[@Sanctus Spooki] Lol, I don't take any issue whatsoever with a farm boy defeating a Trolloc. That's my point. Canonically it happened, so it makes sense. I also asked Harriet a little while back if she thought I could take down a Trolloc, and she said yes, so I'm not going to argue with her, lmao.

I am using the principle of equivalent exchange to explain how to create characters... I'm not inserting something from the universe of FMA into the universe of WoT... I'm using it to communicate my reasons why I have certain requirements for characters... I'm using it in a metaphorical capacity so that it's easy to understand... 

My reasons are exactly what [@Tangletail] described above:

[quote][b]I think she means the Achilles heal. Someone who's incredibly powerful will have a detrimental and nearly ridiculous weakness. There's also the canon threat of burnouts where you can permanently lock yourself out of channeling for good.[/b]

Annnnd there is the Dumb Heroic death trope, where someone in their hubris or biggotry believe that they can overcome terrible odds by running their forehead into it... instead of taking a step back to notice they are standing in front of the equivalent of a Calvary charged by big furry men with tree trunks for clubs, running as fast as horses, and is a moving line that goes all the way to the mountains.

I've seen those players, by the way @_@;

[b]I think it's to compensate for the fact that this RP might wind up having two players actually fight each other to the death, till injury, or till a point of strategic victory.[/b]

It's honestly not fun when when you're rolling with a more mundane character that's been through hell and back, and has been knocked around for the past few months. To fight someone who's bordering the lines of a god by simply swipping his weapon through the air, and ignoring any form of armor like butter. Leather and Quilted armors are harder to get through than people think. Yet swords tend to treat chainmail like a joke.[/quote]

EDIT: Another example of equivalent exchange in my life: My students, little toddlers mostly, know that in their lessons, they will only learn a lot if they practiced a lot- and if they don't practice, they won't learn anything.