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| //(Am I?)// | //(Am I?)// |
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| ===== About me ===== | ===== About me ===== |
| My game of choice is, surprise-surprise, old-school //D&D//. We used to play a weird mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and //AD&D//, but once I started college in the late eighties and //AD&D 2e// began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming. | My game of choice is, surprise-surprise, old-school //D&D//. We used to play a weird mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and //AD&D//, but once I started college in the late eighties and //AD&D 2e// began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming. |
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| Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007. I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third//! It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found the humble early rumblings of the OSR. | Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007. I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third!// It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found the humble early rumblings of the OSR. |
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| This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together. Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition. | This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together. Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition. |
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| | ==== Influences ==== |
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| | * Old-school D&D and AD&D through |
| | * '60s through early '80s Saturday morning TV adventure shows |
| | * '80s through early '90s fantasy and horror movies and TV shows |
| | * Computer games, especially [[wp>interactive fiction]], '80s fantasy RPGs and [[wp>roguelikes]] |
| | * Copious amounts of science fiction |
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| **//###Don't be a dick###//**. | **//<fs 1.4em>Don’t be a dick.</fs>//** |
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| Nobody likes gaming with a dick. //Nobody.// | Nobody likes gaming with a dick. //Nobody.// |
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| I've gamed with enough dicks that there's actually a [[gameinfo:table_rules|code of conduct]] for games. | I've gamed with enough dicks that there's actually a [[gameinfo:table_etiquette|document for table etiquette]] for games. |
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| {{:gmmeritbadges:meritbadge_beerandpretzels.jpg?nolink&50 |This is a beer and pretzels game}} | {{:gmmeritbadges:meritbadge_beerandpretzels.jpg?nolink&50 |This is a beer and pretzels game}} |
| Most people play the game to have fun. We're here to have a good time and keep it lighthearted, but we all know the gamer that took the game Way Too Seriously™. Please, don't be [[dict>stereotypes|that guy]]. | Most people play the game to have fun. We're here to have a good time and keep it lighthearted, but we all know the gamer that took the game Way Too Seriously™. Please, don't be [[dict>stereotypes_gamer|that guy]]. |
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