RPG, Role-Playing Games



A tiny breeze whistled across the barren plains. At the horizon, a lone figure approaches. The man wore a piece of steel armour. Ancient runes and demonic carvings were etched onto the armour, emnating a glow a soft pale blue. On his waist belt dangled the demonic blade, Soul Stealer. Soul Stealer bades to the man, urging him to draw the demonic sword and unleash horrors to the world once more. But the man's footsteps were heavy, heavy not with the weight of the armor but the weight of his thoughts. Suddenly a dark shadow looms over the man.



[Edit: Boring interaction with monster] Unable to subdue the monster, the man reached for the spark within. Bringing the mystical energy to his finger tips, he unleashed a streak of lightning inferno at the monster. The energy thundered towards the monster, consuming everything in its path.



Ok, the above would fit the description of my kind of characters in RPG that i would like to have. Lone warriors in armour, capable of magic, and beset by some dark power. However, in many RPGs that i've come across, they introduce a distinctive classification of warrior and wizard. You're either a warrior or a wizard. wanna swing a sword, put on some armour, wanna cast a spell, take of armor. Well, that would work in point and click systems in computer games, but for RPGs with reality check, it takes awfully long to suit up or suit down a full plated armour.



Some would say it's forgivable that RPGs are so inflexible, the makers were trying to strike a balance in the game mechanics by avoiding all powerful characters. But i can hardly imagine why i would want to play the role of an incapable wimpy. Hadn't i been through that in life :D There are other RPGs which allow the making of the hybrid character i desire, but why should i be penalised for being who i am?



Being unable to play my favourite kind character, i always chose one that most fit my lbandit nick, which could be rogue/thief/bandit/assassin etc. Yes, i use the lbandit nick in games. Do a google on the keyword lbandit and see. The first few links are not mine. One of them, called World of Laughter is my old, deprecated, not updated, retired website. One link, called Alhazin Invasion (a MUD game), has my nick in it's hall of um.. players list. And of course, all links related to magic the gathering with the nick lbandit is me saying something in the forums.



Often the best skills these classes have is backstab. some MMORPG or RPG call it sneak attack or something like that. I love backstabbing. Of course, that's only RPG, i'm really not a backstabber. With the number of people starting off on the wrong foot with me, backstabbing is not a requirement for me to make enemies.



Anyway, as i was saying, i love backstabbing in games. It is opportunistic, and it tries to deal as much damage as possible on that first strike. Being opportunistic and heavy damage dealing, it lets you take out opponents which are far stronger than you, if the backstab skill was coded correctly in the first place that is.



[Off Topic] Here's a tiny gem of wisdom from the bandit to save you from embarassing moments. It happened a while back, while i was still in gippy, but it popped into my mind this morning. If you live in a house with two housemates who are girls, and they try to break the ice by buying you a pair of red boxer shorts, please know this, "boxer shorts are underwear!!", unless you don't mind two li'l girls (li'l girl indeed, one of them is older than me...) having laughs for the rest of the day. With that said, i don't think i really need to tell you what happened.



I guess that's all for this post, till then, watch your backs ya?