First RP You've ever played?

I'm curious to know, I'm a nosy nosy person. :o

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

If applicable:
- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?


I'll go ahead and answer for myself to get us all started:
- What was the first style of RP you ever played?
It was over the internet. :)

- And where?
Good old egroups/mailing lists.

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
Yes, in fact, I still use him. I don't remember his original name but I do remember that I'd made him a shy librarian lol, now I use a heavily modified and evolved version of him that hardly resembles that old guy.

- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
Aquelarre :o Love that game. Played it at a con.
- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
Umh, something with "chains" in the name, I don't remember.. :(
- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
Long ago, with a girl from the first RP group I ever made, over IM. :)

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- What was the first style of RP you ever played?

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Internet Forum

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- And where?

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In no way can I fully remember, but I'm pretty sure it was way back when I first started Gaia in 8th grade.

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- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

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I remember her vaguely. She was an original character I made, her hair was pin straight and bleached with green streaks in it, wore a [insert my favorite band at the time] black tank top, camo cargo shorts and always skateboarded wherever she went. In my eyes she was the coolest persona I could ever be. I haven't played as a character like that in a while, but I think it's because I grew out of skateboarding and name dropping my favorite bands. I still like using the angsty personal from time to time but she is long gone in the past. Oh! I do remember her last name was Blaque.

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- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?

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Heroscape, very recently. I have an uncle who introduced the game to me.

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- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?

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Some University Game where you could play as students or teachers. It's a fun drama, friendship, romance genre for me that I've always enjoyed playing. It's relaxing.

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- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?

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My first chat game was over AIM with my best friend! It was our own private fan fic, we played a cooler version of ourselves along with our favorite musicians.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
My first was in a chat room. xD

- And where?
That's a little more difficult to answer. xD It was either a web chatroom (WBS.net I think it was called) or IRC, depending if you call my half-IC, half-OOC attempts in a casual chatroom "roleplaying" or not.

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
If the web chat: no. Not really. I know that one involved a dragon, but I don't remember in one context.
If the IRC: Yes, I remember my first character. xD I wrote fanfiction for a particular cartoon for her before I re-wrote her for the rpg. I don't still write or play her, though I do have a half-finished epic fanfiction that sort of made a hybrid of the original fic version and rp version, I haven't worked on it in ages. I doubt I'd ever RP as her again. Her run in the rpg was excellent and I'd be lying if I pretended reviving her in another direct form would be the same.

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
If you mean what was the first one I played online... "SKRPG" - SWAT Kats RPG. xD (Since it's the first one that had a true story to it.)
If you mean a MMO, the first one I think I had my own account and full version for was World of Warcraft. (I'd done a few trials of MMOs before that.)
If you didn't mean either, I dunno. >_>;

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)

Good old Dungeons and Dragons when I was eight years old. I grew up with my parents, my uncle, and all of their friends playing so being allowed to rp as well was a sort of rite of passage.

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
in my dining room >.>

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
Yus! He was a little cleric with "per" were wolf as a companion. I don't play him any more, but I have a tenancy to give my characters pets or companions and I think that comes from my earliest role playing memories.

- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played? We already covered that, I was playing table top before the internet was very accessible to most people. (think '92 >.< The internet existed, but really wasn't accessible to the general public in the way it is now.)

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
If you mean MMO, Balder's Gate online (oh my gosh, this was back in the time when internet charged by the minute and I used to sneak on to the computer to play lol. I got in so much trouble when my parents found out).

My first text based role play online was on Cheetachat. Gosh I loved that place, no one seems to remember it any more though.

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?

It was on Cheetachat and I played a vampire with the power of illusion. He had many followers, friends and enemies, but his world was more lie than not.

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Originally Posted by Aerion

Good old Dungeons and Dragons when I was eight years old. I grew up with my parents, my uncle, and all of their friends playing so being allowed to rp as well was a sort of rite of passage.

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I want your family. XDDD Last time I told my dad I was leaving at 8pm and expected to be out all night for an RP session, I spent the next hour trying to explain what an RP session was. XD (The attempt, by the way, was a failure)

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Originally Posted by Schizophrenic

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Heroscape, very recently. I have an uncle who introduced the game to me.

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I love that game. It's not heavy into role playing unless you make it so, but the way the characters line up with the terrain is so much fun. I've built some really complicated maps ^.^!

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Originally Posted by Tahiel

I want your family. XDDD Last time I told my dad I was leaving at 8pm and expected to be out all night for an RP session, I spent the next hour trying to explain what an RP session was. XD (The attempt, by the way, was a failure)

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Ha ha ya my family is insane but I love them. These were the same people that when I was failing at reading handed me adult books and said go at it. My parents don't role play much any more, but my mom was trying to talk me into giving her the link to this place -.- lol.

My first was probably a Lord of the Rings RP on the Neopets forum. I was so cool. :p

I remember joining a guild there and having a lot of fun for the first few weeks, then slowly realizing that the people I was RPing with were absolutely horrid storytellers. One scene that sticks out in my mind was when our Fellowship of the Ring had reached the outer door of Moria's Mines and the lake monster emerged. I was all set for our first epic battle scene when a girl typed out a short post like:

"[Elf's name] transformed into a mighty griffin and attacked the monster until it died. She returned to the party. 'That felt weird,' she said."

Yeeeeah, that was when I started looking into the different styles of RP and found some people I was more compatible with.

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Originally Posted by Aerion

My parents don't role play much any more, but my mom was trying to talk me into giving her the link to this place -.- lol.

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Haha, yeah I got to read grown-up books too when I was little. XD (and watch grown up movies if "I thought I could handle them" <-cannot watch Critters now without looking under her bed afterward lol, for the rest, I grew up pretty well I think :P)
And aww, let your mom have the link! Share share! XD

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Originally Posted by Knerd

"[Elf's name] transformed into a mighty griffin and attacked the monster until it died. She returned to the party. 'That felt weird,' she said."

Yeeeeah, that was when I started looking into the different styles of RP and found some people I was more compatible with.

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loool, that was fantastic. Sounds like my ex's first tabletop game, in a very friendly tavern, right after walking in: "I grab my sword and kill everyone! :D "

What was the first style of RP you ever played?

Oh gosh, it must have been a very undeveloped group rp. Most likely with a plot that could be surmised as, "fantasy forest with elves and stuff." The development didn't really go past that point. We walked, we talked, we slayed some dragons. I did that same sort of group rp for months on repeat- most likely using the same single-faceted character. Oh, and I probably capitalized and punctuated very little, if at all.

And where?

I started as a kid, probably nine or so, trolling the Neopets forums once I realized that I could register a different age ( in order to post on the forums) without a police force breaking down my door for fraud.

Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

Sadly. She wasn't that bad, really she wasn't, she's just not my style anymore. She was a pre-teen girl with blonde hair in twintails and brown eyes. Her name was Elody and she had some sort of power, though I forget exactly what kind. Anyway, I was still sort of in the whole phase of, "I play a girl because I am a girl", and hadn't yet discovered the joy of playing male characters. It's most likely she was also a sue, but whatever.

What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?

Oh gosh. Very recently, I got convinced by a friend of mine. In all honestly, I didn't take it very seriously- he probably didn't appreciate my mage with "+5 sexy". Maybe someday I'll play for real, but for now I'll stick to the forums. Hehe.

How about your first chat game? Where was it on?

Looooong ago with a friend I gained on the Neopets forums. When I quit the site we decided to keep up with e-mail, but when that wasn't working we switched to IM. We're still friends after seven years, though our rp styles are now much too different to be very compatible.

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Originally Posted by onestar

I started as a kid, probably nine or so, trolling the Neopets forums once I realized that I could register a different age ( in order to post on the forums) without a police force breaking down my door for fraud.

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Hooray for Neopets!

*high five*

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Hooray for Neopets!

*high five*

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Yeah, kinship!

'Cause no one knows how to forum crawl like Neopets alumni. XD

A House RP which I can dig up on Gaiaonline and link to for your amusement.

It's like 80 pages or so of pic dropping and the sorts. And randomness but really funny.

gaiaonline.com/forum/chatterbox/house-paging-dr-house/t.48915719_1/

This was originally in the General Discussion section but Soundblast moved it long ago. When that fool was a mod.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played?
It was a free form fight club style RP that my friends were playing when I was in high school. The first time I ever joined a forum was to play with them during class. It was quite fun, considering it was just a beat up fest with no coherent story or rules. It was just who could beat who up in the most fantastic way.
- And where?
I want to say it was in the White Wolf forums, it must have been deleted though. I would be able to find it if it still existed, seeing as I have always used the same user-name.
- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
Jonath Nell, yeah, I use him when I can. It has been a while since I have played him... I think it was the last time I actually played a character in someone else's RP. That was back when I still hung around on Gaia online. I do like to use him if I can, which is not to hard since he is a reality jumper. I just change him a little and he will fit in any RP.

- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
D&D 3.5 It was only a few years ago now when I was still in collage.

First Style?
Internet

Where?
Neopets (So glad I'm not the only one who started there XD). It was a stuck in an elevator rp by the way and I'm pretty sure the elevator was an octagon or something cause there were between six and ten people and everyone was in a corner. XD It actually had an end too, the world exploded and we all fell into the endless void of nothingness. It was hilarious.

Do I still have or use that character?
No, sadly she was too Mary-Sue to be saved and I had to have her humanely euthanize. I barely remember her anyway except that she was horribly desperate for attention.

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I'm pretty sure the elevator was an octagon or something cause there were between six and ten people and everyone was in a corner.

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Oh my goodness, remember these. That or the old classes, "stuck in a mall after closing time." Neopets had oddly specific RPs. XD

I played my very first RP with my brother. I barely could read and write back then and my brother, who is some years older, had heard about RPing from his friends. I am not sure how he tricked me into it (either by threatening or bribing) but I remember not being interested about the idea too much.

I am not completely sure what was our first RP since we started bunches and bunches of games and still play seldomly. It was either one in notepad, where I had multiple choises to choose from and my brother wrote what happened after my selection. I remember fighting against man sized rats that were stealing my food supplies. I was some random female character.
Other candidate for first RP was also fantasy and it had horde of Notepads open at the same time, all telling something obviously crucial about the game (inventory, the game itself, stats, location etc.). In this one my first characters were twins that were learning to be sorcerers or something. I also had friendly thief called Larde, which I'm stilling looking forward to bring back to life some day as he was great fun to play with.

First game I ever played in the internet was in... Somewhere. I honestly can't remember. I only remember that fantasy games were all the rage back then and only the most suspicious people made pairing RPs, which amuses me today.
First chat RP (or "charr(i)" as I have learnt to call them) I had on some odd chat at library's computer. The people I tried to charr with were mainly unable to do anything else than munch and autohit.

There's the short version of my RPing history. It also explains why I never have got accustomed to pairing roleplays...
It hurts my eyes and heart to see what sort of things they play on some sites and what is considered as "roleplaying" in many of the cases.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
This is a difficult question. I've been seriously roleplaying with other people for about a year and that was over the Internet. Before that I played RPG's on game consoles/computers. Never tried tabletop but I would like too. I did some roleplay in Star Trek via chat too.

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
Chat, MMORPG, Console games, Computer games, Sites, Browser games.

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
My first character ever? No, I don't. I don't even remember the name. It hasn't affected my other roleplays. Later characters have made me prefer mages or people with mage-like abilities though.

If applicable:
- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
N/A

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
RuneEscape.

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
Star Trek Simulation Forum.

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Originally Posted by Gess Jahd

There's the short version of my RPing history. It also explains why I never have got accustomed to pairing roleplays...
It hurts my eyes and heart to see what sort of things they play on some sites and what is considered as "roleplaying" in many of the cases.

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What is "pairing roleplays"?
What'd you mean with [...]what sort of things they play on some sites and what is considered as "roleplaying"[...]? Does people nowadays roleplay in a way that isn't roleplay? I know of drama, stealing boyfriends and other shit from Twitter roleplay. Could you elaborate your thoughs on the matter?

I understand "pairing roleplays" as the RPs where people only want their characters to end up together and doing more or less rated things. I'm fine with it if it has some other ideas aswell, RP not being played just for the chance to get to write awkward scenes. Unfortunately for me this is often the case. For example plot being "girl is training hard for local karate competition and falls in love with her sensei in the way" is way more interesting for me than "girl falls for hot karate sensei".

Written roleplaying has become a lot more popular than it used to be. Back in the day only "geeks and nerds" did it. Nowadays when internet and all sorts of forum sites are a lot easier to access, you find a lot more players of different ages and interests. This is good in the way that RPing is more accepted and you find people to play with you. The negative side is that for many decorating your post and having the hottest character with RP girl- or boyfriend is the main thing. Many can't even construct a single coherent sentence in middle of all that and for outsiders forum RPing shows out wrong.

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Originally Posted by Gess Jahd

I understand "pairing roleplays" as the RPs where people only want their characters to end up together and doing more or less rated things. I'm fine with it if it has some other ideas aswell, RP not being played just for the chance to get to write awkward scenes. Unfortunately for me this is often the case. For example plot being "girl is training hard for local karate competition and falls in love with her sensei in the way" is way more interesting for me than "girl falls for hot karate sensei".

Written roleplaying has become a lot more popular than it used to be. Back in the day only "geeks and nerds" did it. Nowadays when internet and all sorts of forum sites are a lot easier to access, you find a lot more players of different ages and interests. This is good in the way that RPing is more accepted and you find people to play with you. The negative side is that for many decorating your post and having the hottest character with RP girl- or boyfriend is the main thing. Many can't even construct a single coherent sentence in middle of all that and for outsiders forum RPing shows out wrong.

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Thanks for explaining. :) I agree with you.

I also agree. xD

/random comment from the ether

Usually I get just yelled at and accused from "not accepting mature RPs", even when I have nothing against them. o.o''

I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone with my views. :D

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
It was an internet freeforum roleplay.

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
The forums on Neopets. =3

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
I remember my first character quite clearly, but I don't use her anymore. She had a light brown bob, blue eyes, and constantly wore blue denim (vest/jeans). Her name was Yu and she was an obnoxious tomboy. I picked the name Yu just because I thought it was hilarious for people to say "Hey you" and have her react as if they were talking to her.

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
A Fullmetal Alchemist roleplay. I played Roy and my character Yu. xD Hah. Oh I kinda miss my naive, carefree days of roleplay.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played?

That would be internet forum roleplay. <3

- And where?

Gaiaonline, in the Commerce. It would be about six years ago now? I remember it was a place called the Moon Light Bar and Inn. We were the youngest, noobliest bunch you ever did see. It was actually there that I got the name Shin, though! Heh, I actually still hang out in the Gaia Commerce, but with a much different crowd these days.

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

I definitely still remember her. Her name was originally Shidobu, and she was just an incompetent teenager that started working at this inn and then got turned into a vampire by one of the patrons. She was eventually renamed 'Shin' by another one of the patrons, and the name stuck. A whole lot of silliness and hilarity ensued in that place, and sometimes I actually go back to that thread and OOC with a couple of the people from way back when.

I don't really play the character anymore, but the name really stuck with me. She became a completely different character - a little girl vampire, (very Claudia-esque) whom I actually do use still. A completely different character though, just with the same name. <3

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- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?

3.5e Dungeons and Dragons. My boyfriend (just a friend at the time) was an experienced DM and got a group of us together at school and we started playing. We began with a zombie-invasion style of game, that was heavily modified rules to cater for beginners. But now we have been playing our regular swords-and-sorcery style 3.5e campaign for almost two years. We also frequently try other systems lately. We've played DnD, Pathfinder, World of Darkness' Vampire, Don't Rest Your Head, BESM... It's really fun! Mostly we stick with d20 based systems.

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?

I'm just going to talk MMO because I already reminisced about my first online RP. xD

It was probably Runescape, but I didn't really enjoy it a whole lot. I occasionally play WoW (free server) or some smaller MMO's (There's a really neat .HACK one out there!) but I don't really have the time for it lately. I want to look into RIFT~Planes of Telara though.

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
First chat game was over MSN with my boyfriend. He was DMing an online DnD campaign, which I became a part of. Now I'm actually GMing my own Pathfinder game online via MSN a year later. How I've grown! >w<

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)

Over the interwebs of course ^3^

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)


Gaiaonline and IM.


- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

Of course! My first character was Megumi Hatamashi. She was a love interest to Sesshomaru (I used to do A LOT of Inuyasha fan-fics) I still have her as one of my main characters that I play with. I've also written some stories as well.


- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?


*Sits and ponders for a bit* Well...I've played some MMO's here and there...But a TRUE RP internet game? Dunno if this counts but...There is a modification program for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas called Multi Theft Auto. It basically formats the game to partake in server activities with a huge amount of people. There's a server strictly for roleplaying that I won't advertise, but I've posted a screenshot of epicness: http://i53.tinypic.com/2qs046a.jpg I've spent almost 750 hours playing there lol. ^_^''

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?

IM and through E-Mail. But that didn't last very long.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
First one I played was an internet rp.
- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
Meh. It was on GaiaOnline. Its ridiculous now, so I quit.
- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
Goodness, yeah I do. Her name was Maya, a Marine Biology student. Somebody else owned the character and when she didn't play, I took over the character and role played 1 sentence at a time. =_= I look back at it now, and I think, Boy, I was pathetic.. She was a cool charatcer, but was not so very developed.
And no.
I don't use that character any more.

If applicable:
- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
It was in fact... 4 weekends ago. It was D&D. It was fun.
- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
Some kind of rp where our characters were on a boat for a school -like thingie. It was on Gaia.
- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
First chat game was with my friend, XDSmart on Yahoo Messenger. She has a character, Minerva who's my character's best friend- Mynt. And he just came back from a gene test that has to do with some sort of kitty. ^w^

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- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?

3.5e Dungeons and Dragons. My boyfriend (just a friend at the time) was an experienced DM and got a group of us together at school and we started playing. We began with a zombie-invasion style of game, that was heavily modified rules to cater for beginners. But now we have been playing our regular swords-and-sorcery style 3.5e campaign for almost two years. We also frequently try other systems lately. We've played DnD, Pathfinder, World of Darkness' Vampire, Don't Rest Your Head, BESM... It's really fun! Mostly we stick with d20 based systems.

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3.5 is an awesome system, but I love pathfinder even more, i think. I missed some of the monsters at first (like the ilithid (sp?) but a few friends and i sat down and converted them from 3.5 to pathfinder n.n)

I own the BESM books but sadly never got a real group up. At one point I was going to run a Slayers! style game (the system is so made for doing that) but all but one of the players flaked on me >.<

If you like fun and silly table tops game, you should check out Goblins ate my baby! ("All Hail King Torg!!")

btw I need to get back to you over pm, I know it, but today has been a looong day! (got up at 5:30 am my time and just got home at ten pm)

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
Chat I think... or it may have been Dakkar or Runescape or maybe a MUDD one...

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
for chat is was msn chats
I think the MUDD one was a pokemon one

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
No I don't use... yes I remember the character since it was my "Internet Self" that I used... nice crazy pool girl named Amy is the character.

- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
N/A

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
Dream Herds, an interesting rp where you rped as wild horses... it was on msn groups. Made some interesting friends there.. only keep up with about two or three of them now though.

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
either msn chatrooms or the MUDD client


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I'm bored and in pain from bowling yesterday so I'm gonna do this.

Wow, reading some of these posts makes me feel ooooold.

What was the first style of RP you ever played?
I am old school (and just old compared to a lot of people around here I think), so I started off with tabletop. I had my bag o' dice and pencils and everything.

And where?
Well, back in the early 90's there wasn't much of an internet- so we actually had to interact with people to roleplay.

Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
Vaguely. It was long ago... I recall that it was a Changeling.


What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
I started with Palladium. I even still play it. I also played original D&D (you know, before there were number attached to it or AD&D).

What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
Back when the internet was new, we had text based roleplaying games. They are still around of course, but most people play the fancy ones now. I am still a text-based person. The first one I played is called Revenge of the Jedi (it is still going strong). Then I played one that was more RP than hack n' slash- Feudal Realms.

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I own the BESM books but sadly never got a real group up. At one point I was going to run a Slayers! style game (the system is so made for doing that) but all but one of the players flaked on me >.<

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I have these books too. I actually find the Sailor Moon RPG to be stupidly fun and silly. Especially when people are sitting around shouting their transformations and attacks. Lots of silly fun.

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I have these books too. I actually find the Sailor Moon RPG to be stupidly fun and silly. Especially when people are sitting around shouting their transformations and attacks. Lots of silly fun.

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Woot, yay for us old school role players! Never thought of doing sailor moon, but your desc reminds me of the game "Kobolds ate my baby!" (All Hail King Torg!) Ha ha that game included lots of yelling and acting out of things and such.

I read a bit about Dungeons & Dragons. I thought it sounded cool. Now I need someone to play with... and a set to do it with.

What was the first style of RP you ever played/where? MSN chat rooms. Single line, speed role playing.

Do you still remember and/or use your first character? I remember the character, no I do not use her anymore (I made her 10 years ago when I was 13.)

What was the first internet (rp) game you played? It was a fantasy role play, I was a vampire, and my character + party had just returned from a raid on some village. We gathered around a huge bonfire celebrating a victory. I got drunk and flirted with my IRL friends character (he was the one who forced me into role playing, and I have loved it since) there was some snogging and cuddling and then I logged off.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? My first RP was on NWN2, on a crappy roleplaying server called The Frontier.
- Do you still remember and/or use your first character? My first character was what I consider an early prototype of a character I used again. The original character had a very flat personality but some of her traits were re-used on the next server I played on (which I continue to play on to this day). I no longer play this character but I do enjoy playing albinos and I like reusing the name.

My first roleplaying experience was when I was too young to even know it was roleplay, my brother and friends and I used to do it all the time. I remember my "Best friend" at the time and I would do a sailor moon roleplay all the time. This wasn't written though, we just said what we did and ran around in the house pretending the rooms were the settings. It was a blast. Also I guess the games I played with my barbies were considered roleplaying. They were characters that had coherent storylines.

As for the first legit roleplay? It was an Inuyasha RPG on MSN Groups back when they still existed. I played Miss Rynn Arokit, a cat demon who could turn into a large white tiger (and if any of you rp with me in Haven, you know for a fact I still use her :P ) Back then she had black hair and red eyes cause I wanted to be all stereotypical, but then I decided to brutally overhaul her one night in the roleplay and she became the curly redhead with emerald eyes. This was a good decision, as it made one of the guys in the group (the one who played the two most interesting characters- the sacrificial good guy and then freaking sexy psychopath villain) take notice of her, and thus began the most epic love story in all of Rynn's roleplays. And trust me, over 8 years she's been in a LOT. She's my most well developed character and my favorite. She's my most versatile and has my favorite personality type.

Also the guy that played those two men, Alex, has become one of my dearest friends and we roleplayed up until about three years ago in all sorts of ideas.

First Tabletop?
DnD in January. Where I met my current boyfriend. He was the DM.

First Online?
MSN Groups. And also Neopets. These happened at the same time. I didn't like the neopets rps much, they had too many rules and a post limit. Gaia shortly after. For most of roleplaying career, however, I had one partner, Kaco, whom I did probably hundreds of threads with on our own private site. It was great. Some of the best stories i've read were told on that site. After a dead spell of futile Gaia searching in the land of Twitards and S/M junkies, I finally found my way to WTF and hope to have a great community of partners/groups here :) So far its off to a great start.

I saw this thread, read through some of it, and I just couldn't resist. Such a varied group with interesting rp pasts, I felt compelled to add my own response. :)

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
My first experience with RP, not counting computer games (first of those was Interplay's Dragon Wars way back in the day. Go DOS based gaming!), was live action Vamprie the Masquerade my first year in college back in '99/2000.
- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
Answered above, first year of college, all around the campus. We even took the game down to Gulf Port, MS for a convention and ran it down there for a night. Now that was a fun night. Random people coming into our game(s) taking over characters we'd made for different archs and changing them. One of my sabbat characters, a big burly former biker with a sever aversrion to authority, ended up becoming a lesbian that night when he got taken over by some random gal. Come to think of it, not really all that unfitting seeing as he went by M because his parents named him Marion, lol, but I digress.
- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
I still remember Tristal, and still have his character sheet. They sat me down that first night to try and quickly explain the rules and the clans. Chose to play a Tremere because being a vampire mage sounded cool (I was 18, lol). I haven't played him in quite some time, though his character sheet is up-to-date as far as I'm aware based off the last info I got about his actions as an NPC after I left, seeing as I lost contact with the people I played with years ago.

If applicable:
- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?
First table top experience also happened to be VtM. We only did the live action story on Tuesdays, so over the weekends we'd occassionally all get together and play some table top stories as well. They also got me into DnD, ADnD at the time to be exact, though I wasn't so fond of it. I enjoyed the hell out of 3/3.5 though.
- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?
As far as actual games, first would have probably been when a friend of mine got me and another guy we worked with onto a forum he was on and he ran a story. Characters in that story had powers pertaining to elements (earth, wind, water, fire, light, dark), and he was a darkness character. Everyone thought he was crazy cause he swore the darkness talked to him. Turned out the voices were real, one being his mother who died protecting him years earlier, and the other was an ancestor of his who got imprisoned "for all eternity" for some rather horrible deeds (both of them were darkness users themselves, the trait being passed down family lines being part of the over all story plot). Kind of a trend with me, creating characters that have really screwed up backgrounds.
- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?
Chat rping started for me on Yahoo! back in the day... not that I'd really call much of that rping looking back on it now, lol. Met a couple really cool people I ended up IM rping with through it though, so it wasn't all bad. I had so many characters during my time in Yahoo. Also did some chat rping through the Cheetah Chat mentioned by a few people in this thread using a couple of my characters from yahoo. I also played on the Yahoo clone Ecxite(I think it was called) a few times, using ports of a couple of my Yahoo characters. The community on it wasn't as interesting as the one on Yahoo though, so I abondoned it quickly.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)
Chat and...tabletop/paper? (Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with terms.)

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)
AOL Instant Messenger/Notebook

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?
I remember and I use aspects of her. Jenny was a bit of a horror for the other author to play with because she fought everything and was my only character for a while in. So bad.

- What was the first style of RP you ever played? (like, was it over the internet freeform, tabletop, chat?)

Tabletop

- And where? (chat is, obviously, chat, but maybe it was over IRC, or IM, or something like that, email, forums, groups?)

My cousin Etienne's house.

- Do you still remember and/or use your first character?

I still remember him (fondly even), but he's evolved so much since I made him (in huge part due to the fact that I've kept him for the length of my formative years and that his personality grew with me) and I just don't feel like making him go back to square 1 or writing his 5 page long biography again.

- What was the first tabletop (rp) game you played?

Killing puppies for Satan

- What was the first internet (rp) game you played?

Luster Academy for the demonically gifted

- How about your first chat game? Where was it on?

IMVU

Me? Well my first RP was here on WTFRPG. My first was my friends, Faster than a Kiss. My character, to be honest, I can't remember her name because the RP was deleted before I got the chance to park her in the character pool. I wanted to improve her, so I was kinda disappointed when the RP was deleted. I just remember most of her history, abilities, and her description.