What caused you to start rping in Star Wars genre?

[Jaxton Ravos]

I needed an outlet for all of the rage and stress that finals brought me last spring. I can't remember where exactly the thought "Hey, I can write things amatuerly, let's do that." came up, but it did, and I ended up here a little less than a year ago. Been in and out since then as RL has demanded, but it's been a hell of a ride.

 

[Velok the Younger]

In 1998 or so, I got dragged into the Star Wars tabletop RPG by my best friend at the time. We played fast and loose with the rules, made companies, fleets, starfighter designs, everything. Some of my best memories. The character that eventually morphed into Je'gan started there. Fast-forward a couple of moves and it's 2002, and a buddy of mine tells me about the Sony forums for the upcoming Star Wars Galaxies. He shows me the in-character forum, and the immense, vibrant RP community that had sprung up there. I was hooked. Those forums are where Rave got her start, and Ashin; they're my two oldest characters that are still alive (there were two older ones, but both have been dead for years). In '03 or so, those forums went subscriber-only, and the entire RP community packed up and left for a new site, Star Wars: Exodus. From Exodus, I branched out. Discovered SW-Fans in 2003, created Je'gan's first internet incarnation. Branched out from there to a long history at the craftshop and some dabblings elsewhere, along with Exodus (now defunct), and the rest is history.

No regrets.

 

[Aran Finn]

It was 2010, I was home alone, having just finished high school, and I was bored. Went looking for a Star Wars-based flash game, but found a website called sw-rpg.net instead. My first thought was that it was lame as hell. Fantasy fulfillment written by people I would never have associated with, people that were nothing like my mates, people that would never make my football team etc. And the celebrity avatars? Ha. What a bunch of losers. But something made me create an account. I swore I would never use it, and went back to playing Assassin's Creed. Two hours later, somehow, I'd written my first ever IC post. Then I was hooked.

RP has made me a much more well-rounded, accepting person. Go figure. I can now put the "roleplay nerd" feather in my cap and I'm proud to say it. I even got into table-top a couple of years back. I even got some of my footy mates into it too. Star Wars Roleplay is a great thing. God bless it

Same here, no regrets.

 

[Rusken Shaxx]

Well, I've always had a fondness for fantasy universes. Star Wars was one where I saw a broad, almost endless horizon of freedom and possibilities; however, my RPing days didn't start with just good 'ol SW. I came across WoW at first with no idea what RP meant. No correlation with any topic associated with the like. Infact, I hadn't any real reason to role-play and even less of a realized entrance into such a fantastical world.

But then things changed, and I saw the potential of a thing where I could escape from the norm of real life and just pretend for a while- I'm still a kid at heart, and things like this site make me proud to be one of many. I'll admit that World of Warcraft was my base and from there I've structured myself to become adept in the ways of role-playing and how to understand common terms. It's been a few years and I'm still going strong, and I don't ever wish to cease this moment in which I've been living in with joy.

Honestly, I was scared of joining a board because I already felt an impending sense of judgement, dread, and possibly cynical mindsets from others. I was wrong, and I adore each and all of you in one way or another for your efforts in what you do. There are exceptions, but we're all good at something. I now feel welcome here, and I want to thank all of you for helping with that.
<3

 

[Ordo]

Star Wars: Exodus.

I remember Exodus. I was Corbin something a correlian pilot but I stayed table top with Ordo for years and years and more years.

 

[CHANI]

Sitting on the floor of my grandmothers house,
fifteen adults all around me doing their own thing
while my aunt and I watched 'Star Wars; A new hope'.
Loved it from the moment I saw it, VHS.

Fast forward to my teens, and a LOTR phase where i roleplayed in live yahoogroups chat rooms, i was on a mailing list of a yahoo 'RPG Sanctuary' group and those where some of my first pbp starwars groups.

 

[Scarface]

Oh jeeze, nostalgia. Alright here goes:

I was in the 6th Grade when the FPS America's Army started getting really popular, so being the zealous kid I was, I got all decked out, joined a clan, all that pizzazz. This clan (-=187=- I still remember!) used InvisionFree as their main platform for our off game chat, so I actually checked out IF's homepage to find that they had categories for different boards. Being the massive Star Wars fanatic that I was, and arguably still am, I clicked the appropriate link and found myself on this OG forum where I really started learning how to tell stories. I met a buddy there, we ended up starting a new forum called Star Wars: The Force, if I remember correctly. We ran a tight ship for about two or three years before we all moved on. I floated from board to board, some for longer than others, and the rest is history.

I'm sad to say that my first impression of Star Wars when I was a wee lad was all derrived from Episode I. Then I wised up and watched the trilogy. Never looked back.

 

[Aeron Zambrano]

Oh man...my Dad popped A New Hope in when I was 7 on a night my Mom was at work and from then on the rest is history. I NEEDED him to get the other ones, and saw the rest of the original trilogy within the week and then The Phantom Menace since it had recently come out. It was nice seeing them all on VHS without the Blu-Ray changes that have been made. I saw the rest of the prequel trilogy as they came out and I'm holding out hope for the new movies.

I've always loved reading & writing and I'll devour just about anything I get my hands out, but I think between how fleshed out even the smallest detail is in the Star Wars universe combined with how real the characters seemed to me had me hooked early. There's an answer for EVERYTHING and the possibilities are endless. I think it's just a nice place to escape to, and I can't get enough.

I started RPing on play-by-post sites that were a lot more informal and usually weren't even related to humans or humanoids. It was usually horses or wolves. I actually only really got in to SW RP's just now and I'm enjoying every minute of it and every one I've met so far. Every one is so friendly and it's nice to have a community in which it's not strange to relate something mundane to a thing I remember from the SW universe. :wub: