What're the least and most lore-friendly jobs for an RP character to have?

[Jzarah]

Supposedly anyone could become, say, a machinist, but jobs like dark knight seem to be.. a special case. Which jobs seem like fair game for your run-of-the-mill adventurer, and which ones would need some heavy justification to fit within the world's lore?

[ItMe]

and which ones would need some heavy justification to fit within the world's lore?

I don't understand...
All jobs fit in the world's lore...

[Jzarah]

I don't understand...
All jobs fit in the world's lore...

What I mean is, your average joe isn't going to become a gunbreaker. There's not a million of them running around. If I remember correctly, your job trainer is supposed to be "the last one" until you become one.

[Anonymoose]

*sits in his rocking chair with a tall class of Crystal Light and a NERF gun, ready to fire a single dart at anyone who says BLM or WHM before SMN*

[ItMe]

What I mean is, your average joe isn't going to become a gunbreaker. There's not a million of them running around. If I remember correctly, your job trainer is supposed to be "the last one" until you become one.

Ah, I see.
Wait... I haven't played GNB, but aren't there a bunch of them in Bozja? What do you mean your trainer is "the last one?"
And wouldn't they just... be able to keep training other people? Do they die or something?

[Jzarah]

Ah, I see.
Wait... I haven't played GNB, but aren't there a bunch of them in Bozja? What do you mean your trainer is "the last one?"
And wouldn't they just... be able to keep training other people? Do they die or something?

I think the Gunbreaker questline was written before Bozja was considered, but also sure, they can train other people, but the likelihood of someone that can't see big blue exclamation points on their map running into the sole trainer of an exotic combat art seems very slim. Meanwhile the Manufactory in Ishgard is making artificial soul stones and actively trying to recruit people to become Machinists.

[Anonymoose]

Actually, on a more serious note, I know some roleplayers who are obsessed with this question and keep this speculative document going to try to answer it. As a lore archivist, my answer is usually entwined with the nuance that Square Enix wants you have some excuse to sensibly see yourself as any job you want to be. They deliberately leave loopholes open, so even if we can Pirates vs. Ninjas a list of more vs. less accessible jobs together, at the end of the day the most difficult one to get a hold of is just as "likely" as the easiest, from a certain point of view.

[Jzarah]

Actually, on a more serious note, I know some roleplayers who are obsessed with this question and keep this speculative document going to try to answer it. As a lore archivist, my answer is usually entwined with the nuance that Square Enix wants you have some excuse to sensibly see yourself as any job you want to be. They deliberately leave loopholes open, so even if we can Pirates vs. Ninjas a list of more vs. less probably jobs together, at the end of the day the most difficult one to get a hold of is just as "likely" as the easiest, from a certain point of view.

This is actually incredibly helpful, thank you!

[ItMe]

but also sure, they can train other people, but the likelihood of someone that can't see big blue exclamation points on their map running into the sole trainer of an exotic combat art seems very slim.

I mean... just because their first apprentice meets them in the East Shroud doesn't mean everyone after that needs to stumble upon them being attacked by a highway man.
Especially since... doesn't the questline afterwards take place with them hanging about New Gridania?

Also, does this mean you are RPing where you can see quest markers?

I guess what I'm saying is most jobs are only an issue if you're looking to make them as such. If you're RPing you don't even need to have the same backstory as the game lays out for you. We get our chocobo given to us from the ranch, but some RPers pretend it's been their choco since they were kids, or that it was their fathers mount.
One could say "yeah, I'm a GBN. I picked it up from..." and then just make up literally anything.

If two people both wanna adhere to the in game GNB quest though is that really a problem? You will never ever get your RP lore to be compatible with everyone else's.



So I guess, to awkwardly loop back around to your question...
NIN is probably the toughest since it is a secret art being taught to you by a foreigner.

SCH sounds hard for multiple people to be when you focus on the Tinberry stuff, but you become a SCH because "oh cool it's a fairy."

Everything else* is pretty much fair game, even WAR which is about you helping a guy rediscover lost WAR arts. You can just make some shit up about how you independently learned the true inner power was friendship.

*not that I've played them all though lol

[MikkoAkure]

I misunderstood the thread title when I first saw it and I was prepared to come in here to say the most likely is "farmer" and the least likely is "WoL".