Tell us a little bit about yourself

[Rodyle]

Okay, since I haven't had time to do this yet, why not now?

I'm Rutger, 18 years old, living in the Netherlands. I'm currently studying Biology at the university of Utrecht. Still single, but not really looking for a relationship either.

I got into DnD a few months ago after reading some stuff on Shamus Young's site on the subject. I got into roleplaying a few year earlier, about when I joined the mtgsalvation forums. I ran a few rp's there before moving on to a very small site where people were more interested in the rp bit rather than the mindless slashing of goons. I love just about anything in the geekdom that I can get my hands on; Star Trek, Star Wars (prequels not included), Battlestar Galactica, Lord of the Rings and whatnot.

[ElfWord]

Rutger, good to have you on the forums. Does your Star Wars fandom include Expanded Universe stuff like the books?

[Rodyle]

Not yet. I've been trying to get my hands on them, but the local library hasn't got any of them and local book stores don't sell them either. I plan to buy one or two soon when I'm in Utrecht.

[gorgardard]

I haven't been here in over a year, so I figured I should probably re-introduce myself. I'm gorgardard but you can call me gorg or dard, or my real name, Joe. As I said in my previous post, got into PNP gaming at age 22(though not for lack of trying), and have been playing lots since. I'm currently living in a small Northern Alberta (Canada) town, running a Cortex RPG Serenity campaign with 6 PCs, and just started a D&D 4e campaign with three of those players. One of them is talking of starting a Vampire: The Masquerade campagin, and I've never played that, so I'm looking forward to being a PC again!

[mattwalton]

I just posted my GMing profile, but that's a limited view of my gaming life as I've not GMed for some time.

I've been gaming since about 2006 - not very long really - starting online with a forum game of Nobilis, then moving into real-time online Paranoia, which is where I started GMing. Then I got involved in a local group who actually game face-to-face (gasp!) and with them have played a variety of games. We're currently playing Godlike, which is enormous amounts of fun although the rulebook has some irritating mistakes and ambiguities, and we all seem to be gaining power at a frankly ridiculous rate. The GM's trying to figure out a solution, of course.

I have never played any form of D&D.

[chrisoliver74]

Came across the link through a Gnome Stew article by Patrick Benson, and being a site for DMs with a name like You Meet In A Tavern I had to join!

I've been alive and kickin' for 35 years, and have been playing Dungeons and Dragons for the last 20 of those years. Originally form Kansas, for the last nine years I've been living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

I've only been DMing for the last 4 or 5 years. Currently I am looking for a new group - the members of my group for the last several years are all on hiatus do to things like having babies and going back to school. I enjoy both DMing and being a player, so I'd do either.

My wife Shelly, is super cool! Although she isn't real big on playing, she is very support of me playing! So I have an entire room of our house for my gaming stuff (I'm a Dwarven Forge collector). Our 10 month old son, Brogan, is named after a 3.5 edition Dwarven ranger/fighter I played. If I remember correctly I picked the name from a 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book. I played that character till the campaign ended at 13th level and he is my favorite character of all time. Shelly was weird-ed out by the idea of naming our son after a D&D character at first, but she looked the name up and learned its an old Gaelic name that means strong or sturdy, then she was cool with it.

I started gaming with 2e AD&D, then played 3.0/3.5 and now 4e. Fourth Edition is my favorite so far. I've also played Warhammer Quest, but other than that I don't have any xp with other RPGs or gaming systems. I must admit I have an interest in Star Wars RPG, and am some-what interested in table top war gaming. But my true passion is Dungeons and Dragons with a little steam punk thrown in for good measure!

When it comes to campaign settings, I'll play in whatever. As a DM I was totally consumed with the world building bug for a few years, but then settled on Monte Cooks Ptolus, and lately I have been thinking about running my next campaign in Eberron.

I am currently reading the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tales as published under the title of Lankhmar... by Dark Horse (currently on book 6, ...Swords and Ice Magic). I've read several FR novels, the Dragonlance Chronicles, Preludes and Legends, and a couple of novels by China Mieville. After I finish with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, I have the Complete Chronicles of Conan to read! And then I will be re-reading a book I borrowed several years ago-but-now-own, The Complete Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagn. I probably won't be buying any more novels 'til I get caught up on some reading.

Well I hope this wasn't to rambly for any one to read!

[VV_GM]

chrisoliver74 - Welcome to the tavern! I hope you enjoy YMIAT, and it is great to see a Gnome Stew reader join us here! Don't worry about being rambly here! I ramble all of the time.

[Clawfoot]

Hello everyone! I, too, wandered in here (eventually) from Gnome Stew.  I've been looking for a gaming (specifically GMing) forum that I can feel comfortable in for a long time.

I'm 35, and have been roleplaying since I was 16. I'm kicking around the idea of throwing a "20 year anniversary" party for myself next year, in the form of a one-shot game.  I've done such parties before with great success.  How better to celebrate gaming than to game?   

I'm a graduate student currently, and will graduate with my MA in Rhetoric and Communication Design in the spring. I will likely launch into a career in tech writing after that, as I have no interest at all in pursuing a PhD.

I am a dedicated role player (favourites: D&D 4e, GURPS, homebrew systems), enthusiastic board-game player (favourites: Arkham Horror, Apples to Apples, British Rails), and casual video gamer (favourites: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Pixeljunk Monsters).  I identify as a comic-book geek as well (favourites: X-Men, Justice League, classic ElfQuest), although I have to admit to not actually buying or reading any comic books for several years, so I think my claim on that title has expired.

I was introduced to role playing (AD&D) at sixteen by a friend, and although I liked it well enough, I did not discover my true love for it until I was introduced to GURPS by another (who eventually became by boyfriend, then my husband).  Although I was widowed several years ago, I have retained my love of gaming.

I now find myself in the rather unusual position of being a gamer girl with a non-gamer boyfriend, which I think violates some unwritten laws of gamerdom somewhere (though I thankfully don't hang around people who pay attention to such things). 

[Rick_TWA]

Welcome to the board Clawfoot!  It's always fun seeing evidence that our cross-promotion works.  Your 20th anniversary party sounds awesome.  I hope to see a thread about that one when the time comes!

[shawncorey]

Single, white, male, old enough to know better (still too young to care), live in the Great White North.

I been playing since I bought the blue-box D&D. I have played or GMed:  D&D, AD&D, Boothill, Palladium, Rifts, GURPS, Hârn, 7th Sea.  Have a stack of other RPGs that I haven't played yet.

I was active on Treasure Tables but took a hiatus on role-playing for the past several years.  Decided to get by to playing.  I have just started a play-by-post dungeon crawl on Steve Jackson Games Forum.

[VV_GM]

shawncorey - Welcome to the tavern!

[Elkor_Alish]

Alright well, I don't come online very often. I check my email religiously, every Sunday, but thats about it. However, running through this site has become a recent habit, so I better introduce myself since you'll probably be hearing from me more than you'd like.

My name is Cody, but you can pretty much call me whatever you want so long as you say it with a smile. . .I have so far managed to squeeze a 4 year education into a decade of deliberation without having yet completed more than my BA. Once my education is complete, I fully plan to pursue my dream of becoming an accomplished serial killer - the only thing I can foresee holding me back is my general distaste of manual labour. Until then, I busy myself by translating ethnic slurs for the illegal aliens whom make my bed, investigating the deeper mysteries of regenerative ingrown toenails and actively engaging in pro-sponsored full contact organami tournaments. I am an existentialist philospher, a steadfast defender of the status quo and a ruthless pickpocket preying upon children toting lunch-money.

My adept ability and musical acumen have been perfected to the point that I can conjure lust in women and tame wild animals with only a glockenspiel and a pocket knife. People know me. I have talked my way out of five speeding tickets in excess of a hundred miles per hour and successfully bribed my way out of two. My driving record is immaculate. My '82 candy apple grey Jaguar (what can I say, I'm an anglophile) has limo tint all the way around and I tear up the tickets left by passing officers of the law without yet suffering from any reprisal. I'm an asshole. While visitng Bakersfield, California over Christmas I negotiated the release of two US service personnel being detained by hobby store enthusiasts in Japan. Jesus loves me. I have fished the Bering Straight of Alaska and plundered its crab wealth. I have lived through seven out of ten natural disasters and lack only an avalanche, volcanic eruption and tsunami until attaining elemental immortality. I have built homes for the homeless and won awards for my visionary, trend-setting accomplishments in cardboard construction. I am a disappointment to my parents, a pillar of my community and an outlaw in Bahrain.

I am the great cornholio and someday you will refer to me only as Sir.

[longcoat000]

By far, the most interesting person in the world.

[ekb]

I'm Eoin (pronounced "Keith" by those that didn't grow up speaking Manx or Irish). I'm a geeky gamer guy, up in the far northern 'burbs of Chicago. I grew up playing D&D from these tan-covered books that my father had and still have a soft spot for things that pursue that same level of simplicity. I also have a soft-spot for narrative-type gaming of multiple genres - but not a lot of patience for what passes for game theory as popularly promoted online. I tend to be active with gaming events in the area: I often run games at Chicago GameDay, play at GaryCon, head back to my old hometown for GenCon, pop my head in at WinterWar... you get the idea. If you're in town (or heading this direction), say hi and maybe we partake of tasty beverages...

When I'm not working on designing the sort of RPG I want to play I'm an event marketing director, specializing in food and grocery promotions. It's been a convoluted path from my previous career in biomedical engineering to this... but it makes sense. Maybe.

I occasionally wax poetic on games and game theory. Sometimes, I even have some useful bits come up. That lives over at http://anaithnid.tumblr.com

[Adolrak]

My name is *insert letters here* and I live in BC Canada, yay canucks and all our olympic gold!  Umm Ive been pretty much exclusively an AD&D gamer for 14 years tho im branching into 3rd and 3.5 omg!  Umm been playing RPGs since MUD's were around on dial up internet.. FF1-13 are all on my video game stack with the exception of the mmo final fantasy.  Umm I hold a degree in massage therapy, and a moderate collection of novels.. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files ftw.  I just DM'd my first real session last week and my friend whos one of the usual dms sent me here to harass you people and pick your brains.. hmm does that make me a zombie?

[cptnapalm]

I go by Patrick which works out well since that is what my father named me.  He's Irish.  This sort of out of the box thinking runs in the family.

I got here because I work at a library and as we have no Young Adult librarian, I got saddled with all the responsibilities without the additional pay.  I was told I had to do a weekly program for the kids and I came up with a paper & pen role playing game.  Savage Worlds will be the system, feudal Japan the setting and chambara the genre.

Now I just have to learn how to DM.

[Telas]

Welcome to the forums, cptnapalm. 

The first rule of GMing is that it starts with a G.  After that, it's pretty free-form.  Resist the urge to railroad and control, but herd cats as needed.  Everything else is gravy.