What is your earliest roleplay memory?

I also had a family computer that was in the middle of the house. I remember building the computer with my dad and thinking it was so cool because the case was not a standard block. It had a door that you could open and close in the front to hide the CD drive.

Anyways, because if that I loved that computer and was instantly addicted to it. My experience started with a forum website where you could make cute avatar and by being active on the site earned gold to clothe your avatar. Somehow I managed to come across the roleplay section and instantly fell in love.

I remember the first character I made in there was a fox girl who was kind of like Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII. She was an airship engineer. Eventually I just made her human but it was the first time I felt remarkably free with my creativity and was introduced to concepts I never would have thought of on my own.

Earliest roleplay memory -

Computer was in the kitchen, within parent eyesight. Me, being like 14 and thinking I was slick, talking to people on an Inuyasha fandom forum like a stealthy mcstealth face. Met a really awesome person on there that introduced me to roleplaying and my first story was an Inuyasha one.

Edit: looked into the old url for nostalgic reasons. Looks like the old site shut down and a porn place bought it. RIP my innocent childhood memories.

Cue - Angel in the Centerfold

Oh man.

My brother was a huge furry, so Furcadia was shamefully some of my earliest online introductions to proto-roleplay. I'd tried in vain to find writers on Nexus: The Kingdom of Winds, because it had an overarching political plotline - but alas, no luck. Instead, I ended up with never-voiced questions like "what does [Yiffy] mean"? I was way too proud to ask, but all the roleplayers were putting that in their profile - guess I had to, too!

Incidentally, I learned a lot of ways to describe scarily thin or dehydrated furries in a ~sexy~ way. I also ended up in some Dragonball Z and FF7 fandoms, of which your ranking was determined by how long you could drone on about blasting someone. I was so 1337.

I remember IRC rooms and Ultima Online far more fondly.

The earliest Roleplay memory I have is my dad yelling at me to quit tying up the phone line while I was waiting for the dial up internet to connect to AOL. He always got calls at home from work and the internet messed those up!

Uh, yep, count me in the "family computer by the dining room accessing AOL on dial-up" crowd.

AOL chatrooms were so sketchy. I sometimes felt like you could click into one at random and it was a 50/50 shot you'd find something downright illegal.

My first roleplay memory was thinking it was weird that a chatroom was called "Pool Party!" But I quickly got the idea and dove right in (pun half-intended). Me and this one girl hit it off. You knew you were cool when you got that IM invite. Yes, it got naughty. But, maybe even weirder, we became pen pals and started writing each other actual, physical snail-mail letters. Those days were wild, when the internet was young and giant "social media" sites weren't even a concept yet. We kept in touch for years. I hope she's doing okay out there.

Okayokayokay, this is one of my favourite topics, I don't know how I've missed this thread. XD I love how people's experiences have had the same elements. Though our PC was in my parents' bedroom, so I did have some peace while surfing, the whole 45 minutes I could do it per day.

Anyway, if you don't count the roleplaying on chatrooms with actions written like *stabs you in the eye with a pair of scissors*, I, too, was a furry. The character bios were already written - you could either pick a character from those or make one up yourself, for some reason I picked one of those ready made. I remember that my character was a pink wolf with a mane. Both those forum RP scenes -and- the ones on chatrooms were all very dramatic and violent. At some point they got sexy too, but like... two people who have never as much as kissed someone trying to write smut. I hope none of that crap will ever surface. >___>'

My history with roleplay is an interesting tale to tell, and it's definitely different from your stories, from what you guys have already told... Though what exactly counts as my first 'roleplay' memory definitely depends on how far down the chain of association you want to go until you stop considering it to be roleplay related.

So, I was always a creative kid, and for as long as I can remember I've been coming in with ideas for stories and the like. Back when I was little, my strong suit was definitely taking characters from movies and TV shows that I watched, throwing my own characters into their world, or throwing them into my worlds. Basically, crossover fanfictions from before I even know what fanfiction was. Definitely one of my passions was ciphers and secret languages and the like. I definitely came up with quite a few coded alphabets back in the day. But this is all background stuff.

Now, I never had to deal with dial-up or AOL or anything like that... By the time I was interested in computers, the internet was already starting to settle. YouTube was already a thing, and I had discovered a rather nifty game called... Minecraft. It was through that game that I ended up making the friends I would eventually start my first RP with, but we're not quite there yet. Somewhere around the same time (a little before, actually) I ended up joining a Dungeons & Dragons group with my dad, and some other people (I can't for the life of me remember who the heck they were). I loved D&D. I always wanted to be a DM. I would spend hours sketching it maps for D&D worlds and dungeons, envisioning complex labyrinths filled with puzzles inspired by The Legend of Zelda... D&D got me hooked on running a world with dice.

Now, I never got to DM a D&D campaign, but I never lost my fascination with dice. I collected a bunch of them. Now, I can't remember what exactly inspired the idea, but one day when I was messing around in Minecraft, I came up with the idea for something I would eventually call Time Spirit Survival, or TSS. The premise is simple: A player is spawned into a superflat world with no structures, no starting items, no nothing. Players start by gathering dirt, and offering it to the Time Spirits (ran by [usually] me in Creative), asking for something in return. Dice are rolled, the offering may or may not succeed, and the goal is to experiment and mess around. I ended up doing many TSS's, and many variants with different characters. In one of these SS's, the player did something I didn't exactly expect: he actually talked to the characters. So I did what was only logical: I got into character and responded. Things ended up spiraling out of control, and my first proper RP: The Auradon Chronicles started.

Anyone remember Neopets? I started there and I actually started at a friend's house. Her family had one computer upstairs and one computer downstairs so we would hang out, one of us up and one of us downstairs and roleplay on Neopets on the boards. (Never did an actual neopets roleplay funnily enough) I would always have to be on the computer upstairs since her parents hated that my friend typed so loudly and apparently I am a much quieter typist.

I got onto a Sons of Anarchy fan website in 2014 and got into one of their forum group RP story based on that fandom. A couple people were very kind and understanding and patient with this kid in their midst and really helped me learn the ropes. I couldn't go into the adult section but really enjoyed the stories in the general section. I loved the TV show and enjoyed learning to write collaboratovely. The site sort of dried up after the show went off the air but I fell in love with writing. I have a whole external hard-drive full of RP stories, stories I wrote on my own, and character profiles. I guess I was a bit obsessed? Since then I've dabbled on different Discord and websites and only since last year started throwing my net further afield now that I'm an adult.

I got a new laptop from my parents as a gift for school when i was about 12 years old. I was browsing the internet for some quizzes if i remember well and ended up on a website called quotev. When i signed in to the website i soon met another person on there who shared a mutual interest in creepypasta and we started talking about them.

Soon she had asked me if i wanted to roleplay with her, i had no idea what it was but was to afraid to ask her. I agreed anyway and soon she was asking if i had characters and stuff, i didn't want to ask her what she meant so i decided to ask my friend google to help me out. That is basically how my Roleplay adventure had started and my oldest memory about it.

The first roleplay I ever did. Where my RL friend after about a month of begging me to try thing RP thing invited me to a session. We were RPing over MSN live chatrooms, I was a vampire who got drunk on the blood of a very drunk fella during a celebration, where I nearly fell into the bonfire and my friends character saved me and we kissed.

I have a slew of memories of the many RP's I did after that from a huge multi chat room clan war. I did pen and paper RPs with a friend too, passed a notebook between classes, and we ended up filling about 8 notebooks it was great.

The year was 2000 (OOC year). Matsu was in the obsidian canyon. She was but a young pup. Aquaria (Who would become her brother later) made her a deal. if she caught her tail, he'd allow her into the Devante home. (Where the Kitsune keep their monster trophies and history, they were sexist, so no girls allowed rule.) So, she accepted the challenge, failing to catch her fluffy friend, but she did manage to break a few things in the shop they were visiting. Afterward, I RPed, hiding from her parents and the guards. It was fun till she was captured and then whipped for her crimes. It was on that day she vowed, to one day, become so nimble. She could catch her taunting tail. While a small arc, it wasn't till 2020 (OOC Year) that she succeeded. Once she seized it, her eyes widened, and the fox felt as if she had reached a new level of existence. With her brother's ashes tattooed onto her face, she was rubbing it against where his remains were etched, talking to him, gloating as if he could hear it.

Chatogo.com, year 2013. I was like 11 or 12. It still exits. I just created a character on the spot, and I *still* do that sometimes. I remember all the profiles were hot anime chicks. I made friends with this older teen guy, and we talked everyday for a while there. Then he got banned for something, can't remember. I grew up on the site, and realized I wasn't straight on that site.

I discovered my first roleplaying venue by accident. I followed a hyperlink black hole and ended up in the old World of Darkness group chats. I recognized some of the terms like Venture, Toreador, and Brujah from the short-lived 'Kindred: The Embraced' tv series. I was like "Oh, they're pretending to be vampires from that tv show. I can do that, too."

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...as people played their moody angsty vampires, their Gorean slaves, the random people sitting in the rafters, watching others with their cerulean orbs and letting their digits gently touch their plush pink tiers.

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When I was in grade school one of my friends was into Warhammer or something, but I knew next to nothing about it and had zero interest in spending money on miniatures. I also had that board game, Heroquest, but nobody ever wanted to play it with me. There was a summer camp I went to as a teenager where some of the guys (and a goth chick I liked) were into D&D and we did some half-assed adventures that went nowhere.

I did have a shared computer on dial-up (not AOL, I'm Canadian), but like most people I only used it for playing video games and looking at porn.

My first serious text-based roleplay was on the internet, in my first year of college. Baldur's Gate was a game I liked, and I found a forum related to that game, and while I had originally gone there to talk about the video game, I found that people were also using the platform to play D&D 2nd edition. What a brilliant idea, I thought, and I joined in, with my only knowledge of the rules coming from the little manual that comes with Baldur's Gate and explains what all the stats and classes mean.

Then someone passed me a link to this "SRD" resource for 3rd edition rules and I started studying those to the point where I could make characters that weren't completely useless, and I could actually engage in a real campaign.

First erotic roleplay was when during a campgain my moody angsty sorcerer got a late-night visit from a succubus wanting to make a deal. I was like, "Yeeeah, I know this is a trap, but I really wanna bust a nut right now". This was before "BEGONE THOT" became a meme (or really before anything became a meme).

First "smut" roleplay was much later, when I got into MUDs and discovered the whole world of sexhaving. So of course my first character was a Gorean slave with big tits...

Late 1999. Neopets forums.

This is so, so cringe.

I wrote a character named Maxim Osseion, because I saw Maxim in a video game (Castlevania) and Osseion in a book with puns as the central premise. The character was made of bones. Osseion means bone marrow. I may be misspelling that. Anyway.

Maxim was an elf who could transform into a dragon. Why? I don't know. I was 11. He started off as a very old man at first, but then became an elf when I realized writing old men didn't play into my fantasy of kicking ass, and then he could turn into a dragon because I met someone who RPed a werewolf and HAD to 1-up them. That rp lives in my nightmares. The other person literally ended it and quit talking to me because I didn't realize that constant escalation in a fight is really, really boring. I seem to recall that we went from like 2~4 paragraph posts to his single reply, which was along the lines of 'congratulations, you beat me, farewell!'

After that I went to the AOL chatrooms, and that... did not go well, either.

Well, when I first started I also was on the family computer I had no idea what roleplaying was until I met someone on a game I played called Gaia online. Hehe wow, soo long ago I remember they got me on the Chattango site and I was so lost I had to learn what it was all about. The first character I decided to be was a Neko that when I learned about collars lol. So that let me know I enjoyed being a submissive I played a pet to the partner at had at the time. That's been like 10 or more years ago and I've learned soo much since then. ^^