My very first "RP" style experience was actually probably back in... third or fourth grade? In one of those after-school on-school-grounds day cares. There used to be one lady who work there that would tell us stories. About us, going on adventures. Every now and then, she'd turn to us and ask us what we'd do in the situation and she'd incorporate it into the story and it was really neat.
That's basically all I remember of those times. That and playing Sonic Spinball on the Genesis they had there (dating myself, whee).
After that, around fifth/sixth grade timeframe I somehow fell into a 2nd Edition DnD group and it just went from there. I stuck mainly to DnD, but online I participated in RP chat rooms on AOL (someone mentioned Red Dragon Inn and I'm pretty sure I went there for a bit). I played DnD on and off until around high school, when the group I played with more or less dissolved.
I played FFXI and Everquest for a bit but, beyond my own headcanon for my characters, I didn't really RP. Same with WoW for all the years I played that. When I got out of the military, I played a bit of DnD via mIRC, found an actual, physical 3e DnD group to play with... which I splintered off from later to run my own 4e group... and a couple other odds and ends.
FFXIV was my first real experience RPing in an MMO, and so I was horrendously nervous when I made Chachan. I still think I'm getting adjusted, but I also like to think I'm doing... okay. I'm too nervous to ask.
That's basically all I remember of those times. That and playing Sonic Spinball on the Genesis they had there (dating myself, whee).
After that, around fifth/sixth grade timeframe I somehow fell into a 2nd Edition DnD group and it just went from there. I stuck mainly to DnD, but online I participated in RP chat rooms on AOL (someone mentioned Red Dragon Inn and I'm pretty sure I went there for a bit). I played DnD on and off until around high school, when the group I played with more or less dissolved.
I played FFXI and Everquest for a bit but, beyond my own headcanon for my characters, I didn't really RP. Same with WoW for all the years I played that. When I got out of the military, I played a bit of DnD via mIRC, found an actual, physical 3e DnD group to play with... which I splintered off from later to run my own 4e group... and a couple other odds and ends.
FFXIV was my first real experience RPing in an MMO, and so I was horrendously nervous when I made Chachan. I still think I'm getting adjusted, but I also like to think I'm doing... okay. I'm too nervous to ask.
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