Hello all. Hope everyone's doing well, what with recent events.

Please allow me to introduce myself - I'm Bastian (duh) and I'm a 21-year old living in the States. I've got roughly 6-7 years of roleplay experience under my belt, on and off. I discovered my love of play-by-post style roleplay when I was a wee lad playing Roblox and stumbled upon the subforum there dedicated to it.

Reading has always been my passion, and English has always been my strongest subject. I love to hear a good story unfold, and I've always been the kind of guy that never finishes RPGs because I keep creating new characters and wildly fantasizing about their backgrounds. I was pretty much hooked from the moment I set foot into that humble Roblox community. I hung around there for the next half a decade, and made some pretty good friends and participated in some great collaborative storytelling. The rush when you work to create an organic, tender moment between two characters, or finish a long chapter of a story together, is still utterly without comparison.

The Roblox forums shut down totally around Christmas of 2017, right around the time I started college. School has kept me very busy and brought a lot of tumultuous change to my life since then, and I haven't been able to further this particular hobby of mine for several years. In fact, I wasn't ever really able to find a good replacement for the Roblox forums because I didn't know what this style of roleplay was even officially called. I randomly stumbled on a reference to an old thread I participated in once, which referred to itself as "play-by-post." This allowed me to do some digging, and the old itch to roleplay promptly woke itself again. And so, here I am.

Nice to meet you all!

Welcome. The way you describe yourself in RPGs is a pain that I know all too well. Never met someone who learned to Roleplay through ROBLOX either though I've messed around in Pokemon and Sonic forums in the past so I suppose that's somewhat similar? In either case, welcome to the Guild. Is there anything in particular that you're itching to write while here?

Welcome, @Bastian! Not knowing what this hobby is called is a struggle many of us share, I think. I first started role-playing in the writers forum in Neopets when I was around 14, and I believe more people certainly came from places like that. Poke around the Guild, the site is pretty active still. I'm glad you found this place, I'm sure you'll find a good writing partner or group again. Let us know if you have any questions, everyone is quite nice. We also have a discord server if you wanna chat with folks in real time -- you'll find most people are around your age group there; the invite is on the menu at the top of the page.

Anyway, good luck and have fun!

Glad to know that you guys have similarly humble roleplaying origins, hah. Guess it's something that finds you, rather than something you actively seek out. Thanks for the warm welcome!

Regarding what I'm looking to write, I haven't really decided yet - I'm usually attracted to things that are pretty lore-rich and focused on character development, and my big passions in setting are far future sci-fi and medieval fantasy. I like participating in other people's work moreso than hosting my own. I figured I'd just have a look around and sink my teeth into whatever looks nice.

Greetings.

@Bastian
Welcome