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Since coming here I've tried to be very consistent with my attitudes. "Players have a right to not suck," "Eorzea isn't Westeros," "I'm for things that expand the world, not shrink it," (By this I mean limit player options through sticking too rigidly to lore OR rendering irrelevant through contradicting it.) those old cliches. I've always felt that lore compliance is not as binary as people here make it seem, nor that being strict with yourself about the lore is somehow inherently not fun. I have only ever taken issue with three things: When headcanon or ambiguous lore is assumed to be ironclad, when people clearly are using the lore as a device to discourage RP they dislike, and when the standards are unevenly applied. As bizarre as my concept is, I'm not aware of anything outright contradicted by the original MMO source. I did this deliberately by not anchoring to a specific group in the lore like the Dragoons, so I sort of get where Alion was coming from, even if I disagree with the inflexibility of that approach. To me, lore is a guideline or tool to enhance the broad applicability of your RP and help form narrative context without a lot of extra, unnecessary footwork; thus why people want to play a Job like DRG or BLM.
But because it is a tool, it shouldn't be holding you back. If it is hampering you, modifying it a little really shouldn't be a big deal. The world is vast and constantly changing. If the lore adherence gets in your way and stops you from having RP you want to have, rather than applying it unevenly, be more open minded and accepting of less literal interpretations, because as we've seen here, Square isn't really aware of how these sorts of small, thoughtless blurbs can have a huge effect on the community. Any RPer trying to make a coherent story based around a really chaotic primary source is impressive to me, as someone who mostly just played in static settings from complete works before.
Except for the people who find enjoyment from stifling others RP who use lore as a bludgeon. They are dezgra.
But because it is a tool, it shouldn't be holding you back. If it is hampering you, modifying it a little really shouldn't be a big deal. The world is vast and constantly changing. If the lore adherence gets in your way and stops you from having RP you want to have, rather than applying it unevenly, be more open minded and accepting of less literal interpretations, because as we've seen here, Square isn't really aware of how these sorts of small, thoughtless blurbs can have a huge effect on the community. Any RPer trying to make a coherent story based around a really chaotic primary source is impressive to me, as someone who mostly just played in static settings from complete works before.
Except for the people who find enjoyment from stifling others RP who use lore as a bludgeon. They are dezgra.
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My Balmung profile.