• From: R'lyeh, off Easter Island
  • Registered: 2010-01-04
  • Posts: 2

Re: Introduce yourself!

I am a 42 year old English man residing in Birmingham with a Perky Goth, the requisite two black cats, and more games than I can eat. By day I proofread adverts for telephone directories, by night I play and review games of the tabletop variety as well as doing more than a bit of editing of late of actual RPG titles.

At heart I am player and Keeper of Call of Cthulhu more than I am a player of Dungeons & Dragons, but I started out by playing Red Box Basic Dungeons & Dragons (back in 1980) before progressing onto Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, both First and Second Editions. If I have a favourite module, it would be U1, Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. My favourite RPGs include Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, SkyRealms of Jorune, Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne, Call of Cthulhu, and anything written by Ken Hite.

For about ten years I have been seriously reviewing RPGs as a hobby and have of late been reviewing for the Yog-Radio podcast.

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  • Registered: 2010-01-05
  • Posts: 2

Re: Introduce yourself!

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.

  • Registered: 2010-01-17
  • Posts: 2

Re: Introduce yourself!

I'm 32 years old living in England with my wife and 2 kids.

I got the red box for Christmas when I was 6 and was hooked, the first AD&D book I bought a few years later was the MMII and I was fascinated with the art and mosters even though I didn't understand the rules.

Played a lot of 2nd Edition in my teens also CoC, Rolemaster, WFRP. I fall into the "not a grognard" category as I DM 2nd Edition and play in a 3E campaign but I've used quite a few LotFP modules for 2E with absolutely no problems. Loving your style Jim and can't wait for the next release!!

  • Registered: 2010-01-20
  • Posts: 1

Re: Introduce yourself!

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.

  • Registered: 2010-01-29
  • Posts: 5

Re: Introduce yourself!

I am a 38 years old german living in Ireland. I started playing with the Mentzer set in 83'. Later moved to AD&D 1st. From 85' to the mid 90' I did not play D&D or AD&D at all but mostly a german RPG called "Midgard" (skill based, low magic), Rolemaster and Palladium.

In 00' I switched to 3rd edition and stayed with it since then. These I am using Pathfinder RPG as my sytem of choice. My group and me did a lot of playtesting for Green Ronin (Black Company Campaign Setting, Thieves' World, Song of Ice and Fire RPG and Dragon Age).

By chance I stumbled upon the Grognardia Blog. I found that all the years my group and me have been playing (some are still with me since 83') we are still using "some old school" elements in our games. For example, even though you can Search for Traps in 3e by simply rolling the dice, that was never the case with us. We always described how we look and where we look.

Curently I am soaking up all the ideas and OSR goodnes to be better able to reflect thsi in my games.

  • Registered: 2010-01-31
  • Posts: 1

Re: Introduce yourself!

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!