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Caspar · **12-02-2015, 01:24 PM**

(12-01-2015, 12:29 PM)Graeham Wrote:
(12-01-2015, 08:32 AM)Valence Wrote: How to say it... Was that guy implying that people should choose a race solely on their ability to draw RP romance, or ERP, or whatever?

The thing that struck me when getting into the FFXIV RP community is the emphasis put on IC love and romance. Don't take me wrong, the community has proven to be really awesome, nice, and full of determined people with a general good atmosphere... It's just that everywhere I look, from RP players sheets to... wikis, there is always that central mention of views and stances on romance.

Is that such a central part to everyone's RP? (I know it can be powerful, but still?)

Yeah. Romance is often given way too much focus in pretty much any mainstream MMO. I've lost count of the amount of role-players who have just suddenly cut off all contact upon realising that they're not going to have an instant hookup with my character.

It's not just 'the people in the Quicksand' who are the blame, either. They're exploited as convenient scapegoats but a lot of 'regular' role-players act that way too from what I've seen.

As with so many other things moderation is key.

It's not that I disparage how common it is. I just feel I lack the writing skill to craft a really touching romance. It's a genre that I've never had a strong interest in, though I am trying to address that, and I think my real relationships have been rather pedestrian or brief. They're just really boring in a literary sense. That being said, I'm sometimes very interested in others' romance plots, since the only ones I feel I've been able to do in other RP were generally of the tragic, short variety... I want to make my character suffer after all, not retire at a ripe old age. That unhealthy obsession story structure still is entertaining.

But that's a digression. I picked my race to avoid romance RP and people still brought it to me. Considering that, I don't think OP should have a problem. Just get to know a bunch of other characters and let it happen.

Loving the Roegadyns

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