Quote: I don't care, for some weird reason, that you think it's bad writing that I want to change my character.First, I'll start off with apologising as I didn't mean for the comparison to be taken that way at all. I wasn't intending for that to be taken personally at all and as someone who hasn't even had the chance to interact with you I wouldn't dare label you as a bad writer. So I am incredibly sorry that the comparison looked as though it was targeting you, it wasn't intended at all.
Quote:Even if I just decided TODAY to change her, it's still my right as the creator to do this. That's one of the great things about RPing with other people; the wildcard aspect.This is something I totally agree with and is the reason I absolutely adore roleplay, the wildcard aspect. Character's changing are what makes the hobby so much fun and I'm not disagreeing with that. A race change completely, however, is a little different to the average day in Roleplay. You wish to RP that Beatric was a Roegadyn female from the beginning, and I have nothing against that as I have said several times, as long as the stories you are involved in are aware that the history for said stories has been changed slightly.
Roleplay is a group activity. Yes we do things so we enjoy ourselves, but if we forget to let other people know what's changing and how that changes things we've already done, then I think that's an issue.
Quote:This is a game. A game played by people who want things that the game might not be able to provide. So why is it an issue when the game make these options available and people decide to utilize them?I'm aware this is a game, and there is nothing wrong with people utilizing these options. It's something I find off, yes, but to each their own. I won't be ignoring someone if they've been roleplaying as though they were a Miqo'te male around in 1.0.Â
But if a character changes -race-, then their history and their history with other characters still changes (however slight this change is), so I feel it's something that should be alerted to people involved with the character. Not ASKED, simply told.
Quote:Â And, again, there's nothing wrong with you preferring said method to any other. But to insist that there's any kind of unwritten rule that someone should talk it over with you is just...odd beyond odd.It's odd that I should be told that my own character's history is changing? That I've been interacting closely with X race and not Y as I thought I was? As I said, roleplay is a group activity so a little heads up would be nice, just so I can be prepared and change anything that needs to be changed.
Quote:The models weren't done, and there was an attempt to associate the game with XI. There, there's your reason.Unfortunately you missed where I said lore reason, because (and I said it's probably going to be weak), I imagine they'll have one just as they did for the lack of male Mithra in XI.
Quote:Does the retconning bit bug you on it's own? Does it bug you, given that this is not a popular name asking the question? Do the people who were roleplaying as Miqo'te males in 1.0 bug you? Because there were quite a few of them. Just curious.The retconning does not bother me. I've retconned things before, many people do so. The people roleplaying Miqo'te males in 1.0 don't bug me, either, because at least I'm aware that they were playing Miqo'te males. I admit I would have found it odd at first, but I'd have grown to accept it. I'm a person who prefers to RP with what we've been given in the world, but I know people like to extend upon that and that's fine.
Quote:Other people will change your story in ways you didn't expect, because they are not you, and you don't really get to dictate what they do, and do not do.Again, this is the entire reason as to why I roleplay. People changing my story are what I want. But when a change happens that can't be explained IC and things need to be retconned, then I'd like to be told so I can amend my own history and anything else that needs to be changed.
If I was in an IC relationship with someone and they decided to retcon to a different gender or race I'd like to be told (not asked), so that I know anything that I need to change myself.
Quote:So is insinuating that someone is a "bad writer" with a smothering amount of passive-aggressiveness, then thumbing your nose at an argument that disagrees with your (frankly, strange) idea that roleplaying should be tidy and clean as a novel, and decreeing that it is "shallow."I've already covered this quote further up, but I didn't say at all that I expect roleplay to be as tidy and clean as a novel, and the shallow quote is incredibly out of context. You can quote and match up random words to make an argument if you wish, but it's a pretty poor attempt at a point.
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