I assumed the topic was FFXIV, but if we're extending it to all RP - well, I've been at this since about 1995, so I have a ton of games to draw from. Mine would have to be in a text-based game I played for many years called GemStone III (now GemStone IV) in which I played a warrior of the Order of Voln, which was a loosely religious society devoted to hunting the undead.
In this game they had just implemented a new Paladin class, and they were allowing Warriors and Clerics a one-time class change to the new class, recognizing that many of these had RPed their characters as sort of Paladins before the class was created. GS also had a system in place by which you could choose a deity, and the only way it could be changed after that one-time setting was a very lengthy conversion process. And so I decided to use this to RP my character's change from a Warrior of Kai (the god of war) to a full-fledged Paladin of Voln, devoted to releasing the souls of the undead.
This was at a time when GemStone had upwards of 1000 people online during peak hours. RP was encouraged via GM-granted rewards and public OOC talk was policed by game staff, so virtually everyone in the game RPed to some degree. To convert to Voln, I had to essentially make a pilgrimage across the game's world seeking out various clerics of good-aligned deities to cast their blessings on a suitably rare uncut diamond, which would then be offered at a holy shrine of Voln to complete the quest.
At any rate, the players I met through this little quest I gave myself were fascinated with the idea, and many of them didn't even realize that it was possible to convert to a different god this way. They threw themselves into the RP, a GM took notice, and he decided to run a little quest of his own centered on the idea. The whole thing ended up with myself and the other players involved getting custom titles for our characters, a new bastard sword that would flare with white-hot flames against undead (admittedly, not an ultra-powerful weapon - but flavorful and badass; I never stopped using it), "an onyx pendant inset with an ivory shield" which was the god's symbol, and of course my character's conversion to a Paladin of Voln.
You see Master Teveriel Anduin Vaalor the Justicar of Voln.
He appears to be an Elf.
He is tall and appears to be mature. He has brooding steel grey eyes and fair skin. He has shoulder length, straight silver blonde hair swept back from the temples. He has an angular face and broad shoulders.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a split-visored elven close helm, a somber black hooded longcloak, an old villswood greatshield slung over his shoulder, a full suit of brightly polished steel platemail, an ebon-veined white marble band, a mithril-buckled leather swordbelt with an antiquated black lacquered scabbard, a small leather medical kit, a drawstring leather gem pouch, some black wool pants, and some heavy black leather boots.
In this game they had just implemented a new Paladin class, and they were allowing Warriors and Clerics a one-time class change to the new class, recognizing that many of these had RPed their characters as sort of Paladins before the class was created. GS also had a system in place by which you could choose a deity, and the only way it could be changed after that one-time setting was a very lengthy conversion process. And so I decided to use this to RP my character's change from a Warrior of Kai (the god of war) to a full-fledged Paladin of Voln, devoted to releasing the souls of the undead.
This was at a time when GemStone had upwards of 1000 people online during peak hours. RP was encouraged via GM-granted rewards and public OOC talk was policed by game staff, so virtually everyone in the game RPed to some degree. To convert to Voln, I had to essentially make a pilgrimage across the game's world seeking out various clerics of good-aligned deities to cast their blessings on a suitably rare uncut diamond, which would then be offered at a holy shrine of Voln to complete the quest.
At any rate, the players I met through this little quest I gave myself were fascinated with the idea, and many of them didn't even realize that it was possible to convert to a different god this way. They threw themselves into the RP, a GM took notice, and he decided to run a little quest of his own centered on the idea. The whole thing ended up with myself and the other players involved getting custom titles for our characters, a new bastard sword that would flare with white-hot flames against undead (admittedly, not an ultra-powerful weapon - but flavorful and badass; I never stopped using it), "an onyx pendant inset with an ivory shield" which was the god's symbol, and of course my character's conversion to a Paladin of Voln.
You see Master Teveriel Anduin Vaalor the Justicar of Voln.
He appears to be an Elf.
He is tall and appears to be mature. He has brooding steel grey eyes and fair skin. He has shoulder length, straight silver blonde hair swept back from the temples. He has an angular face and broad shoulders.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a split-visored elven close helm, a somber black hooded longcloak, an old villswood greatshield slung over his shoulder, a full suit of brightly polished steel platemail, an ebon-veined white marble band, a mithril-buckled leather swordbelt with an antiquated black lacquered scabbard, a small leather medical kit, a drawstring leather gem pouch, some black wool pants, and some heavy black leather boots.
Yvelont Navarre
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
