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There are subtle but important differences. It stretched more to the "OOCly ask first before doing anything" side. Rather public situations were used as examples as well. My list was a simplification of it without the pre-permissive nature and without specifically targeting healers because problems in open RP aren't limited to healers in any case. As far as your situation, I'm sorry it happened. Someone was breaking the IC/OOC wall and generally being an OOC asshat. They're completely out of line. They were intruding into private / closed RP which I've wholly agreed is a 'bad thing' instead of acting directly in the open/public RP situations I was referring to in my posts. What people do outside of public venues (out in the field alone is not a public venue, really) / in private, which your scenario was is entirely up to them. Frankly it sounds like that person hit a lot of lines that are just generally accepted as 'bad things': metagaming, doing IC things for OOC reasons, stalking people OOCly. It also clearly hit the line of "You don't have to RP topics you as a player don't feel comfortable with. Don't try and make others do this either." in my list. I think you'd have been entirely in your right to say "Hey, this is a private scene. Mind leaving us be?" or "Hey, I don't enjoy what you're doing here. Bug off" OOCly. The big keep IC/IC and keep OOC/OOC is important as a general rule, but as with everything there are exceptions. There's a lot of drama that stems from people attacking players for character actions. There is also a lot of drama when people make their characters do things for OOC reasons (such as what it seems may have happened with your stalker). Also supposing that IC actions have OOC connotations or vis versa. IE: Just because a character may have yelled at another that the player A is angry with Player B, or the more common breach.... Someone assuming a player is interested in them because their character was flirty or perusing their character.

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I'm not certain this is even the case anymore. I had a couple of friends create characters at 2PM US Central time on Saturday. Also to Vex: Welcome the the game. I hope you enjoy your time here.

I have a general rule in who I will deal with on a social level. This includes RP for obvious reasons. You have to use all of the letters. For common misspellings. Well, I'm horrible at it. I have no room to judge. If it really bothers you and it's someone you RP with frequently, ask them to watch those frequent mistakes? Most folks will either a.) become self conscious or b.) attempt to improve to make the RP experience more enjoyable for others involved. Just make sure to do it kindly and constructively instead of jumping their case, so to speak. I think a good bit of this is due to the fact that we have such constant availability of software to automatically catch and often automatically correct our mistakes. I think it may be this reliance on technology, while convenient, is part of what is causing the gap in writing ability compared to some of the older hats?

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Just something on here. If this is something repeated or continual and it keeps boiling under the surface, at some point the pot will boil over. It might be worth the risk of them taking it poorly then letting it stew and go from 'uncomfortable' to resentment or worse. It also might be worth to approach it (maybe even ICly) as a way to source where he found out these things. There's an off chance there was some IC homework done. (chatting to other characters that know her, etc? I don't know how much of a social footprint your character has.) Everyone's speaking wisdom up above. If the RP feels unnatural and forced, maybe that's worth bringing up too? If you're looking to avoid the OOC discussion bring it down in RP you've got a few good avenues that you've stated above. The advances may make the character uncomfortable because she is married and deeply in love? You've got a great built in IC out for anything romantic right there if you want to use it. I've seen people quit roleplaying all together because they let something boil too long. This is the sort of thing that, if left unchecked, can damage not only RP but out of character friendships as well. If it bothers you, it's important. If it's important it's worth getting sorted instead of leaving boil.

I should directly address this... There's a simple solution for this. Don't play with them. If there is a public venue with people playing like you don't want to play, your group can pick up their figurative ball and go elsewhere? Without having anyone (DM, FC lead, whatever) to enforce rules or 'fair play' onto others, it's really the only viable solution. This is especially true since there are groups of internet trolls out there that make characters specifically to ruin other people's RP.

I'll leave off the quote for the other stuff. I think you've summed up yourself completely. You want to intrude on other people's freedom of play in public and make sure that everything others have their character do is OK by you and yours first. Frankly, you're going to have to get used to that's not the way RP (or anything really) in public venues works. Private doesn't necessarily mean your house, do your private stuff where other people aren't. That could be out in the field, out in some private corner of the cities. Even then you have to accept that others might end up wandering into the same place. The world isn't your stage, it's a shared venue. Now if your group is there -first-. You are well within your right to say OOCly. "Hey, this is a private/closed scene, do you mind ignoring us?" And that's perfectly fine, most people will acquiesce and move on. Take your duel for example. There is no way for someone outside to know this is a private "major moment that you'd been building up to" because they're not you, they're not mind readers. They see RP in a public venue and react to RP in a public venue. A general rule about establishing social contracts that have successfully governed most public interactions. This is the rule of lowest impact. This is what makes things work vs get ignored. They -have- to have the smallest footprint possible. You having to say "Hey, this is a private scene." and doing your private scenes, you know... in private... or at least outside of the established public venues impinges on far fewer people then expecting the entire world to ask -everyone- else before they interact with someone not in their private group while in a public shared venue. The reason for this is mostly because any 'rule' won't be known by the majority of actors in a public environment and it's just a social contract. To get any sort of success you have to deal with what you have control over. Like you've said, playing with random other people who don't fit your personal worldview is the exact opposite of joy for you, so simply... Don't do it? Don't treat public venues like private ones and places where open RP is going on (read: most public venues) as your private space? I'm going to quote one other bit.... That's where you're going to run into problems. Saying "Hey, this is private, we'd rather not have anyone else involved." impacts a much smaller subset of "everyone" than literally "everyone." Your desires require -everyone- to change, where realistically you can get the same effect, and find what you want in your scenes by being the one who changes. The general rule of 'lowest impact' applies here. It's frankly rude and, forgive me for this but there's no other way to say it, ignorant to expect everyone else to change to your desires.

There are any number of systems different FC's use. I've seen Fate 14 (there's a link somewhere on here to it. I'm too tired to search right now.) A modified Roll20 system, just general dice rolling (high low). It really depends on the venue.

We're working on getting this rolling again. I need to get a team of folks to do the daily / nightly posts to it again since I don't have the game time I used to. I've got a couple of people helping out now, but a bigger team wouldn't hurt. With the discord bots being a thing it hasn't really had the requests for attention it used to, however.

It sounds like either a.) you can't deal with someone else being a bit of a brute ICly, or b.) you've got a bad group you're running with. If your scene is in public you can expect other people in the area to participate. By having your scene infront of them, you've included them in it. It seems like you're wanting people to go "Hay, is it OK if I participate in this RP going on right in front of me?" If this is in private, a closed scene, then yeah, someone barging in is completely unacceptable unless they've got some reason to be there. (read: they were invited by another.) However, if you're doing this out in the open? Lets say outside Club Crescent or maybe after the Limsa Fight Club? That's, frankly, silly. It's really tacky to RP in-front of people and expect them to seek permission to interact in a scene they're already in due to their characters already being there. If someone tries to steal the scene and make everything about them, that's not a healer specific thing, that's more a personality thing. Talk to them, leave them out of the closed scenes where you have control. If it's out in public RP, and they're shoving their way in you can push back in RP. It's annoying, yes, but people like that exist out side of game too, you really have to deal with them the same way. It's no worse then someone trying to but into railroad a discussion, or hog a fight scene. Now where you're missing entirely of what I'm saying.... Let me paint a picture for you. It's a public club scene (Going to use Crescent since I can more or less anticipate how this might actually go down.) Asherrean (the character) falls down the stairs (or is pushed, it doesn't matter) and breaks a leg when he hits the ground. Charging Thunder (the character) sees this, and radios for the house medic to come deal with it and starts clearing everyone away. For whatever reason, Erah'sae (the character) is right there and decides. I'm just going to step in and set the bone, start making a split etc. The people that are supposed to handle it finally show up, but Erah'sae keeps bullying them out of their way, because his player wants him to be (to use your words) the "Big Damned Hero". Charging, being the head of security that she is, has Erah'sae tossed out the door with a "I better not see your face here again." Scene continues as normal. Now... Erah'sae's player may have had Erah'sae act how his character should have acted. Maybe it's some clueless attempt at making himself feel important. That's all-right. This is an IC action. It might not be OOC wanted by some folks, but that's the joy of doing stuff in public. Charging Thunder, applies the IC repercussion to the IC action. This is entirely all-right as well. (probably with less implicit god-modding then in the short example, but I didn't feel like typing all night.) The result of this is Erah'sae ends up ICly banned from Club Crescent for his actions. Now, Erah'sae's player needs to accept this, as the entire exchange was IC. That's IC action leading to IC repercussions. point #2 in my list. The 'healer' doesn't get a 'get out of jail free' card. But the 'healer's IC jumping the scene gets handled by an IC response. If the 'healer's player decides to go off OOCly about how they weren't treated, well, they've broken point #5. ""Keep IC IC and OOC OOC." Tell them to deal with it ICly. Maybe they can find some way to get back into folk's good graces. (Hey, that's even a RP opportunity!) That sort of scenario is how most scenes I've been in where someone decided to shove others out of the way to be the 'big damn hero' ended up going. Sometimes there was some OOC screeching by poor RPers who didn't want to deal with the consequences of their characters actions, but that really just marks them as poor RPers anyway. To be honest, it sounds like the more closed RP is more what you need if you don't want to deal with people RPing in manners you don't OOCly agree with. Yes, some people play really crummy characters. Yes, people make poor decisions, or their characters do. Some people have to be the center of attention (either IC or OOCly). Just like we have to deal with people like that in real life, we get stuck dealing with people like that in game. I'm not sure where you took my response as IC guide. That barb seemed a bit out of left field. Elaborate?

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I'm all good with that. Questions challenging like that make me think and improve my understanding of the topic. I also really enjoy discussing the mechanics of RP on a high level. And I guess you could say exactly that, as long as you say it, and not force the response. I did often OOCly whisper folks he healed with a "Just a heads up, he's only trained in field triage so the healing may be imprecise or hurt a lot more than normal. Do as you will with that though!" and let them run with it. Forcing the response to the soreness is where you get into a sticky situation as what hurts for one person doesn't necessarily hurt for another. There's a rather interesting discussion of what 'pain' really is we could get into but I fear we'd stray too far off topic.

You do have some control over when and how you cast your healing magics. If my character doesn't cast them, they can't take effect. It's more a thing of saying "Yes, I can fix that curse, but the magics will require their 'pound of flesh'. Get me this to use as a reagent, and we'll work something out." or "No, I'm sorry, I can't fix your missing leg. My magics can't do that." and people getting disgruntled that I wouldn't have the character cast a 'cure 2' or some such and make it all go away. But emoting something to the effect of trying to staunch the bleeding of a severed limb and having the actor go "And my legs back now" is akin to someone patting another on the back and that person emoting the response as a shove hard enough to put them through the wall breaking several bones in the process. There's a level of godmodding that can go both ways. There is a certain amount of grace in accepting anothers stated intent that needs to be done.

Something I forgot in the above, as far as organizations with their own healers go... I used to help run the Limonsian Fight Club, we had healers on staff. On nights when there were 30+ combatants people would jump in to heal things from time to time, and OOCly that was 100% all right. The just often ICly had that person in the Maelstrom or Yellow Jacket uniform may walk up to tell them to bugger off or spend time in the gaol. (read: IC actions beget IC repercussions.) That sort of thing spawned RP that got us our two backup healers for the rare days when Krick couldn't be around as well. Please jump in; please act as your character would. Please deal with the results of the actions. Spontaneous RP is awesome. I wish there was more of it these days.

Ye gods, there's so much in this post I don't agree with. It tries to get the jist of it right but goes way too far. I'm going to get on a soapbox and rant a little here. This "manifesto" is part of the reason the concept of the living world and open RP had died. It's a response to the 'fear' of someone doing something unplanned without realizing the simple fact that only you have control over what happens to your character. Here's my version manifesto as a roleplayer. It covers healers, the physically violent, and anything else. "Only you control what happens to your character. You are the master of your own fate (if you want to be.)" "If you attempt to do something ICly, deal with the the IC repercussions of your actions." "You don't have to RP topics you as a player don't feel comfortable with. Don't try and make others do this either." "Don't write the effects of your actions, leave that to those you are attempting to effect. Fail in this and you're godmodding." "Keep IC IC and OOC OOC." That's it... That covers just about anything. In short... Don't write the effects of your healing for the inflicted, that's god-modding. Just like you can swing a right hook at anyone and they don't have to take it, you can try any healing you like and it doesn't have to work. This whole "don't even try without asking first OOCly." is silly. The last two of these are general RP rules, not healer specific. The rest of it is overreaching and the constant attempts to push pre-permissive and OOC nature of things like this is part of, in my opinion, what's killed open / living world RP in MMO's today. This concept of having to ask OOC permission before your character would attempt to do something your character would do is... nonsensical in my opinion. You just have to accept that it might not work or you might get in IC trouble for attempting to do so. IE: The event organizers ICly might jump down your throat for running into the field and attempting to do someone else's job. You might get ICly barred from the establishment. This is 100% all right, it's part of accepting responsibility for your actions. That is part of role play that this OOC pre-permissive side of things kills in it's attempt to eliminate any unexpected character conflict. Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now. As someone who's successfully played a healer for a decade in 'that other game' without complaint* things like this manifesto bother me. If people understand point 1, 2, and 3, everything works out. To take the example in the the opening of the manifesto... if you trample over someone else, or interrupt someone else's work on an injured person be ready to deal with the consequences of your actions. For everyone else, deal with it ICly cause consequences make conflict. That's where the real character growth and role-play opportunities come from. It isn't from emoting about flesh knitting together under the blue-white glow of curative magics. That gets about as dull as emoting about a right hook for the 100th time. ~ Erah'sae. * - Other then some unrelated things... IE: I refused to let my healer be a 'quick fix' solution. there was no 'cast a heal spell and fix everything' solution with him. I firmly believe that healing should take time and there should always be a price -someone- has to pay to get around natural healing. Healers get a lot of flack for not being the solution some people think they should be to all their woes.

Removals: 02/16/2018 - Coeurl's Whisker Tavern Night 02/21/2017 - Green Goobbue Tavern (Closing event is tonight 2/14) Updates: 02/18/2017 - Watcher's Eye Black Market (New URL https://goo.gl/fck2kp, location clarified to Black Iron Mines in Lower La Noscea)

There are a few groups that use roll20 for their FC system. Fate-14 is also a popular system used. I believe the latest version can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Fl8u36bHKvpvlSy6hEIptT5N562ulNU21pN2rQHPfw/edit?usp=sharing

Updates: 02/24/2018 - Stellazzio Pizzeria - Location: Goblet Ward 16, Plot 43

(Reposting from 2/12/2018 from the old site) Have an event you want to put on the Calendar?Submit it here or send us an email. This Week's Events:Monday - 2/12/2018 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Lucky Sparrow Entertainment Troupe - Lavender Beds, Ward 12, Plot 30 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Ruby Light Bakery & Cafe - Shirogane Ward 2 Apartment 54 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Lominsan Fight Club - Lominsan Lominsa Lower Decks (x9, y15) 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Miko-to-Neko Cat Cafe - Lavender Beds Ward 4 - Plot 16 - Room 27 Tuesday - 2/13/2018 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST - Wayward Star Bar - Mist Ward 6, Plot 1 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Gin Mill Backwoods Brawl - Central Thanalan, 25, 15 (Cave at Lost Hope) 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Menphina's Bosom - Lavender Beds Ward 4 Plot 8 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - The Burly Barnacle - The Goblet Ward 12 Subdivision Apt #39 Wednesday - 2/14/2018 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Merciful Night Tavern - Lavender Beds Ward 10, Plot 51 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Stellazzio Pizzeria - Goblet Ward 11 Plot 27 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Wild Wings Night - Lavender Beds Ward 10, Plot 52 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Green Goobbue Tavern - Goblet Ward 12, Plot 6 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Soul of the Dragon Restaurant - Shirogane Ward 9 Plot 37 Thursday - 2/15/2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST - Black Cat Café - The Mist Ward 2, Plot 29 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Ceruleum God Machine League - Kugane, Pier 1 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - House Amlin's Cashmere Room - Lavender Beds Ward 15 Plot 36 9:00 PM to 11:30 PM EST - Ashen Enclave - Open Clinic Night - Goblet - Ward 9, Plot 35 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Venari Alehouse - Lavender Beds Ward 15 Plot 21 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - 12 Oaks Book Club - LB Ward 8, Plot 7, Room 3 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM EST - Lavender Moon Creamery - Goblet Ward 10 Plot 19 Rm 16 Friday - 2/16/2018 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST - The Coeurl's Coffer Tavern - Opening Bonanza - The Goblet Ward 16, Plot 12 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Phoenixfaire - Mist Ward 1, Beach of Seagaze Markets 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST - The Pleasure Dome - Goblet, Ward 2, Plot 30 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Bar Saisei Open Nights - Shirogane Ward 9, Plot 38 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Coeurl's Whisker Open RP - Goblet Ward 9, Plot 8 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Carnation Cafe Open RP - Goblet Ward 1, Plot 60 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Spellguard Tourney - Mist Ward 6, Seagaze Markets Saturday - 2/17/2018 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST - Drunken Moogle Open RP - Lavender Beds Ward 9, Plot 5 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Mandragora Munchies - Goblet Ward 9, Plot 57 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM EST - The Keeper's Kiss: Meet and Greet - Mist Ward 11, Plot 5 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - The Phoenix Parlor - Shirogane Ward 13 Plot 37 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Gilded Pony Presents: A Night of Burlesque - Goblet Ward 9 Plot 26 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Grindstone Tournament - Cen. Thanalan (21, 25) Sunday - 2/18/2018 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST - East Eerie Tavern Night - Mist Ward 13, Plot 30 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST - The Dragon's Crown Tavern Event - Lavender Beds Ward 1 Plot 28 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST - The Masquerade - The Dravanian Hinterlands (13.6, 25.4) 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Quench Your Palette - Goblet Ward 5 Plot 45 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - House Valentione's Lakshmi Night (18+) - Goblet Ward 10 Plot 19 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - The Happy Raven Café - Lavender Beds Ward 8 Plot 44 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - The Beast and Barrel Tavern - The Mist, Ward 11, Apartment 85 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM EST - The Magus Invitational - Fresca’s Wash ( X:21.0 , Y:25.8 ) 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Watcher's Eye Black Market - Dravanian Hinterlands (x12.7, y21.5) Grab the iCal feed here.#BalmungRPcalendarSupport the RP Event Calendar on Patreon.

(From 02/12/2018) Additions:02/16/2018 - The Coeurl's Coffer Tavern - Opening Bonanza (https://goo.gl/HTFbsp)02/17/2018 - The Keeper's Kiss: Meet and Greet (https://goo.gl/zWP52p)02/18/2018 - The Masquerade (https://goo.gl/eM6uqT)02/24/2018 - Golden Fox Emporium Open Night (https://goo.gl/78VRZD)02/24/2018 - Tsagaan Sar - Xaela RP Event (https://goo.gl/gu1qjK)02/25/2018 - Lala Meetup (https://goo.gl/Kodwbg)02/25/2018 - The Cloak & Dagger Grand Opening (https://goo.gl/hK9afe)03/04/2018 - WYNG Concert (https://goo.gl/QzNgWn)03/04/2017 - Phi Slamma Gamma (Eorzean Alliance vs Fustarium event) (https://goo.gl/pi1jgL)