I've been RPing for 23 years. Not necessarily my most memorable or favorite character, but my first ever character and first ever time RPing was on the lg15 forum, in the HOOBS roleplay as Tarin an emo fourteen year old. I was basically playing myself at the time way back in 2007. I can honestly say if I had never discovered roleplaying, I would have never advanced my very very poor writing abilities at the time. I didn't use punctuation, and I spelled everything phonetically. It was BAD! The other players helped guide me, thank goodness. If I remember correctly someone on that forum told me about this website, and here I have been.