Well when I was younger (like in middle school younger) it started off like short stories. Then it accumulated to: I write apart of one story while my friend writes another part. Without knowing it, I started "role playing" immaturely. It was an idea, then two characters, and me and my friend would go back and forth with sheet of paper, writing out actions.
Then somehow in the midst of growing as a writer, I discovered RpG. And might I say, I enjoy it.

Like a lot of my hobbies it was my older brother that introduced me in the first place, being as he's more mathematically minded and I preferred the creative side more I stuck with it after him. Writing was always something I'd wanted to do but I'd never really had the confidence to sit down and write something so when I found out about play by post it just seemed like a good fit.

I first started roleplaying back in around 2008 on Youtube. I was recruited by a player who was a part of the Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors series and I started out as Pang Tong. It took my awhile to get into roleplaying and I met a lot of friends there but also made a lot of enemies due to being only 13 in a group of mostly adults and teenagers. However despite being banned once I quickly got back into things and would later become one of the biggest 'leaders' in the roleplay. I was even ranked in the top ten players out of some thirty to forty players having established the nation of Jin as a icon in the roleplay. I also was a member of the star wars group on youtube as well and it was much like the other rp except with less people. We argued a lot but I learned a lot as well. I am now actively a member of the roleplaying guild.

I first learned roleplaying pretty much when I started seriously writing when I was about 15 or so. Writing stories by myself left much to be desired, so I looked around and found a roleplaying site and found the whole thing to be really enjoyable. Skip ahead eight or so years, and I'm here.

I first learned of roleplaying through a friend on a site called Hell's Eden.... However that site was shut down so I then searched and found this one. Hell's Eden was just basically a huge thread one plot line.... However finding this one with the oh so many different story lines and threads been here i think two years... Took a leave of absence for half of one of those years so yeah... Thats pretty much it in a rambling sort of fashion.

Okay.. Here it goes!


''I started to roleplay about five years ago. It all started because I was trying to find what the new album was of a favorite band of mine, that time. I think it was Sum 41 or Rise Against, can't be sure about that detail. So as I went and searched a friend, a lovely looking friend to be precise, passed my house and as I waved back at her I missclicked and came into a thread where somebody had started a kind of After Action Report kind of idea, but with a bit of story behind it.

I knew the person who had started the thread and still without asking I kind of replied on it. It was not at the level I'm today, which is still crap at times I admit, but somehow I decided it would be funny when he would read that. Most likely I had the feeling he would say it was nice and just continue his own story, but instead of doing that, he made his characters reply to mine, while I didn't had a CS or such. A bit surprised and amused I decided to reply again and we attracted the attention of somebody else. Before we knew it we started to make a kind of RP out of it and it became quite a success. Sometimes I still think about it when I am writing a post, thinking how even better it would've been when I was good as I am now or when we had known of the collab site and other things that can make a RP nice.

However, I wish that nobody ever is going to reveal my first RP posts... Though they are in Dutch, my native language... They are horrible.
I can't even read them without being ashamed of how bad I was back then. Luckily.... Only one person does know the forum I came from, a very good friend of mine, but never has seen those posts.

That is my story and how I began to RP... Ashamed by the fact I can be easily distracted by a nice girl ( back then) and that my Dutch was even worse then my English is now.
Good night,
Sleep tight,
Don't let Gero bite! D: ''

How I got into roleplaying? Now that's an interesting tale. It took quite a few steps to get to the sort of RPing I'm doing here today.

Hard to say where the actual RPing began, really, but if I were to trace it back to its furthest roots, then I guess my first experience with anything close to roleplaying would be thanks to this cheap flash game I got into around 7th grade called Dino Run. Like I said, it was just a free online flash game, and the game itself had nothing to do with roleplaying. What got me into RPing, sort of, was the multiplayer section of the game. It was a simple setup, allowing players to join group runs and play competitively, and it contained three simple chat servers. One of those three chat servers, I remember, allowed for RPing. And the RP held there was uh... interesting, to say the least.

The RP held there - the first RPing I ever did - was IM roleplay. But it wasn't IM roleplay between 2 people or a small group of people, or even a large number in an organized group- no, it was a disorganized hodge podge of RPing, with a dozen or so interactions and stories happening all at once, but completely independent of each other, in a free-for-all RP chatroom that featured characters and concepts from every genre as well as canon characters (lots of canon characters), all in one big conglomerate... thing. :p Getting into it was actually pretty easy- your username was basically your character's name, and your character could be literally anything, and you'd call out one other username specifically in order to start an interaction with them, and then do literally anything you wanted, ignoring everything else that went up unless it was clear that another person or group was trying to interact with you. Don't have a username that works well for a character? Make an alt. It was not only allowed but also quite common that each (RPing) member of the site would own a large number of alts, each one representing a different character. I, too, had plenty of RP alts, all of them separate from my main account that I used in the non-RP chatrooms and for just playing the actual Dino Run game.

The RP there was... odd, and certainly incredibly different than what I'm doing today, but it got me into RP. So much, in fact, that I eventually reached a point where I really didn't play Dino Run anymore; I only logged on to RP. That same game is, also, what got me into RPing in the form I currently enjoy- forum RPing. See, while there was no place for anything close to forum RPing on Dino Run's limited setup, I did meet a friend on the site who invited me to a Webs website he made. It was pretty much just a hangout site, with some forums and forum games that existed for laughs, and only about five members. And somehow along the way, I ended up joining a couple other Webs sites that some of my IRL friends had put up- and that little circle of friends hung out on all three or so of these Webs websites, which all served about the same purpose and had pretty much the same people in them, so there was hardly a difference between them. And, in the depths of our strange little forums, we somehow wound up RPing before we even really knew it was called RPing.

Our first "RP's" were... yeah, at the point where I'm not sure they'd even be called RP's. The really early ones were still chat-like, and still had that nature of complete randomness that my friend and I carried over from Dino Run; nonsensical stories with a thousand different elements thrown in, in some weird mix of non-canon and canon and... yeah. It was weird. Another thing, and I don't even remember where this came from, but we all kind of, shared characters? Everyone played everyone, like it was more of a continuous story than an RP. I'm really not sure whether the early Webs RP's I did with my friends would count as collaborative writing or roleplaying- but if it was collab writing, then it was really bad collab writing. And if it was RPing, it was really bad RPing. :p Yeah, it was real sloppy, especially at first. But despite that, we still share some fond memories of it. I can even point to a friend of mine, Cheetay, whom I technically met IRL but really bonded with due to roleplay, who began RPing with me on Webs, came with me to every RPing site I joined since and still RP's with me here on the Guild. Even after all these years and the massive strides we've taken in our RPing, we still remember and quite often reference a good number of inside jokes from threads way back on Webs.

Though I don't recall exactly when or how, our RP's significantly shaped up by the time we were in 8th grade or so. We eventually grew to calling it RP (when in its earliest stages, we didn't- I don't know what we called it), and our threads were organized a bit more like they are here, which each of us owning designated character(s) that were ours alone to play, with character sheets representing them and even separated IC and OOC threads. Despite this, though, none of us ever looked for RP elsewhere. I guess, back then, none of us ever really thought there was any, since we all just RPed in a secluded part of the internet with just ourselves, and never really saw forum RP anywhere outside the handful of sites we did it at.

Though by chance, I managed to learn there was indeed more. I somehow stumbled across a site called Mweor somewhere between 8th and 9th grade. Looking back, it was a fairly small community with 8000 members or so (at least it was back then), but to me back then, that was pretty massive. :ezlol: Like I said, all the Webs sites consisted of an active community of ~5 members. I'd never been on a real forum before.

At any rate, Mweor was sort of like a Neopets-esque online pet owner thing, except more indie, less commercialized and less childish. The mweors were cat-ish things; you could buy mweors, you could buy them accessories, or extra body parts like wings or fur markings, you could put one up for stud and breed more mweors- you could breed them for looks or breed them for battle. Whatever the case was, most members hoarded mweors like you hoard pokemon, so people wound up with, well... a lot of them. And after I'd been on the site for a good chunk of time- lo and behold! They had an RP section. People could RP as their mweors. Now this was my first time really stepping into an actual, moderated RP forum with people who actually knew what they were doing. I got into small squabbles with the local RPers quite a few times just because the Webs RPing was so laid back by comparison, that terms like "powerplaying" were things I'd never heard before and didn't expect to have directed at me. Thankfully I managed to quickly adjust to the RPing there- and I loved it. I loved forum RP among such a huge crowd of people. It was like falling in love with RP all over again- and next thing I knew I'd done the same to Mweor that I did to Dino Run- after a certain point, I only showed up to RP. :p

Then, December when I was in 9th grade... I was bored. I was waiting for replies on all Mweor threads I was in, and I got to thinking that I wanted to find more places to do this sort of thing. I really liked forum RP, but I needed to find a site that was all about it, rather than it only being a small side-section, and one that had a decent pool of members, as opposed to the Webs sites which had been abandoned by then.

So I Googled 'forum RP'.

And now I am here.

Heh, even just my time on the Guild alone is a huge story, throughout which I've grown and learned a lot, as well as made a lot of great friends, but I'll save that story for another time. :ezlol: From my humblest beginnings, you now know how I made it to an RP place such as this. Sorry if it was long-winded, I always find it fun to tell.