How did you get started with roleplaying?

I started in 1980-something with D&D 1st Edition. 30+years later and I'm still gaming, but now it's mostly online Star Trek simming

 

I only started writing about three years ago. My first sim was in Pegasus Fleet on the USS Viper, but I didn't really get into role playing until I joined a sim in Obsidian Fleet. When OF closed their chatroom, I migrated over to Bravo Fleet where I spent two years. Today I'm back in Pegasus Fleet with a new sim looking for a fresh start. :)

I mostly write in the Trek universe, if you can't tell by the orgs I mentioned. But, I have been part of Stargate and Firefly sims before.

 

I started with "playing pretend" as a kid and just never stopped... eventually I learned to call it 'writing' and 'roleplaying' instead of just 'playing'. :) I think my first conscious "this is roleplaying" was over 15 years ago, probably for a video game fandom.

 

I think I googled 'join Hogwarts School' when I was like 13. I just kind of led me to a roleplay site, and since I have always loved creative writing I thought it was perfect haha.

 

I started online roleplaying when I was eleven years old, I think. It was on FunOrb, a site that is now all but dead. The writing honestly wasn't that great looking back at it, but for a young'in, it was awesome, and it expanded my interest into the crazy fanatic I am today.

 

I started around 11 with Harry Potter. It was a simple Harry Potter site and it was still one-liners but it got me interested in my current love. That site randomly disappeared one night which broke my heart too. :(

 

I started when I was around eight: my dad was an employee of a certain company that produced RPG supplemental material and I found myself enthralled in it. It started with the Never Ending Story, though I was quickly picked up by a group of serious roleplayers that I am still friends with to this day. We've moved from site to site, from Blurty to Insane Journal, now to Dreamwidth, picking random scenarios or throwing ourselves into a project such as our current.

 

Friends of mine wanted to "pretend" (we didnt think of it as RP, ha) online in a game, but chat play, especially with cheesy one-liners didn't appeal to me even then. So i went with the "This is stupid" option and went to look for more involved experiences, ending up on a forum that seemed decent at the time with a minimum contribution length and certain amount of character depth, detail, etc required. 13 year old Nano went into the deep end. Took me like a week to be reasonably ready for the place.

 

I was eleven, and I was trying to figure out how to get into Hogwarts... I wish that was a joke, haha. But anyway, I found a Harry Potter RPG, and it was the next best thing. I've been playing ever since. <3

 

I started in a yahoo group then got recruited into a fleet. Left that one after a disagreement with CO who basically took over my character and started writing for me. Joined Alliance fleet and ran it for a bit before going out on my own and starting my own fleet.

 

I first started 'roleplaying' I supposed when I was a kid, and would pretend to be various creatures ,, doing this with other kids sort of set the stage really, to carve out a lifetime of playing things out that I created and felt the inspiration for!

Officially roleplaying, on Forums, happened in 2004 ... and I never looked back.

 

I started on MSN Chat back in the year 2000. Basically you could make your own chat rooms and RP in there.

My posts and understanding have come a long way from playing a badly MS Paint edited Piccolo from Dragonball Z with purple skin, whose posts consisted of:
- Walks in-
-Flies up-
-Shoots beam, destroying mountain-

:D

 

I started back in 2006-2007, I was young and foolish..but I am still young and foolish so there is that. At least my roleplaying and fluff levels have increased haha.

 

I got started by making a Tumblr blog for my favorite character. Now it's my biggest hobby. Who knew?

 

My very first RPG was a Zoid's (anime) roleplay forum. I miss those days, Zoids are pretty dead now. We RPed using ::, *, or - and did about 1 - 4 sentences worth of writing back then lol. Most of the time we'd take it to AIM. They were crazy fun though.

Eventually about 7 years later I moved onto fantasy wolf RP and I've been in love ever since.

 

I loved horses, and I was always on the lookout for horse SIM games where you would manage a stable. I joined so many but none of them were very fulfilling. Then I found a forum where you could actually pretend to BE the horse, and, well, here I am today, albeit not RPing animals for several years.

 

Jeebus... 98? 97? Something like that. I started running AIM based Star Wars roleplays with a few friends of mine. That lasted for several years until I discovered startrekpbem.com and got involved in the PBeM community. From there it was on the Obsidian Fleet, I helped found (ONE OF the incarnations of) Alpha fleet, played in Pegasus Fleet for a while, then back to OF, and finally back in Pegasus Fleet AGAIN, and not planning on going anywhere. It's been a pretty constant part of my life for almost two decades... god I'm old lol

 

I definitely played pretend when I was young. I always had a strong interest in animals and it was my searching for animal games that lead me to stumble into my forum first wolf rp.

 

Lol AOL chat rooms.

 

I had read some Dragonriders of Pern books and was searching through yahoo/google for more information about them and stumbled across a play-by-email club. That was 13 years ago.