(08-02-2013, 10:21 PM)Sidonus Wrote: Except no one should ever have to retcon a story ever unless you pull something out of this world such as making yourself a god of some sort. What happens with your character stays with your character regardless of if you wanted something different to happen. And never did she want to become a god ever, a central place of knowledge for magic users is a good idea. Each guild would be more specialized in there obvious schools such as Black Magic and such but the central place of learning is a place for everyone to learn about each school.I'd say in a perfect environment this would be true, but when you write outside of the lore and you try to add things or make assumptions based on facts that don't exist you end up either playing a game that very few others are playing (meaning your interpretation is drastically different from everyone else), or you're forced to change your idea to conform to new information. As Freelance suggested, creating your own academy to fit these means is far safer than suggesting that another in game faction could fill this role when we don't know enough about them.
(08-02-2013, 10:04 PM)Evie Wrote: Okay so when I started this post I meant it more as a curiosity of how this group of people handled things. In my experience different groups handle things differently, so I was just curious how y'all handled things.I think you might be misunderstanding the responses you are being given, no one is trying to tell you that how you RP is wrong, or even attempting to convince you to do things differently. Ultimately what everyone is trying to say, in their own way, is err on the side of caution when coming up with things not covered in the lore, you never know if the material might get added later on.
For example, with Star Wars, as this is where my experience is with RP, past forum RPs and my own personal writings, essentially there is two sets of lore. The official lore of Star Wars, which is solely relegated to the six Star Wars movies. This is what Lucas himself has said on the subject. All the other lore (the books, encyclopedias, etc.) is it's own separate world, an alternate reality. Which essentially says that a person can make up whatever lore up they want, i.e "fandom" is acceptable.
As I'm not familiar with Final Fantasy in anyways, I came here as an experienced RPer looking for information about lore. Instead I get lectured on how to properly RP.
If I offended anyone into thinking that their way of RP was wrong or that not having an in-depth backstory makes your character a generic character and not interesting, I apologize if it came across in that manner. That's not what I intended.Â
However, how I RP and write is my PERSONAL choice, and being told that I should only "build my character through RP" and not worry about going into an in-depth backstory because that's the best way to do it, makes me generally feel as if I am being told that I RP WRONG. A character with an in-depth backstory can hugely change through RP. I just like to know who my character is and where my character comes from.
A good example would be having your character be from a place in the world that has very little information offered about it, for the sake of this example we'll use Ishgard. Now let's say you put a lot of backstory into this character, covering all different kinds of facets of their life in the city, how they grew up, what it was like there, what the city looked like, etc. Then let's say that they open up the city and we get a flood of new lore about Ishgard that entirely contradicts everything you wrote about your character, it could potentially make you retcon your character, or even make it entirely obsolete.
So in short, as I've said before, it's always safer to simply err on the side of caution.
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