(08-05-2014, 12:03 AM)K Wrote: Gah your post was here when I finished my post lol. You know, I wouldn't mind meeting in the middle at all. Ideally, I don't think anyone should be shamed, or showed ire if they desire to RP any of the jobs in this game. White mage and Black mage included. Many of the best RPers I've met, have been one of those.
Me personally, I do admitedly get turned off to people that say "You can't rp this job because my view of lore says no". In all my time on Balmung, I've only ever met 1 person that was like that. Most people are perfectly fine with people rping jobs. In fact I dare say the majority of the community does RP the jobs. So I do tend to take a more neutral and open stance. And yes there are limitations in my stance as well.
In the end, it's your character and your story, so if you have an IC reason to be any given job, you're well within your rights to do so.Â
 But if characters announce themselves as a black/white/sepia mage (still legendary figures to many Eorzeans, at the very least) that character might be met with understandable skepticism or maybe even distrust from certain other characters. If a player can roll with a situation like that without taking it as OOC derision, then I'd tell that player to go for it!Side-note: Why did this become an argument over World of Warcraft's lore? We play FFXIV. ><
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