I will have to admit to being somewhat of a roleplaying slut, as when I went searching for new sites outside of Tolkien’s Middle Earth sites to write RP on, I ended up registering to about a half dozen including this one. I was primarily looking for Middle Earth RP, but being this site was the most active, I opened up to other realms. Before last week, I had only been erratically involved in a couple of RPs on a Tolkien board (Arwen Undomiel), but with few writers there (
@Melanie being one) and a board admin being for the most part absent, it wasn’t conducive to sustaining my muse. Since last week, I have managed to find new RP partners here and on some of the other boards, really fulfilling my desires to write both Middle Earth and other genre RP!
A little RP history of mine. I began writing RP on a Lord of the Rings fan forum in 2001 when the first movie came out. One of the sections was a Roleplaying area, and I created a crude character that walked into an inn. The writing was for the most part short, but as we writers connected, we set out on deeper writing adventures. Was pretty much involved in this through year 7 to 12 in school. When I went off to university, things dropped off, and there was some drama among writers, and the site was becoming less used due to it being a few years after the movies, and well, I kind of went into writing my own stories and fanfics in my spare time. With studies and work, RP had been pushed aside and buried in the business of life. It wasn’t until last year when I went looking for some Middle Earth lore that I stumbled across Arwen Undomiel, and it got me back into RP. Now, I have renewed the love and excitement it brings!
What is your RP ‘history’?