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I was a bored, friendless kid who wanted to make their own stories in set universes. And suddenly I wasn't so bored and friendless anymore.

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I always had an overactive imagination. Pretending I was this or that. Making up stories, jotting them down or just playing them out in make believe or within my own head whenever I was bored. Even now when I post, I see the thread as a scene from a show or movie playing out in my head and write what my character does in this scene as my reply.  When I was twelve, my family finally got internet and when looking up something for Marvel Comics, google linked me to a then very active board on invisionfree. Once I saw that it was something called 'Roleplaying' and it was basically doing what I had been doing in my head with other poeple, I had to jump on this train. I was a child though which wasn't much of an issue when I started unlike now where most places are 18+ only. Definitely had my ups and downs and people taking advantage of me, but I don't regret starting up this hobby and continuing it now in my mid twenties.

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I started roleplaying as a young child, first I wrote stories alone with myself until I discovered the internet (11/12?) the rest is history. 

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I honestly attribute roleplay to when I was in middle school. As I did, I found out that it expanded onto my literary skill, and so I just kept doing it, eventually finding out that I actually wanted to write. So I have to say... thank you, child me. You made me the person willing to do 'fanfiction, but better'.

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I've always liked writing in general. Telling stories is such a fun way to really let your creativity go to work.
I guess I started rping because I wanted to tell stories with other people, and collaborating on plotlines is really great.

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A friend introduced me to a regular chat site. While I was browsing the different rooms, I stumbled my way into a roleplay chatroom and feel in love with the fantasy of it all. Now, I'm still in love with the fantasy of it all even though I have less time to devote, but it's handy sometimes with spurring my creative juices as an author.

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mostly because I love writing! I also really love the collaborative feel of roleplay, and the fact that I might have a concrete idea of who my characters are and what they might be up to, but when I'm playing them with other people, I don't have full control over the narrative, so it makes it more exciting. But a lot of the reason I started to rp was because I'd moved to a new city with my now husband, and our 3-month-old baby and I didn't know anyone. I was bored, and lonely and looking for an easy way to socialise in a city I knew no-one as a massive introvert. So roleplay was the best of both worlds. I could write and follow my passion and socialise without having to meet people face to face! xx

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Ok, I'm about to age myself. So when I was a wee lass, my mother owned a shop that doubled as a meeting hall. I would be stuck there everyday after school. We had a windows 95 brick in the backroom where I would play minesweeper and solitaire. I needed something to escape the place I was and the things I shouldn't be listening to. So I started finding chatrooms and forums dedicated to escaping my reality. I hope that isn't an overshare, but I needed escapism and it got my through a tough and tumble childhood. 

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On 3/10/2017 at 11:14 PM, Lady Isadorabelle said:

Honestly for me it's been so long that I don't remember why I started or how I came across it, but I know why I continue to do it! I'm an aspiring writer. I don't have as much published as I'd like, but I have my fair share of positive reviews on fan fiction. And role playing provides this really invaluable skill when it comes to getting into a character's head and learning how to express them.

 

So, why did you start and why do you continue?


Was huge into resident evil back in the day(2006), so much so I wanted to write about it, found a community that had a site that was primarily role play but also had an OOC place. chatted with the community and the group through MSN and OOC mostly until one day I decided screw it, this stuff is fun to read I wanna join in. It was hard at first because I wasn't a strong or accurate typist and I wasn't a writer so my spelling and grammar and shit was terrible. But with a lot of patience I took off for the races in this whole RP thing and never looked back.

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I think I started because I felt an overwhelming urge to share my stories and characters with other people. Back in 2011 I remember watching a video of a group playing Dungeons & Dragons, and then someone else I followed on Tumblr started posting about their D&D adventures. I was just so enamored by it... I was used to only writing for myself, but I think there's something really special in the collaborative story telling that comes with RP. It's like we can be our own fandom in a way!

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Why I started roleplaying is a combination of reasons. I love writing stories. Wrote a lot of stories as a kid, played a lot of make-believe, school theater group etc. Often made up my own characters and pretended to be them when playing and got my friends in school to play along with it as well. Also very interested in video games. So when little child me stumbled over a roleplay forum out in the world of the internet, I was just "wow. I can write and play at the same time?". And then I was stuck. Sometimes when roleplay is a bit slow, people around me ask "why don't you just write a story with your characters?", but it's not the same thing at all! The whole charm with rp is the interactions, the lack of a scrips and that you have to improvise.  To not be in control of all characters. To not know what will happen until you read your co-writer's reply with their character and you have to figure out how your character will react to it according to their personality and so on. I just love it.

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I honestly don't remember why I started. Accident, mostly, I think. But I kept with it because I enjoy writing. I started off writing Fanfic (still kinda do on and off) and RP is just another form or writing character stories which I always enjoy doing. And just because the community is nice, I don't have many RL friends, I find it easier to make friends through RP (maybe I'm just sad and lonely)

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My sister talked me into joining an RP with her. I still remember my first thread with her. I had no idea how to play. My first post was terrible.

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