(08-02-2015, 12:03 AM)Akos Wrote: The setting from my point of view has very little racial tension or actual racism in it. It's implied that it's there, but it isn't a strong part of most of the world. Gridania is xenophobic, Ul'dah is socioeconomic, Ishgard is class and religion based, but racial issues are pretty light, so I don't feel it's something I have to worry about rping. Honestly most of the tension seems to come from what city state you're aligned to, or in Ishguard's case your class and if you're considered a heretic or not.
Gridania's pretty racist against both Duskwights and against Keepers, each are mentioned in Gridanian/Shroud questlines, the former is a crucial story detail of the Lancer's Guild storyline. The reason that the world, as we see it, doesn't have much racism is because the character we play going through the quests isn't a downtrodden citizen of the shitty world that Eorzea is, they're a legendary hero blessed by a goddess who regularly does battle with evil nature-gods, dark wizards, and ancient robots. Of course, from what we, the players, are able to get from quests and miscellaneous lore sources, is limited when it comes to it because of the player character's viewpoint.
Not to mention that a lot of potential dialogue that could revolve around race is stifled by the fact that player races can be chosen, meaning that quests and other ingame material tends to completely ignore the player's chosen race. (At least from what I've seen)
As it's been said multiple times before in the thread. Not wanting to RP something because it disturbs or otherwise makes you uncomfortable is 100% fine, but don't try to act as if it doesn't exist in the setting. People don't come to a game or roleplay community, say "Man, I'd like to play a /huge dickbag racist/" and then go at it. They play the game or read into the lore, see things like that, and decide to give their characters flaws that are stated to be real problems in Eorzea.
I don't know what more proof people want. This argument should've ended a page ago with
Koji Fox Wrote:Most of the races don’t really like each other
roleplay?
