I.. Don't actually remember HOW I started, but I do remember where.Â
Been RPing on various digital mediums since I was about 10, in the late 90's. I started off in AoL chatrooms (Red Dragon Inn, anyone?) where I explored various aspects of the online RP life, made a lot of friends, lost a lot of friends, so on. From there, I moved onto MUD/MUCK/MUSH's (Text based online games), where.. Basically the same thing happened. The difference here was the characters and settings - AoL chatrooms, your settings were different for each room. The Red Dragon Inn, a slave market, etc. Characters could be literally anything within those terms... But on the MUCKs, you had a more strict thing to keep in. I started off with World of Darkness mucks, making a Werewolf: The Apocalypse character.Â
During that phase, I also moved into forum RP in the forum of GaiaOnline, though that didn't last long comparatively speaking. Next, moved on to WoW via a girlfriend. Once we broke up, transferred servers to an RP Server and that pretty much opened me up to MMO RP. I've been in games like Tabula Rasa, Guildwars 1/2, WoW, SWTOR, Aion, Tera, FFXIV (Obviously), ROSEOnline (..Mistakes were made, Korean MMO's are not the place), Neverwinter (Also not a good place, surprisingly)... And.. Yeah.
As to why? I do it to escape. When you RP, you can literally be anyone. RL, I'm a 5'11, 180lb, 29 year old male who has very few friends, next to no social life outside of his volunteer work and girlfriend, and not a lot of self confidence. But in game? Akhutai Angura, an Au'Ra who is pretty much the opposite of me. Very social, curious about life and things, very confident and strong.Â
On a side note though, it is interesting to think of how my insecurities manifest in the RP world - In that Akhutai has a very tribal manner of speech, and doesn't speak 'common' very well at all.. A sort of manifestation of my own social ineptness.Â
Anyways.
Been RPing on various digital mediums since I was about 10, in the late 90's. I started off in AoL chatrooms (Red Dragon Inn, anyone?) where I explored various aspects of the online RP life, made a lot of friends, lost a lot of friends, so on. From there, I moved onto MUD/MUCK/MUSH's (Text based online games), where.. Basically the same thing happened. The difference here was the characters and settings - AoL chatrooms, your settings were different for each room. The Red Dragon Inn, a slave market, etc. Characters could be literally anything within those terms... But on the MUCKs, you had a more strict thing to keep in. I started off with World of Darkness mucks, making a Werewolf: The Apocalypse character.Â
During that phase, I also moved into forum RP in the forum of GaiaOnline, though that didn't last long comparatively speaking. Next, moved on to WoW via a girlfriend. Once we broke up, transferred servers to an RP Server and that pretty much opened me up to MMO RP. I've been in games like Tabula Rasa, Guildwars 1/2, WoW, SWTOR, Aion, Tera, FFXIV (Obviously), ROSEOnline (..Mistakes were made, Korean MMO's are not the place), Neverwinter (Also not a good place, surprisingly)... And.. Yeah.
As to why? I do it to escape. When you RP, you can literally be anyone. RL, I'm a 5'11, 180lb, 29 year old male who has very few friends, next to no social life outside of his volunteer work and girlfriend, and not a lot of self confidence. But in game? Akhutai Angura, an Au'Ra who is pretty much the opposite of me. Very social, curious about life and things, very confident and strong.Â
On a side note though, it is interesting to think of how my insecurities manifest in the RP world - In that Akhutai has a very tribal manner of speech, and doesn't speak 'common' very well at all.. A sort of manifestation of my own social ineptness.Â
Anyways.
