On Extreme Role-playing Within XIV

[Caurcas]

Greetings, and baiting title aside I would like to begin a discussion over fringe role-playing within the game. No, not the usual degenerate type often debated, but rather what is almost never discussed. That being topics such as role-playing a character who might be racist, xenophobic or intolerant. A Garlean loyalist who believes in the cause, or a Xaela ultra nationalist. A moral compromised character. I've found these types of role-playing within XIV to be almost nonexistent and even treated as taboo. More so than even actual unseemly roleplay of the other type. This is strange to me, as I come from other games that have a much more varied community when it comes to types of characters roleplayed. It makes XIV's scene seem stagnant and boring. Thoughts on why?

[ItMe]

That being topics such as role-playing a character who might be racist, xenophobic or intolerant. A Garlean loyalist who believes in the cause, or a Xaela ultra nationalist. A moral compromised character. I've found these types of role-playing within XIV to be almost nonexistent and even treated as taboo.

IDK man that just doesn't sound fun.
I wanna at least RP something I'd be comfortable being IRL.

But also, while drama/conflict can be a fun addition to RPing, I find "uh oh someone's racist," to be a very limited and uninteresting drama.

[KizuyaKatogami]

IDK man that just doesn't sound fun.
I wanna at least RP something I'd be comfortable being IRL.

Rping a garlean or ascian sounds super fun tbh imo. More fun than the typical "Bar owner" or "Brothel owner"

[Rokke]

At the end of the day you are free to rp however/as whoever you want and others get to decide for themselves if they want to roleplay with you.

[TheMightyMollusk]

There's enough racism, xenophobia, and intolerance in the real world, most of us don't really want to see it in our escapism too.

[Lauront]

IDK man that just doesn't sound fun.
I wanna at least RP something I'd be comfortable being IRL.

To some (myself included) the idea behind RP is being able to act out such roles in the way that an actor does in a play. Although everyone has different preferences, to me the notion that I need to be comfortable with being something IRL in order to RP it is simply irrelevant.

There's enough racism, xenophobia, and intolerance in the real world, most of us don't really want to see it in our escapism too.

Equally turning it into a hugbox often seems to be more of the "real world" (really, the picture the media wish to paint of it) creeping into that escapism, wrapping around it and slowly strangulating it. This setting makes for a rather poor choice if one does not wish to see such elements in one's "escapism".

[Cyreil]

Maybe because it requires you to put yourself into the mindset of being racist, xenophobic and intolerant.

[FusiaRain]

Maybe because it requires you to put yourself into the mindset of being racist, xenophobic and intolerant.

Eh kinda half true half false.. That being said there are really only two races you are shown a reason to hate. First lalafells with how they go evil on you. Second garlens because the story lol.

Now your giving good reason to hate priest as well so could swing it without much...

Also Im all up for extreme torture rp both recieving and giving.


Also you dont really need a mind set just place how your character would feel in certain settings. The proplem is to many people get way to uncomfortable and dont know the difference of in character anger/hate and occ stuff.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

Eh kinda half true half false.. That being said there are really only two races you are shown a reason to hate. First lalafells with how they go evil on you. Second garlens because the story lol.

Shouldn’t Elezen be hated as well in that case? They killed Au Ra men, women and children because they looked dragon-like, orchestrated a war through lies and deceit and are openly racist toward their cousins - the Duskwight.

[Nethereal]

Maybe because it requires you to put yourself into the mindset of being racist, xenophobic and intolerant.

I mean rping a caricature of these things isn't hard.

Figure out what particular thing your character is biased against, anytime something comes up relating to your bias your character just does stuff disadvantageous to said bias.
It's not that hard and it really doesn't take any mindset it's just discrimination.

Lets not pretend it isn't easy to be a bad person and make advantageous decisions for fictional rp characters.