Stuff I Miss From 1.0

[Fensfield]

Well to continue the little divergence..

I've yet to meet anyone got nasty about naming conventions or the like o.o On FFXIV anyway. I've never known such a laid back roleplay community as Balmung's. .. Everwatch aside >.>; Nobody's ever made me feel bad for lacking a formally written backstory or regular blog entries or the like, and my character profiles have never been more than something I made for my own enjoyment.

Why not come up with a reason for the non-racial-standard character names and the like? Forra here I RP'd from the start as being foreign, hyuran-raised and thus named peculiarly. It's fed his character all sorts of development o.o

Certainly though in the end, it's your character, and people who bother you about how you've designed them should really be dealt with as you would anyone else who makes claims about the game you don't agree with (IE: AF+1 for Castum only!): do not play with them if you can't find a happy medium, and if necessary, make use of your blacklist. Roleplay may be about fostering a healthy, fun community and there will always be a trade-off to not having as many sources for it if you choose not to with someone, but still, our characters are the products of our creative efforts. That at least grants us each the right to choose who we play with and how we play (and obviously respect that right for others).

.. This somewhat preachy post brought to you by my silly urge to avert the impression that the more community-development-oriented roleplayers of the game are by majority either elitist or.. whatever the word I'm looking for is. I mean okay I get uncomfortable when the netspeak creeps in but.. well, as above!