Time for another thread-about-playing-our-characters! Because this is, after all, a roleplaying server. So:
1. Does your character theoretically possess tangible, practical skills that the game cannot represent mechanically? What are the notable ones?
2. Would you want the game to have a mechanic for the skill, or do you prefer it as emoted window-dressing?
3. How much does it actually come up in your RP?
I'm always curious to see how much people like to bring outside ideas in and how much people prefer to stick with what can happen on the screen. And, of course, the best moments always come when people find ways to use in-game items and skills to create activities that theoretically don't exist in the game at all. Let us know yours!
EXAMPLE
1. Does your character theoretically possess tangible, practical skills that the game cannot represent mechanically? What are the notable ones?
When she was "Professora of Sorcery and Etiquette" at Da Doctas, Arjah was also studying the medical side of the business with her father Hrookhzin. She'd never be an M.D., and in a world with magical healing she's redundant, but she could probably make a passable EMT by modern standards. She's also gone out of her way to make herself into a competent midwife, and probably knows more about the messy business of having babies than any three other women combined.
2. Would you want the game to have a mechanic for the skill, or do you prefer it as emoted window-dressing?
The mechanical First Aid skill kinda-sorta-maybe represents some of this, but there isn't a whole lot to it. If people have shown up and are interested in the patch-me-up kind of RP (at, say, a Doctas' Clinic), I'm pretty willing to play back-and-forth emotes with them. The midwifery is definitely best left as an occasionally-mentioned skill of Arjah's that never, ever gets screen time, for obvious reasons.
3. How much does it actually come up in your RP?
Frequently when she shows up for Clinics, though these days she tries to defer to the practicing Doctas and not step on any toes. Mostly she amuses herself by recommending drastic remedies like cutting parts off and letting them grow back healthy, then pretends to be astonished when people remind her that trolls are the only ones who work that way. It's sort of her way of testing the general public's common sense whenever someone gets hurt...
1. Does your character theoretically possess tangible, practical skills that the game cannot represent mechanically? What are the notable ones?
2. Would you want the game to have a mechanic for the skill, or do you prefer it as emoted window-dressing?
3. How much does it actually come up in your RP?
I'm always curious to see how much people like to bring outside ideas in and how much people prefer to stick with what can happen on the screen. And, of course, the best moments always come when people find ways to use in-game items and skills to create activities that theoretically don't exist in the game at all. Let us know yours!
EXAMPLE
1. Does your character theoretically possess tangible, practical skills that the game cannot represent mechanically? What are the notable ones?
When she was "Professora of Sorcery and Etiquette" at Da Doctas, Arjah was also studying the medical side of the business with her father Hrookhzin. She'd never be an M.D., and in a world with magical healing she's redundant, but she could probably make a passable EMT by modern standards. She's also gone out of her way to make herself into a competent midwife, and probably knows more about the messy business of having babies than any three other women combined.
2. Would you want the game to have a mechanic for the skill, or do you prefer it as emoted window-dressing?
The mechanical First Aid skill kinda-sorta-maybe represents some of this, but there isn't a whole lot to it. If people have shown up and are interested in the patch-me-up kind of RP (at, say, a Doctas' Clinic), I'm pretty willing to play back-and-forth emotes with them. The midwifery is definitely best left as an occasionally-mentioned skill of Arjah's that never, ever gets screen time, for obvious reasons.
3. How much does it actually come up in your RP?
Frequently when she shows up for Clinics, though these days she tries to defer to the practicing Doctas and not step on any toes. Mostly she amuses herself by recommending drastic remedies like cutting parts off and letting them grow back healthy, then pretends to be astonished when people remind her that trolls are the only ones who work that way. It's sort of her way of testing the general public's common sense whenever someone gets hurt...
