I Want to Reach Level 2

[Martyr]

Imagine a world where, once you left the safety of your town, there were really monsters and things, and the forces of light vs. Darkness were constantly at odds. Imagine, even, that LWs are out and about, trying to save the world.

And imagine that if you walked out and fought monsters or embarked upon quests and whatnot, that you would gain the keen ability to "Level up" by doing it. Would you do it?

No school. No weightlifting. You just boost your stats by using your skills in battle. Do you think it would make life easier for the daring (Except that it would also make life deadlier)?
Or do you prefer the more conventional ways of increasing our stats, the ones we use now, going to school, to the gym etc.

Dude, I'd totally do it. I'd run out into the wild and start slashing up imps and such, heck yeah. But I don't have much to live for right now, being young with no career and no family etc. You? Or do you think it wouldn't be worth it to get yourself killed one day, tramping around outside.

Plus, travelling would be hell.

[Frozen Phantom]

hell ya, a world of final fantasy would be a dream come true...too bad it can never happen.

[Firo Volondé]

It would be good in natural disasters. "Newsflash: There was a major earthquake in Africa, hundreds killed. The UN sent a shipload of phoenix downs and white mages to rectify the problem immediately." Plus, I'd like to be a black mage and Nuke my enemies end all droughts in the world.

[ljkkjlcm9]

didn't you notice that there are things such as perminent deaths. Unless you die in battle against an enemy, the death is perminent. Am I the only one to notice this? I would love to have a world like that, except, where are the easy monsters? Because different areas of the world have different difficulty monsters, and if I start somewhere with hard enemies, I'd be screwed. If I could start with easy monsters to level up, hell yeah I'd do it. Spend a long time on easy monsters overleveling. That'd be me, an overleveler, and people would see me and be like, OMG LOOKS AT HIM!!!

But seriously, it all depends on what monsters are where and stuff.

THE JACKEL

[RiseToFall]

I go out into the woods all the time. I hold a stick in my hand and try to take out pesky squirrels. They don't give out much exp but they're much easier to kill than the bears. So far I have reached lever 3, if I keep fighting these squirrels I might gain a magic spell.

[bipper]

I think you just described Iraq.

[Martyr]

I think you just described Iraq.

In Iraq you never gain HP, and so a bullet always kills you.

[James16]

i would get my dad to buy me a sword an a bow. I would kill birds an other small animals. eventually sell my stuff get better weapons, level up until im strong enough to embark on a jounery, go get a summon an become a sword weilding, black magic casting summoner! I would use Diablos as my summon an bring the world into a new age of terror and darkness!

[bipper]

I think you just described Iraq.

In Iraq you never gain HP, and so a bullet always kills you.

HP doesn't work as in a sturdiness or measure of defense, but in your ability to take hits. Traditionally that is. Final Fantasy wise, you do gain HP while your base stats go up. A person who is fit, and in shape can certainly take a shot better than an unfit lowbie. The weapons in Iraq just have an uncommonly high DPS.

[Martyr]

But as long as the Warmech can cast NUCLEAR, and my Knight is still stanging afterwards, it leaves me to believe that HP represents not the HP of a boxer, but more like the amount of lives you have.

By that logic, I'd say that a man with 70,000 HP could withstand an atomic bomb in our world. And a bullet wouldn't do more than 30-100 damage, depending on how many crucial organs it manages to pierce.

If we had FF HP in this world, and it grew with level, I'd sing on my way to Iraq.

Of course, we'd all start with 1 HP, so it'd be a hard build up.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Looking at it in D&D terms which the initial Final Fantasy was based, technically hit points represent your ability to turn aside otherwise fatal blows and make them less damaging. Your constitution (vitality is usually the stat to go by in FF) is how tough you are.

That being said in D&D, much like in FF, the system breaks down at high levels, especially since FF tends to have hideously overpowered spells that your characters can eventually shrug off.

For example, a Nuclear Missile in D&D terms is statted to do 16d8 damage, essentially 16 8-sided dice worth of damage. The average on that is 72, which is easily survivable by a lot of moderate-level characters.

Kind of like how, for example, Super Nova takes off a good chunk of your hit points instead of just vaporizing you. It doesn't seem plausible.

Oh right. Topic.

If we're talking exact FF game mechanics and I started at level 1, that'd imply I'd have enough training to use whatever weapons. So I would definitely go out and slaughter imps and take their money. Getting stronger and getting money without having to do some tedious work? Definitely. Plus if I still had a house I could rest for free and not have to pay inn fees, thus giving me more money for better equipment.

[Timerk]

If a sephiroth jumped out at me while I was in the woods, I would vomit all over my cocktail dress and run away.

[feioncastor]

didn't you notice that there are things such as perminent deaths. Unless you die in battle against an enemy, the death is perminent. Am I the only one to notice this?

Many FF games don't refer to the 0 HP status as being "Dead". Final Fantasy IV calls it "Swoon". I think 0 HP just means that you're so damaged and exhausted that you can't fight or even be of any help in battle. I think it means that if everyone in your party was in that condition, there would be no one to stop the bad guys from finishing you all off in your weakened state.

Even so, I've often dreamed of a world, something like the worlds we see in FF games. Being into video games like I am, I never fit in much. At my schools that I attended, it was all about being Mormon or being a football player, and I was neither. I was addicted to Final Fantasy. I was always a bit of an outcast.

I'd often think, "What if I was chosen to save the world? What if the world was being threatened by some really powerful entity, and I was called upon to fight and save the world?"

As an outcast, I'd dream this sort of thing up, and even write the entire story of my triumph over evil. And I was considered a hero for it. I was no longer the stupid high-school loser that I actually was. I could be a Paladin or a Mage and use mythical power to save the world that had been so judgemental of me.

I felt like if the world was more like the FF world, I'd probably be a lot better off.

But alas, the world is as it is, and I've learned to adapt and forsake the ideas I once harbored. And I did hope it would happen, too. I knew it wouldn't happen. But I hoped it would.

[Martyr]

didn't you notice that there are things such as perminent deaths. Unless you die in battle against an enemy, the death is perminent.

Yeah. You can die in the world I invent. I never mentioned reloading. I simply mentioned a type of world that it would be cool to live in. I said nothing at all about safe.

[VengefulRonin]

FF world over this one...yep, i'd go for the FF world any friggin day. I could train and get my EXP/level really high so that i could wear all sortsa cool armour and use cool weapons. Then i suppose from there...i'd opt to be an assassin for whoever paid me more. Unless the side that paid more destroyed my friends in their conquest of world domination...then i'd join the resistance and kick their asses, and then people would worship me.