1. Enjoy the game at your own pace. It's huge with lots to do and goals to go after. Find yourself a friendly, casual, family-style guild on Phoenix that's not too focused on rushing through content. Try looking through recruitment threads on the official forums to start with. It can take time but you might just luck out.
2. Practice. Writing is a practiced skill that can take years to master. Roleplay is real-time writing married to improv. Find yourself a small group, even just 2-3 good people, that you can practice scenes with or write forum/Discord/Skype RP posts with. Make your private RP as adventurous or silly or dumb as you want and don't give a fuck about what others think. Do it for yourself.
3. Read up on resources for lore and interviews with devs. It'll give you an idea of the kind of world your toon lives in and the kind of character they can be: heroic, working-class, etc. It's a bit of a crazy fun adventure land at this point: things like time travel, the Gold Saucer, sky pirates, dragonriding, visitors from other worlds, sentient living weapons, and ancient Allagan tech are all canon.
4. Take breaks. Don't burn yourself out on trying to make the game a second job. Don't burn yourself out on FFXIV drama llamas, because there's plenty enough of those around.
5. The open servers for roleplay are Mateus for NA and Omega for EU. If you really want to move to one where you can just watch other RPers and attend events, you'll have to pick from one of those.
good luck \o
2. Practice. Writing is a practiced skill that can take years to master. Roleplay is real-time writing married to improv. Find yourself a small group, even just 2-3 good people, that you can practice scenes with or write forum/Discord/Skype RP posts with. Make your private RP as adventurous or silly or dumb as you want and don't give a fuck about what others think. Do it for yourself.
3. Read up on resources for lore and interviews with devs. It'll give you an idea of the kind of world your toon lives in and the kind of character they can be: heroic, working-class, etc. It's a bit of a crazy fun adventure land at this point: things like time travel, the Gold Saucer, sky pirates, dragonriding, visitors from other worlds, sentient living weapons, and ancient Allagan tech are all canon.
4. Take breaks. Don't burn yourself out on trying to make the game a second job. Don't burn yourself out on FFXIV drama llamas, because there's plenty enough of those around.
5. The open servers for roleplay are Mateus for NA and Omega for EU. If you really want to move to one where you can just watch other RPers and attend events, you'll have to pick from one of those.
good luck \o
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