(01-17-2018, 06:02 PM)Maia Wrote: I'm not sure there's a universally-understood name for what you're describing, but I think you're engaging in a good first step! I know from experience that it can get very uncomfortable very fast when two people go into RP with drastically different expectations (such as with players who are their characters versus those who consider their characters as separate entities.)
A couple of avenues I might suggest for finding like-minded people are as follows:
- Skim through the Making Connections forums and look for people asking for both IC/OoC romances and things along those lines. I know there were a few scattered in there that I've read during my lurking hereabouts. (Apologies for not being able to provide direct links; I'm currently on mobile.)
- Consider asking around some Discord general chats? There seems to be a recent shift to Discord as far as RP inquiries and planning. Although I know it says you're on Balmung, I hear the Mateus Discord general chat has quite a few RPers, so there may be someone on that server who's RP expectations align with yours. If you find someone there, I think you should be able to make a new character over there for RP purposes during low-population hours (such as very early morning.)
Either way, best of luck in finding what you're looking for!
Thank you for the suggestions! I'll be sure to take a look.
(01-17-2018, 06:48 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: I've generally seen that referred to as self-insert RP. It can get kinda tricky to interact with people who are more on the in-character/out-of-character side of things, most often due to someone playing a mean/villainous/etc character because if someone's is playing the role of an antagonist, but they're doing so directly to you, the player AND character, it's far too easy for something that wasn't intended to be personal to be taken personally. Especially if you're telling people that your character is you and they should be treated the same.
Granted, even among IC/OOC RPers, there is always the issue of IC/OOC bleed, which is similar to self-inserting in terms of taking things meant only for a character as something meant for the player as well. There have been quite a few heated threads on this topic or because of this topic.
On a side note though, there are IC/OOC RPers who do RP the main scenerio quests, other general quests, and in dungeons. Although I would heavily advise that dungeon RP be limited to 100% premade parties for everyone's enjoyment. RP walking / being an ice-only mage/ etc in a random duty finder group probably would not go over so well. (And hasn't in the past.)
Yeah, having a villain character would be a sort of half(?) exception since no one (at least I would hope) would want to actually evil towards someone on purpose. And I agree, RPing in a dungeon with a PUG would be disastrous, lol.
