Talk:Lapis Armenus/@comment-25035549-20140610012632

Um.... well to be honest this seems like a fairly underpowered character that is lacking detail in a few areas. His clothing is strangely designed in my opinion, like.... why does he have his mask to begin with....I wouldn't mind knowing..... or why he wears a shirt under his chest guard rather than have a full torso cover. I find it somewhat hard to imagine what this piece of armor looks like aside from his neck.... there's no information on how much it covers besides this area at all, same for the mask, it has almost no info on its visual design only what it does.

As for the character himself, he seems to have a....military-ish upbringing, which I suppose is reasonable for who his parents were...or are...I guess. However the lack of info on what he actually did as training leaves me with another hole to try and fill in myself... like did he shoot an extreme amount or did he practice gun-katas...or did he do both?

While I'm on that note... there is little detail on how he actually fights...or how he survives a fight... with his pistols only having four shots, I'm also assuming "loaded in manually" means that each round has to be loaded individually, and with the statement that he is "more than enough strength to use his weapons and fight effectively in close combat" which directly follows the statement "Roland isn't the strongest of people" (btw this sort of confuses me on how strong this character really is), after eight shots he needs to rely on his gun-katas (if that is what he actually uses) which causes his only real saving grace to be his speed. Against heavily armed or armored foes Roland, unfortunetly, has very little to save him in a cqc fight since he uses his guns as mock melee weapons which, against armor would be almost useless and against those with say.... a battle-axe....would not serve him very well. I can understand the arguement that he'd simply shoot these people.... but he only has eight shots.... for weapons that are notorious for not having the accuracy or punch of a rifle. His opponents may be able to get in close enough that Roland trying to shoot them becomes counterproductive, at which time his melee attacks may fall short.

Four shots per weapon seems very low to me, like below the bare minimum for effective use, if the pistols had extremely oversized rounds it'd make more sense, but even then it wouldn't help much since they'd then be ill-suited for cqc, which guns in general usually are, regardless of this.

After he makes his shots I suppose he could back off and reload, but he'd still have to divert some attention to reloading even if it's become a habit because of the weapon's "manual loading" (does this mean muzzle loaded or....) ... this actually brings me to another point.... um.... why is the ammo he uses armor piercing? I can see why it'd be useful, but.... it seems to keep him limited to being at his most effective against those who actually have armor, since armor piercing rounds largely move right through uncovered flesh...(unless I'm mistaken about this) normal rounds cause more trauma than AP rounds on bare skin because they tumble through the body, which creates a very large exit wound, usually the source of the most damage from a gun shot... I do see that you say they've been "made to be used in close to medium ranged combat"....but how? There's no explanation as to how they are made at all, or how they were made with cqc in mind.

If his weapons had a larger ammo capacity, possibly had a different ammo type or even had multiple ammo types, and fired quickly they'd seem better suited for his described range, but that's only my opinion.

All in all, I think this is a character with a decent premise, but he's lacking details in places.