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Howdy RPC,
My thoughts recently have drifted to the plausibility of RPing one of the jobs/prestige classes and mentioning this in-character. I've only got a PLD, and for that storyline, the Captain of the Sultansworn is training adventurers in the arts of the paladin to become 'free paladins', so I OOC accept the the PLD job is RPable. IC, though, I regularly have my character challenge the validity of 'free paladins', accusing Captain Jenlyns of "selling out" Ul'dahn military tradition by training "any two-bit adventurer" in arts that have been protected by the Sultansworn for centuries. But that's purely IC, although OOC, a lot of people seem to playing paladins as generic Lawful Good Western paladins, rather than the Ul'dahn definition of it (challenging Jenlyn's dialogue as that character's own personal interpretation here). But that's another debate.
ANYWAY, I was wondering about the viability of RPing, say, a white mage, when AFAIK only Padjal can be white mages (I don't know the job storyline). The WHM RPers I know tend to ignore their class and simply say they RP conjurers, which I can buy into. Or a dragoon...again AFAIK, dragoons are simply "Ishgardian lancers". I know one character who actually RPs an elezen Ishgardian though, but what about claiming to be a dragoon without any ties to Ishgard? I did mean to have my character say "Nice All Saints' Wake costume" to someone RPing in the DRG AF2 armour, haha.
What are people's policies on this? Curious to hear everyone's thoughts.
My thoughts recently have drifted to the plausibility of RPing one of the jobs/prestige classes and mentioning this in-character. I've only got a PLD, and for that storyline, the Captain of the Sultansworn is training adventurers in the arts of the paladin to become 'free paladins', so I OOC accept the the PLD job is RPable. IC, though, I regularly have my character challenge the validity of 'free paladins', accusing Captain Jenlyns of "selling out" Ul'dahn military tradition by training "any two-bit adventurer" in arts that have been protected by the Sultansworn for centuries. But that's purely IC, although OOC, a lot of people seem to playing paladins as generic Lawful Good Western paladins, rather than the Ul'dahn definition of it (challenging Jenlyn's dialogue as that character's own personal interpretation here). But that's another debate.
ANYWAY, I was wondering about the viability of RPing, say, a white mage, when AFAIK only Padjal can be white mages (I don't know the job storyline). The WHM RPers I know tend to ignore their class and simply say they RP conjurers, which I can buy into. Or a dragoon...again AFAIK, dragoons are simply "Ishgardian lancers". I know one character who actually RPs an elezen Ishgardian though, but what about claiming to be a dragoon without any ties to Ishgard? I did mean to have my character say "Nice All Saints' Wake costume" to someone RPing in the DRG AF2 armour, haha.
What are people's policies on this? Curious to hear everyone's thoughts.