So, I started RPing a long time ago -- back in 6th grade, when a friend in my art club decided to bring me into his gaming group (which was, at the time, playing GURPS). I had to hide exactly what RPGs were from my parents, who, after I mentioned someone was talking about D&D, went on a tirade about how it's the "devil's game" and I'd become some sort of Satan-worshipping demon summoner. What attracted me to RPGs then was the ability to tell interesting stories and play with mechanics that simulate a world.
I didn't do much outside of tabletop RPGs (Rifts! AD&D2! RuneQuest! GURPS!) until high school, when I was introduced to Vampire: the Masquerade LARP (this was during the days of the Big Cyan Book, before the Grey Book Laws of the Night, for those trying to ascertain how old I am
). While I got eliminated through someone else's intrigues on my third game, I got hooked on the idea of large-scale political games. The trick of the artful backstab and the emergent behavior of large numbers of people all telling their own stories have always been intriguing to me.
Around the same time, I managed to stumble into a shell account on a remote server through the local university's VAX (which had guest access for Gopher, which you could use to initiate telnet into other systems -- this was back when everyone was more trusting than they are now ). That got me into MUSHes and MUXes, which were sort of a natural progression from LARP. Being a reasonably competent programmer, I was able to learn TinyCode and get into Wizarding.
So, when I was introduced to EverQuest, I naturally wanted to start RPing there. While I drifted between it and MUSHes for a while, I eventually got into some very good RP groups on EQ's Firiona Vie server, and have been RPing in MMOs ever since.
I still have a particular interest in telling stories -- I have a weekly tabletop game that's been going on for the better part of a decade now -- but I also enjoy watching others' stories unfold, collide, and merge into a living world. It's that latter part that attracts me to LARP and MMO RP (which, I maintain, are exceedingly similar).
I didn't do much outside of tabletop RPGs (Rifts! AD&D2! RuneQuest! GURPS!) until high school, when I was introduced to Vampire: the Masquerade LARP (this was during the days of the Big Cyan Book, before the Grey Book Laws of the Night, for those trying to ascertain how old I am
). While I got eliminated through someone else's intrigues on my third game, I got hooked on the idea of large-scale political games. The trick of the artful backstab and the emergent behavior of large numbers of people all telling their own stories have always been intriguing to me.Around the same time, I managed to stumble into a shell account on a remote server through the local university's VAX (which had guest access for Gopher, which you could use to initiate telnet into other systems -- this was back when everyone was more trusting than they are now
). That got me into MUSHes and MUXes, which were sort of a natural progression from LARP. Being a reasonably competent programmer, I was able to learn TinyCode and get into Wizarding.So, when I was introduced to EverQuest, I naturally wanted to start RPing there. While I drifted between it and MUSHes for a while, I eventually got into some very good RP groups on EQ's Firiona Vie server, and have been RPing in MMOs ever since.
I still have a particular interest in telling stories -- I have a weekly tabletop game that's been going on for the better part of a decade now -- but I also enjoy watching others' stories unfold, collide, and merge into a living world. It's that latter part that attracts me to LARP and MMO RP (which, I maintain, are exceedingly similar).
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Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
