Chillsmack

Yet another epic hotness from Two Steps from Hell that makes me want to get into a fist fight with a mountain. To quote one of the comments: My dog was in the room when I played this for the first time. He is now a wolf. GGcIkqPTHo0

I've always loved the name Locke - awww Final Fantasy 5 how I adore you... But before I get all nostalgic: WELCOME!

From all I've heard, transfers are not affected by character creation closures Oh that's good, otherwise that'd be one helluva headache

Doendraga Barabharsyn would be great for this: he's an independent ship captain and takes all sorts of jobs (in addition to his more discreet job as a smuggler. While I realize it is based in Gridania (or at least the contact is) if you have any ideas for jobs crossing the seas or dangerous tasks on landed shores then Doendraga is your man. Also, I can volunteer him as a side support character as well: say this or that group of people just need to get to a secluded cove and Doendraga's ship - the Lookfar - can take them there, pick them up, rendezvous with them for a drop off, etc

There's Doendraga, the Roegadyn swashbuckler who falls between Business Man and Hand for Hire being an independent captain and a professional not-smuggler ;-) Though he's primarily based out of Limsa Lominsa, he's obviously found in docks all over Eorzea. He goes where the coin can be made, follows through with whatever pays the most (usually), and as a result is usually harbor-hoping all over the place and bouncing from one port to the next.

Will transfers bypass the population cap? I thought I had read in the terms and conditions for the character transfer service that you couldn't transfer a character to a server that was closed (I imagine you'd only be able to send the request once that tiny window of availability opened)

Doendraga claims to have learned his letters and numbers from dealing with shipping manifests and orders during his youth on his father's merchant ship the Blue Cry. His literacy is substantial though for someone who learned it in bits and pieces over years which makes such a claim a bit dubious.

This pretty much sums up how Doendraga flirts...mzyun-6zlVE

I couldn't imagine not RPing with someone because of their in-game level...unless of course they were trying to RP the greatest combatant ever while being at a level I could sneeze at and kill...but even then, RP always trumps game mechanics. And I say this as a self-proclaimed RP snob lol Personally, though, I don't start RPing until I hit end game. Hell I ran through to level 80 EIGHT times in Guild Wars 2 before I decided to pick a main from the resulting 8 characters and get to the RPing lol

I love unguilds for organizing RP Add Doendraga Barabharsyn please!

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I love unguilds, and using a linkshell to create one around shady characters is right up my main's alley. Doendraga is a privateer and smuggler and I'd like to expand him into RPing into the dark underbelly of Eorzea (without having to make him part of an IC-organization). I'll keep a look out for you if you do the same

It definitely used to when I was playing after 2.0 release. I'd love to know if that's no longer the case!

Yeah shame about that timer or else you could have an entire nights worth of RP in a dungeon and really flesh out a story:D

I need to do some work on my RP board: need to add some short stories for the lore and I got some code to do in-post tabs which I'm nerdburger excited over and can't wait to fiddle with it to organize some of the forums :thumbsup:

I listen to two steps from hell as well ;o Holy crap do I loves me some Two Steps from Hell

It's also a pretty ubiquitous topic. RP within any public forum (such as an MMO) is social story telling, so relationships are inevitable because interaction is inevitable. Some of those relationships will be romantic or adult, and with that....brown chicken brown cow Personally I think the discussion, sans the compromised account and erotica posting or whatever happened earlier, positively highlights that while many RPers will ERP, the amount of graphic detail involved varies as well as how necessary we feel it is. Most importantly though I think the thread proves that the overwhelming majority of us are mature about it as opposed to creepy :thumbsup: ...Now with that said, for a good time call Doendraga at 555-5555

So the majority of characters give it up, it seems. Let's hear it for Whore Pride! *high five*

Some of Scott Bradlee's vintage covers - totally addicting....they're distracting me from writing lol Here's two of my favorites: NzPGzGUNZbs NtyoC7KuBDY

Are transfers even doable for Balmung? I haven't seen the server open for new characters in weeks and I don't think you can transfer to a full server (if you can, I'm gonna be pissed because I could have fixed my main's name a long ass time ago :bomb: )

^This. I personally hate the use of soul stones in the game world for this very reason: the moment they showed up I just knew people were going to use them in RP like "henshin-devices" that immediately upon finding grant you magical superpowers... On a lighter note, though, I'm glad to have more answers about fairies! I always wondered what exactly they were and now it's good to know (though I do want more details about them)

A great deal of why books were so expensive and rare though is because of how they were created. Printing presses changed that and by the 18th century and 19th century books and especially novellas became so easy to obtain that in many cities around London books could be borrowed on an honor system (I can't remember what they called those kind of bookstores though - they weren't quite libraries since they mostly dealt in cheap penny-novels that were primarily fiction). Given the blend of genres that have always defined the FF series, I would be willing to pay good money in betting that Eorzea has printing presses: they have guns, astrological equipment, and steamworks afterall, and I believe newspapers have been mentioned before (though I might be mistake). This would tell me that books are more common-place than compared to real-life medieval Europe. At the same time, though, if there is no formal education system then it makes perfect sense that most Eorzeans are still illiterate: it's simply an uneven distribution of education rather than wealth, and for the working civilian, much like it was for much of human history, knowing how to read doesn't help you put food on the table so it isn't something a lot of common folk bother to learn. Despite the presence of machinery and technology, Eorzea still seems to be a mishmash of technological periods that never quite reach the Industrial Revolution, thus the city-states remain largely agrarian and why perhaps education is still not widespread. This is a common issue with the Fantasy genre in general: people can't or don't want to wrap their minds around living standards and paradigms that do not mirror the present, industrial world. It's why so much of the genre itself has become diluted with an over abundance of easy-living high fantasy versus the gritty hardships of low fantasy (I'm more of a low-fantasy kinda man myself).

I was expecting Ishgard like every one else. 2.0 left it wide open as a place to explore later. My real excitement is over the new jobs and it's going to eat away at my soul *continues praying for a non-magick healer*

None of the player races found in Eorzea actually originated there, as I understand it, so any continent that may have been a point of origin for any race still has an abundance of them there (generally). I don't believe a single point of origin has been defined for any of the player races Regarding different nations, obviously most have not been defined. I'd be careful about creating one though in the case that an eventual expansion opens up the very same continent your fictional nation is situated in lol

I don't think it should define your character each and every time: an in-game class is just a tool that you can form the character around. If it fits for so-and-so to be their actual in-game class, and it works for them then more power to them. You NEED a balance in demographics. Fortunately when it comes to physical combat classes (no magic), it's very easy to simply use the class to express their combat skills without necessarily pidgeon holing them: just because you have an axe doesn't mean you're a member of the Maurader's Guild, for example (which is what I did with my main) It gets a little trickier with magic, and to be honest, it should be because there is lore surrounding the type of magicks seen in FFXIV's Eorzea (my WHM is a conjurer of Gridania for example) Unfortunately with FFXIV the lore itself kinda makes some classes really difficult to RP in-character at all, let alone as templates or foundations, particularly scholar and summoner. If you ever plan on incorporating actual gameplay into your RP (which is something I like to do, and I think if it's done right it adds something full on text simply can't do) you have to really stretch to play a scholar or summoner: by lore there are no scholars left, and with them, their fairies...so how are you using one in battle? Summoners have to witness or be the instruments of a primal's demise in order to capture some of their essence and conjure an Egi...and for sake of realism, and for the sake of making the primals a grave threat rather than a trivial challenge that can be overcome with just a handful of people (product of the world being in a video game, unfortunately) how many times can you have people beating down the primals? Any hurdle can be overcome with that "one-off" explanations that mirror the special circumstances for the player character and the soul stones and whatnot, but when you can explain away something that easily then everyone will have that as the background for their characters, which leads to the community breaking the lore. In this manner, the game's lore itself actually blocks off many people from letting their class define them, but in a negative/restrictive manner, rather than one that promotes creativity.