the greatest general under the heavens
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Apr 18, 2013 8:49:38 GMT -8
Somehow, I feel like a thread like this exists already
I started RPing in forums and have pretty much stuck to it to this day. I was in an anime forum called Keiichi Anime Forever for a year and as a massive poster who had nothing else to do but try to become a top poster I became one of the top 5 and I think I may still be in the first page list. I was pretty well-known in the community at that time. I tried out rping there. My memory is quite vague. I know I RPed bits of fandoms and original ones. I think I joined because it was writing and stuff. The thing I can remember the most is how I joined an adult rp because I thought I was ~mature~ everyone think they're mature when they're 10. It was a...furry rp and I just went to DA and look for an art with tits because I thought that would show how ~mature~ I was.
When I left KAF, somehow one day while in the computer, I thought of rping Pokemon. I remember clearly how I was seated on the computer and typed "Pokemon rping" in google. Saw Tohea and that's how it went. No wait, I went to RP Suikoden first. I think I found Castle North Wind in Suikosource....I don't know. I forgot how I got there lol. But I know CNW was really the first RP site I joined in.
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Post by katya on Apr 18, 2013 9:34:20 GMT -8
So I'm on LJ, for those of you that don't know. I'm a lot less active there in favor of tumblr these days, and I'm not even that active on tumblr, but THE POINT IS that I was sorta active in LJ fandoms. About six (seven? wow I'm old) years ago, one of my LJ friends advertised for a IJ-based A Song of Ice and Fires--better known as Game of Thrones these days because of the TV show--rp community.
I joined on a whim. It was a good LJ friend, and I love ASOIAF. Was totally worth it, and I had so much muse that I started joining a bunch of other sites too. Unfortunately, I think that's also made me a huge flake because, well, IJ games often don't last even a week. I somehow got into that rhythm, and even when there's no reason for my muse to give up, it just abandons me after that time's up by habit.
Although technically, I started on neopets with some angel/demon rp. That was before SPN btw, so it was a cooler idea back at the time. :\ I'm not even that ashamed of my time at neopets; I had a really good time there. I was already like 16, so most of the kids I rp'd with could barely write, but it was so enthusiastic and creative that I didn't mind.
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the greatest general under the heavens
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Apr 18, 2013 10:04:36 GMT -8
I was already like 16, so most of the kids I rp'd with could barely write, but it was so enthusiastic and creative that I didn't mind. I just want to quote this because this is so very true. When you have kids who would be amazed by details you put into work, they learn and go with the flow. They're real imaginers instead of thinkers. Personally an experience when I was rping as a kid. When Kirbop and I look back, we were always thinking, "Wow, how the hell did I come up with that?" If there's one thing I'm really loving about my rping experience at the moment, it's the amount of honest effort I get. Writing's far from perfect but the execution of the post that flows so well, adjusts by itself but still goes with your original plot with the other person - it's amazing. I'm really just thinking of one thread I have. There are others more but this rper is what's making me happy. She's sixteen, in HS, and just so helpful and honest I hope she never ages I can probably name more awesome rpers like this but I would be implying their writing isn't great xD
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2013 11:22:58 GMT -8
I started on animal sims and then quickly moved to boards2go. After making a few regular friends on Ponybox or something, I was recruited for Warrior RP Staff a year or three into that. and that site is still running //slow claps for that crazy monster of a site ... and that was when I was introduced to Proboards. I was on proboards for a bit before moving over towards IF, Jcink, but usually stuck around self-hosted sites. I was on a site called Hoofbeat that was running since 2001 until last year or so, so a good solid 10-11 years? wow. And from there I started to stay on Jcink because I've always been really attached to html/dohtml. It's way easier for me to code, easier for me to understand, and it's a lot more standard I guess?
And somewhere in the middle, I was introduced to forummotion and I rp'd on there for a bit. After I made a few friends that I regularly rp'd with, we made our first wolf site and I adopted the " flower wolf rp-style " that was popular back in the day for a bit, with a strange twist to it--- ... And then my friends made a human rp site and it was basically just the four of us for ages, until some random person joined. And then we all ditched LOL WE'RE SO CRUEL. I was dragged off to do a lot of rl & steampunk rp I don't even know- and somewhere in there, I was introduced to animanga rping too... I was never really into animanga until recent years, tbh. LOL I was like but- but- real people are so beautiful. And there's so many more photos for real people, but the steampunk rp started to make me reach out. I started using my own original art, and it was really fun. *U* I have a forever love for original art/no fcs etc on sites.
Somewhere in the middle was also Avidgamers v2, Acornrack, Spleafnet [these two were definitely a favorite :c, I'm so sad they are gone], and Zetaboards.
Recently, because my school blocked Jcink, I've had to reach out to areas that I haven't touched in a while -- the world of self-hosting, boards2go, mybb, smf, phpbb3, etc.
To think I've only rp'd for about 7-8 years --
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Post by darth vader on Apr 18, 2013 12:08:11 GMT -8
i started rp in real life because i'm cool. /smokes cigar
but seriously, my irl friend group has been playing d&d/pathfinder as long as i can remember, so that was always there. i never thought of it as "roleplaying" though i guess, even tho we had defined characters and people who didn't act like their character in a session got tossed out lol.
i also, like tanz, started rping on a giant anime board that just had an rp subsection. this was a 2 year period of terrible star wars + naruto mary sues. i remember i had a character who had the artificial dragon ten tailed beast sealed inside of her. no idea how the gm let me get away with that. good times. it was through this group i also discovered irc rping. several members of the board formed a coalition of "the good rpers" which i somehow bluffed my way into scoring an invite to, and moved off-site to run more intense, private games.
around the second year of my forum rping on a general board, i discovered the world of proboards, and sites dedicated to a single game. i joined a few of those and they died and i didn't pick up proboards again for quite a few years after that. i still considered this as an entirely separate category from the two mentioned above.
and like katya, i also dabbled in lj rp. the big panfandom ones/dressing rooms were what always caught my eye. i liked the character mash-ups.
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the bones of what you believe
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Post by phosphorus on Apr 18, 2013 12:20:35 GMT -8
so like a lot of people in this thread, i started on a big catch-all forum. it actually kinda wasn't my choice: i was appointed moderator of the fanfiction section, and there was an rp subforum. the quality there kinda... sucked when i took over and started rping, but i introduced some new systems and got the standards up. :'3
where next... oh, yeah. there was a site called "the higher militia" that i got invited to from one of the members on that board. it was on invisionfree if i remember right, and was really fun, but everyone else on the board was in the philippines and i'm in the states so it was difficult to communicate. then jumped onto bg&e (cass' old dgreyman site - although things soured there after a while and i left i still don't regret my time there) and from there continued to branch out.
then, i opened my own site (underdogs - does anyone remember it?), met a lot of good rp friends, and well the rest's history. never did do anything with neopets/irc/lj rping, though: i've been a forum-er through and through.
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Post by GARDEN on Apr 18, 2013 16:04:52 GMT -8
i rp'd horses on msn groups and then i rp'd dragons.
i role played a lot on neopets and would join forums that were advertised there if they appealed. so naturally i started off with mostly real life rp's. i use to be super shy when i joined proboards though and didn't talk to anyone but i got a lot more friendly/sociable on edward's site jitterbug.
i'm so boring haha
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Post by ORANGE on Apr 19, 2013 18:02:29 GMT -8
i was looking for mmorpgs when i was 10, found a self hosted site, and had no experience whatsoever and it was a 500+ word count. after that got boring, i left rping for like 3-4 years then picked back up again last year. from there i joined a little site writing one liners, realized my mistakes, wrote real posts, and learned html. yeah. then i joined big sites.
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Post by pascaline on Apr 19, 2013 18:03:58 GMT -8
I started role playing when I was nine or ten years old through AOL chats. Back when AOL was, err, relevant, it had a massive chat directory. One of the chats was called The Tavern and I think I accidentally clicked it and was like "OMG ARE YOU GUYS REALLY ELVES?" I was a very imagination-driven kid. Someone part of the chat ended up IMing me separately and ended up teaching me the basics. I joined Neopets at some point and began to role play there as well, while also role playing through chats and IMs. The first RP board I technically ever joined was my friend's Pilot Candidate board on EZ Boards. I also ended up on boards2go somehow or another and started role playing horses, wolves, etc. I've been role playing for about 13 years now and it still makes me happy, even though I lack the time and dedication for it that I used to have.
I think what really got me addicted to role playing was just... the constant utter contact I had with people far away from me. The internet was still technically a relatively 'new' concept when I got it in my household, and meeting strangers that eventually became friends - I have RP friends that span 6-10 years, and longer, people who I grew up with, shared life with, and played with - is really what I love most. Also as I got older and more polished with my writing and character design, I found that people actually liked my ideas, and I kinda grew up in an environment where praise and general acknowledgement of my existence was hard to get. Meeting people who not only liked and valued me as a person, but the things that I create, really helped me. I also developed people skills, management skills, etc. through being a staff member on RP sites, and learned a lot of interesting life lessons.
Sorry Ambz, I know this was a "how did you get into it" topic but I also wanted to discuss why I stayed with it because... because... I have a big mouth and a bad habit of talking about myself IDEK :'D
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Post by Pool Boy on Apr 19, 2013 18:34:21 GMT -8
i was a freshman and got tired of the parties on frat row.
so i started not going reading a ton of shojo manga instead.
then i started reading khr because the guys were some fucking nice eyecandy.
then i started writing fanfics about some of them.
then i met someone who wrote fanfics like me, heheh
and then i followed them to pb c:
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Post by konya on Apr 19, 2013 21:18:37 GMT -8
i started rping on the harry potter official forums (for the first movie) when i was 9 because i saw people writing and hot damn i loved making up stories and then i just went on from there - hp forums to neopets to rpgc to everywhere else.
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Post by habs on Apr 19, 2013 21:31:59 GMT -8
^ that brought up a repressed memory; i used to rp on the HP site forums too. i had an animagus who could turn into a gold dragon. but i got banned from those sites by my mom when she saw that some of the topics were a bit "adult." (i obvi didnt smut but some girl was making out with 3 dudes or something?)
and then neopets. and then i met a friend, did some IF, then i met another friend and she brought me to PB in like 2010. so i'm a PB baby.
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MOTHER OF THE MAGICAL GIRLS
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Post by SIFR on Apr 20, 2013 3:22:21 GMT -8
Most people don't believe me but the people that got me into roleplaying were my own parents.
When I was very little (four I guess?), they would be playing tabletops with their friends, like OWOD and D&D 2.0 and Shadowrun, Rifts, etc etc. Dad's a DM, and so were a couple of his friends, and instead of playing, most of the time I'd sit on the DM's lap and 'help'. Help being a relative term. I'd roll dice for the DM, but I'd also be the one to tell players "DON'T DO THAT, YOU'LL DIE."
:3
Then around 8, I played in my first tabletop game, which was Warhammer Fantasy. Around 10 I found Neopets. Someone from Neopets brought me to a YGO site on Proboards. However, someone else from Neopets brought me into a unique RP genre, in which we "RP'd" out novels and gave them to the general public. No regular characters, just co-writing in large groups.
However, when I hit 15, my best friend from the group went to a boarding school and I just decided to surf around Proboards. Settled into YGO for a while, before the game got completely nuts, then went from board to board and tried to look for a home.
I'm now nearly 22. -shrug- So... I've been RPing for 14 years.
Jesus.
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Post by Zozma on Apr 24, 2013 0:36:58 GMT -8
If you consider the paper dolls we played with (and later moved to forums), then I've been RPing since I was about 8-9. If we only consider roleplaying online, I was like 19 and it started with fictionpress writers I liked and a girl I met on Suikosource who later became my best friend. <3
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A seadog looking for crewmates
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Post by Elena on May 13, 2013 23:42:45 GMT -8
I got into roleplaying by mistake.
It was July 2009 and I was transcribing on PC one of the stories I had written while in Uni. Of course, with major editing, checking the facts, etc. While researching some historical timelines for it, I had stumbled on an alternative history of the Byzantine Empire (written as character extras, I think now, for a game which had a video dimension too. Or so I guess).
But it took some time to understand, and I asked on a discussion forum I was a member of, where some American girls were into online , sending the link, what this might be. I received the answer that it was a roleplaying game.
I asked if there are interactive stories by writing only and I got the link to RPGD to choose my game. I chose an Age of Sail one, where I was the only one who didn;t have English as mother tongue, but the administrators were patient and explained to me everything I needed to learn. It was somehow easy, since I had been writing for a lifetime before...
The rest is history...
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