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(07-11-2015, 04:07 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Allow me to begin by saying you're completely correct: There's nothing wrong (and in some respects, you're benefitted) with being an off-worlder.
You are, of course, completely ignorant of the world you're roleplaying in. That's not necessarily bad! Some folks are patient enough to put up with someone showing up and not knowing any better. Some folks, of course, are also liable to not give a single fuck as to your world-hopping backstory. None of the XI lore carries over in an overt way - The races aren't the same, the world isn't the same, and everything you know is wrong.
As mentioned earlier, you FFXI character is as-believable as someone RPing Captain America or Jon Snow in FFXIV. They know nothing, ain't from around here and don't know better.
No one will stop you from playing such a character, but you might find some folks unwilling to RP with you. These aren't the same thing, after all.
I think there's a large difference in someone from a similar world (XI and XIV) and someone from a world so drastically different (Earth, or whatever the GoT world is called, I don't watch it).Â
I never played XI personally, so I can't attest to how similar they are, but the races are in some aspects similar and yet different. There'd be a much smaller period of adjustment, I would think, in being someone from XI as opposed to someone from Earth, for example. I don't think there's a specific problem with pulling in someone from a similar Final Fantasy world if you can find a reasonably plausible method of getting them here. For Glioca, for example in the world she was last on, died. She died and went into the Void (that world had a void similar to XIV's concept of it), her host died, she took over her host after being spit out of the Void, and poof! Eorzean with mixed memories (not a zombie)!
You could technically play Captain America, but that's a more extreme example of someone playing a world-traveling character. In this instance, we're talking about things that are roughly aligned along the same general axis. A fantasy world with similar and in some cases shared elements (Moogles, Chocobo, Cactaur, similar races, similar foods in some instances, etc). Another Final Fantasy world. This makes things much simpler as opposed to much more difficult.Â
I have plenty of characters I'd love to make into characters here, and in those cases, I'd rewrite their history to make them be from XIV and have similar backstory elements, rather than porting them wholesale into the world. But there are some characters where that kind of rewrite doesn't feel right, or like it does that particular character justice.Â
Allowing someone to play someone from a similar world doesn't mean we have to accept someone from all different types of worlds. And for the record, if someone played a WWE character in XIV, I imagine them becoming a showmanship gladiator in Ul'dah pretty damn fast, I'm just sayin'.Â
The point is that we can't technically allow someone to be anything. They have the right to RP what they want. All we can do is point them in the right direction of people who are willing to role-play with that type of character, and ourselves say 'I respect this idea, but I don't want to interact with that type of character, I'm sorry.' And that's not what we're doing in this thread.
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