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So how did you get into RPing?

I don't remember when it exactly started but on some browser-mmo called Sherwood Dungeon or something I believe. Then from there I moved to Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne online RP games with other people and a clan for it. Then moved onto forums a little over 15 years ago because I wanted more than one liners and being limited to only writing when everyone was online in the game.
 
My RP career started a long time ago on a Bionicle fan forum, where my first RP was based on a Lego line that didn't even last a year; said RP went on for years, and continued long after I dropped out.

As for when I got into ERP, it was when I was 18. My then-girlfriend slowly eased me into it as a way to be intimate in a long distance relationship.
 
First touch to it was some old-school asterisk RP-stuff and extremely drama-heavy and toxic RPs over Facebook of all places. I was really into a few fandoms back then (and still am tbh) and the RPs consisted mostly of Mary Sue and Gary Stu-tier OCs getting it on, causing drama and ruining friendships of the actual players behind the characters... Fun times!

However these were mostly me reluctantly being a part of the RPs because my internet friends at the time were into it. This was in the early 2010's and due to all the drama and bullshittery I actually developed a hatred towards online roleplaying, and for the longest time saw it as people sexting via fictional characters with zero effort to actually tell stories or do anything deeper than that (D&D and other system-based roleplays being the exception in my eyes).

Fast forward a few years to 2019. I for some reason am reminded of these times, and decide to see if there's something else to it, and naturally I find that rule34 has forums that you can post RP ads (Yes. The best place to try and get rid of the 'sexting as fictional characters' bias), and decide to give it a shot.

By some freaking miracle the first person who hits me up is actually pretty story-oriented person, and we craft a fun scene that lasted maybe a week before they bow out, and rest of the interractions on the site beyond that were extremely bad experiences to but it mildly.

However that one good experience stuck with me, and I start to look for other options. F-list was next, then Discord servers, and last but not least the roleplaying forums, and here I still am typing this and roleplaying.

So I guess Facebook group RPs was my actual first touch, but I got into the hobby many years later due to morbid curiosity and wanting to get rid of my prejudice.
 
*nodds and stares noobly at this post*

I started off like that in middle school. I don't exactly know what changed or how the change happened but I started to do more lit-RPs As I got into high school.

Sometimes I miss those stupid asterisks but then I get ✨ flashbacks✨ of all the nonsense that came with those asterisks and then I just ponder on how I'm still alive at this point lmao
 
Oooh boy, I am really going to date myself with this one. But I cut my teeth in the mid-90s RPing as Dana Scully from the X-Files in AOL chatrooms. From there, I discovered erotic roleplaying (especially taboo) in IRC channels
 
I was in my mid/early teens. I think it was before highschool. I started way back in the gamefaqs forums, when I was searching info on Dynasty warriors 4? I think it was, found a couple of people rp'ing through there, continued to rp when they made an invision free forum. That was up for a long time, and then I met two of my best friends on one of the invisionfrees I ended up visiting. We're still friends 20 years later, it's honestly insane.

I stopped rp'ing for a real long time, did DND for a game.

Then the person above me here was the one who pulled me back into rp'ing like 2 or three years ago? I think it was.
 
I've always been writing in one way or another, but I think I started RPing in really early middle school. Definitely dating myself, but I joined Neopets along with my friends at the time, and through that I found the RP forums. Obviously no ERP was going on here, but it got me aware of and interested in RPing in general! I've roleplayed on and off throughout the years, mostly throughout high school, college, and a little bit after college. ~2015 onwards, I didn't do much RP, but I realized recently that I still loved and missed the hobby.
 
A group of friends had gotten into table-top gaming. Battletech, Starfleet Battles, Car Wars, that sort of thing. This was...nearly 40 years ago, now. I was in High School. Crap, I'm old.

It just evolved from there. We started RP as a bit of a lark - played a D&D module called The Runz, which was really just a humorous D&D module with nothing taken seriously:
"You come across a vending machine with lots of different foods for sale."​
"Okay. I'll get a Hot Dog."​
"Right. You put your money in the machine, make your selection...and a Hell Hound pops out and attacks you. Roll initiative."​
It was silly, but it was fun.

I've been there ever since.

And I have no idea at exactly what point I started exploring ERP...maybe around 10 years after I started my role-play experience...?
 
I can't remember what exactly got me into it since I was like 9 or 10 when I started, but I think maybe the first site I ever roleplayed on was one called Kidzworld. I used to use it for a bunch of other stuff, so I imagine that I probably was looking at all of the forums and decided to check out the roleplaying forums they had and must have liked what I saw. I started joining roleplays people posted and doing the classic *walks up to you* style of roleplaying, but as time went on and I roleplayed more and got older my writing improved, so I went from asterisk one-liners to paragraph story posts and so on. Back then, I would roleplay on all kinds of sites and games: Roblox, Nonoba, Omegle, Kongregate, Little Big Planet, Kik, IMVU, Skype, MMOs—pretty much any site with a social element.

I don't think I joined my first dedicated roleplaying forum until around 2015-2016. Since then, I've tried a few of the main ones over the years, but never really stuck around for long. I started doing more novella style posts sometime around 2020 perhaps, and the rest is history.

As for erotic roleplaying, I definitely started way earlier than I should have, probably back on Omegle. Most of my prior experience has been SFW romance and a mix of group roleplays and 1x1's. I think I've written more smut since coming to BMR than I ever have before. It's still my preference to have a mostly story-focused roleplay, but I enjoy the freedom of being able to write out intimate scenes over fading to black, which is part of what brought me to adult writing sites such as this one.
 
A friend invited me to ERP over steam chat and... well it was probably just as cringe as you think. It has been an on and off relationship with it ever since. Though, to this day, I have no idea why I first agreed to it nor why it stuck— something about how good it felt to indulge in obsession. Most of all it gave me direction in my youth, even if it was rather difficult to explain to others what my hobbies were when asked. Been curious about TTRPGs but its a whole different ball game.
 
12-year-old me had been playing games on newground when i saw an ad for gaiaonline. i thought the little avatars looked funny, so i clicked on it, made an account and jumped straight into Towns and just walked around watching people talk until i came across this person who was sitting under a tree with some username like "Tree Spirit Enora" or something, so i talked to her and she responded to me in rp, then invited me into a guild she had and there were other, interesting people in there.

that was basically my introduction to roleplaying besides some silly dbz larping with cousins where we would just scream and act like we were going super saiyan.

looking back on it makes me cringe as a creative, but i also look back on it with nostalgia and fondness because, back then, things were so fresh and fun. i still have a lot of fun nowadays, but the years have also made me somewhat jaded and cynical because of my experiences with the hobby, and just in general when it comes to life as it happens to all of us.
 
I started my RP journey roleplaying on a WoW RP server. But my interest in writing started after I got into the Redwall Series as a lilun.
 
I used to read a lot of fanfiction and started writing as well, and then I moved on to roleplaying.
 
Gaia Online, 2007.

I'll say no more. Cringe beyond belief back in those days.

Edit: Suppose I should mention I'm also working on a book, but, that's entirely a side-project and completely removed from RP/ERP.
 
I walked into my FLGS after watching a podcast. A learned a valuable lesson that day, which is gaming in person is pungent, y'all. Really nice and super welcoming, tho. My new fam.
 
I started in some forum, back then creating forums was easy peasy so even kids could make them with some free template/hosting service! Ofc, there were ads in the forums. An internet friend made a PvZ forum which was actually just his site for rp and no, Patrick. The rp's weren't about PvZ. The site itself was passed around in word of mouth/keyboard so only who we wanted in ended up finding the place. We didn't know back then but we somehow created our own little safe space where everyone grew together. As we all aged up to our teen ages, we started doing erps in DMs. Fun times!
 
Writing and RP smashed into each other like two perfectly flung custard pies at a clown convention. I got convinced to try a WH40K TTRPG by a nerdy board gaming group in university, drifting to Dragon Age, Shadowrun, Fate, and finally settling in D&D. As for writing, I was between jobs and picked it up while waiting for callbacks---deluding myself into thinking I could do it for a living.

Both were accidents. Fused into an unholy amalgamation within the crucible of unsatisfied horniness. Every day I wake up and revel in the knowledge there is somewhere I am not just accepted, but celebrated and appreciated for my degeneracy.

Thank you all 🖤.
 
I swear I had replied to this months ago... 😒

I was mid-novel writing and hit a wall, and had just finished DA:I Trespasser DLC. I had been rather miffed about how it ended. I used Twitter to keep up with author/writing stuff and stumbled across a full-on fanbase for Dragon Age and started with that, taking into consideration what my Creative Writing professor had said, "Sometimes it's best to just... write with others." Growing up in a completely sheltered home, I discovered roleplaying in my very late 30s... I just turned 40... Anyway, the 180-character limit really got to me, and I wanted to branch out. I found E first, and that place scared the hell out of me since I had only ever written anything steamy in solo writing... Found other places, but eventually, I wanted to learn how to write the "smut" better so, here we are. I'm still no good at it, suck at keeping things below a 3 para-minumim and learned how to alienate people with words far better than I had ever expected.
 
TECHNICALLY, my very first experience with roleplaying was playing Minecraft on my PS3 with my cousin when I was seven and griefing the tutorial world that was in every update (remember tutorial worlds? Why did Mojang have to get rid of them?) to create this nonsensical post-apocalyptic story that was basically just a "boys rule, girls drool" version of Fallout. My first experience with ONLINE roleplaying was on these crappy online Minecraft knockoffs that were laggy as hell. Then I started roleplaying on Roblox on a game called Meepcity, and one of my RP partners introduced me to Amino, and that's where I started taking roleplaying a little more seriously and evolved as a roleplayer. I stopped roleplaying on Amino in 2019/early 2020 because I was becoming an angry, toxic asshole and got in trouble with the mods a lot. I started to mellow out as I got older and started roleplaying on Reddit (although, I used my account for other stuff I was interested in besides roleplaying, which got me a lot of karma, more than enough to post and comment on a lot of big subreddits). I was mostly unlucky in my searches, but I did find a few partners that were pretty cool. Unfortunately, my Reddit account was permanently banned recently because of Reddit's stupid filter that will temporarily ban you if you make a joke that's even slightly edgy or comment a song lyric or something, and that led me here. I hope I can meet some great RPers here and hopefully make some friends :)
 
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