Honestly the story of how I started RPing is really silly. My first MMO, like most people, was World of Warcraft back when I was like 14. During Burning Crusade I bought into the Arena server, thinking I was much better at pvp than I was and had any chance of making it lol.
To simplify that I met someone who played on Wyrmrest Accord, the big Rp server. Now, he wasn't an Rper, I wasn't an RPer, and frankly my circle of friends was the typical 'what kinda nerd ROLEPLAYS lololol' sort of folks.
So, I made a character on Wyrmrest to hang around with my new friend and was your stereotypical troll. I'd run around and make a fool of myself and kinda just hover around RPers. Then I started being like, "I wanna step up my game" so me and my friend went about finding all these things for my level 5 paladin to wear and look cool and look more like one of the RP characters. You know, to troll em harder. It was a sweet look, admittedly. I somehow managed to get a rare shield and a sword that sheaths on your back along with this red armor set and was pretty damn snazzy for some low level character. I think this outfit is what started to sell people on this character.
I'd walk around and just approach people with whatever dopey idea we came up with at the time to pester people... But the more I did it the more I built this strange sort of continuity with the character. Eventually I was walking around as this retired war vet trying to figure out what happened to his daughter who joined the war effort. People took me seriously, people actually RP'd with me, and before long I realize what happened and was like, "This is fun."
So then I made a more serious character with the intention of actually RPing. I read lore, I wrote back stories, and now RPing is basically my main hobby like a decade later.
Honestly if the people of Wyrmrest Accord hadn't been so welcoming I probably wouldn't have ever evolved passed my troll phase and would never have discovered how fun RP is.
To simplify that I met someone who played on Wyrmrest Accord, the big Rp server. Now, he wasn't an Rper, I wasn't an RPer, and frankly my circle of friends was the typical 'what kinda nerd ROLEPLAYS lololol' sort of folks.
So, I made a character on Wyrmrest to hang around with my new friend and was your stereotypical troll. I'd run around and make a fool of myself and kinda just hover around RPers. Then I started being like, "I wanna step up my game" so me and my friend went about finding all these things for my level 5 paladin to wear and look cool and look more like one of the RP characters. You know, to troll em harder. It was a sweet look, admittedly. I somehow managed to get a rare shield and a sword that sheaths on your back along with this red armor set and was pretty damn snazzy for some low level character. I think this outfit is what started to sell people on this character.
I'd walk around and just approach people with whatever dopey idea we came up with at the time to pester people... But the more I did it the more I built this strange sort of continuity with the character. Eventually I was walking around as this retired war vet trying to figure out what happened to his daughter who joined the war effort. People took me seriously, people actually RP'd with me, and before long I realize what happened and was like, "This is fun."
So then I made a more serious character with the intention of actually RPing. I read lore, I wrote back stories, and now RPing is basically my main hobby like a decade later.
Honestly if the people of Wyrmrest Accord hadn't been so welcoming I probably wouldn't have ever evolved passed my troll phase and would never have discovered how fun RP is.
