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These are all really excellent tips. I've been treating the carrd as a wip that I'll update as I figure more stuff out but if anyone had any critiques here's what I've got so far https://santienne.carrd.co/

Hey everyone, finally got my carrd put together and thought I'd give this a go. I'm a medium to heavy RPer partway through the actual game storyline (so I'd prefer to avoid spoilers if possible) and hoping for some long-term connections. I'm open to in game RP with the possibility of discord RP if we get to know each other better. I'm interested in character development, and prefer small scale conflicts (say, a territory dispute, interpersonal issues etc.) to grand epic adventures. I'm also game for romance as long as it makes sense for the character (I'm gay and so is my character). I'm not opposed to ERP either though I prefer it be IC motivated and be done privately in tells or over discord, and like Romance I want it to be IC motivated. I love dark storylines and am totally down for my character to get corrupted by outside forces if you are a villainous character. My only hard limit on that is permanent character death. My Character: Santienne Malfoieaux is an excommunicated priest and has been exiled from Ishgard after getting embroiled in the conflicts of a minor noble house. I think that's all there is! For more backstory information check out my carrd, it's still a WIP as I figure more stuff out but it's got all the basics down.

Yeah I think you're right, I'll try dividing stuff up a bit more and figure out how exactly I want to get across my ideas. I appreciate the tips

That actually DOES really help, thank you so much. I'm chugging away and hopefully will have something to post by tonight. Thank you again!

I hope this is the right place for this question, but I had some questions about best practice and was hoping I could get some advice! I'm currently working away at my character's backstory and I've noticed a lot of people set up carrds. I've been starting to set up my own and I was wondering how much of my backstory I should share? There is stuff that obviously someone who has just met this character would not know, but I also want to give people more insight into the kinds of stories I'd like to dive into. There are also things some characters might know and others might not. I would like to figure out how to strike a balance between proper advertisement (or warning if there are topics/themes some people might be uncomfortable with), and leaving enough room for certain information to come up organically in RP. Ideally I'd just put it all down and hope people would assume what is common knowledge/what their character might know vs what is just there to pique interest but I've had bad experiences in the past with people just metagaming all over the place. How do you guys deal with this? Do you have a particular way you might suggest setting up my info pages for clearer communication? Thanks in advance for any tips!

I honestly really appreciate it and I'm probably going to be hitting you up pretty soon for tips n tricks because every RP community I've been in has different etiquette and it's always good to find that out ahead of time XD!

Thank you so much to you both for the warm welcome! I really appreciate that lore resource link, I've been looking for something just like that. I'm going to edit my post to add my discord as well and I'll absolutely take you up on that offer

Hey all! Longtime Final Fantasy fan here, but I'm fairly new to MMOs. The only other one I have played for more than a few hours was Lord of the Rings Online for a couple years, however that was mostly for the RP community. I'm a longtime RPer, with most of my experience being in one on one original roleplay via instant messenger (Windows Messenger, Skype, then Discord), and then a little on LotRO, with some irl friends. I'm having a fantastic time playing FFXIV (though I'm finding mmo gameplay a little overwhelming at times, haha), and one of the biggest reasons I decided to start playing was hearing about the thriving RP community. I'm still learning the game lore but the character I'm working on developing is a male Hyur Doctor (Elgan Yarwood, on Mateus) with past connections to the Garlean Empire. I really enjoy darker storylines and playing... less morally upright characters, and was hoping to find other RPers who might be into that. I tend to land somewhere between a light and heavy roleplayer, where I enjoy delving into deep storylines and intense character development, but I'm more than happy to throw lore by the wayside in service of an interesting plotline or character arc. IRL I'm working on finishing my first novel, and I'm also an artist (so if we get along and RP together, I might end up drawing your character if you're into that, lol unsubtle bribery.) Anyways I'm not going to lie I'm pretty nervous and intimidated by the vastness of the community and I'm really worried about making a complete fool of myself so I thought I'd start in the intros section, rather than dive right into posting a character profile or searching for free companies etc. I'm looking forward to meeting you guys and I hope to make some meaningful connections and to tell some cool stories together. Edit: if anyone wants to hit me up via discord it's 'Uncle Frank#1456' (username a silly inside joke with some irl friends, haha, not actually a creep I swear)