I got started started roleplaying when I immersed myself in City of Heroes. Â I had a love of comics even as a little kid, especially Justice League, Teen Titans, and X-Men. But even in my tweens and early teens, I recognized that a lot of stories they told were...not the best quality. Â I thought I could do better.
So City of Heroes was my chance and I started RP'ing. Â I met a group of RP'ers on Formspring who did out-of-game RP and I started writing stories with them and interacting with them and their characters on a day-to-day basis. Â I'm not sure that our stories were any better than mainstream comics but I loved them. Â I was invested in them. Â They were my world.
And that world came crashing down a couple of years ago when the game was cancelled.
I scrambled around looking for new RP opportunities and settled in The Secret World for most of the time since City of Heroes sunset.
But I wanted new and more fantastical challenges and FFXIV seemed up to the task and so far, the RP has been slow in coming but good when it happens.
At my core, I RP because I want to tell the story and to be a part of it. Â I don't want to sit back and watch/read. Â I don't play RPGs for the same reason; they aren't my characters. Â It's just a quirk, I guess. Â But I have to feed that creative side of me, even in gaming or I'll feel like I'm wasting my time. Â And reaching out, making connections with someone, seeing someone react to my character is so fulfilling to me. Â It makes her and the world she lives in that much more real.
So City of Heroes was my chance and I started RP'ing. Â I met a group of RP'ers on Formspring who did out-of-game RP and I started writing stories with them and interacting with them and their characters on a day-to-day basis. Â I'm not sure that our stories were any better than mainstream comics but I loved them. Â I was invested in them. Â They were my world.
And that world came crashing down a couple of years ago when the game was cancelled.
I scrambled around looking for new RP opportunities and settled in The Secret World for most of the time since City of Heroes sunset.
But I wanted new and more fantastical challenges and FFXIV seemed up to the task and so far, the RP has been slow in coming but good when it happens.
At my core, I RP because I want to tell the story and to be a part of it. Â I don't want to sit back and watch/read. Â I don't play RPGs for the same reason; they aren't my characters. Â It's just a quirk, I guess. Â But I have to feed that creative side of me, even in gaming or I'll feel like I'm wasting my time. Â And reaching out, making connections with someone, seeing someone react to my character is so fulfilling to me. Â It makes her and the world she lives in that much more real.
