First RP You've ever played?

[Brook V]

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.

[shade_of_retribution]

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.