13-05-2014, 07:16 PM
I want to try to clear up some of the issues you bring up with my application before I edit it.
- Blacksmithing (Apprentice)
Smithing takes years and years of countless hard work to get anything decent out of it. Additionally, she has no way of learning how to smith, as she comes from a nomad culture. A nomad culture would not have the access to a forge, which are stationary placements, and take use of it. She has no reason to have this skill as she wouldn't have been able to learn it in a nomad culture.
Forges don't have to be massive places. It's basically a very controlled fire pit and some other tools and I think a water basin. I've watched videos where complete beginners were taught how to smith simple things like nails and fences in two weeks or so, the nails were done on the first day. While their smithy wasn't about forging weapons, it was still functional enough to smith day to day tools and equipment of the likes that I listed there. Nails, knives, machetes, horseshoes, etc. It wasn't professional, but it did it's job - albeit crudely, it did the trick. Though thinking on it now, if my next question is answered depending on that answer I'll change it to Novice.
Hopefully this clears up that part.
Her skill levels with most things are to be functional. With every one of her skills she can do something useful with it in her day to day life. It won't be pretty, but it works. Ie Construction. What I read Apprentice and Novice seem very similar, but Apprentice says you can do complete tasks and what not at that level, which implies that Novices can't.
So by that logic if I set many of those skills to "novice" it would be flat out useless to her. She wouldn't be able to build an ugly- albeit usable and functional - shelter, or her ugly clothing, patch jobs, and repairs, and her awful shooting with archery save for crossbowman ship - which is notably much easier to learn.
So, if you could correct me if I'm wrong then I'll be able to easily switch all those things around. I know from experience that it does not take 3-4 years to be able to be able to do a skill to any usable level, and other skills from what I've heard from family, the internet (reality shows occasionally about blacksmithing o.o), etc. I think it's fairly unfair to blanket every skill as is done in Mesalia, and the wording seems to be a bit confusing as well. There's no black and white with learning skills, just many shades of grey.
Slightly less or more than 50.
I felt that the opposite gender section was needed, as it was clearly pointed out what brought that about in her backstory. It's a significant thing about her. I should probably make it more specific to men who try to court her or that she is suspicious of, etc. rather than all men, but I feel like you would have given the same response anyway. Why exactly is it not appropriate? It's part of her personality. What's the problem?
And how is the accent racist? At all? It's an accent. It EXISTS. There are people, many people, who talk like that. That's the whole reason there's a stereotype in the first place. That's how stereotypes are formed. I'll change it, I guess, but I still 100% think you're wrong about it. No logic in something like that.
- Blacksmithing (Apprentice)
Smithing takes years and years of countless hard work to get anything decent out of it. Additionally, she has no way of learning how to smith, as she comes from a nomad culture. A nomad culture would not have the access to a forge, which are stationary placements, and take use of it. She has no reason to have this skill as she wouldn't have been able to learn it in a nomad culture.
Forges don't have to be massive places. It's basically a very controlled fire pit and some other tools and I think a water basin. I've watched videos where complete beginners were taught how to smith simple things like nails and fences in two weeks or so, the nails were done on the first day. While their smithy wasn't about forging weapons, it was still functional enough to smith day to day tools and equipment of the likes that I listed there. Nails, knives, machetes, horseshoes, etc. It wasn't professional, but it did it's job - albeit crudely, it did the trick. Though thinking on it now, if my next question is answered depending on that answer I'll change it to Novice.
Hopefully this clears up that part.
Her skill levels with most things are to be functional. With every one of her skills she can do something useful with it in her day to day life. It won't be pretty, but it works. Ie Construction. What I read Apprentice and Novice seem very similar, but Apprentice says you can do complete tasks and what not at that level, which implies that Novices can't.
So by that logic if I set many of those skills to "novice" it would be flat out useless to her. She wouldn't be able to build an ugly- albeit usable and functional - shelter, or her ugly clothing, patch jobs, and repairs, and her awful shooting with archery save for crossbowman ship - which is notably much easier to learn.
So, if you could correct me if I'm wrong then I'll be able to easily switch all those things around. I know from experience that it does not take 3-4 years to be able to be able to do a skill to any usable level, and other skills from what I've heard from family, the internet (reality shows occasionally about blacksmithing o.o), etc. I think it's fairly unfair to blanket every skill as is done in Mesalia, and the wording seems to be a bit confusing as well. There's no black and white with learning skills, just many shades of grey.
Slightly less or more than 50.
I felt that the opposite gender section was needed, as it was clearly pointed out what brought that about in her backstory. It's a significant thing about her. I should probably make it more specific to men who try to court her or that she is suspicious of, etc. rather than all men, but I feel like you would have given the same response anyway. Why exactly is it not appropriate? It's part of her personality. What's the problem?
And how is the accent racist? At all? It's an accent. It EXISTS. There are people, many people, who talk like that. That's the whole reason there's a stereotype in the first place. That's how stereotypes are formed. I'll change it, I guess, but I still 100% think you're wrong about it. No logic in something like that.