[quote=@Hank]
Believe it or not, I got into role-playing on a Jurassic Park fansite that hosted a huge persistent world RP where everyone played -- you guessed it -- dinosaurs. Not even talking dinosaurs, no sir, as close to the real thing as possible.

My username was derived from a Yu-Gi-Oh card. It was a simpler time.
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I started mine on Runescape, me and a couple of friends went into peoples houses pretending to be slaves to then free them! We were S.P.O.F...

We even had an infomercial on youtube! Good times...

Most my initial roleplaying experience is via Runescape, my first forum based however was on a now gone website. It was a Stargate game where you created your own Empire based on a numerical system and waiting to accumulate troops and resources, kind of like a Tabletop Nation RP style thing where raids used dice to determine whether or not they'd be of any use. I used to raid an Admin Account that had been created for a Campaign because it still generated resources but had no military left, making it more or less an easy gig. From there I moved into that sites Forum Roleplay section, and when that site later died I moved around for a little bit.

Halo (Custom Edition), but later onto San Andreas Multiplayer where I was happy for a number of years in a group which I still hang out with occasionally. Forum Roleplaying I properly got into around 2012, the actual live action game side of things hasn't been very consistent and at this point I've more or less dropped it. What with the RP group I played with SA:MP moving onto different games and the Runescape Updates which I'm not a fan off the guild is the sole place I get my fix. I appeared on it back in 2012 under the username "Septimus314" (Really old name of mine) and derped around in casual, the first RP I actually joined was a Star Wars RP called Fires of Exaron by a user named [@Hotshot] (If he uses that name here). 

I messed up a little, and wasn't happy with myself so I more or less burned that user (As many do) and went with EvilScottishGuy which I stuck with till the GuildFall and I have to say the Guild has improved not just my writing skills but my nerddom of the Star Wars Franchise, as well as DC and Marvel with me now buying books and comics which I never used to do. Damn the Guild is hard on my wallet.

Why do I do it? Well hosting a RP like No Turning Back sums it up. The people are great, and the writing is fun to do and fun to read. It's an escape from reality that few other medians can give, in my opinion. I know most of us talk about making a book sooner or later but truth be told, I'm happy with hashing out these ideas and making these universes for people to play in, or joining in these universes that other people have made.

Anyway long answer is long. TL;DR. I like it here.