Posted by Graatch(VIP) on September 09, 1999 at 05:18:46:
In Reply to: Bitching about rager requirements posted by Daishan on September 07, 1999 at 06:45:30:
No one is saying a character in battle should not master as many skills as he wants or can. The point is: It is philosophically/rp wrong for Battle to have these requirements. As everyone says, Battleragers should be excellent fighters. Their ranks should contain some of the finest fighters in the land. So, the question is, how do you achieve that? You do it like it was done in history. A Knight of Arthur didn't say to his squire, "Are you at 94% in your mace and 98% in your sword and perfect at parrying and dodgin?" No, instead he would say, "Go fight the squire of Sir Edmund. If you win, you will become a knight yourself and join our Order. If you fail, your training will continue." The way to have the best fighters is to make them FIGHT!!! You want to join battleragers? Great. The requirement is not to have skills at any particular percentage. The requirement is to fight two other applicants, or, as a final test perhaps, to fight an existing battlerager. If you win or do well enough against someone who is already a rager, you have shown you are a good fighter and can join, or at least not be turned away out of hand. Battleragers are just that, fighters with Rage. They are battleragers because they have a rage inside them against magic. It is not *just* a cabal about being a good fighter. It is a cabal about good fighters with a common purpose and goal, to destroy magic in mortal hands, and that goal inspires great rage and fierceness in them. These warriors hone their skills, of course, but they are not warriors just for warrior sake. The requirement to master certain skills reeks of Master-ish discipline for discipline sake, and that is just not what battleragers are or should be. As any individual, obviously you shouldmaster your skills. You obviously want to be good at your thing. (Unless of course your rp is to be bad at it, I suppose. *shrug*) But as an institution, battleragers should test you on how you fight. On watching how you act, on seeing what you do and say. Not on what your skills list reads. Change it back. > Ok check it out little guys. > The ragers are supposed to be the supreme warrriors in Thera, right? > So quit bitching and take the god damn hour or two that it takes to master somethings. > *throws 2 cents in your face*
> Well then it should not be argued that they have their skills masters.
> Being a badass plain and simple means masters skills, eq comes second.