What genre were your first rps in? (Member & Staff)

[Nalaea 0]

When I first started RPing, it was on HorseLand, and it was a wolf pack rpg.

Don't know how those correlated, but they did, and when HorseLand updated to what it is now, I transferred to Jcink and Proboards, trying out different genres until I found my home.

[FaR0E 2]

My first 'quote-unquote' rp, was a chat-based rp in a subforum of a fanforum for a youtube series called Stupid Mario Bros. Yes. Really. It was dumb and I was young and there was so much god-modding but it was my first introduction into RP.  Then I moved to the official warrior cats fan forums before they closed. Then mainly shifted over to an HP site for about... 10 years. 

 

As for staffing, I modded for a couple of HP sites, but never ran my own as an admin until lst week which is Cyberpunk

[lynncia 1]

I started rping by writing Twilight fanfiction lol. Still, the first "Roleplay" website I got myself into was PJO themed and PJO still has a dear place in my heart.

[reznik 4]

Technically Dragonball Z, but I'd hardly call what I did at the time roleplaying (I was like 11). My first real longterm RP genre was cyberpunk/fantasy similar to Shadowrun. The first RP I ran myself was Fallout based.

[JuliLouWho 1]

My first RPG was an HP Marauders era board.

[birdorcages 3]

I remember in middle school, my friends and I would pass a notebook around and roleplay horse and pony characters, so I suppose that kind of counts!

 

As for online roleplay, I remember joining a My Little Pony discussion board at the ripe age of 11 (knowing very well that they only allowed people 13 and older - I truly felt rebellious doing it) and my favorite section was the roleplay section. I really don't remember what we wrote about but I absolutely enjoyed the prospect of writing about ponies with strangers on the internet, so...

[Finn 3]

My first many boards were Scandinavian. The very first one was a Harry Potter themed one, but the school was not Hogwarts, but instead some other magical school. I remember playing a girl who had a giant chamelion.

 

I was like... 13. Our posts were stricly oneliners and it was chat-based rather than forum. We made fun at that for a long while after, only to now have chat-based rp's be the new generations favourite thing.

[Shade 0]

My first RP was a Warrior Cats forum that I joined when I was in middle school. It's been almost 15 years since but I'm still in contact with friends from there! 

[Aztrophel 2]

My first ever RP was on Hogwarts Online, which was entirely because I wanted to join a different Harry Potter site, but they had an incredibly rigorous application process that I didn't understand and completely messed up. I also didn't really know how to RP at all, so everything I wrote was a bonafide train wreck. 

 

After that, I mostly spent time on Goodreads and Shelfari, which were in RP groups instead of full sites, and it was on there that I had my first staffing experiences. It's also where I first learned how to write properly and built up my experience that would allow me to feel confident enough to join more sites later on.

[yum yums 0]

I used to RP on the roleplaying sections of fan forums. Who remembers fan forums?

[Rosee 1]

I can't remember 100% but it was probably like "Pool Party" or Harry Potter role plays in AOL chat rooms. I don't think I got into forum role play until after I was exposed to Neopets in 2000.

[Vindictus II 3]

My very first roleplaying site I joined was a Star Wars rp by the name of SW88. I have run my own starwars rp sites since them, as well as a few DC/Marvel (combined) roleplaying sites as well.

[Rie 4]

My first experience roleplaying was on a hybrid site called Mugglenet Interactive (shoutout to any MNIers that may be here!). It was many moons ago when I was young and new to writing. We're talking one-liner posts, which is fine but as I've grown and matured in my writing, my past one-liner posts make me slightly embarrassed. But you've gotta start somewhere right?

[Lani394 4]

When I first started, I was about fourteen or fifteen and my friend made a wolf RPG on Invisionfree. 

Kicked around on that for a while, then played on some horse RPS before moving to supernatural by the time I was about 16. I haven't left that genre 😂 Though I did dabble in some Ancient Greek RP a couple of years ago.

[Beetle 0]

It's not really a "genre" but I would pop into random rps on Neopets. Usually warriors or those egg hatching rps people used to do.