Mermaid

Well, I got curious and dug it up. If it's the comment I think it is, I think it's more likely it was downvoted for what was said about Ysayle. Other comments in the thread/chain mentioning not liking this or that character are also downvoted. As for the topic, I didn't hate Thordan. I saw him as something of an anti-villain and that was interesting to me. He had his people's interest in mind he just went about things the wrong way.

After reading this thread that's pretty much my opinion. This is my first time attempting to do MMO based RP and seeing this mentality of 'anything you write in /say is fair game for anyone' honestly makes me never want to use /say. I can only assume it's due to the prevalence of walk up RP where in most of my previous communities that wasn't exactly a thing. If I post a thread in a public forum and clearly label it as closed does that mean you should be able to jump in? The forum is public and everyone can see it, after all. If I decide to run my D&D campaign at a game store does that mean you can drop a sheet and a mini on the table, pull up a chair, and announce that you are joining the campaign? I should be running the game at my house if I want to be private, right? I honestly do believe that if you want something to be private you should keep it to /party or /tell but who am I to tell someone how they should be RPing. If someone wants to discuss their black market dealings using /say in the Quicksand without the Brass Blades/Immortal Flames/whoever arresting them then they have every right to even if people disagree with it. You never know why someone doesn't want you involved.

I genuinely have no clue where I heard it. Guess I must have read a misquote somewhere? The only thing I could dig up was a quote from an event saying winter hadn't come to the North Shroud specifically. I guess if there's some weird aether going on around there that'd make sense. It's closest to Coerthas which very clearly has some sort of ice aspected aether imbalance.

Actually, aren't the seasons in Eorzea all screwed up right now? I seem to remember there being some quote from the game that said Gridania hadn't seen a winter in 5 years. Meanwhile, their next door neighbors in Coerthas see nothing but snow. I remember some of the HW crafting quests talking about things like fashions, armor, and popular dishes changing because of that. I'm not sure if that would make it better or worse for getting seasonal goods.

The biggest problem is that we can't simply look at the prices of items in game. Prices scale too wildly based on the level of the item. Food items in starting cities can be as cheap as 5 gil while food items in Kugane are slightly over 2000 gil. I'm on the side of leaving things vague instead of giving a numerical value. If I had to give a number I'd either aim for the prices of lower level in game items (ie levels 1-20) or do a simple conversion rate like 10 Gil to 1 USD. I always prefer the KISS principle. As for my character I'd say she makes decent money between adventuring, playing at taverns, and occasionally helping at her mother's shop. By decent I mean she can cover the costs of adventuring (travel, food, equipment, etc), have a small apartment, and have a little extra to spend here and there. I'd consider her having the equivalent of a few hundred dollars on her when she walks into another town. Just enough to pay for an inn, food, and have a little to spend if say something goes wrong with her gear or she needs special armor for a dangerous job. She's very "middle class" financially.

Well, my main is on Jenova so I might see you around. Unfortunately, that character is very strictly a non-RP character so you won't see me RPing there. If you ever need something crafted (cause our MB can suck sometimes) or just want general help feel free to PM me here. I don't mind sharing the name of that character or giving out my Discord info I just don't like posting it publicly. I'm also always happy to do RP out of game if you aren't finding enough over there. :thumbsup:

I can't help but see his expression as looking disapprovingly at us. "Where's your holiday spirit?"

Not the lorebook that I can recall off the top of my head, but there's a river-dwelling Xaela tribe that uses their shed scales in shipbuilding. It's on the naming conventions thread. For the sake of ease, here's the information in question: Orben - A tribe that rides up and down the great inner river on boats woven from reeds and reinforced with scales from their own skin. It doesn't directly say they shed their scales but it'd probably be pretty gruesome if they didn't. Then again the Xaela can be pretty brutal.

Update 12/6/2017 Have a lot more free time these days so I'm giving this a much needed (minor) update and bump.

This kinda boggles me. I've really yet to see an FC publicly open to recruitment with some ridiculous standards for entry. Not saying it's not out there! I just haven't seen it in a good long while. Yeah, maybe there's an app. And your character has to meet people ICly. But if that's all a little much then I'd question whether the person has found the right hobby. I feel like the problem has less to do with ridiculous recruitment standards and more to do with peoples' perceptions. An FC can say it's open and accepting of everyone but from the outside looking in it still looks like a clique to a lot of people. There's plotlines and characters and all kinds of stuff can be really overwhelming to just jump into. Not to mention, who out there hasn't ever tried to join a group only to feel like the outsider? It's not really either side's fault and there's only so much that can be done about it. It's also like Zhavi said, the initial approach is the hardest for shyer people. I have to fight that battle constantly and I often lose. Plenty of people, myself included, are perfectly fine after enough of that ice is broken. There will always be a few lost causes though and really I can't blame anyone for not wanting to coddle the shyer RPers. It can feel like such a sisyphean task to drag us out of our shells.

Well, if this were a year ago I'd have been able to direct you to two popular linkshells but lately I haven't really heard of any. The only one that shows up in the RPC listings is this one. According to the page, it's for communication between FCs but it might be worth a shot asking about it? I'd also recommend asking one of the FCs if they have a linkshell, Discord, website, or anything else they'd be willing to let you in on without you having to join the FC. After all, if you're considering joining one eventually, they might be willing to let you see what they have to offer. The two I see the most are REC U and RPWay. If none of that works I know I saw an event advertised in Party Finder that claimed it would be happening regularly. I want to say I saw it pop up on a Friday but I honestly can't remember. Try to keep an eye on PF and look for it. Someone there's bound to have more information than I do.

Yeah, pretty much. There's a handful of headcanons I'll side eye but generally I let people do what they want and judge after I've seen it. If you handle a headcanon well I usually have no problem with it. The example in question is not something I would consider handled well.

Huh, didn't know that. I guess that's fair then. My line of thinking was that since their scales match their horns so well they must be made of the same stuff. Horns are usually keratin just like our fingernails. I would also assume that despite all the lizard jokes Au Ra would still be mammals. The only scaled mammal that comes to mind, the pangolin, has keratin scales. I guess that's why this thread exists though. One person's reptile is another person's pangolin. We won't know how it really is until the lore writers give us more information.

Actually, I'm in a very similar situation where I would practically be considered new blood as well and it's why I've just been reading this thread instead of posting an opinion. I started playing FFXIV when Heavensward dropped and squeezed a character on Balmung maybe a year ago. At first I tried to find linkshells but didn't really do anything and quickly fell out of it for several months. Then Stormblood hit and I saw new roleplaying opportunities so I came back here and tried being active. The whole time I've had this character I've RPed like...3 times. My schedule gets weird, I get terrified and don't message people to set up RP when I should, I'm intimidated by in game RP due to my poor typing skills and focus problems, and, just like the post I'm quoting, the established RPers and plotlines seem like an impenetrable wall to us newbies. Honestly though? I'm pretty sure 80-90% of those problems are me and not the lock or the server at all. I don't think the lock is a terrible thing either. It sucks and it's causing problems but I'm not really sure if there's much else that could be done about the issue. I also really doubt it's going to be the end of the RP community on Balmung anytime soon. The longer it goes the more RPers might thin out but there will always be returners, people rerolling old characters into new ones, and shy recluses, like me, hiding on the sidelines.

I'll be honest, I hated au ra when they first came out. While I didn't care that we didn't get viera, I hated that the reason was that they'd be too similar to miqo'te but what we got were still just hyur with animal parts. I wanted them closer to the concept art or at least females that were as intimidating looking as the males. When they finally grew on me and I made one, I turned on as many of the additional scales as I could and gave her slightly weird colors because I wanted her to not look human. Despite all that I still tend to go for lore accuracy myself. The fewer headcanons in an RP the easier it is for everyone to be on the same page. That doesn't mean I'm against them though. I've encountered the au ra/miqo'te have enhanced hearing headcanon and, despite being aware of the MCKF quote that's already been posted, I'm perfectly fine with it. Something like that is fun and interesting to me as long as it's not abused to let your character hear anything and everything they want. The ones I can't stand, however, are the sensitive scales and prehensile tails headcanons. In the case of the former, I'm pretty sure that's not how scales work. I think the closest thing we humans have is our fingernails. The nerves are under them not in them so how can they be sensitive? I imagine all they can really feel is temperatures intense enough to be felt through them and the pressure from them being touched. Furthermore, it reminds me of that terrible anime trope where catgirls have sensitive tails and they're so sensitive that touching them arouses them. It just reeks of ERP to me for that reason. The latter is also a that's not how it works situation. I've had cats for half of my life and their tails just aren't flexible enough. I do believe tails kind of act as a sort of extra half limb though. I think, for example, an au ra or miqo'te might hit someone with their tail to get their attention if their hands were occupied. In the case of my au ra, she'll swing her tail like a metronome or tap the end of it to the beat of music instead of tapping her foot. Also, not a headcanon but I cannot for the life of me figure out au ra horns! Not the hearing or any of that but how the heck do they sleep with them?! The in game /doze poses don't care at all about the fact that au ra have horns sticking several inches out the sides of their heads and I'm tempted to just ignore it being an issue myself. I'm pretty sure I've flat out forgotten to mention how my character would deal with that issue at least once. It drives me nuts every time I try to think about it.

So let me preface this by saying I have never been to any RP tournament and barely understand how any of this works. I would be in favor of a second place prize but that's purely because I'm a softie who wants more people to get goodies. Regardless of how little I know there is one thing I see here and that's you and your FC giving away hard earned gil that you never had to. Someone saying 'give more' to that is just flat out greedy. Someone saying you should give more is entitled. At the end of the day it's your tournament and if you're happy with it the way it is then be happy. Don't let anyone rain on your parade by telling you how they think it should be.

I thought that was canon? Doesn't the game explain all the dravanian enemies still out there as remnants of the horde? I think the lore book also said there's still like 10 dragoons in active service.

I messed around with the game's timeline a bit to make my character being a bard more reasonable. Wrote it as she's been a bard for a few years when in reality the actual job was only supposed to have reemerged in the past year. Due to the real passage of time since I started playing the game, I keep forgetting that isn't how it actually is. I was also told once that there were different versions of the echo with the WoL's being them all rolled into one and on steroids. I was lead to believe Minfilia heard Hydaelyn really clearly and got the visions meanwhile Krile understood every language and was really, really perceptive. Later MSQs have seemingly proven this false and it's more that some are more sensitive to this or that part of it apparently? So I wouldn't say I kept it as a headcanon but I liked that idea better and did minor lore bending to make it work more like that for my character.

That sounds like fun. Shenanigans are always good. My first thought, after reading her profile, was that they would both be easily tricked into doing some not so legal job if the opportunity arose and would probably only realize they'd been tricked halfway through. I wouldn't say Tsu's as gullible as Sassy but there's little she won't do if she thinks she's helping someone. Buuut something like that would require an intimate knowledge of the world and skill with setting up a plot/DMing neither of which I have so what you have in mind is probably a lot better. Probably better to discuss in Discords or PMs though so sure.

Holy cow, we have very similar problems. I actually have a Balmung character but my schedule is super sporadic so I can't really RP in game. I'm also just...not that fond of chat RP for anything beyond dialogue. I'm hesitant to suggest myself for RP since I'm similarly shy/insecure but I'm not sure how many other people here are really into slow, long form RP with no chance of meeting up in game. So that said if you're willing to deal with another shy person I have a brief character description (that should really be updated/expanded on) linked in my signature and I check these forums every couple days.

The idea behind us going to different places in ARR to unlock the spells was that Lily (the faerie tied to the WoL's soulstone) had lost her memories and we were taking her places to help her remember. Can't really remember how HW flavored us learning our spells. I want to say it was Surito Carito teaching us? SB makes everything screwy in regards to that since they decided to just give you most of your skills instead of tying them to quests. You can headcanon that part however you want. If I remember correctly, the last spell is actually taught to us by Lilac (the faerie tied to Setoto's father's soulstone).

I'm in a similar situation right now where I really want to do something RP related and have no outlet for it. I normally have at least one D&D or Pathfinder game I'm playing in but I don't even have that right now. I know how you feel OP it really sucks. Valde's pretty covered everything I wanted to say and far more eloquently than I could have. Have patience, be willing to use out of game resources, and write. My schedule is too sporadic to RP in game and that coupled with my insecurities means I barely get any. So when I really get the itch to do something I just start hammering out details in my character's past or write* little stories involving them. I'll admit it doesn't entirely scratch that itch but it makes me feel like I've done something productive. And make that "Looking for Connections" thread! If you're only hesitant because you've never made one before then remember that we're all new once. What have you got to lose? :thumbsup: * "Write" for me means work out a story in my mind, start writing it, get two paragraphs in, get stuck on something/start hating it, and delete the whole thing. Convincing myself to actually finish something is a work in progress.

I wonder how this place looks at night lit by lanterns. I shall have to see it sometime. After all, lights are always the most beautiful in the dark. Actually took this for something I researched and half finished last night. I had every intention of finishing it tonight but things were just ugh today. The longer it sits there unfinished the more likely I am to delete it... :dazed:

I understand the discrimination against OP's races. I don't agree with it but I understand it. "I'm sick of seeing Miqo'te." "Hyur are boring." "Lalafell are jokes." I'm sure we've all heard stuff like that. They're poor reasons but at least they're reasons This what I don't understand. Why are your characters' sexual orientations so significant? I don't understand what the problem is unless you're specifically looking for romance? Now I've only RPed here a few times so take everything I say with a grain of salt. I have a cis, straight, monogamous, female Au Ra and I didn't even think to mention any of that in the information I have up on her. The few people who've RPed with me have never asked her sexual orientation nor have they tried to do any sort of romance or sex related RP. To be fair, I haven't gotten a lot of RP, heck, I haven't even had someone ask me to RP with them again. I'm 99% certain, however, that has to do with me not putting myself out there and has nothing to do with a detail that I've listed nowhere and nobody's even bothered to ask about.

Still in love with this out of character glamour. Still in love with this friggin' mask. I wonder if the shrines in Shirogane would've made for better screenshots. I always feel like I'm invading someone's personal area by going into a district where I don't own any kind of housing or am a tenant though. My brain is weird.