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Ooo.. a story night! I used to host these in WoW and a NWN server. Can't wait to see what everyone has in store. Will have to bring my bardic alt though.

Saw this on tumblr too but... you have it on "saturday SEPTEMBER 13th"... except there is an error in there somewhere. The current month is August and it has a 13th on the saturday. September is next month and the 13th is on a tuesday. I have learned never to assume anything so which is the correct date? Aug 13 (sat) or Sept 13 (tue)?

updated for 8/1-8/7 [*]Note: Some of the links have updated

Howdy there! For the eyepatch there are a few workarounds as I know a few of the pirate/tricone hats have built in eyepatches. Might not be exactly what you're looking for but it could work enough to let you RP until you get the other one. Feel free to check out the [balmung] RP Event Calendar and the newly renovated [balmung] RP Venue Listing.

Yar. 5pm PST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST... So wish we could all just go to UTC and forgo not only timezones but daylight savings as well. One of the benefits to using something like Google Calendar is that it auto converts the time changes.

Side Projects I work on: [balmung] RP Event Calendar - a google calendar of all public RP events on the Balmung server. Every week I try to do a blast of that week's Upcoming Events. It also has a Tumblr blog where I post flyers about event announcements. SUBMIT YOUR EVENT HERE! [balmung] RP Event Notices linkshell - get (or give!) ingame announcements about upcoming RP events. [balmung] Public RP Venue Listing - a listing of all public PC run RP Venues. Looking for a tavern? Wonder what shops you can make use of? Maybe there are other gems out there you don't know about! SUBMIT YOUR VENUE HERE! Events I run: Nefzen's Fight Club - Every monday at 9pm (Eastern) until whenever people leave (generally 11-midnight).

Hey all! Along with doing the [balmung] RP Event Calendar I have a pet project of collecting what public PC run RP Venues are out there (Started out with just taverns but I've since expanded!). When the patch hit I decided to do a total overhaul and find a much better way of displaying everything. Summer got hectic so it was put on hold but at last I've been able to work on it! So I present to you: [align=center][balmung] RP Venue Listing[/align] Yes, I know this page is on Tumblr but that was the easiest place for me to put it up. You don't have to have a tumblr account to use the listing. You can filter the entries by zone or by type! What is a public RP Venue, you ask? It's any place maintained by players for all RPers to come by and RP in. This includes taverns, shops, cafes, inns, libraries, clubs, etc. Venues must either be Always Open or have regularly scheduled open times to be on the listing. Full requirements are on the submission form linked below. If you have a venue you would like added (changed or removed) to the listing then please Fill Out This Submission Form. 2016-07-30: The listing is still somewhat a WIP however the template is fully done and I'm adding the last few submissions I have.

No need to apologize! The "Balmung RP Event Calendar" Is actually something I run personally and isn't apart of the RPC. I'm also working on my new Balmung RP Venue listing right this very moment. I'll make sure the calendar get updated with the ward change.

Put the 29th on the calendar. Hope I got the times right. GMT +0? Feel free to fill out this submission form for the calendar or, better yet since it's an RP Venue have it added to the Venue Listing HERE.

So sad! I was just getting time to swing by too. Pulled it from the calendar for now. If you reopen please let me know!

Alright folks! Events updated. Sorry for lack of updates but I've been offline since before June 18. Things have settled down and updates should be regular again, though I'm still traveling till the 31st. Also if you have an event you want added please PM me or better yet: >SUBMIT EVENTS HERE<

Is this still going on at all?

TONIGHT! Though we'll be cutoff a bit early due to maintenance. And.. I"M ACTUALLY HOME FOR TONIGHT! Hope to see folks there though I know it's end of summer chaos.

Hey everyone! I've been pretty much offline for the past month dealing with traveling all over the country. I've got another week of travel but after July 31 things will be settling down at last. WHEW! In the meantime also seek out Erah'sae Zhwan for invites.

I'm currently on vacation and am currently unable to log into the game. I'll let Erah'sae know though so an invite might come from him. I won't be back ingame until after the 12th of July.

This the 23rd?

6/13-6/19 posted

/bump TODAY!!

I thought the same thing till I re-read the first paragraph up towards the top. Hey Savo when you make these you might want to put that info a bit easier to find for folks. When: June 15, 2016 @ 8:00 EST Where: Cen. Thanalan (x22, y13)

Hey Grum, what's the new address so I can update the new calendar? Any chance I can get you to fill out the venue form so i can add it to my new venue listing?

Enh.. in some ways I'm still a newbie myself for hosting events. Fight Club is my only FFXIV one. But I observe and know folks who run events and hear from them. Before I write that up I think I'll have to deal with moving first so it won't be till late July at the soonest.

Tips and Tricks of scheduling & advertising a successful event. So you have this great idea for an RP event! AWESOME! You get everything together, get your friends/fc members to staff it, then the time comes and.... maybe a handful of people show up. Bummer. For starters, how did you advertise your event? Told your friends? Told a linkshell or two? Tossed out a couple shouts and maybe advertised in party finder? Secondly, WHEN did you tell them? A couple days beforehand? THE DAY OF?! When planning your event you need to give yourself TIME to let word spread. Anyone who's ever tried to schedule anything with more than 5 people can tell you that you need to schedule it at least ONE WEEK in advance or people might have other stuff going on. Works for real life, works ingame too. FC's have their own internal RP events scheduled so if you want that FC to be able to attend they need to know ahead of time to reschedule/cancel their stuff. So you want to schedule it, but when SHOULD you? First pull up the calendar and see what's already scheduled. Do NOT try to find a day that has nothing going on! It's very rare that there is a day that doesn't have SOMETHING going on. Doesn't matter though. The RP community on Balmung is so vast that it can support a couple major events not only on the same day but at the same time. That being said, trying NOT to schedule opposite another major event would be a good thing. Most events run anywhere from 2-4 hours so if one event starts at 8pm you can probably safely schedule yours anywhere from 4-6pm with plenty of time to go from one to the other. Also remember that earlier times are more EU friendly! Looking at the calendar, my nifty color coding doesn't appear to come through so how does one tell a major event apart from a smaller one? First off, "Does it repeat"? If the answer is yes, then don't worry about conflicting with it. That doesn't mean it's a 'small' event, just that because it's a regularly occurring one that it's perfectly fine to schedule opposite of. Now, you have a date and time picked out! What's next? CREATE A FLYER! If you're handy with a graphics editing program you can make a fancy graphic but it's not necessary. A flyer is simply a post (blog, thread, website, whatever) that has all the information about the event. It can be simple text, fancy text, full on graphic, ANYTHING as long as it has the information on it. "But Nefzen, what info does it need?" SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! Your flyer should have the following information on it in an EASY TO READ font: Event Name Date (Gregorian! Eorzean dates are nice for RP flavor text but don't make it the only date!) Time (Suggest including both start and end times) & Timezone (EST, GMT, PST, UTC, daylight savings?) Does this event repeat? (Weekly, every two weeks, monthly) Location [Example: Goblet Ward 15, Plot 99 or Central Shroud (x20, y19)] Is there a Fee? Is there a Theme? Specific Attire preferred? Short description of the event ((You can check the Event Submission Form for all the info you need, but don't fill it out till you have a URL)) It's alright to do fancy fonts in one area as long as all that text is clearly typed out somewhere else as well. Also don't make the font too small.... even young people have a hard time reading below a 12pt font. In addition to your short description please feel free to go into a far more detailed description including any prizes that can be won, rules for the event, why you are charging a fee, and all that. Go into as much detail as you want as long as everything in that list above is listed clearly. If you wish to do a fully RP themed flyer, that's cool as long as you have an OOC section that includes all the relevant OOC information like the gregorian date and time. Remember that Eorzean dates are NOT a 1 to 1 translation! They have an 8 day week and 32 day months!! Every 7th gregorian day covers TWO Eorzean days as a fudge, but it's not perfect especially when leap year happens. Note: If you want a fancy graphic made but don't have the skills to make it you can commission cassyqq! Her commission info is HERE. Let me say one thing about presentation of a flyer for a moment because there is how it should be and then there is reality. In a perfect world all events are treated the same and everyone attends things simply on the merits of if they want to attend or not. However, this is reality. Reality is that having a more 'polished' event flyer can turn a good event into a blockbuster. If you put the effort into making your event shine it WILL pay off. People see the difference and will respond to it, subconsciously more often than not. If it wasn't that way then the whole advertising industry wouldn't exist. So trust me when I say this: brush it up. Use different types of fonts, add some color, make the text bigger, add some images. It doesn't take MUCH. Look at this: Then compare it to this: It doesn't take much!! The only graphic in that second one is the map. It's all just text editing that most forums allow. For Tumblr you can edit your post in HTML or Markdown. Thankfully by this point your flyer is made.. people should be flocking to your event right? WRONG! Now you need to PUBLICIZE THE HELL out of your event. You need to take that flyer and post it EVERYWHERE.. repeatedly! For starters I always suggest making a forum post in the RPC's Event Forum. If you have a tumblr, you can then post it there, but you need to make sure you tag it properly so people can FIND it when they search. Here are the tags I use: balmung rp event, ffxiv rp event, balmung rp, balmung. This is VERY important! proper tagging means that if anyone has one of those tags 'followed' then your post might show up on their dash even if they are not following you. Not only do I "follow" those tags but I have the searches for those tags bookmarked. "But Nef! My Tumblr doesn't have many followers and it's not FFXIV focused!!" NOT a problem! You can do one of two things: 1) post on your personal tumblr and tag @balmungrpcalendar. This will notify me of your post and I can reblog it. 2) You can post DIRECTLY to the balmungrpcalendar tumblr! Simply go to the "Submit to blog" page and pick what kind of post you want to make: Text, Photo or Link. You can then make a post just like normal, then check the relevant tags that apply to your event. NOTE: With your tumblr post be sure to include a link to your Forum thread, where ever that may be, as well as a contact person/blog for people who might have questions. Other places to consider posting your event: Official Balmung forums, doing "shout" in the major cities, making a "party finder" with the info of your event. When all is said and done, go fill out the Event Submission Form for the Calendar and I'll get that information in the gCal! "Alright Nef! It's on the calendar and we've posted it everywhere! Everything is done till the event... right?" WRONG AGAIN! Just because you posted it ONCE doesn't mean you just let it go. You need to check your threads, answer any questions, add any additional information, and just /bumb your thread if it threatens to fall off the first page. Your tumblr posts should be reblogged every 3 days or so. Then the day before and the day of your event you should /bumb or reblog AGAIN. Now, remember you don't want to overdo it or it get's spammy and annoying. The best way to go about it is whenever you have information to add or no less than every 3 days. "Thanks Nef! We've got a flyer, posted it, publicized it.. now how do we make sure this event is amazing?!" Um.. yea.. that's a story for another time perhaps. In any case I hope this helps people get the word out about their awesome events!! Update 2017-06-08: Fixed graphic links. Shouldn't break now. Yes I might not be running the calendar anymore but I'm still around a bit. ;-)

Still open tonight?

updated!

SPECIAL EDITION FIGHT CLUB! Saturday 6.11.2016 3-5 pm EDT Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (x9,y15) Since the patch is on monday there is no Fight Club at the regular time. A PERFECT time to shift things around and hold it at a time where the EU folks might be able to come and play! So everyone come on out this Saturday and enjoy throwing punches or just watching the fighting. Rules are simple: No MAGIC! No Killing! Try not to maim, though thanks to Krick, Josachi, and Gracie we’ve had healers attending pretty regularly. New rule (thanks to Marl): If you are seriously injured and refuse healing/treatment then we reserve the right to stop you from fighting for the rest of the event. This is because we’re all having fun and it’s not fun watching someone try and permanently cripple themselves.