when did you get hooked ?
 

when did you start your frist toon ? oct 12 1999 here

I started my first char aug 19 1999. My second sep 11 1999.
I don't have any "toon"s.
First is level 57, second is 65.

Enok

I also dont have "toons", i have characters since a cartoon and video games are completely unrelated except for the fact their animated but in completely diffrent ways. I got hooked when I had a lot of free time. I had to be home schooled because i have a serious sleeping disorder (no joke) and ended up finishing a whole years worth in like 4 months. 3 of my friends kept talking about this online only game called everquest that was an RPG (wasn't familiar with online games or PC games for that matter). Was about february of 2000 about. Made a warrior, wizard, mage, monk all got up to about level 10 then i made a ranger and never changed since.

October 3rd 1998 phase 2, DarkElf Necromancer
Second was about december 13th 2000, WoodElf Druid

Master Tinkfu The Gearless

November 21st, 1999 for me.. Started my (then) ultra-uber-mega-endall Ogre Warrior character. He promptly made it to level 6 and was thusly deleted (simply because I was unhappy with his "smart as rock" ability) and Firiona Vie would only let me possess one character at a time.

So left for sol ro and got on with Senzari, I know he's an incredibly low level for having played for close to 3 years, but I also took a 1 year hiatus.

Hmmm my first character (and I agree with the 'characters are not toons' statement) was in November of 99 - human warrior Tarraxironwolf on Tholuxe (that was before I realized that you didn't have a last name at the beginning... never again). Then I remade him again with the first name Tarrax (knowing that you could have a last name now) and redid the stats (again the first time not really knowing what to expect in the game) and started him all over again (back when you could drop coin... remember that people...)

And from there, I have numerous characters on different servers (as you can tell by the server list under my avatar) based on my mood and what I wanted to roleplay that evening.

First tried EQ during beta 3 but my system at the time couldn't quite handle it. My main character was born April 11, 1999, 16:22.
He's now L59.
<edit> Forgot to list my cast of characters :)
Thelon Stormeyes L59 human monk
Reldan Stormeyes L58 human warrior
Minguss Blastomatic L55 gnome wizard
Fendan Stormeyes L53 high elf cleric
Arthax Sumner L52 erudite magician
Negdar Treespirit L35 wood elf druid
Banning Stormeyes L33 human ranger

Started EQ 19th of October 1999.
First player was Half Elf Warrior, played to levl 10.
Second player was my old main, a Wood Elf Druid he got to levl 53.
Enzo is my main now, played 150 days and counting.

Hehe my first character was on E'Ci because a friend of mine's entire family played (they still do..its very cool) and i started a necro...he got to level 12 in like 9 weeks cuz i had absolutely no clue what i was doing, i would take the money they gave me and buy cloth armor instead of going to get some nice armor that adds to stuff...it was kinda sad...i barely knew how to get around..so i canceled my EQ account. (mind you this was when i was around 11) but now that im 14..i play EQ every once in a while...for Apothem my druid..hes not that high seeings that hes just a casual character...

Feb 15, 2000, a little over 2 weeks after Luclin first came up. I only have characters on that server that I play.

December 5, 2002- Govannon Greenglaive 45 Druid (now ALT)

March 3, 2003- Kasporov Atreides 52 Necromancer (now MAIN)

Yea, i'm new generation, what can i say.

January 1st 2000 (may of been 2nd) on Tarrew Marr.

First Character a Erudite Pally to level 6 (deleted)
2nd Mahalalel Barbarian Shaman played to 14 (deleted)
3rd Gnome Magician Enosh Bgosh played to level 30 (deleted)
4th Curumtiny August 2000 created now level 64 almost 65 Gnome Warrior.

My first character was on September 24th 2000, a half elf druid and I'm still playing her to this day. :) She is 61 now. Kind of strange that the first character I ever created remains my favorite and my main after all this time.

I don't know the date when I started playing, but it was befor Velious came out when everyone was running around saying M'lady and stuff like that and you could use your invintory to see under water and while you were drunk.

14 highelf wizard Zararinak(deleted)
24 Dwarf Warrior Liloldtank(deleted)
34 vahl shir beastlord Onetwo
24 human monk Threefour
53 iksar necro Boonzy

I've had a few more on other servers and many many alts du to the fact I could not put in much serious game time un untill now. I think I played Zararinak for 6 months and only got that far...of course I did too many quests that did not give much exp or pp.

Re: when did you get hooked ?
 

ROFL my 30th birth day... how funny!

Me March 14th 2001

Toons

Moppett 20th halfling cleric (Deleted)
Kudain 42nd half-elf bard (deleted when Kudane reach 43)
Mirrax 19th VahShir Warrior (deleted)
Zentrum 10th ogre SK (deleted)
Kudane 62 VahShir Bard
Dukane 31 Eurdite Mage (2nd account)
Attalucus 22 barbie Rogue (2nd account)
Moppett 24 Halfling Paladin (2nd Account)

Name Holders
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Wartz