(10-08-2013, 01:01 PM)Val Wrote:Naturally. It's all escapism. There's just a point where you draw the line and say 'this is too much'. Playing something attractive is fine. Telling me that 'what you behold is the most beautiful, flaxen haired maiden ever to have blessed your vision' is too much.(10-08-2013, 12:59 PM)K Wrote:(10-08-2013, 12:08 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: I'm actually sort of glad that there's no RP addons in FFXIV. It's nice to not be assaulted by descriptions of how 'beautiful/powerful/handsome' a particular player's character is. I'm unfortunately not spared it on the wiki pages, but that's another matter entirely!You're so negative! Coming from a Warcraft background I know exactly what you're talking about though. My friends and I would walk around Silvermoon reading the hilariously bad ones, and take a drink every time one launched into some overly descriptive exposition about how pretty they were. This often resulted in blacking out before 1am.
But, it's much better to roll your eyes and laugh it off than be upset about it. You can't change people's RP style.
Eh. I don't fault people for wanting to have beautiful/hot/gorgeous/attractive RP characters. I mean, that's the whole point of RP, yeah? To pick a character you like the idea of being and.. well. Be them? Play them out? Whatever.
Some of them do make me chuckle, of course, but hey. To each their own.
I'd never tell anyone they couldn't write that way if they wanted! But I don't think I'm wrong in saying it's in bad taste to impose your attractiveness on others though.
