Hey I thought, we spend a good deal of time reading posts, answering them and generally interacting with each other(ie arguing). However we have no idea who the gang are, now ofc this is not an ASL thread, thats not the point. But I thought I'd write a paragraph about who I am and hopefully the rest of you would do the same, just broadly. So I'll go first.

Hi my name is UncleArkie,

I'm a gaming veteran or grognard with more than 20 years of rolling dice under my belt. I got started with the good old red box for D&D and moved on shortly after that to MERP and WFRP1. Since then I have played every game that I could get my hands on, from sci-fi over classical fantasy and horror to some really odd hybrid games including a ton of board and tabletop war games..

These days I play WFRP3 and a little Dark Heresy and I might once our DH group finished up do a "The Laundry" game since I love all things old stargods that end with f'thagn and nom nom.

When I'm not expressing my somewhat non-PC views on the forums or melting down over something silly I work in the gaming industry as a community manager for a mmo (which one shall remain undisclosed) and live with my beautiful girlfriend who I so do not deserve and two cats in a small house. She loves books as much as I do so they are everywhere and I need to go to IKEA to get some more bookcases which I have been putting off for waaaayy too long.

- UA

I've been gaming around 25 years or so. I too began with the ol'D&D box. I stuck with D&D and all it iterations until Vampire - the Masquerade. After that I would only return to D&D in ever shortening fits of nostalgia. Now I'm still in love with many of the worlds that D&D created like Dark Sun and Planescape, but I find the system to restrictive and cumbersome. When I played Warhammer for the first time (and it was first edition then) I felt I'd finally found a fantasy alternative to D&D, it had the dark and ominous tone of White Wolf while keeping the magic and adventure of D&D. I've played Warhammer ever since and find 3rd edition to best version to date. Indeed I feel Warhammer 3rd edition is the best RPG I've ever played. Other games I enjoy are the original L5R and Deadlands. I've also dabbled in Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy and while find them enjoyable the system is to cumbersome with all its various skills for this or that kind of weapon or vehicle only being attainable until this or that rank. When time permits I work on converting old D&D worlds to more enjoyable systems. My current project is to take Dark Sun and move it into the Warhammer 3rd edition system.

Other than that I'm a full time Dad with a brilliant and beautiful wife who also games.

Jay H here. Started gaming on the pink D&D box back in '81 and was fascinated with the WFRP advertisement when it was in Dragon magazine back for 1st edition. From there my games dramatically changed from a few D&D classes to backgrounds and professions (I didn't have access to the WFRP game back then). I've run PBEM games and now MAPTOOL games. By the 90's I was running a lot of convention stuff like Call of Cthulhu, Top Secret and Living City. 2000 + I was involved with the LIVING GREYHAWK project pretty heavily as a Triad guy, but D&D started to feel pretty empty and I got tired of the autism displayed at RPGA tables. So I switched to running D&D in the CONAN world and eventually switched to WFRP2e, now 3E. I tend to ***** a lot about functionality and GM's ease-of-use issues that seem to plague many games, but I support what I'm working on.

Currently working on Liber Fanatica #7 with a group of brilliant and enthusiastic people.

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I'm Pedro, and I'm from Brazil's southest state (we share some cultural background with Uruguai and Argentina).

I've been playing for 16 years now. I started with GURPS and eventually met a group of people who played AD&D. I loved the scenarios, but never bought anything of the game (we used to have some AD&D vs GURPS competition here). When Vampire was released I started playing it and quite forgot about medieval fantasy for a while. I tried other WOD releases, Changeling being my favourite. I've played some Live Action games as well.

Then things begun to diversify. The longest RPG campaign I ever played was a Dragonlance Fifth Age SAGA one. It lasted 5 years and was wonderful. I had great games of Castle Falkenstein, In Nomine (Steve Jackson's version), Kult, Fusion (Super Heroes!) and one or other Call of Cthulhu.

Then everything turned D&D 3e. I was glad to be back to fantasy settings and I did enjoyed the new rules, even if I felt they lack some good thing about the, I don't know which word to use, "unbalanced" or "disorganized" AD&D. Also, things started seeming like a videogame from time to time.

I've tried a couple D&D scenarios like "regular" Forgotten Realms and that one about tecnology based on magic. I missed Dark Sun and Dragonlance (that was before it was released). The longest campaign I've played was on the GM own world.

A friend of mine introduced me to WHFR 2e in 2005, if I'm not mistaken. I've rushed to buy every book I could and managed more than half of them, I guess. I started gamemastering Paths of the Damned, the first bought adventure I've ever ran.

Now I'm on 3e and feeling great about it. I'm trying to take some The Window (www.mimgames.com) concepts and translating to the game. I also started to invest in board games, something I never did (since I bought Battletech, that is). I'm enjoying BattleLore a lot! I don't know, maybe I got something about getting late into games and having to find out-of-print copies of stuff. :T

I've only played through internet one Star Trek PBEM and a couple of A Game of Thrones LCG. I'm into a WHFR PbP right now and hoping to play through MapTools sooner or later.

Other than that, I've graduated in psychology and I work as a social educator. Currently I'm into 3 projects to build teenage autonomy and perspective in poor communities. I live in a house with a lot of people, which is messy and great and sometimes too messy. I have a great girlfriend who almost lives with me, and she says I'm her first nerd boyfriend - but I think she is quite liking it. I'm really into planet sustaintabilty issues, being member of an Ecovillage where I'm going to live one day and being a bicycle activist. What else? Well, I like to shoot photographs, training Aikido was a big thing in my life till a coupkle of months ago and I'm a corporal therapist.

Great thread, by the way. It is good to know some of you a little better.

Hello everyone.

My name is Markus, 25 years old, and I'm from Sweden. My gaming career started with LARPs, white wolfs Vampire the Masquerade to be exact. That is about 8-9 years ago. Since then I've been gaming, all kinds of games. Roleplaying Vampire the Masquerade then a Swedish game called Eon (a fantasy rpg), DoD (another swedish fantasy rpg, not to be confused with D&D), Mutant (again, swedish but post-apocalyptical almost like Fallout) but I've also played D&D, Trail of Cthulhu and a lot of other rpgs.

I love board games, and Arkhamn Horror is my favourite, but I also play card games, warhammer (the miniature game), computer games and so on. My interest in WFRP 3ed came because I've allways wanted to play an WH rpg, and then all of a sudden a new one was released, so I jumped at the chanse, and now we'r gaming.

I'm studying my last year to get an MBA, but I've also studied some archaeology and robotics technology. I also work part time at Volvo Car Corporation. I live with my girlfriend who is gaming just as much as I am.

This is a cool thread:)

My name is Domien, I'm 28 years old and I'm from Antwerp, Belgium. Around the age of 10 I got the boardgame Hero Quest, which did its intended job with me as a gateway to "real" RPGs. I love storytelling and making audio dramas is my main hobby outside of RPGs, so I've always primarily enjoyed therole of GM, which works out great because most of my friends prefer to be players. Over the years, we've had a lot of fun with The Dark Eye (actually a German RPG), Warhammer Quest (many will say that's not a "real" roleplaying game, but we did play it as one and had ridiculous amounts of fun), Star Wars, D&D, WFRP2 and now of course, WFRP3.

In real life I work full-time as a voice-over for e-learning courses. I used to be a teacher for a short while but didn't enjoy that. My girlfriend is also a gamer and is part of both my Star Wars group and my WFRP group. Oh, and we also enjoy playing Descent a lot. A lot!

Pedro Lunaris said:

Keep up the good work, sir!

I don't post a whole lot, but I found this thread charming, so here goes...

My name is Casey. I go by Lord Pasty, which is a subtle and goodnatured jab at the old "goth" scene that I was into as a kid.

My background gaming-wise is incredibly similar to a most of you guys (gals?). I started in elementary school in the 80's and haven't looked back. It's been over 25 years, yikes! I still play with my best friend, who got me into it with AD&D 1st Ed. Since then I've played too many games to mention. In school it was mostly D&D, and in college it was WoD (2E books) and Kult. Lots and lots of WoD and Kult. We're all older now, and less into the horror/brooding games. WFRP hist a sweet spot between that and high fantasy (as previously mentioned, I think).

My history with WFRP is that I've loved it for a long time. I own 1e (Hogshead version) and almost everything for 2e. I was hesitant to get into the new version, just because I was such a big fan of the old system, and what they did with it in DH/RT. Pretty soon we're going to actually roll 3e, and I'm excited! I've been waiting for FFG to illuminate a bit more of the brilliant Warhammer world, and Winds of Magic/Signs of faith should totally do that!

On the personal note, I'm just a wage slave, having stepped down from my management position to spend more time with my adorable and amazing daughter. I'm also married to a smoking hot teacher, who was my bartender (10 years ago!), but I stole her. Aside from teaching high school history and being a mom, she now games with me and the fellahs. WFRP was, and likely still will be, her favorite RPG!

Hey all!

When I'm not being CaffeineBoy (a handle I've had since the pre-intarwebs BBS days, BTW) and incessantly surfing RPG message boards, I'm Doug. I live in the Twin Cities, working by day for a gigantic bank as a database nerd. My resolutely non-gamer wife and our darling-if-sometimes-psycho daughter keep me grounded while my son, a high school senior and avid gamer himself, is my partner in crime in the land of WoW, RPGs, bad movies and late night pizza rolls.

I'm looking at 31 years rolling the polyhedrons as of next month. YIKES! Where does the time go? I started off with AD&D in 1979 just as the original Monster Manual hit the bookshelves. We played that pretty much exclusively throughout high school. In college and after I branched out into Champions, Fantasy Hero, Traveller and a zillion other games until, fatefully, I ran into WFRP in the mid-to-late 80s. It's been a solid favorite ever since. I discovered mini gaming at about the same time and began plotting to take over the world as a either a Skaven general or an Orcish warlord depending on which way the wind was blowing.

More recently I played a *ton* of D&D4e, which might have continued (I still love its tactical depth and exquisitely brain-free encounter balancing) had I not gotten drawn into the world of indie RPG design. I fell in love with Evil Hat's FATE system from Spirit of the Century, did a lot of fan stuff with it, and even ended up working on the FATE-derived Legends of Anglerre. That experience opened my eyes to how elements of game design could actually enhance the roleplaying end of play and how tactile feedback was actually a good thing at the table. Then BAM! The new WFRP comes out and it's got EVERYTHING - my all-time favorite (published) setting, lots of play-enhancing widgets, amazingly brilliant production qualities, engagingly indie sensibilities... I'm a very happy gamer at the moment.

Interesting to see it is quite more popular to describe our game groups than ourselves, isn't it?

Well, this post serves to get this thread UP. :]

Cheers.

Hey All.

I agree its a great thread.

As for me: I'm Ask (Its not a joke name) from Denmark and manage a hobby store with everything from comics, LARP, GW to boardgames and RPG's of course.

I have had an interest in RPG's since I was a kid but never really got around to play. Used to spend alot of time creating my own world, which went through its 4th revising after WFRPG 3rd was released, so I guess I still spent some time on it . A few years back a friend of mine invited me to play in one of his own campaigns, a sort of sci-fi biblical setting using the GURPS system. didn't really know the system but that didn't matter because the story was great even though I sucked at roleplaying. But I learned a lot. After that we played a fantasy campaign set among some floating island high up in the sky. We had our own floating pirate ship! nice.

Atm I play in a Pathfinder campaign and has recently had my first go at being a GM when I discovered the WFRPG 3rd system, which I enjoy alot even though there are a few points I think its not adressing. Hence I regularly have a go at converting, changing or house ruling the system. I have written a cmpaign for DH which I'm just about to start. It'll stretch over Rogue trader and Ascension and hopefully years of entertaining sessions. This will be my first real experience as a GM since WH was quite spontaneously started because I wanted to show my friends how cool the system is.

Untill quite recently I played a lot of tabletop games (WH, W40K, FOW) but suddenly came to realize that I never really enjoyed the game as much as I liked the story behind the game. So I quit. Now I spent my time on RPG's (WFRPG, Pathfinder, DH), Boardgames, reading and writing stories of all kinds and travelling with my girlfriend who's just as crazy about reading as I am. In fact she's studying it.

Lucas Adorn is a name I have used for my Imperial guard and Space Marine generals in Tabletop since the mid 90's.