#ffxiv rp

[kenatastic]

Looking for FFXIV Mutuals!

Preferably but not exclusively fellow artists! Gposers, RPers, etc I'd be more than happy to be mutuals with!

I just wanna interact with more XIV stuff and have people to like and rb posts from!

Just like this post so I can check out your account. Reblogs appreciated!

[dustedbooksandreadingnooks]

Practice your Eorzean!

Saw this post and thought hey! Now that's a great idea! So I did it. On the left is the in game font, and on the right is what I'm calling "Simplified Eorzean", where I took the same theory as when you're teaching a kid how to write. My goal was to simplify the shapes and strokes as much as possible, while still making it the same letter. This way it (should) be easier to practice disregarding the rules and making it in your own handwriting! Under the cut I've placed a stroke/letter guide, and also a blank sheet(With some optional prompts) for practice. Happy writing!

EDIT: Was brought to my attention this is difficult for some people to read- Thank you! So I've added some (hopefully) more accessible versions of every image under the cut as well. Please let me know if you have trouble/what ways I can make it more readable!

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[arboreallancearm]

~ About that... ~

I dont envy being the WoL in this situation I'd go crazy

[xiv-cursed-tea]

House Fortemps Bedchamber

This apartment has been demolished!

Whoops, I hyperfixated on building an apartment based on the interior of the Fortemps Manor. This was a lot of fun for a sort of speed-build (it took me several hours, but watching Bridgerton S4 inspired and distracted me) and I'm looking forward to using it now that I'm getting into Heavensward in NG+!

Inspiration: Fortemps Manor in Ishgard:

[moonlitweaver]

(OOC): Seeking Connections (Again)

/OOC/: Hi. I'm trying this whole tumblr thing again. I'm a FFXIV writer who likes writing lots of roleplay and headcanon-building, who loves crossovers with other fandoms, who's looking for more like-minded tumblrs to follow.

If you're a Final Fantasy XIV tumblr, or just a roleplay tumblr, or a writing tumblr, could you be so kind as to reblog this or like this or anything of the sort? I'd love to find some people to follow to get started once anew. Thanks!

[lallafell]

a pretty portrait

[spotofmummery]

Let's talk about starting in-game Roleplay!

What's scary for new and shy folks when it comes to roleplay? And how can we face these fears to give roleplay a fair shot?

Here are some tips, thoughts, and RP resources I've gathered in this video.

If you have something to add, please drop it in the comments! I've already got a great list started from viewers under the video, and it looks like it might turn into a second RP video, focused on community-offered RP tips! Won't you help?

Amon is featured in this video - can you find where I talk about him? :)

If you enjoyed this sojourn, please subscribe to my YouTube channel! I have several more videos in the works focused on what shy and introverted gamers can do to find more fun in FFXIV!

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Main Tumblr: @aywren

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[murphys-ffxiv-ramblings]

As I am an FFXIV RP blog, I suppose I may as well share my thoughts about Mare going down. This is going to get pretty long, because I'm honestly kind of conflicted in how I'm feeling, but I'm going to try and lay out both the bad and the good.

For background, I've been playing for just about 6 years now, started early 5.2, and as soon as I cleared MSQ I started looking for the RP scene. There were modders then, mostly sharing screenshots of whatever custom sculpts and glams they used on Twitter or Discord, and as a console (hence, vanilla) player there were times I really felt left out. I got told in my own goddamn FC that I helped found that my gposes were lazy because I didn't use any posing tools, and I had ppl say they wanted to RP with me only to change their minds when I wanted them to just describe their characters instead of letting them send me their mod pack. But there were a lot more people who wrote for the love of the art form - who enjoyed telling stories and playing dolls with other people, and a lot of them I still consider friends.

Then Mare happened. And over about the first six or eight months, I noticed a change in how RP happened. Instead of walking up, checking the search comment in a character's bio, and saying hello if they looked interesting, it became "do you use Mare?" Or later, just "mare?" like that's a complete greeting/question/conversation. Groups started not merely offering but REQUIRING members to join their syncshells- and leaving console players like myself to rot. I still had my own groups, but even most of them would ask me from time to time when I was going to get a decent PC and join the modding game. Like playing vanilla somehow made me less of an RPer than the ones that use mods. And that stings. But I'm still here, because I enjoy the world and I like playing dolls with other people - even if they talk without thinking sometimes.

All that background matters, because for as fucking EXASPERATED as I've been with a lot of the Mare players (with good reason imo), I never hated it. It was a tool, not the cause, and I don't blame a computer program for how its users treat other human beings - that's dumb, and I know it. So please don't take this as some kind of anti-modding rant. The way I see it, there was a confluence of facts that all came together at once, and while I feel for the people who will miss their moon magic, I'm mostly surprised that THEY'RE surprised about it finally going away. Here's why, in no particular order:

Japanese law (which Square-Enix, as a Japanese company, has to follow) prohibits third-party modifications to licensed software.

The Terms of Service to FFXIV that we all agree to in order to make our SE accounts likewise prohibit third-party modifications and add-ons.

Mare saves your data to its own server. Know what else did that- Playerscope. AKA the stalker mod that got SE in so much fucking trouble just a couple months ago.

The page to install Mare had the dev's Ko-fi and Patreon right there on the cover. Money was being made, and as everyone who's ever been on AO3 knows that's one thing a copyright holder can't allow.

The Live Letters have had people asking about third party add-ons at least twice since I've been playing, and both times Yoshi-P basically said "we can't see what you do on your own computer but we ask you please don't use mods." AKA DON'T BRING IT TO OUR ATTENTION. (this point is relevant to the next couple facts)

Party Finder venues have been increasingly advertising "we have wifi" or "ask for syncshell" in their in game description. Not keeping it on a carrd where you at least have the plausible deniability of getting the info from an outside website, but right where everyone and their sister can see it.

Players with some kind of reference to "moon magic" in their character search comment have come to outnumber ones without anything of the sort three or four to one. Or more, depending on where and when you look.

People in Ul'Dah and Limsa have at times just shouted asking for Mare codes.

Those last three were probably the nails in the coffin. Lots of modders charge for things, and Dalamud, Glamourer, or even the content tools that got the world first teams banned aren't being touched. It's only Mare. Because people couldn't remember the first and second rules of fight club.

You don't talk about it

Now, I can't tell you what to do. If you want to go on Steam or the forums and review-bomb the game, I'm not your mom, I'm not here to tell you not to be an asshole. I know a lot of venues are shutting down, and I think that's really sad that they don't trust themselves and their guests to be good enough writers to play dolls when they all have to use the same, out of the box dollies as everybody else instead of their home made custom ones, but each venue knows its own circle best. But I'm going to be here, playing with my doll, inviting the rest of you to bring your dolls and come tell stories with me.