Hydaelyn Role-Players

Hello there, I'm Nimba!

I've been roleplaying for a good four or five years now). I've been playing XIV for about two or three days, and I am enjoying it very much! I've played other MMO's and roleplaying there, but ran out of interest for those games. I'm mostly used to those hard-to-figure-out-UI MMO's, but so far I'm doing okay. I just want a place I can roleplay in a good player base.


Now my questions to the experienced RPr's here.. Is there anything different IC-wise/OOC-wise that you do? Is it like any other places where you use parenthesis or double slashes to show you're talking OOC while in a IC moment? How do you guys RP emotes without using the emote commands (/me or /e depends what/if XIV uses.)

I have other questions, but I will leave you all with one more. How do the newbies of XIV start off with roleplaying here?

Hope to RP with you guys!

Nimba


PS: Sorry if all the grammar and punctuation crap-storms are raining too hard on you guys, it's late and I'm on my laptop that has horrible keyboard right now.

Hey there! Welcome to the RPC.

Most people just use brackets for OOC, unless you're already in an OOC setting. Such as a party deemed OOC, or an OOC linkshell, etc. It's all situational. As far as emotes go, it's /emote in FFXIV for custom emotes. So, "/emote slaps blah." would come out as "Endemerrin Rosethorne slaps blah."

You can also take existing emotes, like /wave, and /goodbye, and type motion after them to do just the motion. For example, I find the goodbye emote for Hyur to be a better greeting than their actual wave, so by simply typing in "/goodbye motion", you can get the actual motion without the text saying you're waving goodbye.

Best way to start off roleplaying in XIV? Diving right in. We have an OOC linkshell with a hundred or so active members that you would be more than welcome to join. It's used for all manner of OOC discussion, whether it be related to RP or not. A lot of people use it to organize roleplay and events, as well as get help from their fellow roleplayers in all aspects of the game.

There's also a forum dedicated to linkshells here, as well as a listing which you find can at the top RPC menu. Feel free to just poke around and see what might interest you!

Endemerrin covered your questions, so I'd like to just give you a warm welcome! Just a clarification/more info, the OOC shell he mentioned is called "Intermission" and it's an OOC shell for all RPers on the server, so yeah, getting that will get you RPing for sure. Many people currently hold pearling status, that means a pearl is easy to come by. Just make sure you've your full character name posted and someone should reach out to you. Or alternatively feel free to friend me (Oskar Helvig) and I'll hand you a pearl. Welcome to the community!

PS You can use /em as a shorthand for /emote.

Thank you guys for your hospitality. I was expecting a crazy circlejerk, but I was wrong. It seems this is a good place to start off! ^-^


I'll go ahead and hop on in a few and add you guys.