(05-12-2016, 05:07 PM)Verad Wrote: That presumes the community respects the lore at large in the first place. I don't believe that's the case in FFXIV, though the RPC with its couple-dozen or so die-hard adherents and its prominence can and does give the position a lot of visibility.
What I've found to be the case instead is that the RPC believes one thing, and the players in-game another.
Because of that, I tell people to RP whatever they want.
That's fair, but I think it depends on who you're RPing with. I've been approached by strangers about apparent lore-breaking without realizing I was doing it before, and I try to stay pretty close to the lore, so I can't imagine what new RPers who intentionally lore-break get from strangers. Or they could do it and never get approached for lore-breaking. I guess it depends where you are and who you're with.
