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I'm not super experienced in the whole roleplaying scene, particularly in games, but I'm planning on trying it out. I have quite a few OCs with meticulously planned backstories, and I'm going to write up AU versions of a couple of them for RP where they aren't WoLs/Azem, etc. I wanted to ask a couple questions about how people go about doing this and what's generally accepted among the community. Is it alright to have characters in romantic relationships with NPCs? Can you have a character whose Ancient counterpart was Azem, or another person of importance, or is that treated similarly to "everyone can't be the WoL"? Is there anything in particular you would avoid? Anything to think about specifically? Feel free to share stories about how you came up with RP versions of your characters, I'd love to hear them!

Hi! Just got directed to this site by a friend. I seriously enjoy learning about the different ways people build characters and interact with the lore of FFXIV so would love to poke around the site and see what people have done, but 1) don't know what exists where or if there are smooth entry points to read things 2) I'm mostly an independent writer and consider myself pretty experienced on that front. I have done small RPs in the past, usually with close friends and never with FFXIV. The approach I'm doing with my character I'd like to keep mostly self-contained and presented in a way that anybody could open a story I've written after playing the game and follow what's happening. Pretty canon compliant. In terms of what I make I might be open to limited collaborative stuff as fun, episodic experiments if people want and it doesn't directly contradict the direction I'm setting up with canon tone, but like I said I'm mostly independent and like to present things in ways that are friendly to new readers. I'm someone who is used to trading stories and prompts in kink-memes (places people request and write stories anonymously, don't have to be romantic despite the name), but FFXIV's is very dead. I love being able to write stuff as exercises and I seriously enjoy providing stories for people who have wanted to read something but don't feel like writing it out themselves. Is there room for someone like me at all? I get the sense RP is where most of FFXIV's writers go haha so been kind of wandering around going If anybody is interested and more context would help, this is the kind of thing I tend to do.

So... I tried the game on ftp a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it, but couldn't afford to keep in it. Now, I've lost my contact info to the deep depths of time, and picked the game up and am starting fresh. I have an idea of the classes I like (to start at least), but what I don't have any idea about is where to start, or how to start in RP. So, I guess my questions should be itemized for ease of response? I've looked at the responses to "what server is best" and every option mentioned (at least in Aether) is "not accepting players" right now. So, should I try another Data Center in expectation of the "world crossing" update someone mentioned, or is there a better time of day that I should wait for? How does one find a RP guild (linkshell, I think is the term); are there recruiters in chat or is it more of a "do random RP posts in the hopes of getting contacted"? Are there races that have an expectation of lore knowledge or negative connotations that will make finding RP harder? (I realize this one is weird, but I've experienced character isolation based on race choice before, mostly in SWTOR) Sorry about asking so much, just kind of want to get in and play when I get the chance to, and maybe find some people to hang out with and talk to while I grind my level and job(s) up. Thanks so much for replies and help, everyone!