Adventurer

[align=center]Crystal's Call http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111010055543/finalfantasy/images/6/6e/EorzeaSS1.jpg[/img] Eorzea... Comprised of Aldenard, the westernmost of the Three Great Continents, and its surrounding islands, the realm of Eorzea has been the cradle of several unique civilizations throughout history. Towering mountains dominate the north, their peaks forever lashed with icy winds; to the south, a bleak expanse of unforgiving desert holds sway. Yet these inhospitable lands hold irresistible lure for man and monster alike, for wide and deep flow the currents of aether, and rich are the veins of power-infused crystal. In this harsh though vibrant region, the people of Eorzea have carved out their histories—a cycle of prosperous Astral and disastrous Umbral eras. Yet despite these disasters, the realm and its people still stand tall. Adventurers flock from all over Hydaelyn to this prosperous realm to hunt for their own fortune. Eorzea is a realm filled with mystery and secrets and one that longs to be explored. Yet where there are secrets, there are dangers that have never been seen before. No matter how experienced the adventurer, these dangers can not be silenced with sword or spell alone. Will you heed the Crystal's Call?[/align]

Oh! I should point out I did look through the Linkshell Hall and the [EU] tagged RP Free Company unfortunately has gone inactive. I've seen the LFRP Europa LS, however, which is great! With this thread I'm more looking for an RP based FC that's still active and also just some players/contacts I can add to my friend list, too.

Hello there, all! To cut a long story short I'll be moving to Europe shortly and so I'm currently investigating just how much my RP will change due to the move! I'm currently in a timezone that causes me to play at off-peak hours but with some clever sleeping patterns I manage to get my RP fill as needed. Really I'm just trying to find out how many players and Free Companies play at or have a community that plays at EU prime time? This includes NA based Companies that just have quite a few European players, too! So please drop a message and let me know which server you're on and if you know of any! I'd really appreciate it and it'd be a lot of help. Thanks!

Hello there, everyone! Name's Pikoko and I'm currently in the process of installing FFXIV! I figured I'd chirp up here before I got started in game just to introduce myself to the RP community and also ask a few questions! Here we go! --MMORPG background I've played quite a few MMORPGs in my past, the first one being Final Fantasy XI. I stuck around it for about... five years I think? After that I ended up falling into World of Warcraft where I played for a few years, too. Then I dabbled a little in Rift, Aion and SWTOR. I only hit cap in XI, WoW and SWTOR though! I'm a bit of a lazy leveler... --RP experience I started RPing on forums when I began playing XI back in my early teenage years! I honestly had no idea RP even existed inside MMOs at the time so my MMO RP experience didn't begin until World of Warcraft where I joined a RPPvP server without realising exactly what it was. Oops. Since then I've been RPing in every MMO I play. It really adds to the game experience for me now. I find I can't really stick to a MMO if I don't have RP there! ^^' --Character ideas/info My character idea is still very basic at the minute. All I know is I'm thinking of a little Lalafell lady. I don't really have a backstory for her yet, or a personality. I'm a bit torn on the route to go with her. I've researched the city states and classes/jobs, and I'm leaning towards her being either a Gladiator or a Pugilist. There's just too many ideas running through my head to decide! --How did you learn about the coalition? I found you guys through a google search if I'm honest! My friend played XIV when it was first released and mentioned a RP community in passing so I decided to hunt you down. (It wasn't that hard!) --What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? Light, medium, or heavy? I'm aiming to be somewhere between medium and heavy. I don't do EVERYTHING IC, and I'm looking for a guild with OOC chat because I like to joke around and make friends in guild chat, but I still like to RP quite a lot. I also love RPing outdoors and adventuring and all that sort of stuff IC rather than sitting in a tavern gossiping. Though I also enjoy that from time to time, too! If there are any guilds out there that do anything similar, I'd love to get in touch! ^^ -Anything from real life you're comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc) The big thing here I guess is that I'm currently living and working in China, so my timezone is very different to the majority of people here I guess. I'm hoping that isn't too much of an issue, though! And now! For a few questions, if anyone doesn't mind answering them! 1: As said, I love adventuring and being out in the wilds for RP. I find it so much more interesting than tavern RP day after day, especially spontaneous mini plot-lines that can happen. 2: My timezone is very different to most people's I presume. If not, then that's amazing! If anyone knows of a RP guild that is based around (or at least has) several people playing at odd timezones that would match my own, then that would also be wonderful! 3: A more game mechanic question. In XI the race you chose gave you different stats. Is it the same in XIV? Am I going to be a big issue if I roll a Lalafell Paladin and try to tank, for example? ^^' I'm sure I'll have more when I get into the game, but that's all I have for now! Glad to be here and I'm looking forward to meeting you all!

Oops. Edited as I didn't see Ron's post before mine! Doing as asked and letting the thread go back to it's original topic! :angel:

I made a big to-do against doing it without letting the people your character is involved with know about it. That's my issue, not the retconning to a different race itself. I'm not saying RP and a novel should be the same. What I am saying is that Roleplay is also the telling of a story. And there are some things stories should follow, no matter the format they are shown in, be it a novel, film or video game. Roleplay is a group of people telling a story through different characters. This is what I'm trying to get at with this comparison. I don't want some pre-made story for my Roleplay, I want other characters to change it up in unexpected ways that make sense. Retcons happen, retcons have even happened in some novels/films/games, but the audience is told that it's happened. They are given that warning. Regarding the shallow quote, you seem to be thinking that I aimed that at all of Abodo's post. That wasn't what I was doing at all, hence why I quoted the specific line that I felt was shallow. I didn't quote his entire post and label it as shallow, because he had some points that I replied to. So if I didn't make it clear that I was only aiming the 'shallow' point at that one line (even though I did quote the specific line), then that's my mistake I suppose. Hostility was never my intention and I have apologised to Beatric in my previous post as I didn't mean to cause offence with what was said. Retreading, perhaps, but I am expressing my opinion on a public forum that is meant for discussion, just like everyone else. Which is great and all I was trying to get at! I only wanted to share that if someone close and involved in my own RP story was going to do something, I'd just want them to let me know. I look forward to seeing Beatric in ARR!

First, I'll start off with apologising as I didn't mean for the comparison to be taken that way at all. I wasn't intending for that to be taken personally at all and as someone who hasn't even had the chance to interact with you I wouldn't dare label you as a bad writer. So I am incredibly sorry that the comparison looked as though it was targeting you, it wasn't intended at all. This is something I totally agree with and is the reason I absolutely adore roleplay, the wildcard aspect. Character's changing are what makes the hobby so much fun and I'm not disagreeing with that. A race change completely, however, is a little different to the average day in Roleplay. You wish to RP that Beatric was a Roegadyn female from the beginning, and I have nothing against that as I have said several times, as long as the stories you are involved in are aware that the history for said stories has been changed slightly. Roleplay is a group activity. Yes we do things so we enjoy ourselves, but if we forget to let other people know what's changing and how that changes things we've already done, then I think that's an issue. I'm aware this is a game, and there is nothing wrong with people utilizing these options. It's something I find off, yes, but to each their own. I won't be ignoring someone if they've been roleplaying as though they were a Miqo'te male around in 1.0. But if a character changes -race-, then their history and their history with other characters still changes (however slight this change is), so I feel it's something that should be alerted to people involved with the character. Not ASKED, simply told. It's odd that I should be told that my own character's history is changing? That I've been interacting closely with X race and not Y as I thought I was? As I said, roleplay is a group activity so a little heads up would be nice, just so I can be prepared and change anything that needs to be changed. Unfortunately you missed where I said lore reason, because (and I said it's probably going to be weak), I imagine they'll have one just as they did for the lack of male Mithra in XI. The retconning does not bother me. I've retconned things before, many people do so. The people roleplaying Miqo'te males in 1.0 don't bug me, either, because at least I'm aware that they were playing Miqo'te males. I admit I would have found it odd at first, but I'd have grown to accept it. I'm a person who prefers to RP with what we've been given in the world, but I know people like to extend upon that and that's fine. Again, this is the entire reason as to why I roleplay. People changing my story are what I want. But when a change happens that can't be explained IC and things need to be retconned, then I'd like to be told so I can amend my own history and anything else that needs to be changed. If I was in an IC relationship with someone and they decided to retcon to a different gender or race I'd like to be told (not asked), so that I know anything that I need to change myself. I've already covered this quote further up, but I didn't say at all that I expect roleplay to be as tidy and clean as a novel, and the shallow quote is incredibly out of context. You can quote and match up random words to make an argument if you wish, but it's a pretty poor attempt at a point.

I don't mean to offend you here, but if you can't just roll with it without being utterly baffled, you probably shouldn't be playing a game that involves large amounts of improvisation. If I'm playing with a Hyur male in 1.0 and he shows up day one of ARR as Miqo'te male, I know it's because Miqo'te male wasn't available in 1.0 and this is how he envisions his character. If he wants to say "((hey, I prefer this race for my guy. Hope that isn't a problem.))" that's fine and most would consider it polite. If he doesn't though, I'm an adult and I can use my context clues to figure it out on my own. I'm not saying there are zero instances where race is important. In LOTRO, I played a dwarf. My backstory involved me being a blacksmith, living under a mountain, and being proficient with axes. If I were an elf, I couldn't go around singing the Song of the Lonely Mountain as easily. But FFXIV is different. In this game, we are given a world that is more-or-less a melting pot. Sure there are more Wildwood than Highlanders in Gridania on average, but overall everyone is everywhere and does everything, so race should be much less important than it is in many other fantasy games. Do what you want with your character. I won't judge you because it's your character. Yes in FFXIV the races do interact with each other and live in cities together. That doesn't make them the same. The lore is constantly being updated and we are being told and shown by the developers how different the races and their history are, because they're supposed to be different. Miqo'te are not Hyur with tails and cat ears, and changing from a Hyur to a Miqo'te without editing the character/history is acting as though they are. The thing is, and I said this once already, if someone didn't let me know that their character was always supposed to be a Miqo'te or doesn't warn me that it's happening, when I log in and they're acting all buddy-like with me as if we've known each other for however long we have IC, it's going to cause some confusion. If I'm warned in advance or even told when I begin RPing with someone that they're supposed to be X or Y, then I have no issue with it. Miqo'te males weren't around in 1.0 for whatever reason SE decided. We didn't see any NPCs or PCs as them in 1.0, and presumably there's some (I admit, probably weak) lore reason for such that SE has yet to announce. Retconning to that you were one of the only ones around adventuring during the days of 1.0 feels off in my opinion. If you want to play one of these new race/gender combinations that's great, but why do you feel the need to change your already established character that is linked to many different people's stories? If I was reading a book and one day the character was a Human and in the sequel she's an Elf because the writer decided he wanted her to be an Elf all of a sudden, I'd label that poor writing. And, slightly off topic but I'll respond, saying "I don't mean to offend you here" followed by something clearly designed to offend someone is pretty shallow. Edit: English fail. x)

People throwing race away as though it's not a defining characteristic are baffling me a little bit here, I'll be honest. Race is always a huge deal in the fantasy genre, whether it's from books, films or video games. Yes, play what you like is a huge deal, however my issue is if I've been RPing with someone for over a year and our characters are close and this person is a Hyur, and then suddenly skip forward to ARR and they're now a Miqo'te. If I haven't been told that they were supposed to be a Miqo'te in 1.0, or even told they're going to change to Miqo'te, then it's a tad confusing. I don't think there's an issue with warning people you're going to do it. Not ASKING them if you can, but at least having the courtesy to say you aren't going to be the same race so people can prepare for how it will change their RP/if there needs to be any retcon happening. Race isn't THE defining feature of a character, but it should be a very important feature in my opinion. The reason the races are even given this individual lore is to show that they're different from one another. They're not Humans in different skins, and changing race without saying anything gives me the impression that people presume they are. Let's put it this way. My character was a Dragoon in 1.0, always has been. I've RPed him as a Dragoon since release, but come ARR I saw Arcanist and Summoner was being released. So I decide that he's been a Summoner since 1.0, and wasn't a Dragoon without giving warning to anyone I RPed with in 1.0. I'm aware race and 'job' are very different to each other, but I still think both are very important characteristics of a character. Personally I'm not a fan of the "changing race I was this all along", but I have no issue with it so long as people involved with the person changing are at least alerted that it's happening. If your character is involved with someone, it's part of their story. If you suddenly change their race without warning, yes you're changing your own story but you are also changing their's without letting them know.

:angel: On topic! I'm interested in this! I'm free around 10am East Coast time till early-mid afternoon. My time zone sucks for this sort of thing I'll admit, so don't worry if you can't schedule it to fit me in! I'm sure there'll be plenty other chances!

That's taking the saying 'food baby' to a whole new level. Get better soon, sick Gerik! Art is wonderful as always! :thumbsup:

Welcome! As the others have said, I doubt anyone would be angry for a disappearance when you have a valid reason. Everyone has a real life! Looking forward to seeing you post around the forums!

Hello there! Welcome to the forums! Have a good time! Looking forward to seeing you around~.

Welcome (back) to the forums! Looking forward to seeing you around and in-game come release!

So much new art and it's all amazing! My favourite has to be the Lulu Kerr, though. Actually made me laugh in real life when I saw it! x) Keep it up, Gerik! Amazing as always!

Oh my gosh top moogle. I want it. No, I need it. Amazing work and style! I'm very excited to see more from you!

Welcome to the forums and the community! Good to have you here! Unfortunately I wasn't around at the end of 1.0 and the information that's been released so far for the time jumpers is quite limited, so I can only echo what others have said in this thread! Fingers crossed, though, that more information is released soon so you can develop your character the way you want! Looking forward to seeing you around the forums and in-game come release!

Good of you to make an introduction post! Like the others have said, welcome!

This is soooo exciting! I can't believe there's so many hairstyles from the looks of that screenshot! That's amazing news. x) I'm really interested to see the male Lalafell ones. And the female ones. I've never been tempted to make another character until I saw the long hair on that female Roegadyn... Oh dear.

I am the least artistic person I know. BEHOLD.

Hello! Welcome to the forums! I looove the sound of your character! Reminds me of Faris from Final Fantasy V! Looking forward to seeing you around the forums and in-game come release! Any questions, feel free to ask or take a look at the wiki! There's tons of valuable information piled in there. Have fun!

Hi there! Welcome to the RPC! I'm sure you'll have a great time here! It took me some time to find the RP community too, but I'm so glad I did! Hopefully you'll feel the same. Looking forward to seeing you around the forums and in-game come release!

...What cupcake?

That Lalafell. As a plushie. Make it happen SE! D: In other news: That artwork is great :3 I love how the Job armour looks in ARR and it's nice to see such great art of it. All this teasing gets me excited! :blush:

Hello there! Welcome to the RPC! Always nice to see new people! As Abodo said, Open Beta is Phase 4. Currently the beta test has finished Phase 2 and is now awaiting Phase 3, which is apparently coming soon! Looking forward to seeing you around the forums and in-game come release!