It wasn’t about VOIP, it was the detail and immersing yourself in a character you created and loved. As far back as I can remember, using asterisks was the normal. Starting in chat rooms, like AOL and probably other chat rooms sprung into it as well. But from there it stemmed online, to the internet and thus began text roleplay. It might seem silly to think of, people LARPing and some still think D&D is too nerdy. Along with LARP, where people actually went out into the real world pretending and fighting with foam swords. I would like to think that roleplaying began with tabletop games, such as D&D and Pathfinder. Enough to want to be part of that world, to just disappear for a while and just get lost in this mythical world of our own mind. In fact it was before than even, when people began to fall in love with stories like Lord of the Rings and other books that enchanted many of us.

Some of you might be very surprised to hear that roleplaying didn’t start out as VOIP, it all began in a chat room. It shouldn’t be ignored, and can be very fun. With this guide I hope to show that text roleplay, is still a legitimate form of rp. I have seen a lot of posts saying that text rp isn’t as good as voip rp.

This guide is for those who wish to learn how to text rp, and how to get better at text roleplay.

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