Ihsan997

Count me as another person who prefers Discord RP, and for the same reasons already mentioned here. Since there seem to be a few of us who have a hard time finding each other, perhaps we can use this thread as a means of doing so. My own Discord name is Ihsan997#7712. Perhaps a few of us on here can talk shop and share ideas for potential scenarios.

I like this! It’s reported like a journalistic piece, or as I see at work sometimes, a real Loss Prevention incident report. Did this scene occur in the current time, or are Esten and ‘Chip’ now grown up?

That’s cool so see the game call back your awesomeness with its awesomeness after several years. Don’t let them keep you down; achieve everything you once had plus even more!

You have a very well-designed card there, so you seem to know the character fairly well. Have you considered adding RP hooks to it? Those might help other players know how and in what setting Crises might be approached without interactions feeling forced.

Irrational fears are a common quirk many of us have, so how does this affect your character(s)? Think of the things they shouldn’t be afraid of, yet still are. Keep in mind that actual dangers like poisonous snakes don’t count because those types of fears are perfectly rational. This thread is for the things which don’t entirely make sense to be afraid of. HARD MODE: write the post in-character! I’ll start us off with my two characters... Thilo: “The ocean. I’m afraid of the ocean. Not of drowning or sharks specifically, but the entire ocean. It’s silly, I know; thousands of people sail every single day, and most of the are fine. But the idea that there’s a whole other world down there, with things I couldn’t even imagine swimming beneath me where I can’t see what’s coming, terrifies me. I never relax for one minute when I’m aboard a boat.” Vrez: “I’ve always been startled by doors being slammed near to me. I suppose...I suppose that I only need to be worried if I stick my hand through the doorway, but it’s not like that. Even if I’m a few feet away, the act of a door being shut with force makes me lose focus on everything else. Sometimes I imagine that my toes or ears are being slammed in a door for no reason; I’ve even felt phantom pain before.”

Hey, I’m another player of a wanderer-type character here. Are you still searching for RP partners? If so, I may drop you an invite on Discord to brainstorm possible story ideas.

I was actually surprised to find at least two other intro threads here on this sub forum for others who played those too. Now I don’t feel so old P.S. Nice to see both another D&D player as well as someone else who just found this site through Reddit and stuff. May we both find lots of good times here.

Hi there! I’m quite happy to read your post because: We’re both disinterested in gore, ERP, drama, dice rolling, etc. You’re open to Discord and Google Docs-based RP I’m in a different time zone from you, and anyway my in-game time is limited compared to my Discord and doc-writing time. If you don’t mind, I’ll send you an add on Discord to run some RP ideas by you re: Aultena’s RP hooks and how our characters could cross paths.

This seems like a very helpful initiative, so thank you for getting it started. Is there an issue with the Discord link, or is it just me? I keep getting a message which says the invite is invalid.

I considered posting this in the character development or RP discussion sub forums, but this is neither about developing a character nor a specific RP situation, so I feel it’s better placed here. How do role players approach the issue of multiple mounts and baggage trains? Across most cultures with riding animals in the pre-modern era, people geared for war typically brought two or three horses when traveling away from their towns; this was both to take a load off the horses and avoid fatigue as well as backup in case a horse got sick and died. In addition, warriors in many cultures traveled with an entourage - assistants, apprentices, servants, spouses, and so forth - who also needed horses and supplies to be carried. In the context of Eorzea, do we have any information on similar practices? The mount lore thread is mainly about common mounts, and the question I have here is more specific. I’m interested in seeing what more seasoned players have to say about this. Would it be reasonable to assume that an adventurer might travel with two or three chocobos rather than the single companion/mount allowed in the game mechanics?

I just began the download on Steam, so hopefully I’ll be on there soon enough. As an initial question, does anybody have handy links to threads on server choice? Are there significant differences, or could I pick at random and still find welcoming communities? EDIT: I actually did some research and chose Omega, though there seemed to be a lot of good choices, plus apparently servers don’t matter as much as shards. Either way, I’m glad to be getting started!

Hi everybody! As the title says, I haven’t gotten started...as in, I haven’t yet even downloaded the game due to local internet issues. Rest assured, I began researching ARR about a month ago during my free time, and I’m slowly making the setting and lore a new hobby of mine. I’m slow when it comes to actively video gaming, however; I’m always more active on forums and Discord, so I’m not in a rush to do anything other than read interesting threads, ask questions, and learn from a group of cool people. MMORPG background Do MUDs count? I began playing Dragon’s Gate and Darkness Falls on AOL back in 1996, and although they were text-based, they were both multiplayer and online. For formal MMORPGs, then I began with the vanilla version of WoW since I’d been a fan of that whole franchise since 1995. It was fun, but my maturity level eventually grew beyond the story and community there. I’ve also played SWtoR, Fallout ‘76, and ESO for a few years, though intermittently. RP experience Face-to-face, I’ve been playing DnD since 1995. Online, I started with AOL chat rooms back in 1996, both in Final Fantasy settings as well as others. This also included forum RP and collaborative fanfiction, and it spread into both MMOs as well as other games I was playing at the time. One thing I’ve learned after a quarter of a century of RP is that you never stop learning, everybody has something to share, and even new RPers can often school me on nuances and habits which I hadn’t noticed. The challenges never stop which is part of what has made RP remain fun for me all this time. Character ideas/info I’m keen to play a non-edgy Dark Knight because I love challenges, taking traditional roles in new directions, and filling in social gaps. I’ve had other ideas float through my mind as well; I often enjoy playing antagonists in RP and honestly relish in playing them as mean jerks and then watching their defeat, though I need to become more comfortable in the FFXIV setting to do that. I’m not in a hurry and hope to have a lot of fun along the way. How did you learn about the coalition? While researching FFXIV and deciding this might be the game for me, I saw this forum referenced on Reddit, Quora, and...StackExchange, I think? RP guides for those new to the setting all mentioned this forum, and after lurking for a while, I can see why. This seems like a very helpful community. What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? (e.g. Light, medium, or heavy) Since I’m taking my time and learning the lore one step at a time, I plan to progress from light to medium to heavy once I download the game. As for RP here on the forum or any other text-based venue, then I expect this question may not apply since the sole purpose would be storytelling. Anything from real life you're comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc.) I’m in my mid-to-late thirties, the son of gamers, and now the father of little gamers of my own. I have the sort of responsibilities one could imagine, which is why I tend to lean toward forum and chat RP more than in-game RP for all the various fandoms I follow.