(09-12-2013, 12:35 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I guess I kind of see your point, but I'll be honest... Â While I myself hadn't planned on using those battles in my own character's background, what you (and others) have posted has honestly come across to me as very stand-offish, and exclusionary. Â I mean, if one part of the lore in the game (that being that the Primals are being summoned at an increasing rate, and are being repeatedly defeated by both groups of adventurers and larger-scale groups within the Grand Companies) just isn't something you want to deal with, I have to ask what else from the story you're against having people have in their backgrounds?
TBH, what these posts do is intimidate players like me from ever even trying to RP with players like you. Â Because I can't help but wonder if you wouldn't look down your nose at the story for my character.
This pretty much summarizes all of my feelings and concerns. Except more eloquently.
Many of us -want- to say we'll RP in game regardless of anything OOC, but it does register, at least in our subconscious in the form of worry, doubt, or even fear, when people say things that make us worried about how they would perceive us. It might be one or two people but when ten or twenty start piping up with the same point, it makes us hesitant and distant, furthering the issue of people who aren't as open or bold about walk-up RP.
I get pretty concerned that many good people I've seen on this RPC are just too good for me. Literally too good. Like their skills are faaaar superior to my own. That's enough to worry about without the extraneous fear of judgement or concern someone will walk off on me because of something I put in my character's background; worse is the fact that many of the people who feel this way would actually be just fine RPing with someone with an outlandish claim or a not-fully-informed background for their character than they present here in the forums.
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