Introduce yourself! (Page 2 of 2)

27 year old belgian living in Espoo, Finland, I discovered rpg at age 14 or so when we started having Internet at home (that was still in a normal country). After playing some time on forums, I purchased an ADD 2nd edition introduction box. Since I knew no players, I recruited friends and DMeda bit.

I personnally really don't care what game I play as long as I play something, so I enjoy playing old-school stuff as much as newer games.

I'm 30 years old and live in Washington state.  I started playing D&D with the black box and moved to 2nd edition circa 1991.  My group switched to 3rd edition when it came out and have played it ever since.

I was never happy with the over indulgence of rules that is the beast created by WotC.  I tried my hand at DMing a few times over the last decade and I was never able to enjoy it with the 3rd edition rules.  I was looking around for 3.x material to DM and discovered Necromancer games (3rd edition rules with a 1st edition feel). I have never played 1st edition, but I found myself drawn to the ethos of the older D&D game.

It was around this time while researching Pathfinder that I stumbled upon The Grognardia blog.  I thought to myself "what is this strange world called the OSR?"  So I have been reading tons of blogs over the last few months, trying to acquaint myself with the dark mystery of yesteryear.

I started with Castles & Crusades and within the last month, it has been Swords & Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord.  I just recently downloaded the Basic Fantasy RPG and think I may use that to try to lure my gaming group to the old school.

While I was looking for the game to use, I also decided to try out some of the adventures that had been published to see what the OSR had to offer.  After reading Grognardia, I decided to try some of Raggi's stuff.  I ordered Death Frost Doom and Grinding Gear.  I was pretty much sold!

So I look forward to seeing what James has in store for us in the future and I'm as excited as a little kid about to get all kinds of sugary sweets on Halloween night.

Alright. I purchased the LotFP 2009 Complete Bundle over at RPGNow based on a review I read about Death, Frost, Doom on Grognardia.  I wandered over here after reading another review on Ogre Cave.  I was enjoying myself but decided to register after seeing all the info about Weird Fantasy Roleplaying - I definitely want in on this!

Oh, and I'm 39, played 1E back in the day.  Skipped 2E and 3E but got back on board for 3.5 with Paizo's Age of Worms.  I'm now a Pathfinder fanatic...but I long for the magic of the game from my youth.  OSRIC is ok, but I love Labyrinth Lord and Brave Halfling's material.  I'm anxiously awaiting my S&S: White Box.  Let me preorder LotFP: WFRP (I like the abbreviation) and I'll anxiously await it too!

Hi, I'm a 24-year-old guy from Helsinki, Finland. I'm now to the entire old school thing but I've been intrigued by it ever since I burned out on both 3rd and 4th editions. Read about Lamentations of the Flame Princess, liked what I saw and decided to get it. Really looking forward to running it.

Hello, my name is Frank, and I'm a roleplayer.

(Hi, Frank.)

In grade school I entered the hobby through a side door: Metagaming's Melee and Wizard, which expanded into a full RPG called The Fantasy Trip.  Oh, I found AD&D and Traveller at about the same time, but TFT set my expectations: lightweight rules, human-level heroes, and deadly fights.  Discovering RuneQuest in college raised the bar yet again, and when I've played D&D I've done so more for the people than the game.

However, of all the flavors of D&D, I've liked Basic/BECM D&D the best; the rules were clearly written and straightforward, unlike OD&D or AD&D, and tactics took a back seat to exploration and storytelling.  Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future got me thinking and reading about "Old School" gaming, and the culture and practice of those times that wasn't included in box sets.  My copy of LotFP is somewhere in the US Mail, but from playtest rules and Mr. Raggi's previous modules, I suspect it will be my sort of game.

My current favorite systems, while I wait for USPS, are FATE, PDQ (Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies and Jaws of the Six Serpents especially), Basic Roleplaying, Mongoose's RuneQuest II (almost the same thing), and Barbarians of Lemuria, with soft spots for Call of Cthulhu, as an homage to one of my favorite authors, Mongoose's Traveller, as a revival of an old favorite, and GURPS, as the overambitious child of TFT.

(EDIT: I'm also beginning to warm to West End's D6 system, because of a Star Wars D6 game I'm in.)

If I have an overriding philosophy, it's that rules should be a stepping stone, not a stumbling block.

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39 years old, living in Charleston, West Virginia.  Started with Moldvay box in 1981, quickly progressed to the usual mash-up of B/X and AD&D 1e.  Also played a lot of other systems off and on.

These days, my favorite systems are OD&D, Moldvay/Cook B/X, and Tunnels & Trolls 5th edition.  I've had several setting-specific blogs, including "Wilderlands OD&D" and "World of Thool", but finally settled on a non-setting-specific blog, "Huge Ruined Pile", so I don't have to make wholesale changes or switch blogs whenever I take up a new setting project.

I'm currently working on a heavily homebrewed version of the Judges Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy, centered on the City State of the Invincible Overlord.  I'm using the version of the OD&D rules I've been messing with for the last couple years.

However, I recently took a look at Jim's game and believe it may be a good fit for the setting.  I either wholeheartedly agree with or can amiably tolerate his design decisions I've had a chance to consider.  This ruleset may save me some kitbashing (although I'm sure I'll still have to do a bit), freeing me up for the setting design work and other stuff I actually enjoy.

Time to give it another look-through.  I don't spend much time on forums these days, but I'm looking forward to talking with everyone and learning a bit more about the system.

I'll be thirty-one in a couple of weeks, I'm British (English really, but I grew up in Wales), married, and I live in Brighton, on England's sunny south coast, although it's tipping it down out there right now, the windows leaked today, and the carpet's sopping wet.

Ahem.

I started gaming with the Fighting Fantasy books, moved on to Heroquest, then Games Workshop stuff, then Shadowrun when I was about fifteen or sixteen, then Call of Cthulhu, then a whole load of stuff, but always Cthulhu in there.

Then I went to university, dropped out of gaming, moved to Minnesota, moved back, discovered gaming again, and am now in a weekly game which, aside from about six months of Rogue Trader last year, has mainly been various recent versions of D&D. We started with the fourth edition, which is okay, but slow and quite boring, particularly in character generation. After considerable moaning about having to use a laptop for a process which previously only required three six-sided dice, we moved to Pathfinder, which is quite good, but still has too many moving parts for my liking.

Aside from a couple sessions each of AD&D2 and the basic "black box" during those "mostly Cthulhu years, the only experience of D&D I have, as a player, are these most recent editions. So I have vicariously got involved in this wonderful OSR by contributing artwork to Fight On! and the very-recently-released B/X Companion. It will do for now.

I loved Death Frost Doom (enough to run it under Rogue Trader), and I thought No Dignity in Death and Hammers of the God were both really good. I wasn't fond of Grinding Gear, but I've never been into puzzles, so that's okay. I like what I've seen of the LotfP rpg, and I'm more eager than a professor of eagerness at Eager University to see Death Ferox Doom.

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