Wilted Rose
The first time I ever tried roleplaying was a long long time ago, in the olden days of 2004. It was on a LOTR fansite that I would look at every now and then. I only posted once or twice though, because it seemed like everybody wanted to be perfect mary sue elves who were too busy perfect perfecting to tell a story.
So my most important influences would be the people that years later, in 2011, showed me that you can actually make a little effort and tell a story with an RP.
@Dinh AaronMk brought me back into RPing. We used to hang out in the same chat group and he was always going on about the details of an rp he was doing, so I thought "Fuck it, this is a way to kill a few minutes." Because I hadn't been a writer of any sort until then, I learned how to structure posts by copying little things from his style. I recall the hardest thing when I first started Arrpeeing was putting together dialogue, and that is one of the things I learned from the ground up by copying Aaron's style.
@gorgenmast was the second major influence, and in the same RP. It seemed like he was the best at descriptions back then, which is something that took me a long time to master. Before I got brave enough to steal descriptive styles from published authors, Gorgen was the template I learned from.
The third important name for how I developed my RP style is someone who isn't in the RP guild as far as I am aware, and that was the early Precipicer Shadesofmoose. When Precipice was just a basic RTS style roleplay, it was Shadesofmoose who really showed how an NRP could tell a story. His ability to use the RP format as a way to tell a complete story with all the proper suspense and drama was an important part of me taking RPing seriously, and really allowed me to consider RPing a legitimate form of writing.
Those three names, when it comes down to it, serve as the roots of my RPing history. I don't think the remaining two can be narrowed down, because there are a lot of people who have influences me through doing things that I would respect enough to remember and consider when I sit down to make a post. @Pepperm1nts is definitely the person I bounce ideas off of the most, partially because he is awake when I am posting more than anybody else and partially because he makes an effort to answer thoughtfully and honestly (and you can never underestimate the value of somebody who is willing to tell you when an idea sucks). @TheEvanCat and @Veoline get props for making interesting posts that have their own clear style and personality, and though all of these names are people I knew before the Guild, I can say that @Byrd Man's posts and ideas have been a refreshing new approach for me that shows that I can still be influenced.
So my most important influences would be the people that years later, in 2011, showed me that you can actually make a little effort and tell a story with an RP.
@Dinh AaronMk brought me back into RPing. We used to hang out in the same chat group and he was always going on about the details of an rp he was doing, so I thought "Fuck it, this is a way to kill a few minutes." Because I hadn't been a writer of any sort until then, I learned how to structure posts by copying little things from his style. I recall the hardest thing when I first started Arrpeeing was putting together dialogue, and that is one of the things I learned from the ground up by copying Aaron's style.
@gorgenmast was the second major influence, and in the same RP. It seemed like he was the best at descriptions back then, which is something that took me a long time to master. Before I got brave enough to steal descriptive styles from published authors, Gorgen was the template I learned from.
The third important name for how I developed my RP style is someone who isn't in the RP guild as far as I am aware, and that was the early Precipicer Shadesofmoose. When Precipice was just a basic RTS style roleplay, it was Shadesofmoose who really showed how an NRP could tell a story. His ability to use the RP format as a way to tell a complete story with all the proper suspense and drama was an important part of me taking RPing seriously, and really allowed me to consider RPing a legitimate form of writing.
Those three names, when it comes down to it, serve as the roots of my RPing history. I don't think the remaining two can be narrowed down, because there are a lot of people who have influences me through doing things that I would respect enough to remember and consider when I sit down to make a post. @Pepperm1nts is definitely the person I bounce ideas off of the most, partially because he is awake when I am posting more than anybody else and partially because he makes an effort to answer thoughtfully and honestly (and you can never underestimate the value of somebody who is willing to tell you when an idea sucks). @TheEvanCat and @Veoline get props for making interesting posts that have their own clear style and personality, and though all of these names are people I knew before the Guild, I can say that @Byrd Man's posts and ideas have been a refreshing new approach for me that shows that I can still be influenced.