Bare in mind, this is a very, very short interaction, and is just here for example purposes.Ī:/emote walks up next to the bar and orders a drink. Since we have gone over the basics, I want to give you an example of how a typical RP interaction might take place. 95% of the time, when you see people Rping combat, they will be using /random or /dice to determine the victor between two emotes. Misc: Other various things to know is that most Rpers do not use the in game PVP system for combat, because it would be a pain and result in severe mismatches that really could break character. When Rping its imortant to consider not the information that you know, but instead the information that your character knows. Because you found out that persons name not through IC interaction, but through the blue name floating above their head. If your character went “Hello there, ”, that would be considered Metagaming. So, imagine you walk up, and your character is Icly meeting another character for the first time. Metagaming: Another form of Godmodding, this is using outside information given to you by the game OOCly Icly. Don't do this unless you want to be put on a lot of black lists. So, for example, if you typed out “I stab you and you die”, thats considered god modding. This is when your emote is telling another player what to do. Godmoding or GodModeing: I have seen it spelled either way, but the point is the same. Just know that it makes up about 2% of the total RP in these communities, is private and between consenting adults, and generally, can be ignored completely. However, I would be a liar if I didn't claim that it didn't happen in these serious RP communities as well. Doing this in public is a temp bannable offense, as far as I am aware and people who make characters JUST to ERP generally aren't welcome in more serious RP communities. ERP stands for EXTREME ROLE PLAY Erotic Role Play. Unless they just forgot to turn it off, which happens sometimes.ĮRP: listen its an elephant in the room and if I ignore it I'll just be inviting comments. If you see someone with an RP tag, around eighty percent of the time, they are considering themselves In Character at that point in time. Players who are speaking Icly will also often use quotes “” as a means of indicating when their character is speaking in dialogue. More often then not, conversations in this state take place in /say or /emote. If OOC stands for out of character, you can imagine as IC being the time you are in your character. IC: So, I used the term IC a few times back there. That means that anyone around you could be an Rper, and you would never know it. When Rpers are not IC though, they generally don't speak with these, because it would look odd. I have seen several other combinations, but the most common one, at least in my personal experience, is (()). In addition, people often indicate that they are speaking not as their characters, but OOCly, through surrounding the words in brackets, which include (but is not limited to): This is more or less the default state of Roleplayers, as people who play Icly 24/7 aren't really common, at least from my experience. When you aren't roleplaying, you are OOC. Out Of Character(OOC, OOCly): This is the time that you aren't playing a character. These terms are terms I'm sure you have heard before, but it never hurts to go over them and define them exactly. So, there are some terms that you need to know before you can generally start addressing any form of RP in any MMO. Hopefully, this gives you some ideas and even perhaps inspires you to join the RP community on your own! What I want to do with this guide, like the few guides that have been posted before it, is give a simple, comprehensive overview of what to expect in the FFXIV RP community (At least on the US side, I can't speak for the other Data Centers), the basics of creating a character, and what people expect in RP. But what if I told you all there was a way to have infinite content and always something to look forward to in FFXIV? Yes, Roleplay, that old nasty word that has been coopted, laughed at, and overall looked upon in curosity by so many of the community over the past year. I often see people say that at the end of the day, they feel like they have nothing to do, and that is quite understandable.
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