Board Thread:Character Discussion Board/@comment-26863727-20151125023610/@comment-26295802-20151127141039

Faenor of the Silver Laurel wrote: James of the iron hills wrote: This is what annoys me in RPs, that your character is EQUAL to an istari, some of the strongest people on Middle Earth's surface, I try to make characters weaker than members of the fellowship. My character is older than recorded time, and has had countless millennia to perfect his fighting skills. I'd say he should actually be more powerful, but I always tone him down when RPing. You don't notice him taking on extra-powerful things, do you(save for in the case of the Threat from the East RP, where Faenor fought Morgoth and Ancalagon and drove them off, due to his empowerment by the Valar coupled with an artifact of power, used during the War for the Sake of the Elves to lay waste to Utumno). It doesn't matter how "realistic" it is (and it isn't even realistic) that doesn't change the fact of it being OP. That's like me being a Valar and killing everyone because "it makes sense because in lore Valar were very proficient". Just just because Valar are canonically very good fighters doesn't make it any less OP that I'm using a Valar in the first place.