“It’s something of another creative outlet for both the writer and their character that offers others insight to who they may interact with.”Īlice, another player with multiple characters on Crystal, says that an external profile is “always something RPers will find useful, I think, mostly because people's imaginations will always outstrip what the game can offer you.” Many choose to expand on not just appearances and basic biographies, but include their characters’ backstories and more intricate details.Ĭarrds for characters “serve as easy-to-digest references for players and their characters, as well as another creative outlet for the writer in question,” Striggs, a Crystal data center roleplayer, explained to me.
In speaking to other roleplayers with Carrds, they all agreed fundamentally it helped put roleplayers or their ideas out there in some shape or form that, of course, the game limits. While it’s totally optional - I know plenty of players, personally that don’t utilize the option - many have found it useful. FFXIV also provides roleplay tags for characters and housing, marked respectively as “Roleplaying” and “Immersive Experience.” Eager players turn to other resources, including Carrd as well as Discord servers, to find further opportunities for immersion and connection. Players are given a 60-character “Search Info” box where others can look at their information. There are some basic tools used for roleplaying within the game itself. However, despite other popular mods in the FFXIV community for cosmetic and other uses, the RP community has gone largely without such mods. Roleplayers for other games, such as World of Warcraft, Wildstar and my former go-to Secret World have commonly-accepted third-party mods that allow players to see each other’s roleplay profiles and statuses.
I know it’s been helpful for developing and putting my own character out there, but it’s also become a pet project for many as players develop visual and prose aesthetics for their characters. And while I’ve noticed it across social movements, personal profiles and other groups, in Final Fantasy 14, the roleplaying community embraces the website creation service as a near-essential part of the experience for players’ characters, events, and more.Īs a result, roleplayers have found not only the flexibility of traditional roleplaying profiles, but also more creative power in presenting their characters in the world of FFXIV. Free site-making Carrd has become a major part of many communities over the past year.
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