Hello Hello!
Loooooooong-time lurker, first-time poster here.
It's honestly super weird to finally be wading into the forums after years and years of just reading threads and talking myself out of actually participating every time I've considered it. I feel like I know a huge chunk of you so well already and here I am, a total stranger. But, we're working on fixing that now, I guess?
I'm a lifelong geek who has been playing tabletop RPGs since the 80s - I started with AD&D 1e in 5th grade - but I was definitely interested since I grew up reading comics featuring ads for the game, to say nothing of the cartoon and the short-lived toy line they had. 2e was where I did the majority of my time in the D&D trenches until 5e came along but I've at least sampled the editions along the way. I also went through a pretty heavy White Wolf phase in the mid-90s and have always loved Call of Cthulhu, even if I couldn't always find a group willing to play it with me. But I'm open to just about anything, honestly.
Anyway, I finally ripped the band-aid off, so here we go. Time to put my years of lurking here to good use, I guess.