What makes you RP?

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

Or rather; what was the initial pull that got you into RP on any form? Personally, I've been doing RP's for about....14 years now and have done it over a few forms table top (mostly White Wolf) forum/IRC based and now MMO more recently. The first RP I was involved in was a Vampire the Masquerade campaign with a rather small group (only three people) and even though I was dragged in by a friend at first with little knowledge of the concept; I was instantly hooked and haven't really stopped since.

 

 

What was really a pull for me was the fact that it was fast pace writing. You could be descriptive or just quick with reactions and in face to face instances; really get into the character with some bad acting. (Still not one for LARP...it makes me feel a bit silly so that ruins the immersion.) And there's always that uncertainty on how a event is going to end because it's being written as you go.

 

SOOOO...I'm curious; why do you love RP and how did you start? o3o

[Maril]

Unbeknownst to myself, I started on chats and IRC's in my native language. It was completely random, and I had /no/ idea people called it roleplay. To me at the time (I was probably about 14 or 15. That putting it to be about 10-11 years ago) roleplay was the stuff some people did out in the forests, cause we had a satirical song in the radio about that. I was still learning English at the time, and I had a break until one day after I got so sick-and-******-tired of progression raiding in WoW I made an escape alt on a different realm. I chose Steamwheedle Cartel (EU) because I had some acquaintances IRL who played there at the time. On my old realm it was very normal for me to lurk about on the realm forums for chatter and banter, so naturally I went exploring, and that's where I was first properly introduced to Roleplay in MMO's. 

During the "break" I had attempted to join a local pen-and-paper club because my mom was wanting me off the PC more, but it being an all-male club and me being an extremely socially awkward girl, I gave up on it after a couple of sessions. 

 

I was /quite/ surprised and instantly interested in what all of the guides had to say on the forum, so I read them all basically in one sitting. 

I spent aaaaaaaaages looking on the forum for a newbie-accepting RP guild, and they were all like "Must make a background" - So I fathomed a pen and promptly designed a backstory about a 19 year old Draenai that was raised by a bear. In the elever lands. (*CRINGE*) So during my IC interview they obviously declined me, and I had a whisper about checking out the game's lore (I honestly had no idea) and then I took contact to them later with a new attempt, and they offered me a second chance to prove my meddle in a relaxed social RP situation - Campfire by Lakeshire, fishing and just two people involved. 

After that, I was accepted in and promptly given a mentor.  I like to consider my own start to this one of the big reasons why it's important to help newbies to the stage these days. If they hadn't offered me a second chance, I wouldn't be here today. I'd have been some bookworm somewhere. I also don't really hear about a lot of people who started out with MMO-RP, they always seem to come from non-online variants of it, so I'll be keeping an extra eye on what other people say to see if there might be anyone like me  

 

I was with that guild for about half a year to a year, and the RP was predominantly social themed. I met some other people via RP - One of them I still talk to and RP with in XIV now - who introduced me to evil/cult RP, which apparently was right up my alley because I got so addicted so fast, that I transferred over my ex-raiding character and just went completely into RP All in all I had 2-2½ years RP'ing in WoW, before moving on to Rift for the following 3 years, and I have hung about XIV since it's relaunch. Making it like 6 years in total, give-or-take. 

 

I love roleplay because it gives a whole other meaning to playing MMORPG's, without RP I would not be playing them still. I find it so enriching in a way I can't describe, I love writing - but I can't write short stories and novels and such. Roleplay is my main creative outlet these days. I love being inspired to make new characters, I laugh and cry with them and feel how they grow and develop with every step they take. I love when you get to the point with a character where it's not so much you playing them, but the character playing you - Because you have gotten a complete sense of understanding of their "ruleset", you can effectively see how they would react to certain situations and you can tell when something isn't logical for them to do - without questioning it or giving it second thought. To normal people it probably sounds like some kind of split personality disorder stuff, but I truly find it fascinating. 

It's just a whole bundle of fun, even when it's sad.

[Steel Wolf]

My roleplaying life started with MechWarrior 3. I picked the game up on a lark because it was on sale and I liked giant robots blowing each other up.

 

I was not expecting to enjoy the game as much as I did. I was even less expecting the lore of the MechWarrior universe to be so deep.

 

Offline play bled to online matches in the MSN Gaming Zone, which was my first true online gaming experience. People chatting, opening and closing rooms, just having fun...it led me onward to related forums. From there I decided to participate, and then start my own merc company--the Order of the Crimson Shield. It was a mercenary company that was devoted to identifying and naming in-game cheaters while fostering a roleplay story of free fighters, former Clanners and overall guns-for-hire. In-game, we carried ourselves as holy knights, and kept to Clanner ROE--no intentional legging of an opponent, and no firing on an enemy that was knocked down or shut down. The company survived for about three years, seeing us through the Pirate's Moon expansion release and the MechWarrior 4 release and Mercenaries ex-pack.

 

Trust me, folks, these were some of the best people I've played with and against. When you can get a bead on an enemy yards away on a 56K dialup connection, you can boast that.

 

I would play XI for about four or five years but only play it as the mindless grind it was, and so would think I was exhausted by MMOs until I found a title called City of Heroes. Not only was the game character creation robust, but so too were the creativity of the players. I was back in the RP fold, maining as The Midnight Kestrel, a sneak-thief and privateer who worked with the Sky Pirates supergroup before going rogue and playing both sides of Paragon City and the Isles. She would have adventures with random people and steady friends that saw her across time, space and beyond.

 

Ever since, I've seen MMOs as a roleplay space, and write characters and study lore accordingly. I've always been embroiled in long-running, full-featured and close-knit storytelling, while allowing an open door and free interaction policy in the groups I've run. It's enriched my gaming and my creativity in ways that no other medium has even compared.

 

That's why I RP. Interaction. The adventure and the connection and the drama and romance and sweat and camaraderie and challenge that only bands of heroes seem to achieve.

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

@Sastra

I agree, newbies need a lot of help when they're first starting out. (Remembers her first rp character....a bubbly high school girl turned gangurl vampire because reasons.... >n<;;;;; ) There's just so much to any given game and a way to make things detailed that is just lost on a lot of new players at first. If they don't have anyone willing to lend a hand and teach-or worse yet, a bad interaction-it can completely shut down someone on RP and they end up losing out on a really enriching experience. :c

 

@Wolf

That's another thing I love about big RP communities as well. Just the overall feeling of everyone interacting. Even if it's just sitting somewhere to listen in or watching people chat on a LS...it's great to see how so many people can end up being friends OOC because they've started talking IC. 

 

I used to be really shy/not wanting to meet or talk to new people but since I started doing the whole RP interaction on a open level like this; it's made me much more outgoing and I really enjoy that.

[Oli!]

I had a love of writing long before RP, so I sadly don't have any stories about That Really Awful First Character. A friend and I were both playing WoW around Cataclysm's launch, and he convinced me and another guy I know to try out RP on the Wyrmrest Accord server. My first characters were a silent Worgen (werewolf) private-eye, a snarky jerk Goblin (i.e. a standard Goblin), and a mage that was kind of crazy and liked to dip cups into his water elemental and drink from it.

 

Then I got hooked and went MMO-hopping and made All the Characters.

[Yhen Yizeh]

I think it's fun. (:

[Delilah Scythewood]

I've been RPing about 14-15 years now. Since I was a little kid dicking around on Dark Age of Camelot with my stepdad, I didn't really play the game so much as I ran around, explored, and trolled the fuck out of people unintentionally (I was seven, lemmealone). I don't remember this story myself, but my stepdad tells me about it with pride so I usually use it as my first RP experience...

 

My stepdad and I are playing DAoC, him in one room, me in another. His buddy suddenly calls him up on the phone saying "Dude, where's your kid?"

 

"Uhh...in the other room. Why?"

 

"Check out what she's doing in the game."

 

So he gets up and comes into my room, looking at my screen. I'm standing in the middle of one of the little towns in the game typing out a story to a group of about fifteen people standing around me just listening. I'm seven at the time. He thought it was one of the coolest thing ever that a bunch of people who were likely 15-40 years old are all standing around for a story that a seven year old is typing out.

 

It sorta went from there.

 

But over all in all my experiences (from MSN Groups, Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger, Hexrpg.com, fanfiction.net, WoW, Rift, Skype, Fetlife, Aeon, ArcheAge, and FF14), the common force that drives me is the telling of a story. Not only just the telling of the story, but having other people to help make even more magic happen.

[DreamedReality]

I RP to get outside the humdrum of RL. To have fun. To collaborate and connect with others.

 

I suppose I've been (and possibly a lot of you did) 'role playing' since I was young.

 

For example: my sis and I made pokemon trainer characters who were siblings traveling together and had all sorts of adventures. Usually turning the world of pokemon into a much more gritty version of one of our favorite TV shows. 

 

Going back further: We had -hoards- of stuffed animals/plastic toys. In our little world they came to life and each had their own personalities, histories, friends, enemies, etc.

 

They certainly weren't anything close to refined or even good, of course. And our characters tended to mature as we matured. But we were still taking on persona that was not our own and creating stories and keeping continuity.

 

Then puberty hit and it was 'not cool' to do such pretend things.

 

The late teens hit and I got into White Wolf with a group of folks that I'm still friends with today. (my first campaign was also a Vampire the Masquerade game.) And discovered it was a much more structured version of the sort of thing I'd done with my sis when I was young. And wondered why I ever quit.

 

Stuck with the structured stuff for quite a while until I started playing LotRO and realized there were unstructured but still mature RPs to be had.

[Madda]

Madda's turn!

 

When Madda was little, Madda loved playing with toys and pretending the characters had their own little TV show and different personalities. When Madda attended daycare, Madda continued this trend to entertain the younger kids. Madda kept a journal of all the adventures they had and enjoyed spending time with people who enjoyed it. 

 

Madda's first ever MMO was World of Warcraft. Madda heard of role playing back then, but never really gave it any thought. Around Wrath, Madda's guild had cleared most of ICC and was waiting for Cataclysm to hit. During that time, we began to play pretend online and be in a family near Elwynn Forest. Of course, this led to many ridiculing us for doing so. 

 

But Madda first started roleplaying on Gaia Online in the 9th grade. It was quite new and interesting to create a whole character based on only a single picture and such. Then came the first character Madda made. His name was *groan* Kiru Otashi, a wandering high school student that had a pet kitsune (Madda is almost an otaku. Just afraid of anime for some reason). Madda never had an issue being too powerful, and instead made Kiru incredibly underpowered. He lost most fights because of every hit landing, Madda thought Madda was power gaming. 

 

Then came time to server transfer to Moon Guard, using Madda's night elf Druid as a character. He was *double groan* Navarion Razorwind and his backstory was basically his daughter kidnapped by an Orc roughly around the time of the Well of Eternity. Needless to say, Madda was informed and given a guide to read up on. 

 

Madda began to seek roleplay in other games, which led, Madda to XIV due to Madda enjoying how visually different it looked from the games (it doesn't look like an anime style game, think pre FF7). 

 

Why does Madda roleplay? It breaks up the monotony of simply playing the game normally. You'd get bored fast of the same thing over and over, and with roleplay, Madda can take a break and have fun with other characters living in a different world. 

 

Madda also roleplay a because of Madda's love of writing. When Madda was young, Madda absolutely HATED writing. Even a single sentence drove Madda insane. This was mostly due to Madda's disability (Asperger's Syndrome) and how Madda couldn't focus correctly at a younger age. As Madda matured, it lessened and Madda began to write down reports for school quicker than ever. Madda usually turned a single one page "write your own story" assignment into several pages of characters interacting with one another. Madda hopes to one day get a job using writing (journalist or maybe even the high school student's dream of *GROAN* helping write a manga). 

 

If there's one thing Madda enjoys most of all, it's watching other characters grow and make connections (Madda hates that term) more than Madda's own. Some characters are really well written and could deserve a series of their own.

[OttoVann]

Raiding is tedious. RP can be fun.

[Nero]

I enjoy conceptualizing story ideas and characters but sitting down and actually writing stories with all the details is labourious. RP lets me write stories by making up about one seventeenth of it and then letting other people fill in the blanks themselves.

 

So basically, RP is my way of being lazy.

[Clover]

As many opther people said, RP is a tool that serves to tell story, or simply to tell something. To me RP is also a tool that helps me experience many kinds of different emotions and lives, and that's something I find fascinating. The real world has always been quite a boring place to me.

[Artigan]

Mostly masturbation.

[Nebbs]

*wobbly lines* Lets go way back to a time before PCs and Xbox and even Internets.

 

I suppose I always like stories, comics at first and then fantasy books. So when someone said that had Judge Dread RPG I was in (probably 1985)

 

After that came DnD (and many other table top game), LARP, dial up BBS, Compuserve forums then WoW and into the mad world on MMORPG.

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Computer games wise I would RP with my now wife over things like Bards Tale and the DnD Gold Box stuff.

 

 

I have built world, destroyed worlds. I have lived died and come back again. I have laughed cried and been amazed. May snacks were consumed, many pops guzzled. I have seen guilds come and go along with RP friends. It has been, and still is, a big part of my life.

 

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[Kellach Woods]

Obviously it started when I was a kid and we'd play TMNT and I'd pick raph because he was a brooding badass (in the live-action movie which was the GREATEST THING EVER at the time)

 

I was 5 OKAY.

 

Then I'd just play pretend with other things because the internet wasn't as widely available back then. Also knew that it was "shameful" so I hid that shit for when I was alone. (REST RESERVED FOR THERAPIST)

 

Actual internet RP only started when I discovered the internet. For me, at that point, my exposure to roleplaying games were D&D and JRPGs with set characters such as Final Fantasy. It's really only when I first started in the wonderful world of fanfiction that I discovered RP as a collaborative storytelling experience and only when I hit a certain forum (which then had its inhabitants split from that forum because the admins wanted to overhaul the RP forum for... reasons I really didn't understand and I'm sure you'd explain it to me now and I'd still go "wat")

 

Then I started to play CoH. I was looking for RP but also wanted to play with my friends. I lucked out as I was on a server that ended up having both - Robust if small RP community and where my friends played (Hint : It wasn't Paragon or Virtue).

 

After that I just started looking for RP everywhere I went because it flexes the creative muscles and allows me to push boundaries that I wouldn't otherwise push.

 

Funnily enough it's because of RP that I got into wrestling as much as I did. I also skipped over efedding. I also LARPed but fell out of it due to the lack of quality LARPs around here.

[Gegenji]

I still remember the moment I first got introduced to "RP," and it was way back in elementary school during the after-school daycare (around third or fourth grade, if I recall correctly).

 

There wasn't any dice, there wasn't any rules. It was one of the people working there telling us all a story, with us as the characters, and constantly looking to us when "we" were presented with an obstacle and asked us what we could do. People mentioned their hats, their favorite yo-yos, busting out that Yak-Bak they had in their backpack. No matter what "solution" we threw at her, she took it and made it work and continued the story. And it was amazing.

 

Ever since, whenever something has caught my interest - video game, TV show, comic book - I've found myself making "fan characters" for them and imagining how they'd interact in that world. The earliest one I can remember was a Sonic fan-character "Fists the Echidna" - who was half echidna, half robot (I was nine at the time, so cut me a little slack there :lol: ) - that I thought up around the time of Sonic 3's release. I would even trace over pictures I could find of Knuckles and "robotocize" his left side, up until I could draw the character on my own (albeit rather poorly). I do find myself thinking up characters like that still, but I'd like to believe that they are a little more nuanced and creative. Or I could be just kidding myself, who knows? :tonberry:

 

That brought me to Dungeons and Dragons (2nd edition. THAC0, y'all!) in the later days of elementary school with a friend of mine named Ben. I could read the handbooks, have ideas for these worlds, and actually use them! It was amazing! I've been playing pen and paper games like that on and off ever since (both in person and through online chat rooms), including running a game here and there.

 

Even when I got introduced to my first MMO while in training for the military (Vanilla WoW), I found myself developing a backstory for my Night Elf Hunter and even jotting down a few short stories. It wasn't an RP server, though - I had no idea such things existed, in fact - so it was usually just left on the wayside. I did the same thing for my characters in Everquest (naming my Necromancer's minions - like Mr. Happy the Wilted Flesh), FFXI, Champions Online (Favorite was Lard Almighty, the ex-Football player and overweight superhero - everyone had muscular or sexy heroes, I had to!), All-Points Bulletin, even my brief stint in Monster Hunter 3 (loved my grumpy, elderly Lancer and his love of tea. HOOAGH!)...

 

Then the burnout happened. I was in a hardcore raiding guild trying to push through the latest expansion of WoW, there was in-guild drama and most of our "recruits" were just using us to gear up before applying to a further-progressed guild. One guild leader got replaced with another, who got replaced by my friend that got me into WoW in the first place, and then he just up and quit without a word, leaving me in charge of this crumbling mess. I ducked out and swore off MMOs for good.

 

I still had my pen-and-papers, at least. I was running a 4e DnD game in a homebrew world with some friends of mine. Slowly, though, that drifted apart too and I had no real outlet. My days dwindled to "go to work, come home, play Team Fortress 2 until I got bored enough to spend the rest of the evening watching YouTube videos."

 

Sister was playing FFXIV, tried to get me in, I passed. The free trial rolled around, she tried again and I relented. I decided I'd stick to pure casual stuff - no more raiding guilds and the like anymore. Made my Lalafell, stuck around after the trial ended, and slowly worked on leveling him while perusing the official forums. Came across the Lore section - the naming conventions, specifically - and then stumbled on a thread that linked to here. Investigated on a whim, and... well, you can see how that turned out. :thumbsup:

 

So... um... yeah. :blush:

[Melodia]

I started rp'ing in D&D tabletop stuff a long time ago. This little blue box set with some rough maps and dice and from there went to Rifts, and Vampire: The Masquerade, AD&D, Shadowrun, a Robotech one, Traveler, and so many others.

 

As FFXIV is my first MMO I had no idea rp could exist here until I'd found this site by accident. And I just enjoy playing out a story.   I like seeing it unfold and not knowing how the other living parts will react or perform is part of the fun.

 

On a side note, I did openly engage in a random walk up rp with a complete stranger yesterday and it was so much fun, a friend of her came over and we discussed the nuances of Limsa city mentality and the need for law enforcement and how far the line needs to be drawn. Very interesting and fun discussion.

[ProvaDiServo]

It's definitely the personalities that come together and interact. definitely been a major thing for me since I started with forum rp back when.

[MikoBehnen]

I moved away from my hometown about a year ago to an area that is not entirely welcoming to the odd or unique. I didn't think it would bother me but I no longer get to hangout with my LARP friends (I never played, but I'd run around and be prop girl), the closest Renaissance Festival is well over an hour away, and I work from home so I don't get to meet a lot of new people. I like RP as an idea of an extension of yourself in a game, and I enjoy the fact that you can create great friendships through the internet. (My parents still play with a friend they met over 10 years ago in DAoC). I enjoy being creative and figured since I've never done it before but had loved watching friends play, why not give it a shot. 

 

tldr: I missed my geek culture and opportunities to be creative, and RP seemed to fill both those shoes.

[ArmachiA]

When I was 17, I was really big into theater (I was a part of all my schools drama productions in High School) and really big into writing, so my High School boyfriend decided to get me into his Table Top group that played Vampire: The Masquerade every week. I had no idea what this "Roleplaying" thing was or how it was supposed to work so he picked my Clan for me - a Malkavian.

 

The group I started playing with took it... really seriously. Like an exclusive club. They made up some rules that were really restrictive and, when I enjoyed the first game I played and decided to ask if some of my other friends could join, they said no. You couldn't try new clans because YOU were the clan you picked after all. No new characters. Etc Etc

 

Eventually, I picked up my own copy of the main book and read through it, realizing a lot of the rules they had were just rules they made up. Instead, I decided to start running campaigns on my own. I let all my friends play (Starting small) and learned the ropes of GMing (They called it Storytelling in V:TM) over the next year. By the time I was 19, I was running games quickly with 20 people on average - most of the people from the original group I played with moved over to me as their GM.

 

I really began to enjoy crafting stories for people. Making plots that people could get lost in, making NPC's that people would take about for YEARS, putting in twists and turns they could never see coming. My big difference as a GM was I always had a "PC" character that hung with the main group, though they didn't make any plot altering decisions, they were always around to see how my character would form friendships and stuff. I learned later a lot of GMs don't actually roll a "PC" sort to speak, but I liked it, it always made me feel more connected to the group.

 

Anyway I was a GM for V:TM (And eventually Mage) for... 5 years before I stepped in FFXI as my first MMO. I was newly 22 and thought that everyone in MMO's rped. I just thought it was what people did, little did I know. I started the only RP LS on the server and went from there.

 

Why I RP? I still enjoy writing and acting. For acting though, I'm not really one to be on stage anymore, so RP lets me kind of get the bug out. I love crafting stories. I really love being a GM and have people live in my stories. I love seeing people talk about how exciting a scene was - not knowing that I had my hand in that talking to the villians and making sure they new what they were doing. Or doing a roll20 session and having people talk about how cool it was.

On the player side: I love seeing where my character is going to go. I love watching relationships form and characters grow and writing stories about her and all kind of things.

 

Roleplay is pure creativity and I really like the creative outlet.

 

Fun Fact: My dad hid the fact he played D&D from me and my sister until I got into V:TM to which he said "Thank God I stop stop hiding I'm a nerd."

[Warren Castille]

I've been using characters to tell stories since I was a youngling. I remember clearly taking my box of action figures out to the front steps and having grand adventures between my heroes and the villains, usually cribbed from whatever movie or TV show I'd watched. I did this a lot as a kid, and remember clearly at one point my neighbor laughing at me. Well, my adult brain tells me in hindsight that he was laughing at the wonder of a child using his imagination and his toys (complete with voices and background music!) to entertain himself. It might have also been my "THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORPH" as Wolverine slashed away at my Terminator toys.

 

In middle school a friend and I had marble copybooks we'd just fill with shit-tier Mary-Sue fiction. We'd pass the books off between classes and at the end of the day and in our own way we were doing an offline play-by-post setting. He'd write a bunch of stuff, I'd add to it, so on and so forth. We filled a lot of books that way, and we had probably zero to one readable lines out of all of it.

 

Once I got into tabletop in high school, it was basically second-nature to me. I grew up making up stories for my toys and playing video games, so being able to do both at the same time was the best thing. That eventually branched to MMOs and here we are today.

 

I still have GI Joes and X-Men toys on my Amazon wishlist. Sometimes my friends will humor me, and I still have my boxed Archangel (my first X-Men toy!) on my bookshelf at home, right alongside my Duke and Flak Viper toys.

 

...I can't tell you, cannot stress enough, how tempting it is to open them up and play again. I've already got the superflexible Spider-Man from the late 80s and Iron Grenadier and Destro to play with.

[FreelanceWizard]

So, I started RPing a long time ago -- back in 6th grade, when a friend in my art club decided to bring me into his gaming group (which was, at the time, playing GURPS). I had to hide exactly what RPGs were from my parents, who, after I mentioned someone was talking about D&D, went on a tirade about how it's the "devil's game" and I'd become some sort of Satan-worshipping demon summoner. What attracted me to RPGs then was the ability to tell interesting stories and play with mechanics that simulate a world.

 

I didn't do much outside of tabletop RPGs (Rifts! AD&D2! RuneQuest! GURPS!) until high school, when I was introduced to Vampire: the Masquerade LARP (this was during the days of the Big Cyan Book, before the Grey Book Laws of the Night, for those trying to ascertain how old I am ). While I got eliminated through someone else's intrigues on my third game, I got hooked on the idea of large-scale political games. The trick of the artful backstab and the emergent behavior of large numbers of people all telling their own stories have always been intriguing to me.

 

Around the same time, I managed to stumble into a shell account on a remote server through the local university's VAX (which had guest access for Gopher, which you could use to initiate telnet into other systems -- this was back when everyone was more trusting than they are now ). That got me into MUSHes and MUXes, which were sort of a natural progression from LARP. Being a reasonably competent programmer, I was able to learn TinyCode and get into Wizarding.

 

So, when I was introduced to EverQuest, I naturally wanted to start RPing there. While I drifted between it and MUSHes for a while, I eventually got into some very good RP groups on EQ's Firiona Vie server, and have been RPing in MMOs ever since.

 

I still have a particular interest in telling stories -- I have a weekly tabletop game that's been going on for the better part of a decade now -- but I also enjoy watching others' stories unfold, collide, and merge into a living world. It's that latter part that attracts me to LARP and MMO RP (which, I maintain, are exceedingly similar).

[Kage]

I'm not sure if it's really being -made- to RP but there's always just a sense of fun to it.

 

I love to read and so when I hear about a good narrative I just want to know more. It's so easy to do that with some FFXIV RPers. People start their stories in public or in private. Sometimes their private stories leak out to more people than originally intended. Some times the stories are "trivial" but more times than not they're well-written and important. Being the one at the bar, just listening to what's going on... Makes you feel almost like one of the those guys at a bar just listening to old-timers' stories.

[D'aito Kuji]

I got started started roleplaying when I immersed myself in City of Heroes.  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.  I thought I could do better.

 

So City of Heroes was my chance and I started RP'ing.  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.  I'm not sure that our stories were any better than mainstream comics but I loved them.  I was invested in them.  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.  I don't want to sit back and watch/read.  I don't play RPGs for the same reason; they aren't my characters.  It's just a quirk, I guess.  But I have to feed that creative side of me, even in gaming or I'll feel like I'm wasting my time.  And reaching out, making connections with someone, seeing someone react to my character is so fulfilling to me.  It makes her and the world she lives in that much more real.

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

Wow reading all these are so fun. c: A lot of them mentioned acting out minor things with their toys and it reminded me of something I had done with my younger sisters a long time ago.

 

Back when Burger King had all those silver Dragon Ball Z toys, we had pestered our mother until she had gotten us most of the set, (I forgot who we were missing but we had most of them.) Being stuck at some sort of car show for my parents to watch, we then spent the entire time in the back bleachers acting out stories with those toys.....mostly which included a scene where Goku died and we held a funeral; Vegeta danced on his grave and got yelled at by all the other attendees until they started fighting (Kai blasts were represented by using lemonhead candy.) :lol:

 

ANYWAY now that I shared that derptastic memory; I wanna hear more starter stories from people if they got any to share! OuO