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Wow.....so I guess this vampire thread didnt cast flame shield (que cheesy drum).
OT though I would say there are plenty of ways to go about making an unofficial vampire in the game without HURRDURR breaking lore per se. Like mentioned already how your character functions could be explained with various void touched/aether proficient or reliant/any sort of function you want or need to make yourself happy.
Then as other people pointed out the word and description for a vampire already exists within the lore. Does that make you a vampire SE made? Nope. Could your character take inspiration from the word or in game descriptions and take to calling themselves that because they want to? Yup.
Ultimately it IS your money and you CAN do whatever you want in a game YOU paid for, and to Hell with everyone else saying nay. The issue with that approach however is that you typically dont join a MMO RP community to play by yourself. You can Rp your own head canon all day and no one can bother you about it, but what it comes down to is that you want other people to accept and play with your character.
I PERSONALLY tend to approach Rps with a set of questions in my mind.
1) Is this something I would find fun to play as or with?
2) Is this something that will be more than just a "soda fizz" phase, where something is new and exciting and then the entire novelty just dies off later and no one really has a satisfying conclusion or takes anything worthwhile from it?
3) Will I have to retcon this later or will this end up destroying my or someone else's character in the long run because it will not be able to function after devoting themselves so deeply into it?
Usually, if the answer to any of those questions is no, them I dont want to bother with the idea, and if the idea is mine, I axe it.
Not saying at all that you should do the same, but it is my opinion that if you are seriously trying to bring a concept to life then you need to think about what it is you are really proposing to someone, and how the things you would like to happen would affect someone else that would even give it the time of day.
Your Rp experience is yours, but the second you involve someone else in your ideas it affects more than just you, and I believe that should be considered more than whether or not it fits into the lore yet.
People take their characters seriously, so the second you present something even slightly potentially destructive you open a can of fire breathing worms.
OT though I would say there are plenty of ways to go about making an unofficial vampire in the game without HURRDURR breaking lore per se. Like mentioned already how your character functions could be explained with various void touched/aether proficient or reliant/any sort of function you want or need to make yourself happy.
Then as other people pointed out the word and description for a vampire already exists within the lore. Does that make you a vampire SE made? Nope. Could your character take inspiration from the word or in game descriptions and take to calling themselves that because they want to? Yup.
Ultimately it IS your money and you CAN do whatever you want in a game YOU paid for, and to Hell with everyone else saying nay. The issue with that approach however is that you typically dont join a MMO RP community to play by yourself. You can Rp your own head canon all day and no one can bother you about it, but what it comes down to is that you want other people to accept and play with your character.
I PERSONALLY tend to approach Rps with a set of questions in my mind.
1) Is this something I would find fun to play as or with?
2) Is this something that will be more than just a "soda fizz" phase, where something is new and exciting and then the entire novelty just dies off later and no one really has a satisfying conclusion or takes anything worthwhile from it?
3) Will I have to retcon this later or will this end up destroying my or someone else's character in the long run because it will not be able to function after devoting themselves so deeply into it?
Usually, if the answer to any of those questions is no, them I dont want to bother with the idea, and if the idea is mine, I axe it.
Not saying at all that you should do the same, but it is my opinion that if you are seriously trying to bring a concept to life then you need to think about what it is you are really proposing to someone, and how the things you would like to happen would affect someone else that would even give it the time of day.
Your Rp experience is yours, but the second you involve someone else in your ideas it affects more than just you, and I believe that should be considered more than whether or not it fits into the lore yet.
People take their characters seriously, so the second you present something even slightly potentially destructive you open a can of fire breathing worms.
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