Where did you start RPing?

[BruceTheCat]

So from what I've seen so far most of the people who jump on this forum are pretty veteran when it comes to online RPing. Where did it start for you, and if you remember, why did you start?

Personally I've been doing online RPs almost constantly for about 11 years. I started on the Harry Potter forums right when the first movie came out, and honestly have never loved RPing more than I did that first summer. I stayed awake for hours, spamming the refresh button on my browser waiting for people to post. It actually would be pretty cool if anybody else on here has ever RPed on that forum around the same time, we might have played together.

[Hemingway]

I distinctly remember the first day I was even exposed to the concept of roleplaying. It must've been ... ten years ago, just about. It was in the MMORPG Graal, which some people may have heard of or even played, and if they have then they probably know on which server, too. As far as I know, it's still around, though I haven't checked in a year or two. It's sort of amusing, because there's always someone around who remembers me, and there's always some sort of drama going on which resembles some sort of soap opera in that you can be gone for a very long time and still immediately understand what's going on.

The sort of RP that went on there is actually something I miss. It was all player-created, and not static like WoW-era MMOs. The possibilities, at least in theory though rarely in practice, were endless. We'd have all kinds of adventures and wars and drama, in a persistent world, where everyone from kings to generals to common soldiers were players. No game I've played since has managed to replicate that, and forum RP between two people just doesn't compare. Even group roleplays aren't the same thing.

[Shjade]

Battle.net's chatrooms for Starcraft/Diablo 2.

[BruceTheCat]

Wow, I had no idea Battle.net had chatrooms for RPing

[Shjade]

Calling it "RPing" is far too generous for what went on in those rooms, really. ;p

[Chris Brady]

AD&D, circa 1985.

[Arohk]

Nearly 13 years ago now. Started with D&D and when the Internet came about, I RPed on Neopets. *laughs*

[Koren]

I started about six or seven years ago

My first site was an Underworld RPing site, and I flipped around charmed, pokemon, underworld, lycan and a few other styles of boards for a while, including some really clever and original ones, but they were all world plot based, so all characters had to be made and fit witin a pre set plot.
I never did system rps though

But E was the first site where it was plot per thread

[Lilias]

I started on YIM, back in 2002. I caught the tail end of the user chat room golden age, but I was just as active in PMs as well. My buddy list sustained me for a couple of years after the rooms were shut down, and then I found E. I was a new mother, and keeping up with storylines over IM had become impossible, that's why I assumed a forum would work better, removing the need for the partners to be on at the same time. I was right, and I've never looked back since. I've been on other forums, but none is remotely as good.

[Senti]

Scary it was table top and I think it was 86 yes 1986....

[Silverfyre]

I started role playing back when I was a kid online through AOL and as I became a teenager, I moved onto Palladium Fantasy and AD&D.  Ah, the glory days of chat room RP.  It was so terrible yet so fulfilling to a young mind such as mine.  I became a depraved bastard because of it.

[Beguile's Mistress]

My role play began in childhood with live action role play before LARPing formalized.  Kids in my neighborhood would spend part of the morning and most of the afternoon creating worlds and characters and plots, drawing lots for who would be the leaders.  We usually had two sides and there would be wars and battles and intrigue.  When life intruded in the form of organized sports and other activities there was a lull but I read a lot and dreamed up more stories.  Then I made a friend and the two of us would daydream scenarios where we met our favorite celebrities, went on dates with them, had adventures, parties, vacations and anything else our imaginations could conjure.  I lost her right after high school, life got complicated, busy and at times difficult and traumatic.  As I was leaving a particularly bad period behind and moving into the good again I discovered message boards on the internet for a favorite television show and got caught up in threads discussing the various contestants on a reality dance show.  There were some threads running on there that resemble group games here but anyone could join in and we had hilarious interactions.  About that same time I started looking for erotica on the internet and discovered role playing in that genre after reading some really amateurish stuff.  I think I've registered at about 18-20 sites and while some of them have died some are still going strong.  I found E and this has become a home to me with friends, writing partners and a community I can be active in supporting.

[Silverfyre]

I have always explained LARP as nothing more than "adult Cops and Robbers". 

[Photo]

Clairmont Highschool, an xmen-based rpg

it's exactly as it sounds, and I have no memory of how I found it. it was an MSN group that was designed like a highschool website, but each section of the school took you into different parts of the RP, by the end of my tenure there I had created nine students I think. The purity of freedom I had in the x-men world has been left unrivalled.

I think that was twelve years ago, maybe thirteen. It's wild, it really doesn't feel like the internet has even been around for that long. The time in-between Clairmont and Elliquiy is shaky at best. I stopped trying to play football for my highschool, and I started to write screenplays instead to pass the time. I had always been creative when it came to characters, and stories, and around this same time, RL got intense, super scary, the climax of being a teen, and all the hell that comes along with that. It had everything to do with family, a loss of friends, loneliness, mistrusting step-parents, and eventually, a girl.

I stopped writing screenplays and started writing novels. Then I found Elliquiy. I really hope that I still have the time to finish my work now that I found this site. It's been a couple years, and I'm still unsure of how well I'm doing with that. forum Role-playing is in many ways a superior form of story-telling.

[TentacleFan]

My roleplaying began back in the 90's with a a variety of the various pen and paper rpgs. Early on a lot of the many Palladium RPGs (Robotech, Palladium Fantasy, TMNT, Rifts, Heroes Unlimited, etc) were played. Over time other games got purchased and played. Shadowrun, most of the super-hero based rpgs that came out, Earthdawn, GURPS, AD&D, Some of the various White Wolf games, and more.

Eventually I moved from just playing them around a table with friend (which I still do regularly) to trying to play online as well. I did a few email based games and a few message board based ones. Nothing really lasted that long however. When I had begun hosting my own adult/erotic/smut writing online a writer I ran into doing that suggested to me I look at E and I did and here I am.

[Devilyn Sydhe]

I started around 1998 in an irc game called Intercity, I dont even remember what server that was on but I do remember playing for a few years in different places on a WebTV.  I'm not even sure if they exist anymore :-)

I also spent some time in wrestling E-feds which I guess could be considered forum rp but I never found any that lasted very long.

For the last 10 years or so I've been playing Kaleb, a barbarian type, in an adult irc roleplay on Sorcery and that's how I found E.

[Stone]

When I was seven, I told my friend, "You're a pirate. I'm a thief. Let's go break things." That's when it started.  O8)

[Remy]

Because my son and I loved anything Harry Potter, I used to visit Mugglenet with him to look up stuff about the books and movies. He was 7, and I was much more than 7 ;). 
Anyway, through there a couple of us parents, who visited with our kids, started chatting and eventually one of the mums created a separate site  for us to hang out in.  It was my first venture in roleplaying and was at first shamefully bad.  But after a bit we all improved and the site was renamed and made an adult only site and ran under ''YSM, Your secret Missions''.  We were there for about 5 years I think and had a bunch of sister sites all connected via HP, Elimentals, witches and vampires.  A bunch of ideas all running together with one huge connecting story.  It was huge fun, but sadly I left after it soured for me and as far as I know it's all gone.  But it was lovely while it lasted. 

[National Acrobat]

Been playing DnD since '79.

Went online with Goand.net in 2000 or 2001 when some of my gaming group moved. We went online forum based to continue to RP, and that led to RPOL and Elliquiy.

[Sophyta]

Started in 1994 in the Patio of an old Navy Base.  Been doing it ever since.  But I do miss playing in RL.

[Callie Del Noire]

Been playing DnD since '79.

Went online with Goand.net in 2000 or 2001 when some of my gaming group moved. We went online forum based to continue to RP, and that led to RPOL and Elliquiy.

Started in 79. God I miss goand.net.  Had an awesome GM in a d20 game there sadly he died of AIDs. 

[Sasquatch421]

I had toyed around a bit when I was younger, but never really got into tabletop rpgs until I got in with a group in Pensacola.... It started out Vampire: The Masquerade and ended up being Vampire mixed with D&D and Battle Tech. An interesting group to say the least....

Online was YIM... I met a group and we had our own little thing going for about 3 years... Then the dicks at yahoo got rid of the user rooms and pretty much ended the tale of Yugo and Xapera. (I know I screwed up the name, but I just can't remember how it was spelled....)

[KittyMocha]

Personally I've been doing online RPs almost constantly for about 11 years. I started on the Harry Potter forums right when the first movie came out, and honestly have never loved RPing more than I did that first summer.

That is exactly how I started, and at the same time.  Ah, fond memories.  To this day, I'm still friends with some of the people I met there.

[National Acrobat]

Started in 79. God I miss goand.net.  Had an awesome GM in a d20 game there sadly he died of AIDs.

Ah, another Goand.net vet!

Yes, I had several awesome games there, and ran a couple. Good times, good times, and some great folks.

[Avis habilis]

Online? About 2009, I joined a play-by-post game of Spellcraft & Swordplay on RPG.net.

In person? My buddy over the backyard fence introduced me to Moldvay Basic D&D circa 1982.

That's right - this year made 30 years of D&D for me.

[Callie Del Noire]

Ah, another Goand.net vet!

Yes, I had several awesome games there, and ran a couple. Good times, good times, and some great folks.

Yeah, that was the first incarnation of my modern hero pc. Val was so much fun in angelboi's game.

[Maegnis]

I started roleplaying on MSN years ago before the woman I was doing it showed me to Gaiaonline.
Place is getting somewhat stale in quality though so I'm settling in here too.

[imran102]

My first time was in the Battleon Forums, which is where I learned the basics of RPing, then at Nobstudio Forums I made my first RP, and now I'm here.

[DudelRok]

Arguably that was my backyard when I was around 3 or 4, if you mean in a more "traditional sense" then that was cantr.net which is a, well I'm hesitant to use the word "game" but it's sorta intended to be a player-only (no NPCs) world that's heavily RP based. Unfortunately the game's mechanics are too MUD, and things are strangely organized in terms of "time" within game. Bottom Line: The entire game requires you to babysit it 24/7. Slight issue with the very small community, too. Lots of "big fish in a small pond" kinda deal. The game is also mostly Polish (now) so that makes in-game playing a bit difficult if you don't know, or aren't learning, Polish.

[Teo Torriatte]

I started tabletop in middle school, with D&D and Star Frontiers. I used to sit at the "geek table" during lunch, and there was almost always some form of roleplaying going on. So much fun, heh.

For online rp, I got my start on an old site called Irony Games. It was a place where you could advertise email games and such, back before yahoo groups, when eGroups was the standard for such things. Then when that site went belly up, I switched to various yahoo groups, and that's when I got my first taste of erotic rp. I've been insatiably addicted ever since.  ;D

[Madriv]

Started with friends when I was a kid, then some WoD tabletop and LARPs. I really got hooked on RPing in the World of Warcraft MMORPG  (finding people via Darknest). Good times.

[Naiah]

Started on LOTRplaza.com, Lord of the Rings based forum about 10 years ago. Got hooked on rp'ing for life there, even though I am not there anymore.

[Star Safyre]

My first time?  Vampire: the Masqurade larp in 1997 or 1998.  I couldn't resist the chance to hang around in goth clothes and smoke clove cigarettes for any reason.

From there, I moved to D&D 3d when it came out, which was my first table top experience.

Online, I did a couple nights in an AOL chat, but I didn't do anything "seriously" until World of Warcraft.

[Atmosk]

I believe it was in 2007 that I first started. Bored with my old server in World of Warcraft, I made a character on a Roleplaying server. I was utterly clueless when I showed up, but from a stroke of luck I landed into a newly formed RP guild. The guild master was patient with me, putting up with my steady learning. Bless her.
I got somewhat proficient, and gained a new view point in the philosophy of Roleplaying when I joined the oldest form of LARPing know to man.
The Theatre! **Adjusts his 16th century ruff.**
I played a few small parts in my high schools plays, and learned a a lot about playing the part of a character. Melding what I learned with my RPs, I jumped around to several other places online, searching for new and exciting forms of RP. I was on a vampire RP forum for awhile (Not the sparkly kind.), found some partners over IMs to experiment with and jumped from RP server to RP server over WoW.

[Trystia]

As far as -online- roleplaying, I started in 1994, on a variety of different MUDs. I would be hard-pressed to identify the first MUD I actually RPed on though, since the concept of there being more to the games than killing monsters and chatting with people came to me a bit slowly at that tender age.

[SinfulAngel]

I got my start role playing on Neopets in 2002. All innocent and fun just being creative. Met a boy and we took it to msn messenger. From there I went to yahoo, I mainly just role played (at the time what i thought was cybering) with friends from various games (starcraft, WoW, Mech Warrior) At 17 I found yahoo chat rooms and was in awe of the potential and people.

Then I did a good search just over a year ago for role playing and found the gloriousness of E. So all together i've been role playing for 10 years give or take a few months from life needing my attention.

[Lady Grimm]

Ha! Like a few others here, I started on Neopets about 10 years ago. I was just clicking through until I ended up on the roleplaying board. Mostly camp, high school, and Harry Potter at that time. To be fair, that was the only thing ever on offer, haha. If anyone tried to set up anything else, they'd end up pretty lonely because the roleplay would end up ignored.

While on Neopets, I found myself really loving Harry Potter so from there I ended up on the Harry Potter forums. Side note to anyone familiar with the Harry Potter forums, I found out a while back that the place STILL exists. The WB website stopped providing links to it, but it remained open. Recently, they have re-added the link to the forum on the site. It looks exactly the same as it did 10 years ago. Sadly, it does seem that they've cleared out a lot of the old posts. It is still nice to look over the board for the sake of nostalgia, though. And you can still find people roleplaying on it!

Anyways, on the Harry Potter boards, I found people linking to offsite Harry Potter roleplay forums on proboards and invisionfree. They were full boards where you'd create a character and that character would basically live their life at Hogwarts. There were even board-wide plots that created an alternate history or followed the book timelines. It was great fun.

From those I went on to different fandoms that had their own dedicated invisionfree boards, and eventually to other boards similar to this one filled with one-shots of every genre. Then I finally ended up here!

[Salvation]

I got started in role play with table top stuff that we did from D&D and other systems. I also used to write stories as a kid about everything from my fantasy characters, my take on comic book titles and settings, and this continued to online where I used to do some RP on boards back when AOL first came out. I was on there for a few years with Rhydin (laugh later for those that know what that is), Gor settings, fantasy settings, and other things that I tried out.  I continued to role play online in graphical environments when I played NWN as well as SWG, SL, and some other games. I also have done the MuX/MuD thing with participation over the years in Shang as well as non-adult ones.   I have tried forum role play before on MSN and some other places. 

Now I'm here, and looking forward to what I get into.

[Geeklet]

It was a website called Chathouse. One day back in the mid 90s, my cousin was over, and we were derping around in various chatrooms, with him trying to flirt with random people or something, I don't exactly remember. A few days later, I was bored, and went exploring around that site, since it had a lot of different chatrooms. When I stumbled into the "East Wing" of the chathouse, that was where all the RP chatrooms were. At the time I had no idea, though. Went into this place called "The Castle" which was a freeform fantasy RP setting, and thought it was kinda neat and interesting. The rest is history.

[TheGlyphstone]

D&D - first tabletop in high school, then branching into online Play-by-posts where I could actually roleplay instead of crack constant jokes about Cheetos and Mountain Dew. One forum led to another through assorted off-site referrals, till I ended up here.

[Moraline]

I started table top role playing first by creating my own role playing systems, worlds etc..  Then we started picking up books at yard sales, used book stores. We had a number of different ones but we got hooked on table top Palladium role playing and the many books that they had.

My Online role playing began, when I was about 15 or so (roughly 14-15 years ago.) 

Dalhousie University where my father works was one of the main backbones of the Internet on the Atlantic coast and we were tied into a Dalhousie private net that also connected a number of other major universities. Back then there was still Huge rooms for MUDs and all sorts of role playing chat rooms. They had their own world set in some sort of alternative D&D style system. They had no idea that I was only 15 - they just thought I was another student. So I started role playing online through them. (*grins* I felt so special playing with the Uni students.)

(Really old school MUD1 - I bet there are some old timers around that remember this stuff.
I never got to play with it back in it's glory days but I bet it was great!)

[Mathim]

Gaia Online. My interest in fan fiction blossomed into RPing until I started getting more interested in adult roleplays and sought out a place for others with common interests.

[Inari]

Back in the early 2000's when dial up made dub step. <.<

It started with boards in which I'd RP wolves or cats.  (Can't remember all of them...) I never went over to horse RPs since I was clueless how to do so and just something about it didn't feel right. Although, I got slightly weirded out when people introduced me to terms such as "Long/short breeding." Before that two wolves or cats got together and went to a higher power then magically had babies. I found out the hard way that "Long breeding" was basically RPing bestiality. I know that is some peoples thing on here so I won't judge you for liking it and this isn't meant to be me bashing people who like it; but when you are young and it isn't your thing... it made me feel icky and confused when I was forced to RP it. Sorry! >.<

ffinsider - They had an RP section and it was where I had to learn how to describe humans instead of the usual "The jet black wolfess padded her way to the lake..." (shut up!) Was fun until RPs kept dying everywhere and people stole each others ideas. So I then moved on...

hentaigeeks - This was the first adult RP site I went onto and sadly I got into the bad habit of two lining for a long time. Then once I became RP mod on there I turned the place around so it wasn't so bad any more. (The admin also stole a lot of our rules when he remade the site's rules.) A few years later I had a massive fall out with the admin when I began discussing taking the RP off site with the users and my fellow mods. (I found out he was going to off the section.) He ended up demodding and temp banning me. I went back a year or two later, then some drama bs came up between them and another site... got tiresome, so I now avoid it.

animeleague - Now this place. Oh boy this place. Was fun at first... then drama everywhere to the point where my muse threatened to off itself. Now I just can't get into the RPs at all. I try but can't get past the two post mark to save my life. Posting just feels like a chore on here now so I don't bother.

ecchidreams - Made by some now ex-friends who stole all my ideas from hentaigeeks and got butthurt when the admin banned them for various breaking of rules. Things were great RP wise at first but then when they kept making up drama every damn week it got tiresome and made my muse hide in the closet. I decided to leave when they took things too far with the drama. They still try and shit stir once in a while but after seeking legal advice I now know how to deal with them the next time they literally come to my door to try to intimidate me.

Now here!

I love it here and wish I knew about this place sooner. I finally feel like I am home.

[Jag]

I was about 12 or 13. It was in a Yahoo User Created Chat Room (I kind of miss those) called Spiderkiss. The creator would get on same time every night, create the room, and a bunch of us were regulars. We were his 'bartenders' and things like that. He actually had some pretty strict rules about the room...but then one night it wasn't there. Then another night. Then another. Eventually, people just forgot about it any moved on.

Then I found Gaiaonline and was there till I found Elliquiy.

[Observing Trifles]

I started roleplaying (non-adult stuff) in a chatroom for tweens/teens when I was about eleven. I can't remember the name of the place for the life of me, which probably speaks volumes in itself. The quality there was lacking, which I think is somewhat typical of chatrooms (could be wrong, but that's just my experience with them).

From there, I eventually went to blog sites like Xanga and LiveJournal to find writing partners. I thought of trying Gaia Online, but nothing there appealed to me. At one point, I wound up on Roleplay Gateway, but that was short-lived and not very fruitful for me.

[Vanity Evolved]

Hmm.

For me, it began (of all places) on the Neopets Roleplaying boards in highschool. This began to expand to random invisionfree (or whatever it was called) forums that friends had made, such as Dragonriders of Pern based forums and being the little tweeny goth kid I was, eventually finding my way to Vampire the Masquerade. This led to D&D 3.0, and my current obsession with everything tabletop.

[WindVoyager]

AD&D 2nd ed. Mostly played Spelljammer and Ravenloft

Moved on to 3rd and 3.5, won't touch 4th.

As for online, can't remember.....been far too long. I do remember finding a FF7 board and getting my first experience with an overly controlling Admin and her butt sisters. Over the years I kept running into said Admin who I shall call the Red Queen because it had to be her way or no way. She god moded, stole OC's, threw tantrums when players refused to participate in badly written smut scenes with her, threw tantrums when players got upset when she made major changes tot he plot each week so only her and her the two mods characters got the spot light...

[Black Feathers]

I first started roleplaying way back during the end and beginning of my elementary and middle school years. I had a small group of friends and we would run around after school pretending to be characters from our favorite movies and books. I didn't actually begin roleplaying through posts till my freshman year of college. I've been writing for years but only have about three years of experience of online forum roleplaying. I'm going to admit that rping is an addiction. Whenever I have a brief period of being away due to life I always crave a good roleplay like a crave a delicious slice of pizza.

[Ironwolf85]

in collage, before then I couldn't even get online much due to parental locks that limited EVERYTHING.
I started a gaming club at collage, had no idea how to play, so imagine my surprise when a bunch of people show up, shove a game book into my hands and say "your club, you get to be dungeon master GO"

they were killed by a Bodak because I saw it and said "hey that's cool I'll make it a boss, what's this "CR" 10? they can take that.
they did, but nearly everyone died.

[HVBill]

I grew up in a very rural part of New York (yes, we have rural) and just down the road was my one and only walking distance neighbor that had kids.  One was my age, his little brother a few years younger.  They used to walk to my house (I had a big backyard with woods, a swamp, and a mountain...literally) and so we would each be a knight/fighter/wizard/whatever and would go on quests in the woods.  Then that lead to tabletop with AD&D and some civil war grid-system war game that a couple friends and myself converted to a roleplaying game.  We bounced around differen D&D variations and a bunch of different, more obscure tabletopiness.

Online it began in a yahoo chat room with various odd roleplays and some fantasy stuff.  The first online roleplay I was involved with that was long term was a star wars chat room, the setting was the Mos Eisley Cantina.  I absolutely loved it.  I don't know if it's still rolling or not but I would love to find it again, can't remember for the life of me why I stopped going there.  I had two characters that I played as regulars there.  Sometimes things would side line into erotic play through whispers or on yahoo or AIM.  It was mostly just great star wars roleplay though.  From there I bounced between several forums and chats, but none of them really stood out.  I frequent a place called fantasycastle to this day that I've been going to for years that has some erotic stuff happening and a fantasy based roleplay room.  The same evening I found that place, years ago, I also discovered cyber town and boom town.  Boom town was a free 3-d lego envirovment in which you built a house and chatted, some roleplay occured there.  Cybertown (It has a different name now I think and is mostly abandoned) is another 3d place with a chat that you roleplayed through. It had currency and shops and you could buy homes and such, very fun and big.  Then they started charging and it wilted away to being mostly empty now.

Now I have discovered E and so far a bunch of great people.  I hope I get some roleplaying going and get to be known as a regular on here.

Now I've d

[Stella]

I started in the early 2000s in YIM, when Ayenee was still flourishing. Aww, those were the days!

[undisclosedtoyou]

Online, I started roleplaying on Crunchyroll groups. 

[Question Mark]

Starcraft: Brood War custom RP maps, specifically Feyvern, way back in 2004/5.  I didn't even know what RP stood for, just that the map allowed me to spawn any kind of unit any number of times in a huge sandbox.  Once someone enlightened me concerning the purpose, I was hooked.  Unfortunately, good RP games were few and far between, and were always over quick. Worst part was, there was no way of reliving the experience!

I asked around in the OOC chat rooms, and someone pointed me to Surreal*Twilight (now known as Surreality).  And thus my forum based writing career began!  A lot of it was utter shit, I'll be honest, and the community was a little too focused on anime and a little too amateur and dramatic for my tastes, so I emmigrated to E after several years.  Never went back beyond waxing nostalgic over my earliest RPs.

[HVBill]

I had forgotten all about the starcraft maps made for roleplay.  Some of them were a lot of fun if you could get a decent and patient GM and a couple decent players.

[Oreo]

I started RPing about 6 years ago on a little known RPG Maker Indie site. It was a dusty little corner of the site that boasted around 25 players in various PG13 stories.

[SweetKnickers]

As a child about different manga and books I had read.
Online, maybe about 2/3 years ago when I was looking for stress-relievers. Started with, again, fan fiction/fandom type things, recently became more interested in the adult side. :-)

[ForAlbion]

I was homeschooled until tenth grade, and a lot of those early years were filled with hours on The Swing. It was just playing imagination, really, but I did it for hours, and someone else back me up on this, nothing beats pretending to be Spider-man, or in an X-wing, or flying, when you're on a swing.

Later in life, a friend tried out a D&D 4th edition campaign with me in his party. It failed, miserably. It took another few years, when I was in first year university, until a friend of my ex's--a thoroughly talented DM with years of experience under his belt--did a one-shot campaign using Pathfinder while he was in town and I got REALLY into it.

I've done a few campaigns since then, mostly as a player but once as a DM.

[Rozel]

On a little (now dead) game called Hiddenworld.

Through-out the game, it required RP to acquire higher ranks...noble titles and such. I even think I have most of my characters 'noble' Rp's. (which are nothing compared to the way I RP today.)

My first one on one Rp was in the game chat (which was an Inn setting, and live) there. It was such fun, it hooked me. Been RP'ing ever since and that was about...10 years ago. :D

[Falstaff]

Started playing D & D when I was young...then also played Gamma World, Traveller, Villains and Vigilantes, Top Secret...all oldies now

Really enjoy RPing

[consortium11]

With regards to online RP in general my first time would have been in my mid-teens over a decade ago in what's known as "e-fed"s... essentially roleplaying a pro-wrester where the quality of your posts decides whether you win or lose. I still remember Matty Midget, my angry anarchist midget character with his catchphrase "Size Does Matter!" and some of the stories I came up with in the rps... trying to get to an opponents house in Canada and being kidnapped by the Quebecan Liberation Army, being forced to have Arnold Schwarzenegger as a tag team partner in a "choose your own tag team partner" match after he beat Matty in a game of pick-up basketball and invading France to try to end midget tossing as a sport.

After that I moved into vanilla rp'ing generally in the Super Hero/Comic scene. Again I remember many of my characters fondly and some of the story lines we came up with.

My first erotic online rp'ing came from Belariath, which was mainly an ICQ system. I suffered from not being able to get ICQ to work and so having to use a terrible online client but I had fun there and my main character got to interact with some of the most well established players there very quickly and found a nice niche as a character that had a hardcore racist hatred of catgirls (of which there were many).

And then came E.

[Tybalt]

My online roleplaying career started in MSN chat rooms and groups. Yahoo chats and the forums for the MMO Shadowbane were also right around the same time. My table top gaming started in a local comic shop here in Jacksonville called Big City Comics. Unfortunately, it's been closed now for years, but my friends and I had a blast there. One game was played at that store from open to close for an entire summer vacation when I was younger.

[Kendra]

Started rping on line I think maybe seven or eight years ago and it was a few HP sites. None really lasted for very long but I did manage to find one that was really great. Was such a noob though and would do one liner posts thinking it was like a normal chatroom rp. Far from it, by the time I packed up on that site nearly three years later I was writing reams of paragraphs and had become one of the sites Global Moderators. Still love HP so much that had to make sure we got one going here on E though that didn't happen until almost a year after I had joined E.

[Skylarke]

I feel like I missed a lot in my younger days.  I didn't even know about chat room RP's until a couple years ago while RPing with someone on the first place I learned to role play. World of Warcraft.   
I joined WoW in 2008, two months into the game I learned about role playing and have been doing it ever since.  Though I think back on how much I've changed and cringe at the way I must have been back then. *Giggle* I remember getting a scolding because I used /say as a way to communicate something not in character without using (()), it has stuck with me all these years.  It was the start of my role playing habit in a more serious manner, and boy do I love it.

Role playing has become my main focus on the game, and one of my partners there introduced me to this site just yesterday as I was starting to feel a lack in the game as far as the RP community went.

D&D was huge while I was in high school, but never got into it.  A guy I was dating did and when he told me a bit about it I didn't think I could, I was to shy and just talking up in a group of friends bothered me.  Now I wish I would have taken the chance. 


I have also recently tried Guild Wars 2, which as far as role play goes, is pretty good as well.  It is just having yet to get into a storyline, all I do is stand around in the numerous Inns/Bars and few other RP areas and do some random RP. I want/need more, and so here I am.  *smiles*

[Darkfold]

I started out with table-top Vampire the Masquerade. We had an excellent storyteller and everyone had a piece of paper with stats and items on. We actually used the upstairs of a bar so we had drinks too which was interesting  XD

[Rogue]

Technically, I started one on ones with my best friend in high school. But the real first time rping was when I came to college and I got pulled into a campaign. The gm wasn't as experienced with the system (BESM) at the time, but he was a good gm as far as story went. I even created my own race for his world. Since then I have played more BESM and some D&D 3.5. I've never done anything online before so this is new to me, but I tend to do better with role-playing when I type (especially with relationships).

[sunbeams]

:-[

I started role playing when I was eight, on Neopets.

And not very well.

/slinks away

[Lux12]

I started playing D&D back in middle school.

[BlissfulBoi]

Red Dragon Inn in Aol's chatroom

[tsc]

So many ways to answer this question....

My older brother and I collected toy cars (the old Matchbox ones), and when we were playing with them, we'd also make up the names of the drivers, and stories about them and what they were doing.  At one point, we even created some racing rules.  That would've been around 1978 or so.

Christmas of 1980, I got D&D, and my love affair with paper RPGs began (it's still going).  I was still in elementary school at the time.

In 1989, during my first year of college, I was exposed to play-by-email RPGs.  In 1990, my first MUD.  By 1993, I was a coder on an LPmud (SWmud, which is still in existence), and had run multiple RPGs via email, and had tried a couple of the RP newsgroups on Usenet.  In 1995, I tried out Meridian 59 while it was still in beta, but it didn't really appeal to me.

When WebRPG came out, some of my old gaming buddies from high school and I started playing online through it.  Later on, we moved to OpenRPG, and still later, to kLooge.WerKs.  Around 2000, I started playing in web forum games and did some gaming via IRC.  In 2005, I tried my first modern MMO, World of Warcraft, where I've spent a good bit of time hanging out on RP servers, and have written a few RP-focused addons.

[MasoKitty]

The place where I started....that could take a while though honestly I started when MSN chat was still big. Well, before they turned it pay for use basically I started there doing some basic rps with Dragon Ball Z, Trigun, and Inuyasha. Though it was pretty basic my rp skills were pretty limited at the time till I began more forum based rps then began my jumping between Darker role play, Blue Moon, Here, and some others.

It was quite a journey but I feel that sometimes people are passing me by due to the amount of requirements being very demanding. Though I still love to role play personally I feel I cannot fulfill any of the people's wants on most of these sites I used to do as well as I crave tons of story and not as much smut as I used to.