I am new to this site, having created this account primarily because a friend suggested that we consider using this site as a forum to host the roleplay that we plan to start together, which will be a freeform online roleplay of some sort (we are still working out the details).
As far as my roleplaying experience, I have been roleplaying for years. I started out with playing "Let's Pretend" with my brothers when we were growing up together. As a teenager, I read a book which mentioned an interesting-sounding game, which was my first introduction to the world of tabletop roleplaying games. When I mentioned my interested to my mother, she pulled out her first-edition AD&D player's handbook from when she played in college (in a group which included Bill Watterson, so there is that obligatory name drop) after being in the dining hall with her roommate and "hearing a group of boys talking very oddly about orcs and such," at which point she and her roommate asked about the conversation and ended up getting invited to play.
I started actually playing when I was fifteen and one of the local hobby shops ran an intro to D&D (second edition, shortly before it would be phased out for third edition) game. I ended up impressing the DM enough that he invited me to join in his "grown-up" campaign that he was starting, and we've grown to be close friends even outside of gaming. I've played third edition, 3.5, and Pathfinder (which is my current go-to d20 fantasy system). At the moment, I'm involved in two in-person games, one being a game using the Pathfinder system and set in the Greyhawk campaign world, and the other being a Dresden Files game (based on the FATE system) set in Philly. I've also played GURPS, both as a player and attempting to DM, as well as having attempted to DM the Introductory Adventure for the d6 Star Wars RPG from West End Games for my family.
As far as genres go, I have a particular fondness for fantasy-based games, but I also enjoy challenging myself to broaden my horizons on occasion.
As far as characters go, I have a tendency to lean towards bard-type characters, and the character I played in the longest campaign in which I took part was a half-elf bard. My characters in my current in-person games are Tabitha "Tabby" Morgan, who is a were-cat burglar in the Dresden Files game with a tendency to poke her nose where it shouldn't go (unless she's too busy being traumatized by a haunt that made her think she was going to be taken away by animal control), and Kimbrel Glimmersweet, a gnome baker (we all started as commoners) with a fondness for learning different languages, as well as a slight talent for natural magic (but when she was presented with magical scrolls, she handed them off to the half-orc barbarian with a "these make my head hurt," so she's apparently not as interested in studied magic. Yes, I am learning about her as we play.)
So that's a bit about me, as well as the first of my ten required posts (I don't have to make all ten within twenty-four hours, do I? Because that seems like it would also be potentially spammy...)
As far as my roleplaying experience, I have been roleplaying for years. I started out with playing "Let's Pretend" with my brothers when we were growing up together. As a teenager, I read a book which mentioned an interesting-sounding game, which was my first introduction to the world of tabletop roleplaying games. When I mentioned my interested to my mother, she pulled out her first-edition AD&D player's handbook from when she played in college (in a group which included Bill Watterson, so there is that obligatory name drop) after being in the dining hall with her roommate and "hearing a group of boys talking very oddly about orcs and such," at which point she and her roommate asked about the conversation and ended up getting invited to play.
I started actually playing when I was fifteen and one of the local hobby shops ran an intro to D&D (second edition, shortly before it would be phased out for third edition) game. I ended up impressing the DM enough that he invited me to join in his "grown-up" campaign that he was starting, and we've grown to be close friends even outside of gaming. I've played third edition, 3.5, and Pathfinder (which is my current go-to d20 fantasy system). At the moment, I'm involved in two in-person games, one being a game using the Pathfinder system and set in the Greyhawk campaign world, and the other being a Dresden Files game (based on the FATE system) set in Philly. I've also played GURPS, both as a player and attempting to DM, as well as having attempted to DM the Introductory Adventure for the d6 Star Wars RPG from West End Games for my family.
As far as genres go, I have a particular fondness for fantasy-based games, but I also enjoy challenging myself to broaden my horizons on occasion.
As far as characters go, I have a tendency to lean towards bard-type characters, and the character I played in the longest campaign in which I took part was a half-elf bard. My characters in my current in-person games are Tabitha "Tabby" Morgan, who is a were-cat burglar in the Dresden Files game with a tendency to poke her nose where it shouldn't go (unless she's too busy being traumatized by a haunt that made her think she was going to be taken away by animal control), and Kimbrel Glimmersweet, a gnome baker (we all started as commoners) with a fondness for learning different languages, as well as a slight talent for natural magic (but when she was presented with magical scrolls, she handed them off to the half-orc barbarian with a "these make my head hurt," so she's apparently not as interested in studied magic. Yes, I am learning about her as we play.)
So that's a bit about me, as well as the first of my ten required posts (I don't have to make all ten within twenty-four hours, do I? Because that seems like it would also be potentially spammy...)
What a lovely introduction! So full of information and well thought out 
It's good to have you here.