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What Got You Guys Into Roleplaying?

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GamerXZ

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Exactly as the title suggests. It doesn't have to be anything big and fancy, just
a line or two explaining how you guys got into doing Roleplaying? Did a friend suggest it? Did you see someone else doing it and thought it would be fun?

Me? Eh, I can't exactly remember how though I think it may've started back on Fanfiction.net when I was part of this Kamen Rider Roleplay, and I played the role of a guy who got transformed into Agito. It was awesome, though sadly I eventually had to leave for...various reasons...

So yeah, just go with whatever you think is best for an answer.
 
I was introduced to roleplaying back during the AOL chat room days. I went into a Dragon Ball Z room thinking you talked about the show and instead found people roleplaying as the characters. I was never into roleplaying pre made characters so I made my own that existed in the DBZ world and the rest was history.
 
I think what got me into roleplaying was reading Romeo & Juliet in 4th and 5th grade and deciding that my friends and I could write this style. So we wrote script based rps in notebooks for years and I moved to the internet in 6th/7th grade. But ultimately Romeo & Juliet how it was done was what got me to try roleplaying, even if I didn't know what it was back then.
 
I started originally with both Dungeons & Dragons along with AOL Chat rooms. With AOL, I started with the Forest, which was a RP room clusterfuck, but it was fun. From there, I moved to the Rhy'Din chat rooms, spending a great amount of time there until migrating to the Gor chat rooms. Most of my chat rooms where AOL based. I eventually branched table tops into Vampire: the Masqerade and got more hooked on MUDs for roleplaying.
 
When I was a kid, I used to LARP Dragon Ball with my friends. We would create experience systems for leveling up, and tie it into real exercises and battles. We had battles that were overseen by judges to decide damage and other systems. We created shops, which held various items that you could obtain to further training or enhance combat ability. It was essentially everything you would find on the numerous DBZ RPG boards and sites back in the day, but live action. It was some pretty advanced stuff for a bunch of 8 and 9 year olds. When I got the Internet, I immediately set out to find some DBZ RPGs after hearing about it from one of my friends. I always just played on message boards, however; I never did the chat room stuff.
 
Video games and MMOs intrigued me; but I found them limited. I then discovered free form rp using web forums, I was very hard core into it for all of high school. Since then I've cooled down and have switched to TTRPG completely.

Finding someone to collaborate with is difficult for me so while I still have an interest in pbp rp, it just doesn't happen and hasn't happened in some time.
 
A friend forced me to join gaia when I was like 15 [and I do mean forced. She sat me down and wouldn't let me do anything until I'd signed up.] So! As I was apart of the site and had nothing better to do I decided to roam around.

I went into the fishing rooms and back when I joined...a lot of people used those for RPing and not fishing. So I go into fish and I see these people RPing. I wondered wtf they were doing though. But anyways after awhile it became too interesting so I decided to jump in.

That was my first RP ever. I stayed with that one group in fishing for like a year or so. Unfortunately due to circumstances we went our separate ways.

....To this day....I have no idea wtf I was playing as.
 
When I was introduced into roleplaying I instantly loved it, which was like 5 years ago.. But currently, I am still practicing.
 
Had the whole 'lesbian but doesn't know any other lesbians' thing going on since age 13, so by the time I turned 18 I was essentially a ball of pent of lust and hormones - starting reading sex stories on a porn website (found that the words appealed more than images) noticed the same site had a 'cyber-sex' section too, got suitably creeped out by first person and people asking me what I was wearing - moved to third person RP.
 
My sister. I was on another rp site House Ero's and I was complaining about it and she told me about bmr. It was kind of awkward at first coming to a sexual rp site she was staff on, it wasn't as weird as I thought it would be.
 
I love to write and have always been looking for new and interesting ways to expand my horizons on how to improve that. To be honest, I never even considered RPing because I'd never really heard of it until I started going to anime sites. On one particular anime site that had eventually gotten shut down, there was a section for RPing. After being there for a while and getting to know the people there, I finally decided to venture into the section and see what it was about. I saw that it was a writing section and since I LOVE writing, I gave it a go. Another friend of mine on that site also wrote, so I managed to have at least one friend I could write with...however, I quickly found that I wasn't going to last very long over there on the anime site as far as the RPing went because I was quite limited on the content I could write about. The anime site had kids on there and though we could put up disclaimers and and put things behind spoilers, that was only ok to a point. We were still limited by rating and content, etc. Not to mention, my patience with some of the people I had to write with lacked sorely, but I think that was largely due to extremely severe age gaps where the youngers just were too immature to handle anything. That said, after a year of that, I knew I needed to expand because I saw the value RPing had to offer in terms of improving my writing and thought process behind the writing. That said, I did some searching...ended up here...the rest, as they say, is history. However, even here, I'd have to say I've evolved quite a lot as a writer. And for that, I'm rather happy.
 
My Dad was/is a print journalist, and I learned to read, virtually before I could walk. I've always had an appreciation of words and a good story, and had thoughts of writing. However, the only kind I'd ever done was of the first-person, IM variety, until a random google hit landed me here.

I joined, had a look around, and didn't return for a year. Then, one day, I thought I'd give it a try (though was still totally fixated on IM's). It took me a long time to come around to the idea of PM's or Threads, and my first ever roleplay in that format was just on six months ago. I'm happy to say that the very first two roleplays I ever took up in PM's are still going strong.

I've come from a low base, but in that short amount of time my tastes have changed markedly, and I can almost 'feel' my writing improving with each passing day. I'd say it's starting to come more naturally, and it's taking much less time to compose a post that I'm happy with. That, plus the challenge of getting better, makes it increasingly enjoyable (and maybe even a little addictive). I wish I'd discovered this site much earlier.
 
I joined roleplaying out of loneliness. I have always been very shy and so I felt that I could build a story about everything I wanted to be. Everything I was on the inside but too afraid to let out. I guee when it comes down to it I love expressing myself through words. Thus 16 years ago, when I was 10, I started to roleplay and discovered I had more in common with the people on the other side of the screen than any of the vapid people in my day to day life.
 
I started roleplaying in 2007.It was a Dir en grey RP set in high school.The person playing Shinya had to quit playing,so I took up the role.It was non-sexual,but there was flirting.I realized that I liked writing slash.I've been RPing ever since.
 
I used to rp in a chat room called funky times.com in my early teens as an Inuyasha OC. A boy approched me at the library and asked me to chat with him on the site while he sat next to me and surfed the net. I obliged, and I eventually visited the site and found rps on my own time. I was highly influenced my anime, violent video games and Paris Hilton, at the time and my character highly reflected it.

I was introduced to Gaia a few years later by a friend. I was really prudish about 'cybering' so I wasn't as obsessed with pairing my character with a partner as others. It allowed me to add to the plot without being bogged down with crappy teen drama. I have since learned that my specialty is batshit characters, and I have become open to the challenge of writing crazy plots while maintaining fictional relationships. Unhinged visual-kei dudes are basically M/M smut fodder anyway. :heart: If my conservative teenage self knew that I was doing with my characters now, she'd probably have a heart attack, lol. But batshit characters have huge innate sex appeal so I am just having fun with it and improving as a hobby writer.
 
I started out by playing Asheron's Call when I was about eight. From there, a few of my friends and I LARPed during free time at school, joined Gaia when I turned thirteen 'cuz it seemed like everyone I knew was on there. I took an acting class for two years while I was still in school, but then I kinda lost touch with RPing until I found this place.
 
I started role playing way back in middle school. One of my friends' dads gave him their old collection of classic DnD books so we started playing during lunch and, eventually, on the weekends when we could all get together. Since then, I have played multiple tabletop/pen and paper style games/settings as well as text-based role play through chat rooms, forums, instant messengers, and online MMORPGs.
 
I guess you could call it a bit of an uplifting story.

I started out role playing, sorta, when I was about eight years old. The family wasn't all that well off in the financial department (read: we were rather destitute) and while the family was struggling to get by, I stumbled on an old collection of D&D books one day in the basement. With my dad's permission I rifled through them. They were the classic AD&D books. I still remember the first page of the DM manual, and the quote that stuck with me as a GM: "If breaking a rule means having more fun, then break it."

Anyway, my eight year old self was utterly fascinated with it. The AD&D books outright taught you how to build your own worlds, right down to weather patterns and biomes. From there I constructed as many worlds as my heart desired, ran through possible plots (all of which were terrible but which I still love in a nostalgic sort of way) and the monster manual... The monster manual was the first time my little mind ever saw drawn tits. :p

By the time I got Internet access when I was around twelve, I became obsessed with role playing. I did it in Warcraft III, and I did it on forums, and that was the first time I officially role played outside of family.

The rest as one could say is history.
 
Always loved to write. Often times my friends that were dealing with hardships I would write them short stories of themes they were into. Of course some of the girlie friends liked the romance/smut inspired stories. Then it kinda exploded once I joined Myspace a million years ago! Been on several sites/forums and such and I still love rp-ing!
 
I started rping after someone posted a thread on the website I was writing a story on. It looked like fun. So I joined. On the same site, another thread was posted about a supernatural academy. I signed up. The rp was shut down, and we moved to another site thus starting our second run of the academy rp. We eventually moved from there to yet another site, and our rp began it's third run. Finally coming to a conclusion there, the group rp was wonderful. I joined yet another site. lol. Are you keeping total because I've lost count at this point. I was asked about a daddy/daughter rp there. Grossed out, but I figured what the hell. So I did it, and after that, I searched for other incest rps. I found BMR, and I joined the next day. The rest is history. By the way, Mr. Quixotic, I am glad our rp is still going strong. I am enjoying it, as well as all my rps here on BMR very much.
 
I've always liked to write. Always. And then I tried just writing with someone else, which rapidly turned into a spiralling RP that still goes on to this day, massive in scope, adn still one of the sources of enjoyment I have.
 
Gaia, as embarrassing as it is to admit. That was a very long time ago...
 
A girlfriend was into it, she made a free forum for a handpicked group. There were only maybe six of us. I wasn't exactly sure what to do, but it seemed a pleasant way to let some of the other voices in my head have a form of their own, after a sort.
 
I joined one site that featured roleplaying and a member asked me to play. I was instantly hooked. I loved the burst of creativity that seemed to flow from me and I still enjoy it. Roleplaying gives me a safe arena to test my limits in a variety of areas and I learn something new from every person I have had the pleasure of roleplaying with online and offline (IM, skype, etc...). I stopped briefly, but am looking forward to getting back into it. ;)
 
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