I'm a little biased in this regard, since this was the first game I ever RPed in. When I started RPing I was already lvl 50 Paladin, so when I would talk to random people in the quicksand, they'd ask:
"Ah, so what do you do in the city?"
And well fuck, I guess I'm a Paladin. Despite knowing better, I still let that sort of OOC stuff drive my RP. Like my first well geared crafter was Alchemist, so Evangeline, my second character, ended up being a skilled alchemist.
I'm the kind of RPer that's better at adapting things than pulling them out of nowhere. I would find it a little hard to have my character's OOC status have nothing to do with the character I RP'd. I don't have any issue if other people do it, but for me personally it's hard.
Plus you don't get to wear the pretty outfits :c
"Ah, so what do you do in the city?"
And well fuck, I guess I'm a Paladin. Despite knowing better, I still let that sort of OOC stuff drive my RP. Like my first well geared crafter was Alchemist, so Evangeline, my second character, ended up being a skilled alchemist.
I'm the kind of RPer that's better at adapting things than pulling them out of nowhere. I would find it a little hard to have my character's OOC status have nothing to do with the character I RP'd. I don't have any issue if other people do it, but for me personally it's hard.
Plus you don't get to wear the pretty outfits :c