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JudicialHunter · **03-01-2016, 08:29 PM**

...you go on Teavana's site to figure out just what kind of tea your character is serving ICly.

TK Hikaru · **03-01-2016, 08:53 PM**

When you tear google apart trying to find how tribal tattoos were done historically to figure out which method your character had her's done.

Bonus points for the fact that the character can't reveal said tattoo for plot reasons.

Coda · **03-01-2016, 11:03 PM**

...you try to extrapolate the base effects of Eorzean crafting components based on what they're used to make in the crafting menu just in case you ever have to make/explain an item in character. And then you realize goddamn, I'm not a fucking alchemist.

...you don't RP a character until you're 100% sure you have their mannerisms and/or speech patterns down because the mental anguish of goofing your own character makes you want to sepukku in shame. So you have a conversation with yourself while pretending to be this fictional person you made up.

...your character begins to bleed into real life. Not emotionally, but you begin to react to things and situations and things twice: once as you, and once as your character.

...you write solo and the banter isn't good enough and you delete it out of shame, but you don't have the balls to share it in the first place.

TK Hikaru · **05-08-2016, 12:02 AM**

When you worry about how much your character can do after nerve damage becomes a thing.

Tara · **05-08-2016, 06:56 PM**

....When you have your character all planned out and you've spent four days tweaking their face to be just right and you have the perfect name and their backstory all planned out and then you get to the Patron Deity screen. And....you can't decide on which to give them...

Caspar · **05-09-2016, 12:20 AM**

I've been considering making my first alt. It would be some time to bring the character over to Balmung. And yet even though I have no pressure or sense of urgency, I cannot make the character, because I must tease out the appropriate balance between the right sound, ease of remembering, and period appropriate nature of the name. On top of that, I also want it to be meaningful on some level, as if that wasn't enough.

Parvacake · **05-10-2016, 03:34 PM**

When you're worrying about the stutter pattern for your timid character and whether you over use it or not.

When you play a darker character and start trolling YouTube 'Top 20' videos of villains to find which ones are best to use as a role model.

Aaron · **05-10-2016, 03:50 PM**

When you emote your character actually saying Laugh out loud....

Momoka · **05-12-2016, 04:01 AM**

when you give your character near prodigy skills in something and worry constantly that theyll be considered a mary sue, regardless of any rhyme or reason for their skills, and how little their skills even come up.

AeolianMode · **05-15-2016, 06:48 PM**

That feel when you overanalyze your own writing to be sure it's not too out of character... >.<

Chip · **05-15-2016, 07:59 PM**

...You describe a character's thought process as you RP to ensure that every little thing they do makes sense.

...You want to start a plotline so you spend numerous weeks planning every meticulous detail so that each character has a specific place and time for each event that will happen in rapid succession. Every NPC has a name and a purpose. There's no room for error, ...or apparently those annoying moments whenever your character suddenly has a will of their own and totally throws off the plotline you planned for weeks in advance. Shit. And then you're scrambling to straighten out what will happen in future events of the plotline now that your own RP characters screwed it up... and it just keeps snowballing. Cactuar

(Moral of the story: flexibility is key Thumbsup

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...You create a google search history worthy of a criminal record because you have to make sure a character who's been inflicted with a poison that causes organ failure behaves appropriately, and it is imperative that you know the stages of a decomposing body in detail or else the murder victim's identities will get discovered and your character becomes SOL.

It's just the little things Big Grin

Basically, I am very guilty of overthinking just about anything whenever I am RPing. I regret nothing! /o/

ZacharyVolfire · **05-15-2016, 09:50 PM**

You actually learn various degrees of hard levl math (like phyiscs) so Â you can teach it in character.

Celise · **05-15-2016, 11:29 PM**

When it's raining in Limsa, and you say, "Ah, hell, I gotta go to the store."

So you close down FFXIV, grab your umbrella, open up the door, and... it's sunny outside.

TK Hikaru · **08-24-2016, 08:55 PM**

When you come up with an entire roll system for your own character...concerning the permanent nerve damage in her right arm.

((That said it's made roleplaying the injury quite fun.

Kilieit · **08-24-2016, 09:25 PM**

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And so on and so forth. >_>

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