I've been an RPG player for at least 2 of my 3 decades, and have played dozens of different systems. Of late, I've been gravitating towards the systems that focus more on having a good time escaping into a story, rather than crunching the best way to dole out massive numbers with my character's stats. (don't get me wrong though, it still makes me feel like a champ when I score a critical hit on the latest dragon/liche/evil cleric/unsuspecting innocent bystander) Luckily, my regular gaming group seems willing to make this transition along with me, so hopefully I can convince them to try out LotFP!

Sadly, getting a group together in my town will be a challenge, much more so if it's going to be an English retro-clone. So I'm currently "preparing" by designing a nice little corner of weirdness in my campaign world - hopefully to be populated by eager PCs soon!

Nice meeting all of you!

What part of Denver? I'm in the Boulder area myself.

All of what I've been reading in this forum has been inspirational, and I expect to be hanging around a bit more while I sort out my ideas.  Most pleased to meet you all!

I ran my first session last Friday, then another the very next night.  I had a blast!  My players did too (save one, who was not used to the old school style of it all). 

Looking forward to a lot more gaming using LOTFP, and posting here about my groups escapades.

I'm Matt. I work as a graphic designer in Pittsburgh, PA and live in the rural vicinity. I started with Moldvay's Basic Set in the 80's and fell in love. I have played a few different games since then, but not nearly as many as I've bought and read. I've been energized by the recent crop of rules-light games and the current OSR that's going on. (Specifically Stuart Robertson's Weird West, Mutant Future and, of course, LotFP.) I'll be taking over our usual 3.5 game night next month for our first Weird Fantasy adventure (Death Frost Doom). Can't wait!

Just ordered my copy of Lotfp and looking forward to running my first game.  I haven't gamed in over 10 years, but I used to run just about anything I could get my hands on (and con people into playing)  My tastes run towards heroic sword and sorcery: think Howard, Leiber, Wagner and Shea.  I'm 34 years old and I live in the Los Angeles area. 

-Brendan

At SPIEL 2010 I actually met James Raggi and talked with him about LotFP but alas I had to leave, so there wasn't time to pick up the game there (I ran out of money anyway), but a few weeks later I was able to track down a copy. I haven't run a game using LotFP yet, but I hope that I can convince my group to give Carcosa a try as soon as I have had time to give it a thorough read.

When you read my blog you already know that I love all kinds of roleplaying games. I am as likely to run FATE as I am to run something more old-school. And even though I don't play as often as I would like, I am still a huge fan of pen & paper RPGs and I always look for new and exciting games to read and perhaps to run/play.

My interest in gaming began when I saw an ad in a comic book for Rifts. My religious parents didn't really approve of the hobby though, so I didn't get to play role playing games very often back then. When I did, I had to keep it a secret. My first gaming experience was with Mentzer basic at a friend's house. The first game I ever owned was Tenchi Muyo RPG (using the Tri-Stat system). I had to keep it hidden under my mattress as my step-dad was the type of person to burn rpg books. I never got to play the game;  my step-dad found the book and took it with him to the shooting range.

I got back into gaming during college with third edition D&D, but I didn't like it very much.
After a two year gaming lapse I got back in with World of Darkness, Fudge, Fate, and fourth edition D&D.
I've started gaming a lot more since coming to Korea. I play in an AD&D game twice a month. I run Moldvay basic for my students every once in a while. I've played in D&D 4E and Call of Cthulhu games, and I've run a game of oldschool Traveller.

I'd like to run or play in a game of Lamentations of the Flame princess, but it's really hard to find other gamers around here. I'm living in a backwoods town called Jochiwon you see. There are only about five other foreigners in this town, and none of them are interested in D&D. I have get on a train for two hours to get to where the gamers are at.
I am moving closer to Seoul sometime in February though; it should be easier for me to find games then. I really want to play Carcosa, Paranoia, Stormbringer, Traveller, and Gamma World.

I picked up Vornheim, Grindhouse, and Weird New World, and have to say that I've been pleasantly surprised by the rules for LotFP; I might be willing to give the 'alternate' combat system another go (or work my houserules for Chainmail into LotFP). Vornheim knocked my socks off. WNW is also to my liking - I'm not much for pre-made adventures but I do like "adventure areas." I'm anxiously awaiting the Carcosa release.

Life eventually had me shelve the game and coming back in a few years ago I found 4e to be unrecognizable and Pathfinder to be nice, but not the game I was interested in playing (and learning for the next 4 years!) Since then I've been playing various mishmashes of 1e and Basic, favoring a house ruled game (like all of us). I'm 43 FWIW...

I started playing in a LOTFP game in new haven a few months back and have really enjoyed the methods used to tackle things like thief skills, sequestering combat skills for fighters, and what not. Some of the rules adaptations made me wish I had thought of them as I was using a few house rules that were still too complex. (that said, I can't help thinking that a d12 method for specialists with double the starting pips and double the per level pips would be cooler - except for sneak attack - but then again, I'm a tweaker).

The game is everything that D&D should be (to me) - deadly, simple and fast paced - simple to learn and jump into with both feet.