GM Responses, Roleplay Advertising, and Party Finder - Megathread

[Arillyn]

Honestly SE should just have an RP tab in the party finder. You don't want to do RP? Don't go to that tab. GMs can monitor that tab like any other in PF (which btw from what I've seen over the years - they don't).

On a personal note, I'm seriously over people who equate RP with somehow being ERP or leading to it. They aren't the same thing at all. I don't RP on this character. I have a couple characters on Balmung that I do RP with and I've never been involved in ERP there. I found it funny, and a bit sad, when world visits opened up and people from other worlds started visiting Balmung only because most of them in the first week or so were trolls who thought it was funny to go over there and start saying some crazy things in shouts or were expecting their stereotype to be true and find ERP on every street corner. That's never been my experience on Balmung at all.

I've also never gone to a venue on Balmung that charged gil for an RP event. I mean, maybe it exists there? I've just never heard of it until the the few threads lately saying that's the norm on Aether and Primal. My first impression of those threads was "Huh, I guess people decided this was going to be their money-maker. I'd never pay for that, but whatevs."

I've played this game since 1.0. RP has always been a huge part of this game for many people. I know a lot don't do it, don't even get it and that's fine. I haven't always been a roleplayer myself, but it can be a lot of fun if you get the right people and write out stuff together. Even when I'm not roleplaying, when I run into rolerplayers out "in the wild" who are doing their thing it makes me smile. They are enjoying the game and it makes the world more alive. Also, I've noticed that people who roleplay tend to stay subscribed even through the content lulls.

tldr; SE needs to have an RP tab in PF. People need to stop equating RP with ERP (they aren't the same thing) and people need to stop being so judgey about RP (good grief!).