Ah, perhaps I should clarify a bit of what server canon is, though as you've already stated its most likely not around on FF14 (you can TL;DR if you'd like, just sharing a little tidbit of info about the culture of another RP community)
Essentially what Server Canon is say you have a group of RPers who RP as nobles. They do their noble thing, etc. etc. and then another group comes along who may RP as guards. These two separate entities have a common goal and decide to work together; The Nobles make "laws" (that supposedly make sense in canon - but they are by definition fanon) and the guards decide to use this list of "laws" to enhance their RP.Â
As the Roleplay goes on, more and more people start participating, be it criminals who play antagonist to the guards or bystanders who indirectly follow the laws as they acknowledge and RP with the guards, and you've effectively made your own "server canon" as the "laws" are followed by a large portion of roleplayers.Â
Understandably, the idea of "Server Canon" is *usually* entirely opt-in, with people who reject the idea free to bow out for whatever reason, but people (OOCly) love it or absolutely hate it. Its just a byproduct of several large Roleplay groups working together. On the Warcaft RP scene, the entire idea is very polarizing, and the RP community has been split 50/50 (the real difference between the popular Roleplay servers Moon Guard and Wyrmrest Accord is that MG favors this style of RP while WrA vehemently opposes it).Â
Personally I'm ambivalent to the idea, if its there, then no harm in playing along (unless it gets out of hand), but if not? I'm not going to lose any sleep about it.Â
Anyhow, thanks for the input everyone! Its been very educational. Definitely going to be a bit of a culture-shock getting used to everything, but that is neither here nor there. Already working on what my character will be ICly, and I look forward to Roleplaying here!
Essentially what Server Canon is say you have a group of RPers who RP as nobles. They do their noble thing, etc. etc. and then another group comes along who may RP as guards. These two separate entities have a common goal and decide to work together; The Nobles make "laws" (that supposedly make sense in canon - but they are by definition fanon) and the guards decide to use this list of "laws" to enhance their RP.Â
As the Roleplay goes on, more and more people start participating, be it criminals who play antagonist to the guards or bystanders who indirectly follow the laws as they acknowledge and RP with the guards, and you've effectively made your own "server canon" as the "laws" are followed by a large portion of roleplayers.Â
Understandably, the idea of "Server Canon" is *usually* entirely opt-in, with people who reject the idea free to bow out for whatever reason, but people (OOCly) love it or absolutely hate it. Its just a byproduct of several large Roleplay groups working together. On the Warcaft RP scene, the entire idea is very polarizing, and the RP community has been split 50/50 (the real difference between the popular Roleplay servers Moon Guard and Wyrmrest Accord is that MG favors this style of RP while WrA vehemently opposes it).Â
Personally I'm ambivalent to the idea, if its there, then no harm in playing along (unless it gets out of hand), but if not? I'm not going to lose any sleep about it.Â
Anyhow, thanks for the input everyone! Its been very educational. Definitely going to be a bit of a culture-shock getting used to everything, but that is neither here nor there. Already working on what my character will be ICly, and I look forward to Roleplaying here!
