Does Anyone Worksafe RP here?

[Theodric]

Only level 1 alts does ERP and they are very easy to identify.

That used to be the case when there was a sense of subtlety and tact. In the present day, however, it isn't unusual to see people brazenly advertising their search and availability for ERP even on their main characters. Generally through using Twitter, Reddit or even other third party tools such as Carrd and Discord.

Of course, feel free to take that with a pinch of salt since the rules being what they are ensure that evidence cannot be linked here but it is what it is.

[Illmaeran]

Hi all.

I've recently come back to the game after a 6-ish year hiatus and Lockdown means I'm really wanting to rp a bit in this game. Problem is, we've all heard the horror tails that is the RP scene on this game and I wanted to know, is there anywhere that does RP that isn't filled with smuttery? I just wanna do slice of life scenes and casual, fun RP without it going the way of Balmung Limsa Lominsa. Currently on Tonberry atm, but I don't mind changing servers and actually plan to once the Oceana servers open.

I'm on Atomos, feel free to hop on over and give me a chat. I haven't RPed in XIV before so don't really have much of a framework to go on, but I do enjoy it, am happily married IRL and have a strict rule of only SFW, NO ERP, or romantic relationship RP. My character is Il'lmaeran Quel'lar, feel free to send a friend invite.

[MrSmiley]

the prevalence of erp is overstated, I played on balmung from launch until 2 weeks ago, the server "known" for getting "random erp tells at any time" and only ever got a suspicious tell once (and not even sure if they were trying something or just being dumb because I had no clothes on after a class swap). People in duty finders would bring it up all the time but my other friends in balmung had no experience with it happening either.

You can always detail what your looking for in party finder, but I wouldn't worry about that too much.

[Arillyn]

There is a lot of SFW RP. People like to throw ERP out there all the time like that's the defacto - and it is there, I'm not going to pretend it's not. But a lot of people RP and never go down that road. I have a couple of RP characters on Balmung that I play with friends and have for years, and we've never done any ERP or even considered it.

[Burmecia]

Be the change you want to see.
It's not easy, probably, but just if the pre-existing stuff is not to your liking, make your own.

[kaynide]

Welcome to Tonberry! Feel free to /wave me down anytime.

Personally I don’t really roleplay, but I have friends who do. I sometimes join in and it’s pretty tame (well, they roleplay and I’m just me tbh).

I’d say the places I meet people is the aether Crystal in Gridania. Limsa works, but Gridania usually feels more…I dunno… safe?

You could just /say around the Gridania what your looking for and probably find something. Just as others said be clear what your looking for and not interested in from the start.

[Kolaina]

Stop pretending erp on balmung doesn’t exist or is over stated. Maybe you’re just numb to it or so focused on your own rp that you miss it. But I have walked through thal, heading from doing blue mage things to a summoning bell. Then from there, On my way to bald, just before I get there, I see it in say.
This really caught my attention because it wasn’t the usual back alley s worker stuff I’ve run into. Or someone bragging how they have 2 cat girls and looking to share. (Also just casually said ad if normalcy). But what I saw was borderline beastiality.
I don’t care what you all do. Though I do think you all should take a lot of it to party chat. Make your own fc’s for it and chat there. Link shells. What ever. But let’s not pretend some screwed up stuff doesn’t exist because it puts a dark spot on something you love

[Maulclaw]

Most of RP in this game is SFW. People honestly talk about ERP more than there is ERP actually happening.

Yeah, it has become a meme. Reminds me a lot of the way people treated TERA Online. For years the game got called out for being "littered with ERP". The irony in that statement was that the roleplay scene... barely existed to begin with; and it eventually died out completely. Yet people still claim that it's full of it even when the RP servers shut down. So, yeah...

[Lunalepsy]

Hi all.

I've recently come back to the game after a 6-ish year hiatus and Lockdown means I'm really wanting to rp a bit in this game. Problem is, we've all heard the horror tails that is the RP scene on this game and I wanted to know, is there anywhere that does RP that isn't filled with smuttery? I just wanna do slice of life scenes and casual, fun RP without it going the way of Balmung Limsa Lominsa. Currently on Tonberry atm, but I don't mind changing servers and actually plan to once the Oceana servers open.

People talk about it a lot, but it rarely happens.

[KayRadley]

Yes, there is still plenty of SFW RP. For my part: I don't see anyone getting nasty in the streets on Mateus.