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RE: Where did you start RPing? - Berrod Armstrong - 03-02-2015
(03-02-2015, 11:49 AM)Tiergan Wrote:The closest I got to that was making Liucen a closet paladin for NO REASON WHATSOEVER. Why did he keep it a secret? WHO KNEW? BUT IT WAS COOL TO HEAL PEOPLE IN SECRET. When it all got exposed it was like, "Oh he's a paladin no big deal" and I felt really stupid.(03-02-2015, 09:29 AM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: I'm...actually pretty new to roleplay. I started playing World of Warcraft in earnest in about May 2010. I didn't know that roleplay was a thing until a couple weeks later when I saw a group on Proudmoore of all places doing it. I sat and watched for a bit, and got linked to an in character journal. It fascinated me, and got me thinking about how I could give my pixeldude (Nadagus, Human warrior!) a life, personality and story of his own. I began writing my own entries for him as I played the game. I did that whole 'quests are the character's story' thing, and I had a lot of fun with it. However, the group I had come across seemed very busy with PvE and only did roleplay once a month. I craved more than that. Google supplied me with two realms for frequent roleplay, Earthen Ring and Moonguard.Â
I rolled another human warrior on Earthen Ring, named Earthenblade because why not? Not too long after I did that, however, someone recommended Moon Guard to me. And so I started afresh there with my human Paladin, Liucen. I got roleplay the moment I hit Stormwind and got so lost in it that it actually took me quite some time to get to max level. That was in...June, July 2010 I think. It only snowballed from there.Â
I hopped over to Guild Wars Two when it released, and stayed there for a good while before going back to WoW. Eventually I left WoW for good, then went back to Guild Wars...and then came here! I still am babby roleplayer, but I like to think I own it. Dohoho!
Man, that's not fair. Its like you skipped past the awkward roleplay puberty phase where you make a series of hilariously awful characters ( A fallen angel gets turned into a vampire and has both angel powers and vampire powers, but also is a master thief with a heart of gold! ) and jumped straight to making normal characters. Â How will we swap tales of ridiculous badness now?
I could argue that Berrod fits the puberty mold, being a recovered amnesiac MONK, but there's actually nothing wrong with that...
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Gegenji - 03-02-2015
My first DnD character was me as a Wizard.
I also played such stellar characters as a Mini'd Mindflayer Paladin and a gluttonous child Mimic that shape-shifted into golems because they were totally objects, right? I also had my prerequisite Drow - a perfectionist male priest of Eillistrae that he only followed because she had enough balls to defy Lolth. And he ultimately ended up dual-wielding scythes.
On the other hand, I also got to make the elderly scion of the family that created the Tarrasque (and had a mini-one as a pet, an ultimately unkillable little ball of muscle and sinew with 4 HP), a lawful evil kobold that ended up owning 3/4s of his adventuring party, and a summoner who drew the beasts he was calling forth in his sketchbook and effectively yanking them into existence.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Raih Nelhah - 03-02-2015
I think I started maybe around 7-8 years ago?
My first encounter with RP aside from playing silly scenarios in elementary school, was on some RP website that I forget the name of. Awful, cringe characters related to Naruto. I mainly used chatrooms for that and continued on places like realchat, and a place called TIJ (The Inuyasha Journey, I think?) Stuck with that about a year or two developing myself. The most fun part was moving from one-liners to eventually paragraphs as I 'fought' with people using define styles like T2, T$. Requirements to type out # word length of 'prepare,' 'action,' and then 'connection.' So maybe something like 7-5-7. It heavily favored people who typed fast so that paved the road for my typing skills too.
From there I moved onto GaiaOnline as well, mostly Naruto (Path of the Shinobi, The Unknown Path, Village Rebellion) guilds since that tickled my fancy the most. Tried to get into other things but it quite wasn't there for me, especially since I preferred using anime pictures for my characters and wasn't a huge fan for realistic ones. It was like that for another few years until I eventually stopped RPing altogether until recently (FFXIV), playing other games that didn't really have any RP communities.
I've always wanted to play D&D.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Inessa Hara - 03-02-2015
Oh boy. Im probably the person with the least amount of RP expirience here.
I roughly have around two years of RP expirience over a four year period.
I first started RPing when I was a Sophomore in High School. It was a Halo RP using the Xbox live chat system. I did that for about 5 months before I stopped cause it got boring, but I would send at least 200-300 messages out a day.
After that, I stopped RPing for around a year and a half till I was a Senior in High School. Came across the Neoseeker community and started to RP. Now, at the time, I didn't realize that the community was full of godmodders, drama and mary sues and all that bad stuff associated with RP. The community was physically falling apart and left after around four months there.
Got into FFXIV then realized they had an unofficial roleplay server.
Six months later, I really don't regret the decision for sticking around. The community here is great. Would not trade it for anything.
Im actually looking to pick up a copy of Star Citizen when it releases on the PC and seeing if there will be RP there. If not then 360 space battles, weeeeeeeeeeeee. . .
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Dis - 03-02-2015
I originally started role-playing in the BeSeen chatrooms, specifically, one called the Sailor Moon Room. Â I was 11 or 12 at the time, and the post style wasn't about length or fluff, it was a speed-type RP. Â Fighting required you to be faster than everyone else, or post more quickly. Â From there, a number of us branched out to RP chatrooms on AIM, usually five or six of us, where we could add more detail to our posts and talk about things at length. Â
After the Sailor Moon Room went down, I moved to HTML chatrooms, such as on Chatropolis, Webmaze, Pairs Palace, Chatlantis, etc. Â I primarily played in the White Wolf/World of Darkness rooms, though I did a brief stint in Gor as a Panther type character. Â Like Chris Ganale, I frequented Otaku Heaven, which is actually where he and I met. Â I've known him for years now, and we've ended up in a lot of role-play places together - GaiaOnline, the pokemon forum he referred to in his post. Â I've also role-played in a number of MMO's including Dark Ages, Ragnarok Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Rift, The Old Republic, Lord of the Rings Online, etc. Â
For the most part, a lot of my role-play has been done inplaces like GaiaOnline. Â My RP career also includes (AD&D, D&D 3.0-3.5, Pathfinder, White Wolf/WoD), a lot of tabletop gaming. Â I never kept an 'exact' history of my role-play history, but it's pretty long and varied. Â I've also played, easily, a hundred or more characters over the course of my life, some for years at a time, some very briefly, and that's not even counting NPC's in my tabletop games that I'm the Dungeon Master for.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - IvikBlack - 03-02-2015
Asheron's Call. The first MMORPG I ever played. My character was a virindi experiment gone wrong. Then Candeth Martine's story came about, and, ahhh. So good.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Qhora Bajihri - 03-03-2015
MUDs/MUSHes/MUCKs of all kinds are where I started. D&D, FFXI, WoW and other places after, but that's where I started.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - g0ne - 03-03-2015
Believe it or not, FFXIV is the very first game I have RPed in. And it's all thanks to the RPC!Â
...what?
IT'S TRUE!!Â
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Kage - 03-03-2015
A few people reference GaiaOnline and yet I've never seen the RP areas that people here reference. /wrist
/foreveralone
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Eva - 03-03-2015
I had my RP beginnings in a little-known text-based game called GemStone III (I believe it's still around now and called GS4) as a half-elvan empath. Â This was probably circa 1993-1994. Â I had Prodigy ISP back then and remember switching to AOL when it went free to play for awhile before they pulled it and began charging a monthly rate. Â I think games like that nowadays (or similar) are called MUD/MUSH but I don't really get into that scene.
This is only a little amusing to me lately since Golden Saucer recently came out and everyone acronyms it 'GS' and even now some 20-someodd years later my mind still equates GS with GemStone. Â
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Nicholas Graveshire - 03-03-2015
I started roleplaying about two years ago in World of Warcraft and I'm slowly moving away from it to devote my time completely to the gameplay and RP in Final Fantasy. While I'm not a huge fan of Warlords of Draenor, I run a guild that has a heavy fanon setting, and that is what is keeping me around.
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Duskwright - 03-06-2015
I got into RP on FFXIV. My friend "owned" property in costa del sol ICly(ithink) and she wanted help getting this guy off of it.. So I made up a character on the spot and the goal was to try and get him to come back to my inn room.. Wow. Okay that sounds rather pathetic.. BUT IN MY DEFENSE!! I really care for my friends(even though we arent friends anymore. ; _
so I'd do the stupidest shit if it meant I helped with a thing. @w@; I've been writing fanfics for over like 10 years.. but never had a nice community or game to RP in, so Thank you FFXIV and RPC for making a great RP community!<3(along with tons of other reasons behind social anixety, shyness, etc..)
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Aris - 03-06-2015
I started making characters and discussing them/planning how they interact with friend's characters when I was on neopets (lol) about 11 years ago. Does that count as RP, I'm not sure?Â
Otherwise, I still haven't actually had a proper IC conversation. One day!Â
RE: Where did you start RPing? - Ilwe'ran - 03-06-2015
My very first RP was with some friends who introduced me to roleplay. I was around 15 I think (oh god I feel really old suddenly) and they created a short plot with some premade characters out of any tabletop to make me comfortable, after that we began to play the vampire / werewolf / mage triad and all
.BUT ! Before even that, I was already writing stories and continuing stories I was reading (some of those not going in the direction I wanted them to), I think I began to do that at around 7 or 8.. In fact I can't remember when I did NOT do that (I still do, please books, be more compliant, thank you). So RP was a new way to build stories for me, this time with friends. And it was extremely fun
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RE: Where did you start RPing? - TheLastCandle - 03-06-2015
(03-03-2015, 12:35 PM)Eva Wrote: I had my RP beginnings in a little-known text-based game called GemStone III (I believe it's still around now and called GS4) as a half-elvan empath. Â This was probably circa 1993-1994. Â I had Prodigy ISP back then and remember switching to AOL when it went free to play for awhile before they pulled it and began charging a monthly rate. Â I think games like that nowadays (or similar) are called MUD/MUSH but I don't really get into that scene.
This is only a little amusing to me lately since Golden Saucer recently came out and everyone acronyms it 'GS' and even now some 20-someodd years later my mind still equates GS with GemStone. Â
I do this, too, but then again I still reactivate on GS4 every now and then. Slightly off topic, but in the coming weeks they are going to begin offering F2P options to new accounts. Some restrictions apply, like no empaths on free accounts (due to huge potential for abuse) but overall seems an attractive option.
GS3 and SSI's Neverwinter Nights back on AOL were my first forays into online RP, and I haven't looked back.