(04-14-2017, 12:47 AM)Khiro Wrote: Or how in-game RP works. Â (Custom emotes, maybe? Â Do your characters just sit there staring at each other while you text-based RP like some bizarre Eorzean Dungeons and Dragons?)
Just to help out with this, you're kinda right?
I mean, it literally is you writing at each other - either through chat or your aforementioned custom emotes (which are "/em" followed by whatever you want to emote, like "/em taps their chin thoughtfully"). However, a lot of RPers also weave in some of the other stuff made available by the fact this is an MMO. The built-in animations for one (using /yes for nodding, for example, which can be done sans the accompanying emote text by adding "motion" to it, so "/yes motion") and even some of the ability animations for the various classes.
So, sometimes it is just your two characters just standing there as you write at each other like a chatroom with a very fancy background. Other times you'll be moving your character around using emotes, attacks, and the geometry of the locales to better immerse yourself in the story that's happening.
Thus, Eorzean DnD sometimes... Eorzean LARP other times, I guess.
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