Introduction threads, woot!

Heya everyone, Anjelika (Anj for short) here.  Been lurking at the site for a little while now (since the F-W BS thread was in the late 100's on 'standard' view pages).   I heard of the site from the Wizards forum, where it was mentioned in passing as a place where more OSR people tended to gather.  I have played some 1E, was raised on BECMI minus the 'I' (playing immortals sounded boring) and bought 2E the day it came out (although that was by chance, not intent).  My first 'game' was when I was 8 (that's 31 years ago now), although it lasted long enough for the DM to say "You're walking down a hallway.  Poison arrow shoots you in the arm you're dead."  Yes...he announced it as one sentence.  I got my own Basic set at 10 (the new Mentzer set) and have DM'ed ever since.  I play or run 3 nights/week still on average.

Currently playing Cerilia (2E) while preparing a fresh 1E campaign world as well as running a Cerilian game.  My favorite all-time class is Illusionist (hence the 'Seeming' in my name).  I have also played WW M:A, W:A, and V:M as well as some lesser-knowns like Anima, Lo5R, and WHFRP (2nd ed), as well as Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Cyberpunk (not 2020), and Shadowrun 1st and 2nd.  And I just got a stellar deal on a Very Good 1E OA handbook from Amazon for $3.98 that I'm happy about.

Kurt - long time member, haven't posted much lately due to changes in work/living arrangements. Started playing D&D boxed in 1979, been going strong with just about everything else since. Just finshed playing a two-shot old-school Traveller game and am beginning work on my own AD&D 1st campaign for my group that I've gamed with since - well, 1981 or so.

I'm vytzka, I just hit 27. I'm more of a miniatures gamer, but I like RPGs as well (sadly I get a lot more game time from miniature wargaming than roleplaying). Over here if I want something more interesting than D&D, GURPS or FATE, I have to run it myself most of the time, so I've ran Exalted, Rolemaster, Anima and Mekton Zeta over the years. Other of my favorite games include Dragon Warriors, AD&D 2e and MERP.

Currently in a D&D 4e campaign slogging through Keep on the Shadowfell and enjoying the romp so far, although I'm having more fun with the players than the system. Also trying to get a new face to face Anima campaign off the ground (after my IRC campaign fell to the usual IRC campaign disease).

I am a 44 year old american, discoverd basic dnd when I was in 6th grade.

Currently dming a Pathfinder game, Dark sun setting. Players insist on Pathfinder. I prefer 1E/2E.

Currently playing in a 4E, Pathfinder, Champions, Servants of Gaius.

Yes, five games.     (One is monthly, and one every other week)

Schedule is brutally tight, but I enjoy the games.


What I want to do, and can't get people to play, is Nobilis, and Dragon Age.

That's what I get for thinking that this forum topic was about cartoons.

I'm Mike, but friends call me Red or Redbeard.  Yeah, I've been on the site for a long time now, but haven't felt the need to post much.

I've been playing since around 1980-81, with the only real gap being the "D&D is Satanic!" period from around 1983-1986.  I've played 1e, 2e, 1e Gamma World, some Top Secret, some Pathfinder, some old Shadowrun, MERP/RM, and was talked into trying Battletech once.

Currently, I'm part of a long running (11+ years) 3.0 campaign that's not exactly known for speedy leveling.  Since my kids got into RPGs last year, I've run Savage Worlds with them, and at their request I'm running 4e for them.  I'm running the 4e campaign the way I know how to DM, so when in doubt I simply wing it rather than consult the rulebooks.

And yes, I do know that Koltar exists, because he works at one of the game stores I frequent.

I'm Jonathan, I'm 44 so far, and as best I can remember my first RPG was D&D blue box, and moved on to AD&D 1e pretty quickly thereafter. One day we played RQ (under protest, having told my friend who had bought it that there was no reason to bother with anything that wasn't D&D). The upshot was that for the last 30 years I've never played any fantasy other than RQ, or a BRP variant like Stormbringer. Did take time out for a fair bit of Twilight 2000, Traveller 2300, Cyberpunk and Call of Cthulhu to ring the changes and share GM roles. Now very happy to be a published D100 author with Age of Treason and its Companion book (for Legend).

Currently running an Age of Treason game on RPOL, and face to face once in a blue moon when the old chums can get together.

RPGSite - a bit acerbic at times, and the level of D&D fu required to understand many of the threads is waaaaay beyond me - but there's some seriously good brains, eloquent discourse and gaming passion lurking under the surface.

The traveller, as the name implies, spent the best part of the last decade travelling, mostly around Asia and parts related, originally from Ireland and now once again clinging grimly to this windswept and rocky shore, using a pint of guinness to type with the other hand.

I didn't get much RPGing done during that time, being busy talking to heathens and learning their heathen languages, before eventually becoming a heathen myself, getting up to all sorts of unwise shenanigans, but like most here I cut my teeth on D&D, then AD&D. I dabbled a little in CP2020 as well as whatever version of CoC was current at the time, plus White Wolf games (which were actually a lot of fun except for the people they seemed to attract), and made a start on cooking up my own system before the aforementioned hiatus.

Anyway, long story short, I've researched how all sorts of games deal with various gaming challenges, rendered them down with a load of ideas of my own, and hope to release it sometime this year work allowing. I've accumulated a raft of notes of all sorts and am laboriously entering them in and organising them. It may turn out great, or it may be the middle ground that satisfies nobody, but I like it and it keeps me and my group off the streets.

I also have a puppy, if I didn't know better I'd swear someone had genetically merged a dog with a teddy bear, although she is an expert slipper thief and bummer of snacks.

Hi! My name's Jon and I am from Woodbury, MN. It beats the Dickens' out of me why I decided to use Jacob Marley as my online persona, but whatever.

I had been lurking around here for some time after discovering this site. I also post on occasion over at ENWorld.

I started playing in 1991 with 1st Edition AD&D and, with the exception of my four years in college, have been playing ever since. I am currently playing in two campaigns, both 3rd Edition D&D. I am also prepping a Domain of Greyhawk/City of Greyhawk sandbox campaign.

Hi, I'm James.  That is my real name, which I use because most of the time I use the nickname my parents gave me, "Jeff", which is a pronunciation of my first two initials, "J.F.".  So on the Web I use my real name and in real life I use an alias.
I have been playing since the days of OLD School AD&D- Against the Giants, Vault of the Drow, all of that.  But that group broke up for various reasons and I eventually found D&D too restrictive.  I've long since converted to HERO System, although I've played that for long enough that I'm seeing the weaknesses of it, and in any case my groups usually play other stuff- everything from Palladium to Unisystem.

JG

Quote from: Black Vulmea;569739What are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Played most of the RPGs that were in stores during 1979-1982.  Dropped out for quite awhile.  Thought I'd return to it and found that pogs was the main craze at some new store in town called Wizards of the Coast?!  which replaced the lack-luster Game Keeper stores no one visited.  Eventually found a "mom & pop" game store that sold GURPS and all its books.  Been going there ever since.  I GM for Mongoose Traveller right now.  And would like to GM GURPS 4e anything (maybe a GURPS Star Trek, GURPS New Sun, or a GURPS Morrow Project) when I do start up a new game.

A new product I'm interested in is Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

I discovered the other day that I still have a login from back when I used to ask questions about Forward to Adventure. Which is why I have a join date that seems to predate most of you. I post mostly on RPGnet, but also on Giants in the Playground and UKRoleplayers.

Currently playing D&D4e, wrapping up our second run of an Icewind Dale game. Loads of fun, we're Big Damned Heroes doing stupidly audacious things and saving the Dale (again). Last night we somehow avoided being TPK'd (mostly the Hunter having amazing luck putting one of the main villains down hard) and have now dealt with two out of three big threats. There's probably only a session or two left of this intentionally short game before we return to our main game.

That's Mass: the Effecting, a Mass Effect game set post-ME1 using nWoD. We're a team of "ethical" mercenaries gadding about doing jobs for people who are broadly above board. Most recently we stopped a fragment of Sovereign from the attack at the end of ME1 from turning the Citadel into ground zero for a husk-apocalypse. While also preventing the hanar from agitating a mob into killing our prinicipal, an actor who would become famous as Blasto the Jellyfish.

I'm prepping to run a Qwixalted game in our next "break" slot. It's a short premise called Heaven's Rejects, about God-Blooded PCs running a long con/caper on a pompous functionary in the Celestial Bureaucracy. Who also happens to be a parent to one of the PCs.

I don't buy much of anything, I average less than one product a year. The only thing on my radar right now (which I probably won't buy) is Exalted 3E.