Faye

Tonight!

Tonight on Balmung!

Tonight!

Tonight!

Welcome, I'm glad you've decided to jump into things!

This month, we are running a week ahead of our usual schedule in order to avoid conflicting with US Thanksgiving! Giving thanks this month featuring performances from... Pepeko Peko Eigengrau Mankhad Hani Dan’na Sakura Mirage Loria

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Tonight!

There's no easy way, but a few tips... - You can create a chat tab with only /say and /emote in it. You can also drag this out into a second chat window if you would like! You can change the placement and size of the chat window(s) whenever you'd like simply by dragging them; no need to open the HUD menu so you may want to expand the chat for RP events. - Communicate with the people you are RPing with when you each have made a post. - Form a party with those you're RPing with and use /party for RP. - If RPing with someone on your friend list, as Erah'sae mentioned, you can assign them to a friend group and put a special symbol before their name to make them stand out. - Focus on the people you are RPing with and look for their names and your character's name in the chat. Try to tune out the rest of the text. Keep an eye on the avatars around you. If someone unexpected is going to write an emote at you, their character will probably be targeting yours and near them.

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A great deal of OOC planning can go into RP events. As someone who hosts performance RP events, I usually have a schedule for my performers that is pre-planned and they know when they are going on stage and we can keep the performances from running on too long, my performers sometimes have time constraints and may have to leave by a certain time, there's usually an IC introduction of each performer before they go on stage, etc. Someone taking the stage when they aren't supposed to can be recovered from, sure, but it's cause for some extra stress for everyone and may mess up some things that were planned. And while choosing to go on stage and perform may be an IC action, it's also something someone OOC decided to have their character do, and can throw a wrench into OOC plans. While it sounds like they didn't handle it the best way, it's not metagaming or bullying to be upset about that. While I'm all for organic RP and IC surprises, you do also have to take into consideration that events like that are often planned in advance and have a particular goal in mind, and disrupting that without getting OOC consent from the hosts is very rude to them, and the fault is not on them for "metagaming."

I'm not sure it's a very common thing here on the RPC, but on tumblr, there are many people who use tumblr and Discord to do RP with FFXIV characters who may not actually exist in game. I think most people you'll find here and in game are going to be more geared toward in game RP with in game characters, but there are people out there who do that sort of RP!