(02-23-2015, 07:23 AM)Verranicus Wrote: Lore isn't up for interpretation in most cases. It may be your opinion that your character is the secret love child of Cid and Nero and that Chocobos come from the moon, and that's great, but you'd be wrong. If someone corrects you or wants to discuss something like this, they're not trying to upset you or troll you, they're usually trying to save you further grief down the road.
Also I couldn't help but laugh at the idea of a 'pro roleplayer'.
Hmm. I'll give this as an example since I've actually ran into people who claimed that they were veteran roleplayers and slammed on new roleplayers before.Â
Like if a player A liked to short phrase and didn't like writing a paragraph or just kept roleplaying by just entering lines every seconds, the player B corrects the player A saying "that's not how you should RP", by telling him/her that they should write it in  a paragraph instead of spamming the chat with one short line.
Other example is, like controlling multiple characters in the scenario when they aren't physically in the game. Player A has two characters in the RP scene with others. One is his character that is  actually in the game and we can see the person. But the other character is someone we can't see but the player A reminded us that the character is there. Then player B says "the character is not  there" and says "no roleplayers should need a second character to RP in a group RP"
(This has happened a lot in FF14 RP before, and before I usually pull player B stunt, I ask player  A OOCly how the player is there and see if I can fit the person in majority of the time. Or have player A know or ask us if that second character to be there first)
My last example is when player A decides to write his RP in a skit / play script style of Roleplay in a game or forum RP, a player B says that the player A's writing style does not fit for RP because player A refuses to write it in a novel type like everyone else.
I agree with you of lore  correction.  But my debatable argument was focused to mostly RP b y writing styles, and interaction, more than abusing lores. About how people should treat roleplaying not always the same for everyone else and really should not correct the way they should roleplay.
Also to relay what Edvyn said, it is right for everyone to enjoy their own roleplay, but it doesn't mean they should go and make other people feel bad just because you want to feel happy for yourself by correcting their roleplaying. Â (outside of lores)
Technically, Verranicus's example was right that RP such as "Cid's secret son" should never really happen since that is just actually touching the actual lore and try to change it. (I don't think that's really correcting one's roleplaying style than just correcting the lore to fit into it). - While I've also encountered WoW's player claiming to be Uther's son when Uther never really had a son and died being a lonely paladin.
