Introduce yourself! (Page 6 of 6)

Greetings everyone, my name is Andrew. I'm 35 now and I live in Jersey City, NJ, with my wife, two dogs, and partially-formed future human child (due in August). I moved to the NYC area about 5 years ago for a job, and now I *ahem* work for the government. Before that, I had a pretty odd life in Ohio and I just try to avoid that place now.

I started playing AD&D about 25 years ago when my friend and I were hacking our way through the old SSI DOS games, Pool of Radiance and Secret of the Silver Blades, etc. We wanted a more interesting experience than the computer games could provide, and right about then his sister dumped a bunch of her old boyfriend's gaming books on our heads.

I've played some game or another ever since. From D&D and its derivatives to Rifts and Vampire and many others. I have the dubious honor of having designed Palladium Books' original website logo. It hovered there for about 15 years, and I got $100 worth of products from their website for it. Hoo rah.

In the last few years, my buddies and I have been figuring out various gaming systems through the internet, first by using chat rooms and VOIP, then Google Wave and another VOIP, and finally Google Hangouts using Tabletop Forge and now, Roll20.

I came to LotFP when an old friend invited me to his G+ Hangout game, and decided to use the LotFP rules. I'm quite enamored with the old-school ideals and Jim's philosophy in particular. About a month ago, I started developing an RPG of my own with a magic system that mirrors what he put up in the Dev section. I've been giggling my way through the rules and the forums for the last few days.

Hi, I'm 21 years old and I live in Turku, Finland, with my wife, synthesisers, and records. I'm interested in history, music, films, and 20's & 30's pulp literature.

I don't remember when I first role-played, but I was quite interested in such games from about 10-year-old. I had troubles with finding a group, though, so my fascination was manifested mostly through reading magazines and rule-books. That sounds really lone and it truly was. Anyway, I have been gaming actively for several years now, mostly Call of Cthulhu but some others as well. I'm currently active in two groups. The another one has been dedicated for CoC, but as we formed the other we --after hacking through couple of Conan-inspired BRP adventures-- decided to play something 'old school'.

LotFP proved to be the most interesting of these systems and now we have played it for almost a year. I really like the style and spirit of the game. Clearly separated character classes is a great idea, each has its own specialty and doesn't interfere with the others. Thus all types of characters are needed. Still 'level inflation' is avoided: even though the PCs become able to stand more damage etc. failure is always equally likely. The characters simply can survive from increasing number of failures before they are defeated. Thus there's no need to constantly increase the power level of 'regular' enemies and thus nullify the character improvement.

My name is Chad, age 33, from Bremerton WA (a short ferry ride from Seattle).
I've always liked the idea of RPGs and I read every book I can. I like the more out there stuff like Jorune, Rifts, and Planescape. I like fluff more than crunch. I prefer setting to system.
I love art and enjoy the richness of DCC and LOTFP.

I found LOTFP looking for weird art.
I'm a new GM looking for some sort of holy grail, a font of wisdom that will serve as a template to design my own system.
I get my grindhouse box this week I hope. Coming all the way from finland...