Cale017

Thanks for the detailed response! And no no, I would never try to involve people who aren't RPing in instanced content. I've been on the receiving end of a pair of a married couple playing paladin and white mage in Brayflox and it was just... it was bad. I guess I'm mostly curious about how the combat RP would work in the first place visually? I know there's a 1v1 PvP area in the game, but this sounds like it's not happening there. Unless there's something I've missed the last few years, I'm not able to go around and randomly launch into my full ninja combo without a valid target, and even if its taking place in the Wolves' Den, it sounds like a recipe for having to wait a few minutes when someone mistimes a cooldown. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but I tend to care about the details. Outside of that, I'd just be worried about not being able to keep up with the emote system since I don't exactly have them all memorized and there's not exactly an action to match every situation, not that I could expect that from the devs. For instance, I'd likely end up playing something of a chaotic good thief character. If I were to try and steal from someone in a tavern, it's not like a brawl can break out. It seems like a disconnect between what's being said in the chat box and what's happening in game with everyone mostly standing around.

Hey all, a friend of mine is looking to get into FFXIV over the summer, and has been doing MMO RP for about a decade now. I'd like to join him to help him level and because he's a pretty good friend, even willing to make a new toon on Mateus in spite of my main being on Goblin. I've got a lot of tabletop and forum style RP experience, and would like to try in FFXIV as I've even written some stuff elsewhere about my character's antics and would already have a pretty good handle on what sort of character he'd be. However, a lot of my preference when it comes to RP is that there's a healthy level of combat involved on some level, either player v player or player v mooks, and I'm not sure about how well things like this could be executed. Sitting around in a cafe talking is fine and all, but between limited emotes and the /e being only half of an answer (its weird to see the character and not have them move for me) it sounds like RP is almost entirely social in this game. I don't see where there'd be room to try to, say, have touching dialogue back and forth in the middle of an Alexander fight even if it was an entire party of RPers who were agreeing to try and get some RP done in the raid so no one would get kicked. Basically, this just seems very restrictive as opposed to forum style where I can just say where my character is and what he's doing. I'm not sure how much of what I like about RPing (heavy story progression and character development, healthy doses of combat) can even translate to in-game RP. I love this world and its lore, but I really need some help on whether or not I can even really interact with it in the way I'm envisioning.