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RE: Where did you started RPing? - K'nahli - 02-28-2015

I'd say here but I really got into Fallout 3. I couldn't stand bad decisions and I refused to get the Dogmeat "Puppies!" perk because it implied that any "new" Dogmeat was a reincarnation and therefore not the real Dogmeat.

...so I stuck to risking many hours of progress when out travelling through the wastes whenever Dogmeat vanished and had the potential of later incurring the sudden:
"Dogmeat has died" message ;;;;


But that's an RPG so it won't count?

RE: Where did you started RPing? - TheLastCandle - 02-28-2015

Hey, I found a "screenshot" of my first online RP character!

>peer mirror
You see Master Teveriel Anduin Vaalor the Exemplar of Voln.
He appears to be an Elf.
He is tall and appears to be mature. He has brooding steel grey eyes and fair skin. He has shoulder length, straight silver blonde hair gathered from the temples into a half-ponytail. He has a chiseled, angular face, a well-defined hawkish nose and well-muscled shoulders and arms.
He is in good shape.
He is wearing a somber black hooded longcloak, an old villswood greatshield slung over his shoulder, a full suit of brightly polished steel platemail, an ebon-veined white marble band, a low-slung black leather swordbelt, an antiquated black lacquered scabbard, a black velvet drawstring gem pouch, a small black leather kit, a pair of reinforced leather trousers, and some heavy black leather boots.

Undead-hunting Paladin.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Kage - 02-28-2015

Gaia online had these breedable/collectable art things. I obsessed over the art there and then I fell in love with the RP that went with it.

Fell out of it because of college and work... and then suddenly Nat constantly talking about RP found Kage sitting inside a table at the Quicksand.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Purpshuk - 02-28-2015

Woo, I'm starting to get my memories. It was about 5 or 6 years ago. I used to RP on flipnote Hatena, embarrassing. I had a sonic the hedgehog OC lmao.

But most of my experience is on Tumblr, especially in the fire emblem, rune factory, and monster hunter community.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Spethah - 02-28-2015

Started off on MSN and on the old Doujinstyle forums before the entire community split into two, then went to WoW, SMT: IMAGINE, Guild Wars 1 and 2, Rift, Tera and well now here. 
11 years of roleplaying. Well sheet son.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Eses Fafa - 02-28-2015

For me, it was WoW on the Steamwheedle Cartel server on EU side around 2007/8. I was intrigued by the notion but never got down to it 'till a guildie asked to walk down Hillsbrad and discuss politics. About 2011, I moved to Argent Dawn and became serious about RP.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Cato - 02-28-2015

I started my career as a role-player on a site devoted to the early Resident Evil games. Since I already had an interest in creative writing and acting it fell into place rather nicely. I was then later introduced to MMO's and started off with WoW - on Argent Dawn EU - before eventually ending up here.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Lyriell - 02-28-2015

I don't remember the exact year but I think it was around 1998?

Pretty much when UO was still new was when I really started getting into the RP scene.
From UO I went into several IRC Chats where I continued RPing until WoW came out.

I continued RPing throughout several games until eventually ending up here ^.^

RE: Where did you started RPing? - thesunalsorises - 02-28-2015

I first started rping through Gaia, I joined a lot of Inuyasha and Zelda role plays. I got to the point where I took pride in several hundred word posts and super elaborately decorated posts. Most roleplays there moved at a glaciers pace because of this. I don't think I ever actually completed a story arc.

I later moved to the livejournal roleplay community, and I migrated with them when they moved to dreamwidth. I found them to be to really petty and dramatic for my taste, lots of gossip cliques, and anon bashing. LJ/DW rp works usually works like this, the admin made a setting or borrows one and then players would take canon characters and stick them in there. I found this style was really stifling to my creativity, because most roleplays were not OC friendly. It just lead to a lot of "you play 'x' wrong" and "you never play with me and prefer to play with your character's canon partner, so you're terrible." It was fun at times but also got stressful.

Then I took up LARPing, it was a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively. The game I attend gives us a lot of room to explore, but still has enough lore that we're not lost.

And here I am.

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Maril - 02-28-2015

I started rping in chatrooms local to my language, I just had no idea that was what it was. For me at the time it was just random fun. Needless to say it was completely free for all with what you did. I also did some stuff on IRC at some point. When I played Rubies of Eventide, I did some things reminiscent of RP, and looking back I do think the person I talked a lot with then was a roleplayer of some variety. My English was still pretty bad though, and I never found any of the people I met there again - I have been somewhere around 13-15 years old at the time. I didn't actually speak fluid English until I was about 17/18, today I am completely bilingual.  

My "serious" roleplay career got kickstarted in World of Warcraft (I was about 19), because I was 110% done with raiding and I met some people IRL that played on Steamwheedle Cartel (EU). I made an escape alt, and because it was the norm to browse realm forums for me, I had a peek at SWC's and saw a multitude of stickied guides, their wiki and a long long list of guilds that were willing to take in newbies. I got curious and decided to apply for one whilst I worked on a background.. An 18 year old Draenei raised by a talking bear Blush. We all have to start somewhere right?? I got taken to this IC interview where everyone frowned at me fiercely and it's the most terrifying thing I've ever done, after which they rejected me and one of them whispered me recommending me to read the lore of the game. So I did, and after a week or so I contacted them again (I don't think they were expecting this) and I was given a second chance as they sat up a small campfire fishing-trip type thing. Because of my chat experience I was completely used to emoting and, they got me in and assigned me a mentor. After a long time with them, I transferred over my previous raiding main and started to delve into Heavy RP, which I have stuck to ever since. 
I stuck with WoW for about two years before "Going on a break" from which I never returned, rather I continued to RP in Rift and eventually ended up here when XIV launched. 

I still talk to a few people from my WoW time, but most notably after six or so years I still play with one of them, here in XIV Smile

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Eses Fafa - 02-28-2015

(02-28-2015, 01:31 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: I started my career as a role-player on a site devoted to the early Resident Evil games. Since I already had an interest in creative writing and acting it fell into place rather nicely. I was then later introduced to MMO's and started off with WoW - on Argent Dawn EU - before eventually ending up here.
 Oh? Nice to see a fellow ADer! Who were you? I was Pirris!

ALL OF THE BOMBS! ALL OF THE MAGICS!

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RE: Where did you started RPing? - Cato - 02-28-2015

(02-28-2015, 01:48 PM)Eses Fafa Wrote:
(02-28-2015, 01:31 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: I started my career as a role-player on a site devoted to the early Resident Evil games. Since I already had an interest in creative writing and acting it fell into place rather nicely. I was then later introduced to MMO's and started off with WoW - on Argent Dawn EU - before eventually ending up here.
 Oh? Nice to see a fellow ADer! Who were you? I was Pirris!

ALL OF THE BOMBS! ALL OF THE MAGICS!

Solbranthius/Arathyrion and Calthric.

Your name's familiar - did you play a Night Elf Mage, by chance?

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Rosamund - 02-28-2015

(02-28-2015, 01:48 PM)Eses Fafa Wrote: Oh? Nice to see a fellow ADer!

I'm from Argent Dawn EU as well!

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RE: Where did you started RPing? - Eses Fafa - 02-28-2015

(02-28-2015, 01:52 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote:
(02-28-2015, 01:48 PM)Eses Fafa Wrote:
(02-28-2015, 01:31 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: I started my career as a role-player on a site devoted to the early Resident Evil games. Since I already had an interest in creative writing and acting it fell into place rather nicely. I was then later introduced to MMO's and started off with WoW - on Argent Dawn EU - before eventually ending up here.
 Oh? Nice to see a fellow ADer! Who were you? I was Pirris!

ALL OF THE BOMBS! ALL OF THE MAGICS!

Solbranthius/Arathyrion and Calthric.

Your name's familiar - did you play a Night Elf Mage, by chance?
You know it! I played her as an engineer to be a little outside the box. Calthric rings a bell or five-thousand! (I keep a lot of bells)

RE: Where did you started RPing? - Nebbs - 02-28-2015

(02-28-2015, 01:26 PM)Eses Fafa Wrote: For me, it was WoW on the Steamwheedle Cartel server on EU side around 2007/8. I was intrigued by the notion but never got down to it 'till a guildie asked to walk down Hillsbrad and discuss politics. About 2011, I moved to Argent Dawn and became serious about RP.

Steamwheedle Cartel - shout out! I moved from AD to SWC when they opened it up.