Talk:Arylon Family

Overpowering Characters

Hey, don't worry, I'm not angry when I say this but I want to say. You are way overpowering your characters. Now believe me, people get pissed off when you do that. When you call someone a super experienced master-macho fighter and a super intelligent political mastermind before he's really even begun his career, it's just ridiculous. Take a look at my characters and you'll understand what I mean. Nowadays I always start my characters off as people who aren't really very experienced in anything because really they are. A good way of thinking, is to ask yourself? If I asked the realm "what do you think of my military skills" say on the wiki what everyone would probably answer and I would be surprised if they "Military Genius" before they've even seen you in battle or if you've only been in the realm for a few months. Just think about it.

Two reasons I'm telling you this. People hate it when you buff your character and more importantly it's very hard to realistically roleplay, when you're imagining some awesome guy from final fantasy and everyone else is thinking of a normal dude. You can exaggerate a little but you are going way over the limit. Sorry if that seemed offensive a little, I'm just telling you how the game works. Theres nothing more fun that playing with properly Roleplayed people. When a "super intelligent, cool guy in a large black cloak walks in" it wrecks everything. Don't take it personally. I just want people to know how to play well. Play well and you'll quickly rise through the ranks and I by that I don't mean in-game ranks because technically they are useless. I mean the respect other player have for you. -- Shenron 15:56, March 24th, 2007 (CET)

Process

I am well aware of what you are talking about Senron, and worry not, I take no offense. But I am aware of the "overselling" of characters, and in fact, I am one of the cheif people who hates it when people do that. I know its impossible for you to know this (unless one of your characters are in the same realm as one of mine) but when I roleplay, I am extremely careful to make my characters real in the sense that they have realistic styles, abilities, and knowledge. I've actually gotten dozens of messages from people who like how I go about it.

Now - as to the "overpowering of characters" on this page. First of all (and most importantly), it should be evident that this page is an ongoing project that isn't even remotely close to done. At this point, the characteristics of my characters here aren't really even close to accurate - if anything I'm more using them as fillers just to get a baseline history/story so I can start building the character history and such around them. In other words, I am establishing that they studied here, that they fought battles there - basically so I can actually have a starting point to craft the rest of the story.

When I get all those "bare bones" in place, I am going through this entire article to completely revise, update and add REALISM to the whole story, especially the characters. I do not intend to have them be "master strategists" or anything of that nature, though with Fisc I do intend to make him especially capable as he is the most experienced character here, and now is a region lord. But regardless, I will be deflating the characters a considerable amount once I am satisfied that I have fleshed out the story to a certain degree.

But the whole gist of what I'm saying is that this article isn't canon for these characters - the game, game roleplays, game events - that is canon until such a time that I "finish" this article. Once that happens, the article will have a look much more in line with what I think you are aiming for.

Worry not my friend - I understand where you are coming from, I agree, and I just wanted to let you know that it was never my intention to actually overpower the characters. This is part of a much larger project to build a compelling story for the characters... and part of that is knocking them down a few pegs - because real compelling fiction is based in real people doing extraordinary things, not extraordinary people doing normal things. Arylon 18:36, 24 March 2007 (CET)

Moving pages

I see that you made new subpages to move Fisc Arylon & co. to. It seems to be already too late to do so, but in the future I just want to point out the "Move" option, the tab right beside "History". It moves to desired page to whatever page/subpage you wish ;) and leaves the old page as a redirect to the new one, so no need to create new pages and copy&paste to there.