Roleplaying

[FJerome]

We're a Light RP FC - for us the distinction is we're lazy about keeping distinctions between in-character vs out-of-character, we mostly rely on everyone being able to figure out what we're on about from context, and we usually don't bother keeping in-character or RPing with people outside the FC.

On the other hand we're sticklers for lore and part of the reason we keep a closed group is because it keeps our internal chronology consistent (we don't have to explain away why there's somehow 30 White Mages, for example) so I guess some people would consider that heavy RP.

[ExiledOne]

keeping distinctions between in-character vs out-of-character

I imagine it would take some effort to stay in-character 100% of the time.

I have read that Balmug is THE RP server but I didn't realize how many seek ingame dating.
[edit: I don't know why this surprised me since characters can now get married, indicating that in-game relationships are popular]

I had only thought of roleplaying as in ffxiv lore and wondered what that meant to FCs that advertise as RP focused.

[FJerome]

I imagine it would take some effort to stay in-character 100% of the time.

It's more that we're all people who were forum and chat-channel RPers as babies and so we grew-up with the convention that IC talk has no markers and OOC talk has some sort of marker like {{OOC talk goes here}} or some-such. You never quite move on from the feeling that if you're not using markers to indicate OOC talk you're being a terrible person.