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RE: What or how did rp come to you? - Dawnstar - 12-13-2017
It was thanks to my classmates who really hated roleplay.
I was in high school, and I'd just begun playing this game called World of Warcraft. Just about my entire class played it. A few of the boys started talking about these roleplay servers, and the "weirdos" that inhabited it, acting out a role and pretending to be their characters and how weird that was, and I thought "Hey, that sounds pretty cool" and made a character on an RP server to see what that was like.
I didn't have anyone to tutor me. I was really, really terrible at first, making the most cringe-worthy character backgrounds because I simply didn't know the first thing about RP or the setting.
It took a few months, but I eventually found my feet and acquired enough knowledge and writing ability to write a coherent character background, applied for my first RP guild with whom I stayed for years, and the rest is history!
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - Maloy82 - 01-17-2018
first off a little late on this thread sorry, and im kinda new here, but not new to rp I been in the game of rp ohh since I was about 12 or 13 I guess, I lived in the mountains , so I was always surrounded by woods, and I used to love fantasy adventure movies like Conan and beast master etc, so I would go in the woods and fight imaginable monsters on some quest I would think up in my head as I went along, eventually my buddies all joined in I lived by , then llater on we got into D&D then they all started partying to hard and droped out and so I found my way to mmorpgs.
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - Ritsu - 01-21-2018
Lets see. SO I was introduced to the game via my roomie. I happened to come across her when she had the character creator up before 2.0 relaunched. I was like OOO can I try to make something, they let me. And decided from there to get the game!Â
From there we joined Gilga, back when RP was pretty heavy there. She used to RP in 11, so guess it was natural she would get into it here. It started out with her dragging me around, from there I started to get into it as well. Rest is history!
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - TheFanciestBard - 01-21-2018
Honestly the story of how I started RPing is really silly. My first MMO, like most people, was World of Warcraft back when I was like 14. During Burning Crusade I bought into the Arena server, thinking I was much better at pvp than I was and had any chance of making it lol.
To simplify that I met someone who played on Wyrmrest Accord, the big Rp server. Now, he wasn't an Rper, I wasn't an RPer, and frankly my circle of friends was the typical 'what kinda nerd ROLEPLAYS lololol' sort of folks.
So, I made a character on Wyrmrest to hang around with my new friend and was your stereotypical troll. I'd run around and make a fool of myself and kinda just hover around RPers. Then I started being like, "I wanna step up my game" so me and my friend went about finding all these things for my level 5 paladin to wear and look cool and look more like one of the RP characters. You know, to troll em harder. It was a sweet look, admittedly. I somehow managed to get a rare shield and a sword that sheaths on your back along with this red armor set and was pretty damn snazzy for some low level character. I think this outfit is what started to sell people on this character.
I'd walk around and just approach people with whatever dopey idea we came up with at the time to pester people... But the more I did it the more I built this strange sort of continuity with the character. Eventually I was walking around as this retired war vet trying to figure out what happened to his daughter who joined the war effort. People took me seriously, people actually RP'd with me, and before long I realize what happened and was like, "This is fun."
So then I made a more serious character with the intention of actually RPing. I read lore, I wrote back stories, and now RPing is basically my main hobby like a decade later.
Honestly if the people of Wyrmrest Accord hadn't been so welcoming I probably wouldn't have ever evolved passed my troll phase and would never have discovered how fun RP is.
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - foxfirestorm - 01-29-2018
I'll keep mine fairly short and simple: Being an only child and creating your own imaginary games with yourself, thus generating many personalities for the characters you are acting out in your toys. Then we just continued onward.
So longer story -
As a little girl, I would take the My Little Petshop figures, they each had names-- and the store owner, this barbie doll, would always get kidnapped by the Evil Dino King (which was one of those T-Rex toy figures), and they'd have to go save her.
My mom was convinced when I was a kid, that I had friends over that she peek in and just see me-- and I was creating all those voices. Yeah, this would be the first signs of roleplay.
In Elementary, I was the kid on the Playground everyone went to, to come up with ideas and typically-- I would base my ideas off of like Movies or video games (aka Star Fox or Sonic) and everyone had a role they would play as that character or you know, enemy.
We continue forward a bit more...
When I was probably around 10, we moved from Texas to Arizona. I had no friends, knew no one, and was home-schooled. Once again, Only Child with no one but myself. However, my new tool of interaction was the internet. I discovered a thing called Chatboards (which were our chatrooms before the days where they would automatically refresh themselves, so you had to click a refresh button to get updates).
The place I went to was an s8 chatboard that was around Transformer and I created my first Original Character for Transformers named Neva. She was a 1995 I believe, Pontiac TransAm. Hunter Green.
I also roleplayed Optimus Prime himself, cause I always admired him growing up. This lead me also to a Gargoyles Chatboard, cause Gargoyles was in like the end of season 1 or 2, somewhere in there I think? Might have been on re-runs? Hard to remember exactly, but anyway, I created my first Gargoyle character named Celine, who was a Raptor-goyle.
The Gargoyles place was also my first introduction into more serious roleplay... and also my first introduction into why it is so important to separate self from a character. I hurt a really good person, because I got to close. A gal who played a male Raptor-goyle, my little young heart didn't understand this concept... I learned this concept, but accidentally destroyed our friendship.
This eventually lead me to trying to understand why a girl would rp a guy.... and I quickly came to understand why. It was a challenge. It was fun. I am now one of those women who did what they did, but I also tread careful. Cause like her-- jump ahead to now a MUD called Aetolia... I didn't check to make sure someone understood the 4th wall, I assumed, like they did with me, that this person who was falling in love with my character... wasn't keeping themselves separate.
They got hurt, like I got hurt so long ago, but instead of it being a 10 year old, this was someone in their teens and they took it far worse than I did when I learned.
However, it never stopped me, I kept on rping, and I'll admit. I'm addicted to roleplaying! I love it. I love drawing my characters and creating more and more personalities, trying to push the limits of what I can play and solving where my limits are of what I /can/ play well.
It never gets old, though I have learned with a busier life I now have however, that I have to reframe from alt-crazy behavior in both 14 (cause I've been at this since 2010, so I burnout easy), but also on a MUSH I play on.
Roleplay is fun, its enjoyable, it can be addictive, but like all things. One has to be careful when they been at it for a long time, to not burn themselves out.
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - Aegir - 01-29-2018
Last year I did one of the Inquisitor side quests and realized that I, too, want to burn people! \o/
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - Graff Lacroix - 01-30-2018
D+D in middle school and onward, though my favorite tabletop is (and probably always will be) Mage: The Ascension. I already had plenty of experience imagining "what would I do in this situation" from various forms of media and writing my own stories.
RE: What or how did rp come to you? - TokenBG1009 - 01-30-2018
One of my best friends just dragged me into the world of RP one evening when we were talking on AOL. I'll never remember what prompted it because I'm pretty sure he just started out of nowhere. From there I spent literally all of my free time in AOL chat rooms RPing with everyone I could convince to talk to a kid who had no idea what he was doing and not a single original idea in his head.
...I mean one of my first characters was a Vampiric Demon Drow who wielded twin scimitars and spent his time sulking in the rafters of the Red Dragon Inn while sipping whatever the hell blood wine was. I'm not proud of that. Okay, maybe a little proud.