way -- it's why Zhi sucks at combat. She's spent her life focusing on staying fed and staying ahead; she hasn't had the time to train, much less find someone who could teach her. It always makes me chuckle a little when I see a character who learned how to fight by themselves and expect to go toe to toe with someone who has trained religiously with a master. (I am so looking forward to the dagger class! Zhi carries a small dagger as a last resort weapon and also to literally stab someone in the back if the chance arises and she feels she needs to
)But um, back to the OP's question: why does anyone do anything in rp? Because it interests them. Because on some level they have connected with the idea and it's fun for them. I think that if they really want to make it work with the lore, then they'll figure out a way to do it. If it breaks my own immersion and enjoyment, then I won't rp with them. But neither am I going to go up and tell them how to rp -- they aren't hurting anyone, and mmos aren't umm . . .regulated rp communities where there's a barrier to entry, so I'm not going to take up that role. Not that there's anything wrong with having a discussion about it, either. Discussions are good. I like discussions.
