Hello! I'm very new to the game (just started playing last week) and was able to roll up a char on Balmung this morning, which my research told me is the unofficial RP server! I'm not new RP by any means though: started with AD&D 2nd ed, and have played all editions cept 5e, joined and ran a couple of RP ezBoards, even played a fair bit of WoW, currently playing a few games of PbP D&D at Myth Weavers.
There, with obligatory introduction over, I've got a couple of questions
1. I didn't see anything in the forum rules (written or unwritten) about your forum account being IC or not. I'm hoping that's not the case, as I've always had a serious case of altitis and would feel weird if I joined any RP here as my current main.
2. Could you share any links towards some of the world lore, both canon from SE and also generally accepted/established lore that has been created by the RP community? It's hard to fully flesh out my character ideas when I know so little about the world...
I'm making my way through http://ffxiv.gamepedia.com/Lore, and when I'm done it I'll look for more, but would prefer to get to the 'recommended' reading ASAP.
3. I love me some RP-PvP. It was hard to find dedicated RP-PvP guilds in WoW, and I'm suspecting it might be even harder here? I don't just mean FCs that RP and also do PVP, but like, FCs that exist/pursue the PvP, for their IC purpose (looks like there's an arena/fun/sport mode, so no hard feelings - but then frontlines, serving the GCs?)
4. Just curious here, but why do so many FCs not 'focus' on Guildhests? I played on another server till today and noticed that almost all of the FCs profile pages say they didn't focus on RP or PVP (understandable) but also the Guildhests. That confused me, couldn't understand why. Is there something lame/not worth it about them?
Thanks for your time! Looking forward to some good ol' RP with y'all!
