mbulsht

Thank you for all the replies and links! I'll be looking into these more as I finish out my character profile.

Ho there, everyone. I'm certainly hoping that I have the right forum board for this topic. If I've posted this in the wrong place, I will happily redirect my attention to the correct board. Anyways, hi! Online, I go by the name Mbulsht, though in MMOs I always have a main toon by the name of "Amarissa" or some derivative thereof so most of my MMO buddies call me "Rissa." My current main is "Amarissa Leigh," a Hyur woman on Balmung. I've been playing for about two months now, having recently joined the game in the wake of my previous main MMO being shut down. I'm currently in the middle of the Stormblood storyline, and having seen a great deal of lore, I've started to build my character(s), and started to look into roleplay on my server. And, well, here I am, I guess. Poking my head into a new game, and a new roleplay community. FFXIV is the latest in a somewhat long list of MMOs I've played, though only the second in which I intend to roleplay. Before I played MMOs, however, I roleplayed. Alot. This would be somewhere around the tenth roleplay community I've joined, and I've been roleplaying in various formats (from chanboards to IRC chats) for around ten years now. With that in mind, I skimmed somewhat quickly through this forum's role-play handbook and role-play etiquette topics, just to see if I saw anything new. In that light, I actually have a few questions about roleplay in FFXIV. This community seems pretty cool, and I am excited to dive headlong into roleplay. But I wanna make sure that before I do, I've become familiar with culture traditions that this community has developed over the 6+ years that it's been active. I'm hoping I have the right board here, so I'll just dive right into a list of questions I have. Any feedback, links, direction, or general advice anyone on this board could give me would be greatly appreciated. I had planned on asking some of these in the novice network on my server, but before I could strike up the courage, the game took me out of the channel. =-=-= -Throughout the story of FFXIV in both MSQ and sidequests, we've been introduced to a variety of couples both same and opposite sex. But little is said about inter-species relationships. Are these common? Are they frowned upon? -What are the standards of formatting in chatbox roleplay? Do we use /say more than /emote? Are there any slash commands I should be aware of? -In voiced cutscenes, 99% of characters in FFXIV have european accents, mostly "vaguely british." What accents do players tend to give their characters? Do they usually denote these things in the way they write, or is it mostly implied? -What are the main roleplay hub areas in FFXIV? I'm going to assume the bar area in Ul'dah is one, since I see people there all the time. -Does a lot of roleplay get done in housing areas, or is there a lot of open world roleplay as well? -Are there roleplay linkshells for different types of races/cultures/classes/jobs/roleplay subjects? -Characters are often seen taking up multiple classes or jobs. How common is this in roleplay? What is an acceptable limit? For example, say I want to make my character a Conjurer or Thamaturge, but also give them some skill with a bow (archer) and maybe some skill with a ladle (culinarian)? How common is that? At what point is the number of skills considered excessive and power game-y? -In my experience, the longer an MMO has been out, the more closed the RP community becomes. Storylines develop, public RP events turn to private RP events, and people get wrapped up in their own character developments and the developments of their RP partners and friends. The game has been out for many years now. How much open public RP is left? Where can I go to find it? Do people have open housing plots like tea houses or restaurants? Is there a hub I can look at to see a list of them? -How much does MSQ factor in to individual roleplay? Is there a lot of roleplay pertaining to the story of the game, or is a lot of that left by the wayside in favor of user-made plots and casual slice-of-life RP?\ -With that in mind, if MSQ subjects do make it into roleplay, what's the statute of limitations on spoiler content? =-=-= Anyways, that's all the questions I can think of at the moment. I still haven't finalized my character sheet or my character's backstory and personality, but I'm excited to start! Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my questions, and with that I suppose I should probably leave a couple pictures of my character...