Greetings Pip! And welcome to the RPC and Eorzea at large.
Good to hear you're already immersed in the game to some extent and have some experience under your belt. Having a good idea of what you're looking for in a community and in the game itself I think helps prevent that general milling about [that while can present its own opportunities, can also leave people feeling.. "bland" for lack of a better term.]
I've got a few links i'd like to share with you, a Welcome post to the whole of the RPC, a RP handbook and two communities that are fairly "steady" among the RPC. As a note neither of them are IC or roleplay based, that being such a personal thing I don't really think it appropriate to nudge one ahead of the other but anyways~
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/misc.php?page=welcome
This is the mentioned welcome post that covers a few of the primary resources here at the RPC, including the wiki, lantern, forums and the like. You did how ever mention a lore vacuum so a few links for that might be helpful [though there are a great deal of forum posts on varying things and the discussions are very fruitful, I like to cross reference with some of the following sources.]
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://xivwiki.com/Main_Page
[A particularly interesting story being: http://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/the-ri...ite-raven/ ]
But onwards! It sounds like you have quite a bit of RP experiance so you might just want to skim this next link, maybe pick up some Eorzea specific situations that you might like to know how other people work into their narrative.
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=1770
Evas RP handbook really is quite something, make sure to use the index at the top if you'd like to skip over some of the more general notes.
Now the communities...
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=1902
"Intermission" is a great open grouping of roleplayers from across Balmung who are interested in many different types and styles of roleplay, but in this LS you can also just end up talking about.. well pretty much anything..
Or maybe you'd like to get some dungeons done, another great way to forge some bonds with people, farm so gear or just get some tomes for trading in.
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=5045
"Balmungs Finest" prioritizes grouping on Balmung before resorting to the Duty or Party finder and is comprised [like intermission] of all sorts of players.
I hope that helps give you an idea of whats out there waiting for you, as always feel free to ask any questions, voice any concerns, maybe hop into the forums and nose around the ongoing discussions.
Twelve knows there's plenty to do out there, hope to see you in Eorzea, always nice to see another Duskwight
Good to hear you're already immersed in the game to some extent and have some experience under your belt. Having a good idea of what you're looking for in a community and in the game itself I think helps prevent that general milling about [that while can present its own opportunities, can also leave people feeling.. "bland" for lack of a better term.]
I've got a few links i'd like to share with you, a Welcome post to the whole of the RPC, a RP handbook and two communities that are fairly "steady" among the RPC. As a note neither of them are IC or roleplay based, that being such a personal thing I don't really think it appropriate to nudge one ahead of the other but anyways~
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/misc.php?page=welcome
This is the mentioned welcome post that covers a few of the primary resources here at the RPC, including the wiki, lantern, forums and the like. You did how ever mention a lore vacuum so a few links for that might be helpful [though there are a great deal of forum posts on varying things and the discussions are very fruitful, I like to cross reference with some of the following sources.]
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://xivwiki.com/Main_Page
[A particularly interesting story being: http://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/the-ri...ite-raven/ ]
But onwards! It sounds like you have quite a bit of RP experiance so you might just want to skim this next link, maybe pick up some Eorzea specific situations that you might like to know how other people work into their narrative.
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=1770
Evas RP handbook really is quite something, make sure to use the index at the top if you'd like to skip over some of the more general notes.
Now the communities...
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=1902
"Intermission" is a great open grouping of roleplayers from across Balmung who are interested in many different types and styles of roleplay, but in this LS you can also just end up talking about.. well pretty much anything..
Or maybe you'd like to get some dungeons done, another great way to forge some bonds with people, farm so gear or just get some tomes for trading in.
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=5045
"Balmungs Finest" prioritizes grouping on Balmung before resorting to the Duty or Party finder and is comprised [like intermission] of all sorts of players.
I hope that helps give you an idea of whats out there waiting for you, as always feel free to ask any questions, voice any concerns, maybe hop into the forums and nose around the ongoing discussions.
Twelve knows there's plenty to do out there, hope to see you in Eorzea, always nice to see another Duskwight
