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I’ve been lingering around on this site for a few weeks, and it’s so fascinating to see where people started with this hobby! There’s such a huge range of places, especially between the older and younger role-players.

So, where did you start? Bonus points if you mention all the RP places you’ve frequented over the years! Give your opinions, which place was best? What place do you miss most?
Please, no drama. If you’ve had a bad experience on an RP platform we don’t need to hear all the details.

I’ll start! My RP journey began on animal jam with the popular warrior cats RP scene at the time (2014-ish?). After that I found a way to roleplay on every game I played; minecraft, roblox, scratch.mit.edu, and jumpstart (RIP).
It later evolved to Amino (so glad it’s gone), Discord, and now this place! I’m getting tired of discord, so RPR has become my current favorite roleplay hub

I started text-based roleplaying (though I didn't know what it was called at the time) on Google Hangouts with my friend, in the mid to late 2010s or so. I'm not sure when/how I found out that what we were doing had a name and that it was something I could just... do, with other people, as a hobby. But I must have, because one day I was searching for Warrior Cats roleplays and it brought me here. Still kind of nostalgic for those old groups we'd make... I think I briefly used a couple of other sites dedicated to the series too, but I don't remember them clearly. The vast majority of my roleplaying has been here on RPR. Some on Quotev, too (*shudder* what a nightmare), specifically with some joke accounts based on Fawful and Dimentio from the Mario games... And like one (1) very short-lived RP using my (at the time) favourite OC. My aforementioned friend had one or two of those silly character accounts too but I won't call her out; she'll come over here and talk about it if she wants to :>

Edit: Oh yeah I specified the text-based thing because I was doing in-person roleplay, aka making stories with plushies, improv skits, playing pretend(TM) etc faaaarrr before that and continued to do it alongside the text-based stuff later, whenever I had friends who wanted to partake in my shenanigans. Including a three-person group on Google Hangouts (again) where we did this all over voice for hours on end. We called it Improv but it was basically an un/barely-structured tabletop kind of thing. We just talked through what our characters did, and voice-acted them, and sometimes had dice rolls to add ✨randomness✨ and ✨suspense✨
RIP Google Hangouts...

Me?
I started RPing something like 2001, quite late as I discovered RP in my twens (if I remember well) on furcadia. I have been on and off for multiple times, had like a 10 OCs and started around 2006 or 7 to develop my little doe, after having played many years with my Max and other. 2012 I made an F-List character sheet, still have that one. I came across RPRepository multiple times as character host. But my biggest decision to quit Furcadia was just after really registering at RPR, like one year ago. Little problems here made me look for other sites, but none accepted my little doe. So I took my courage and stayed here, without regret.
I have an active Discord account, but haven’t yet played there. Else, all is here, Lizbeth’s story and adventures, and many many things have changed. I managed to get one, and only one Furcadia friend here on RPR, I’m so happy about that one.
I only play text based RP, as I do this for fun and for learning.
Guess that makes me old huh?