SE, please designate a Role Play friendly server!

[Brigandier]

I don't really get the RP-hate either, myself. Most of it is based on stereotypes that aren't even true, and it seems... flat-out silly for one socially "iffy" hobby to further subdivide itself so it can have someone to bully. It feels like the somewhat-marginalized "gamer" crowd is finding an arbitrary subdivision within itself, trying to establish some sort of baffling pecking order so they get to be on top of something. As for me, I prefer to hang out around RPers even when not RPing since generally they put more thought into what they type and I don't have to wade through an impenetrable shroud of text totes typed liek this k ttyl bai, lolz.

I'll be serious for a post instead of trolling. Stereotypes usually have a basis in truth, and RPers are not the exception. I don't doubt there are a lot of RPers that do what they do in /linkshell or in unpopulated areas, but there are quite a few that do, enough that within the first month of the game's launch on Besaid my blist had around 80 of them and it still didn't feel like I had blocked most of it out. I've even had people attempt to send me random /tells trying to draw me into their RP shit.

I hear complaints sometimes about RPers spamming up the chat channels with thees and thous, but seriously... nobody talks like that, in character or out, with the exception of a notable few and they're generally regarded as every bit as strange as you'd expect. And can you honestly tell me RPers have a monopoly on spamming the chat channels? Really? Most RPers I know tend to avoid verbose RPs in populated areas out of consideration for others anyhow.

Welcome to every other group in existence. You'll be judged by the extreme parts of your organization that actually get other people's attention. I would agree there are RPers that don't bother anyone, the ones we're irritated with are your group's Westboro Baptist Church.