Greetings to all

[Lumy]

Hello one and all, my name around here is Lumy and I just joined the site.

It's been quite a long time since I picked up an MMO or even roleplayed; I used to do a few sessions of D&D and Pathfinder back in the day (one-of adventures that we run in modules) and I do miss it terribly. I also spent most of my teenage years in a written collaborative roleplay site, where we weaved storied together in various settings.

 

I've decided to finally pick up FFXIV after a few interesting videos of dungeoning adventures sparked my interest. I was even more surprised when I found out that there is indeed an RP community within the game. It's been a long time since I got into these shoes, so please be patient with me. I've been playing the game to get used to the controls, etc. I'm getting confident enought that I won't make a complete fool of myself when I join this community in-game, but once again please be patient with me. :)

I'll be posting some character information and background soon and I'll be looking for some friends in the comming days. I'll leave you with a question regarding the roleplay aspect itself: do you usually type dialogue? If so, what are the different conventions for different actions? Like current speech, mind thoughts, expression actions, etc? Perhaps you could point me to some sort of guide on typing for roleplay withing FFXIV chat windows?

 

Thank you all and happy to meet you!

[Delilah Scythewood]

Welcome! Happy to have you

[UnidessGaming]

Welcome aboard! 

 

About your typing questions: in mmos you have to take into account that while ingame the action takes place in real time, so it is more akin to acting rather than writing. That said, the overall basic conventions are typing dialog in the Say channel (through the /s chat command, or keeping the channel as the primary one through the chat options) and indicating your character's actions and descriptions with custom emotes (through the /em command). Usually, thoughts or inner dialog are not written out as others would not be able to know what is going on in your character's head (unless they use some mind-reading magic or the like, at least ). If you really want it to transpire, the trick is usually describe your character's expressions and/or body language so that it could hint others on what is going on if they are perceptive enough, just like it happens in RL. 

 

These are just the basics, to which there are a miriad of little variations depending on personal style. If you'd like to have more details or want to discuss it more, feel free to PM me.

Edited April 24, 2019 by UnidessGaming

[Lumy]

Thank you for the typing conventions. I have seen people using emotes a lot in the game, seems like a common thing. Can you tell me a bit more on custom emotes? Let me know if you have a good resource link or tutorial.

[UnidessGaming]

I'll PM you with some examples and basic guidelines, as soon as I have some time to write them up.