Where did you first start roleplaying?

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I was thinking about this earlier while I was working. I had a rather interesting (albiet embarassing) origin to how I first got introduced to roleplaying. Hell I can still access the first ever roleplay I wrote. I was like 11 at the time and my god was it hard for me to read through. I'm no shakespear, but my goodness have I improved! Either way, I'm curious since a lot of you that I have started roleplaying with are insanely talented and often times tell me they've been roleplaying for some time. So, I invite you to share and discuss how you came to be!
 
Yooooooo, I love this topic!

I cannot remember where I actually started, but I love thinking back through all the different memories and milestones. Thanks for that point of ponder! I do remember when longer pieces felt way out of reach and totally foreign, and that's interesting to think about.

It seems like I have always been reading and writing, as far back as I can remember. I was probably 13 years old when I started writing things with other people (before I even knew that writing with other people was an actual thing that actual people do, lol), and since then I've written everything from poetry, to blog posts, to educational pieces, to random-ass improv thoughts, to one-line shorts and 2,000+ word responses.

My favorite part about it all though, is getting to witness a shared adventure through someone else's eyes.
 
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Yooooooo, I love this topic!

I cannot remember where I actually started, but I love thinking back through all the different memories and milestones. Thanks for that point of ponder! I do remember when longer pieces felt way out of reach and totally foreign, and that's interesting to think about.

It seems like I have always been reading and writing, as far back as I can remember. I was probably 13 years old when I started writing things with other people (before I even knew that writing with other people was an actual thing that actual people do, lol), and since then I've written everything from poetry, to blog posts, to educational pieces, to random-ass improv thoughts, to one-line shorts and 2,000+ word responses.

My favorite part about it all though, is getting to witness a shared adventure through someone else's eyes.

Yes! I remember back when I started I thought it was such a strange thing to write something with someone. Especially when you take on a character and write through their prospective. I started on a game, finding a group of kids who reccomended it to me. It was all downhill from there. I write casually, never fully investing my life into writing, but its always been a side passion for me to relax and enjoy. I found myself spiraling into a world of role-playing, whether that be playing a game, listening to Dungeon and Dragons podcasts, writing with others, etc. I just recently got back into reading more heavily, taking in the time to appreciate literature as a whole now that I had such a long break from it. Something about writing for me feels like an escape, if that doesn't sound too terribly corny. Sometimes I just like to lose myself in a different world that me and someone else hand crafted together.
 
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Hey guys! Super super new here (as in, literally just signed up) but I've been WAITING for someone to ask this question.

I'm not even going to lie, I was a die hard Warrior Cats fan. In 5th grade I somehow got ahold of this webs.com RP site for Warrior Cats. I was immediately hooked. I tried making my own website, got pretty good at writing with it, and then just evolved from there. I did anything and everything with RP from Warrior Cats, to RPing random animals (idk how I got there), to finally RPing as humans on different kinds of websites.

I've been genuinely looking for an active community when it comes to RPing, especially since it really helps generate creative ideas and I love meeting new people and seeing the way they write because, different writers have different ways of writing, it's kind of unique to them, like a fingerprint.

BUT ANYWAYS, we all had to start somewhere and 5th grade me read a book about cats and now I'm here!
 
Hey guys! Super super new here (as in, literally just signed up) but I've been WAITING for someone to ask this question.

I'm not even going to lie, I was a die hard Warrior Cats fan. In 5th grade I somehow got ahold of this webs.com RP site for Warrior Cats. I was immediately hooked. I tried making my own website, got pretty good at writing with it, and then just evolved from there. I did anything and everything with RP from Warrior Cats, to RPing random animals (idk how I got there), to finally RPing as humans on different kinds of websites.

I've been genuinely looking for an active community when it comes to RPing, especially since it really helps generate creative ideas and I love meeting new people and seeing the way they write because, different writers have different ways of writing, it's kind of unique to them, like a fingerprint.

BUT ANYWAYS, we all had to start somewhere and 5th grade me read a book about cats and now I'm here!
That's super interesting! I actually remember reading a few of those warrior cat books when I was younger. I liked them a lot! It's really insane how some people fall into the world of roleplaying from just happenstance and timing. That's why I asked the question in the first place, it's such an interesting topic ^^
 
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I started role playing when I was 13. I always loved to write as a kid so one day I googled role play sites and I found my first one. After a while that site went under I moved around a lot now I'm here. I've always been writing, not prefect but who is?
 
I am not sure where I first starte doing forum roleplays. butif you ant to count it as such I could say I fist started my rp carrere at 13 playing dungeons and dragons with my cousion and my brother. I really did not get into forum rp untill the last couple of year s of HS and then my first year of college. I do remember that when I first started that I as extremelley critical of myself.... I still am critical of my myself but not as much.
 
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I started role playing when I was 13. I always loved to write as a kid so one day I googled role play sites and I found my first one. After a while that site went under I moved around a lot now I'm here. I've always been writing, not prefect but who is?
Being critical can be a good or bad thing. I have found having a balance helps with still growing my skills without discouraging myself from positing at all. However, that's just me personally. Also I'm jealous, I'd love to have a dnd group to try it!
 
Being critical can be a good or bad thing. I have found having a balance helps with still growing my skills without discouraging myself from positing at all. However, that's just me personally. Also I'm jealous, I'd love to have a dnd group to try it!

Yea I do try not to be super critical. I know there are people who enjoy the roleplays I do with them just sometimes I do look at a post I am writing and hate it nad then have to redo it three or four times XD. As to D&D I have not played or touched a tbale top game in years and it is something I do miss.
 
What a fun topic!

I can't remember my exact age, but I do recall where I first started roleplaying: battle.net. We're talking back in the day of the first Diablo, where I did roleplay as my character in-game, though I was much more engaged in the battle.net chat rooms. Wish I had the logs, I bet it was absolutely awful.

Outside of text-based roleplaying, I started playing D&D when I was a teenager, and well before then I was the weird kid that wanted to LARP as video game characters on the playground.

Good times~
 
What a fun topic!

I can't remember my exact age, but I do recall where I first started roleplaying: battle.net. We're talking back in the day of the first Diablo, where I did roleplay as my character in-game, though I was much more engaged in the battle.net chat rooms. Wish I had the logs, I bet it was absolutely awful.

Outside of text-based roleplaying, I started playing D&D when I was a teenager, and well before then I was the weird kid that wanted to LARP as video game characters on the playground.

Good times~
Take it from someone who has access to their first roleplay. You don't want to see it, I promise. But that's really cool! I started on a video game as well when I was younger. ^^
 
I first started roleplaying on a fantasy roleplaying website where one could choose to play as either a lycan or a vampire. I think it was created when Twilight was sensationalized and there was a general resurgence of interest in the supernatural. There were little chatrooms that accomodated quick-fire responses; nothing extremely sophisticated, just quick and easy communicaton between players.
 
I first started roleplaying on a fantasy roleplaying website where one could choose to play as either a lycan or a vampire. I think it was created when Twilight was sensationalized and there was a general resurgence of interest in the supernatural. There were little chatrooms that accomodated quick-fire responses; nothing extremely sophisticated, just quick and easy communicaton between players.
Funny enough, the roleplay sever I started in had a heavy fixation with vampires and werewolves, I think it had to do with Twilight. It's weird to look back on now a days, I hardly see vampire/werewolf posts and forums. The subject must have just gotten old for people? Another huge show that I think had a bigger impact on roleplaying prompts was the TV show Supernatural. Loved that show a bunch, but it felt like it had a huge influx of demonxsomething or another after that. Taking a step back, media and pop culture have a huge impact on what people write about, it's kind of crazy!
 
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The vampire/werewolf thing was definitely boosted by Twilight, I recall the hordes of vampire/werewolf OCs on the old RP forum I was on at the time. And is it just me, or is 13 like the age of awakening for people who like to write?

I think I was around the same age, maybe a couple years younger. It was before 14, after 10. And it was on Neopets. I still remember that RP because I felt bad about it at the time. I made my character (a weredragon elf warrior) just ridiculously powerful, to the point where the guy I was writing with just crapped out a quick 'wow, good fight, you win!' post and DMed me to politely but firmly say it had been fun but he had to go.

Fun.


This got me reminiscing on my whole writing history now. And makes me feel incredibly old.
 
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The vampire/werewolf thing was definitely boosted by Twilight, I recall the hordes of vampire/werewolf OCs on the old RP forum I was on at the time. And is it just me, or is 13 like the age of awakening for people who like to write?

I think I was around the same age, maybe a couple years younger. It was before 14, after 10. And it was on Neopets. I still remember that RP because I felt bad about it at the time. I made my character (a weredragon elf warrior) just ridiculously powerful, to the point where the guy I was writing with just crapped out a quick 'wow, good fight, you win!' post and DMed me to politely but firmly say it had been fun but he had to go.

Fun.


This got me reminiscing on my whole writing history now. And makes me feel incredibly old.
Been there for sure, back in my younger years thinking it was cool to make a what was basically a few steps above a literal god. I was blissfully (or ignorantly) unaware of how much more entertaining it is to have characters with actual flaws.

I never actually heard of neopets until this moment. I'll fully admit it at this point since everyone has been so open. I started on roblox. It is something that turns my gut into folding knots even today when admitting to it.
 
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We were children, in places created for children. Granted, I don't think Neopets is as exploitative as Roblox has become, but still. The point is that it's all cringe. It will always be cringe. Embrace it, and become cringe.
Roblox is a travesty, running off of the broken dreams and tears of young child programmers. However, it won't change the fact that I met some wonderful people through that game. One of which is still super involved in my life a full 10 years later.

I refuse to awknowledge I am cringe. I will continue to wear ripped jeans and vans and call myself one of the cool kids. I'll stay in denial until I am way into my 50s rocking sketcher newbalances and Jean shorts pulled up way to high for my own good.
 
The vampire/werewolf thing was definitely boosted by Twilight, I recall the hordes of vampire/werewolf OCs on the old RP forum I was on at the time. And is it just me, or is 13 like the age of awakening for people who like to write?
Definitely, Twilight had a huge impact on modern vampire culture; though I believe generally that I started hearing people talking about the books when they were adapted into films, not so much before. I think that Anne Rice (RIP) was super popular as well because there was that whole debacle she had with fanfic writers. But I think it's certainly true that 13 is very often 'the age of awakening' – or rather, the age at which you start having real life experiences and discovering things about yourself that allow you to do interesting things with your writing. I started roleplaying at around 11 or 12.
 
Funny enough, the roleplay sever I started in had a heavy fixation with vampires and werewolves, I think it had to do with Twilight. It's weird to look back on now a days, I hardly see vampire/werewolf posts and forums. The subject must have just gotten old for people? Another huge show that I think had a bigger impact on roleplaying prompts was the TV show Supernatural. Loved that show a bunch, but it felt like it had a huge influx of demonxsomething or another after that. Taking a step back, media and pop culture have a huge impact on what people write about, it's kind of crazy!
I never really went for vampires, but I had a huge interest in werewolves; then I became more interested in actual wolves as opposed to shifters and were-creatures - but I love animals generally. I would say this was largely due to the Twilight fascination although S Meyer's portrayal of Native Americans as werewolves is somewhat problematic and questionable but thats a huge tangent that I don't want to get into right now. I think vampires dominate more in the gothic/horror genre in comparison to werewolves. Nowadays I am much more interested in vampires than werewolves and I'm not sure why.