Guilty Admissions...

[Stormonu]

hi, I'm Stormonu and...

* After three attempts at 4E, would prefer to play Descent

* After 30 years of increasingly complex D&D, would rather play Savage Worlds

* Had a dragonborn-like race in my campaign since 1E days

* Thought Gary Gygax was Gawd until I got a hold of legendary adventures

* Love Ravenloft, partly in due to having played Dracula in a school play the year prior to I6 coming out

* Played D&D without dice or rulebooks for my first three years because I lost the Holmes rule book I got for Christmas in '79

* Was so infatuated with D&D that I was trying to break into becoming a freelancer for TSR back in the 90's

 

[Shades of Green]

My name is Shades of Green and I...
* Had a GREAT (maybe even the best) time playing AD&D 2E with ONLY the three core-books; never played 1E, though.
* Have never read any TSR fantasy novel (Dragonlance, FR etc) and I never intend to read them in the future.
* Love single-player CRPGs; can't stand MMORPGs.
* My favorite sci-fi TV shows are obscure, underrated ones such as Dark Skies and Odyssey 5; I don't really like Star Trek.
* Have played CRPGs for a long time before starting to play pen-and-paper games.
* Don't like Gnomes.
* Love firearms and (limited) steam-tech in my campaign worlds.
* Love Lizardfolk and Bullywags.
* Spend too much time collecting and painting miniatures and not enough time prepping for games.
* Love 15mm miniatures; have never bought 28mm ones.
* Have a HUGE amount of Shadowrun books (mostly 2nd and 3rd edition), but haven't played Shadowrun in YEARS.
* Love my halflings plump and hair-footed.
* HATE the Hercules and Xena TV series.
* My all-time favorite fantasy trilogy is Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World trilogy - it is better than LotR IMHO.
* Can't stand computers at the game table.
* Think that Traveller is the ultimate generic RPG system - it can be very easily modified for almost any genre.

 

[MortalPlague]

Some of you may know me as MortalPlague. Here are my sins.

• Once, a long time ago, I killed a PC who was being NPC'ed. It was in a vicious combat brought down on the party by a different PC, but I should have kept the NPC'ed character further from harm. This was not my finest moment as a DM. Still, it's become a good table joke.
  
• Sometimes I badly misjudge how difficult a combat will be. I've had campaigns end by this mistake, which always makes me feel like an ass.
  
• I abhor using a DM screen or fudging dice. We use 'luck points' to counter death by pure dice hate (everyone gets just three), but rolling in the open keeps me honest. I think it enhances the tension of the game.
  
• I like Drizzt. The Dark Elf Trilogy was a good read.
  
• I prefer humans to all other races when playing. They have the best vices.
  
• I really, really like it when my players roll up a majority-human party. It happens so rarely, but it makes me smile when it happens.
  
• I get frustrated when my monsters get trounced before they have a chance to do something cool. But I try my very best to let the monster go, rather than to make an ill-conceived attempt to avert its' death.
  
• I had more things to put on this list, but I forgot them while reading the thread.

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

Hi, I'm Peraion and I...

* actually threw away almost all of my RPG stuff because of Jack Chick (and others) after I got saved in 2004... . I know better today. It still hurts, though.

* hated Planescape on first sight.

* loved Skills & Powers on first sight, and most of it to this day.

* hated 3e on first sight. (I was part of the "It's like Diablo!" crowd. )

* am thinking about TPKing my party to end the current campaign, though I've never done such a thing before. That's mostly because I:

* have campaign ADD. I'd like to run a FR pirate campaign, a Middle-Earth campaign set after The Hobbit, Dark Sun, Birthright, Greyhawk, Taladas(Dragonlance)... gaaaah.

* would like to play more, but a scarcity of players, combined with scheduling issues regarding said players, means I can play about once every 3 weeks. My health issues also tend to get in the way.

* can't handle DMing for parties with more than 4 players.

* have had female gamers wreck campaigns and player relationships almost every single time I've had a female gamer in one of my RPG groups.

* haven't read half of all the 4e books I own. It gets worse when I look at my other, bigger, bookshelf.

* believe the Spellplague is the best thing that could have happened to the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

I'm Tyler Do'Urden, and I...

*hate playing RPGs. Seriously. I cannot last more than a single session before going stir-crazy from boredom and frustration with 90% of the gamemasters I've played with. There was one brilliant GM I played with in college who was an exception to this rule.

*love running RPGs. I've never been interested in MMORPGs... because I can't be the gamemaster. That's the part I love. Creating the world; the plots; and subjecting other people to them and watching their reactions.

*am the simulationist to end all simulationists. I'm obsessed with the rules and numbers behind the game, more than the game itself. I fall down squarely on the Monte Cook side of the Cook/Mearls divide. I took one look at 4e, and knew it wasn't for me (though I won't attack it, because it looks like a fantastic game for non-simulationists, and I don't necessarily consider being a simulationist to be a good thing, despite the fact that I am one.)

*like Drizzt and Raistlin, and feel no shame in that. Reading the DL and FR novels were a great way to cool my brain cells in college.

*despite that, I can't read fantasy literature anymore. It no longer interests me in the least. Though I'm still a huge fan of good, hard science fiction, especially David Brin, Neal Stephenson and John C. Wright.

*my last three attempts at starting D&D campaigns were all flops. In part due to my "simulationist" tendencies overriding the making of a good game. And in part due to the interference of "real life"- you know, that thing that hits you after college ends.

*As much as I like running RPGs, my true love are FFG-style board games- especially Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, which comes close to the perfect game design for me. I'm also a shameless Settlers of Catan addict.

*I live in nerd-topia. When I tell a girl I'm dating here about D&D (which she's invariably never heard of), her first reaction is "That sounds like fun! I want to try it!" My girlfriend calls me to ask when we're going to go to the board game shop again, because she can't stop thinking about playing Settlers or Agricola. On top of that, I can get a guy on a motor scooter to deliver burritos to my door; there's no social stigma for being a geek (because every "successful" young man around here is one too); and I can gawk at futuristic skyscrapers and ride zooming bullet trains. I love my life.

*Despite the lack of success of my games, and my knowledge that my simulationist tendencies are pathological... I can't stop reading 3e D&D supplements and making lists of statistics. It's a compulsion. I guess it beats cocaine addiction.

 

[The_Gneech]

Hello, I'm The Gneech, and...

I never actually ran the S&S Saga conversion I worked so hard on (see my sig), because I was actually running Red Hand of Doom at the time and could only get 2-3 sessions per month.

Firmly believe that halflings should not be badass. (Also true of gnomes, but less of a problem.)

Love non-badass halflings.

Love nice, crunchy, tactical combats, but get very unhappy if they take up more than 1/3 - 1/2 of the game session. Give me some NPCs to talk to!

My favorite PC ever was a furry -- an ECL+1 size large anthropomorphic lion fighter/barbarian who was totally broken but incredibly fun to play.

Have to continually stifle the urge to start edition fights.

Occasionally freak out and rant at people who spell rogue "rouge" or say "sneak peak" ... and then feel very guilty about it for days.

-The Gneech

 

[CleverNickName]

Hello, I am CleverNickName, and I...

...have been playing D&D for more than 2/3 of my life, yet I am a closet gamer.

...I hate mixed tropes in my game. Far-East/Celitc/Roman/Norse settings with a little bit of Egyptian and science fiction thrown in? No thank you. Pick one, stick with it.

...wish I could give Wik some more XP for starting this thread, but apparently I need to spread some more of the stuff around first.

...play the dice where they land. Always. Fudging, rolling behind a screen, etc., is for sissies.

...Star Trek > Star Wars. And New Star Trek >> New Star Wars.

...hate what psionics, anime, and MMORPGs have done to my beloved D&D.

...never liked Greyhawk.

...love to make pointless surveys and silly contests on ENWorld.

...think that the Isle of Dread is the best adventure module ever written.

...married a non-gamer, and it ended badly.

...think that dragonborn and warforged are the dumbest things ever published.

...have never read a single Forgotten Realms book.

...still don't know why they felt it necessary to split the sorcerer and wizard.

...prefer humans to all other PC classes. A party full of half-monster or half-robot cartoon characters makes me want to put the tarrasque on the random encounter table.

...love hex-grid paper, and use it just about any chance I get.

...thought vampires were played out LONG before Twilight.

...own three Phil Collins CDs.

Ah, I feel so much better now.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Hi I'm Neonchameleon and I...

... love 4e in part because it isn't D&D.

... believe EnWorld should put in an autocorrect function to replace Rouge with Blusher.

... enjoy killing PCs when I DM even if I feel embarrassed to do it.

... consider that people who aren't trying to powergame in character aren't actually roleplaying (unless they are playing people with a deathwish).

... believe you're not cleared for this information, Friend Citizen.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

Hello, my name is Wednesday Boy and...

*I think the Lord of the Rings movies are terrible and Peter Jackson is an awful, awful director.

*I think Wolverine is lame but enjoy the Drizzzzzzt books.

*I can't stand superstitions that players have about dice. ("Firing" or switching dice that roll low, prepping their dice by turning them to the high number, before the game rolling to see which die rolls the highest, etc.)

*I didn't really roll that 18(00) strength.

*I am convinced that kender can be played well and not be annoying.

*I think the GNS theory is a load of bunk.

 

[Mercurius]

3. think the whole concept of the character of Elminster is stupid.

9. have a "vanity character" NPC that magically makes an appearance in every campaign.