Guilty Admissions...

[balam_br]

Hello, my name is Balam_br and im guilty.

1) I´m so used to be the GM that i have trouble just playing... i would love to play a game, but im always feeling that the game is too railroaded or just lacking a plotline or the encounters are too easy, or the GM dont give me a real chance to use my skills or the background i made is just irrelevant to the game... whatever.

2) I stopped making deep characters a long ago... i played so many games that last just one or two sessions, it was a shame to put so much energy in a persona that will be dumped in no time.

3) I have 4 or 5 pre-made background ideas and i just adapt them to the game im gonna play.

4) Im accused of GMing in Hard Mode... but to be honest, i think my players are little girls.

5) I hate when the GM throws a hard fight to me in a game, but i love when i beat that fight... thats the reason why i like to GM in Hard mode.

6) I like to role play my powers, when my fighter challenge someone... it´s a real challenge like "Im gonna drink your blood, make fun with your women and make slaves of your children, try to stop me weakling."
Sometimes it is silly and childish...

7) I feel lost in Sandbox games. Please, tell me what to do or i will go to the pub and drink... like in Real life.

8) When i was younger i loved to learn lots of Game systems... but nowadays im too lazy to do that.

and that´s it...

 

[Zephrin the Lost]

I am Zephrin the Lost. My screen name is taken from the pregens in the back on B1. A 1/2 orc by that name was a DMPC for me for many years. I am also apparently a stunjelly.

As a GM, I -

• must railroad since I plan months and months ahead and the PC's always end up where I expect them to.
• If you put a deity on your sheet, expect me to expect you to give a crap about that.
• X a million if your PC is a cleric, paladin, etc.
• Think the funny voices I for NPC's are better than they really are.
• Will take a healing surge from your character for mocking my voices.
• Recently ran a Mutants and Masterminds game without really understanding the combat system.
• Expect PC's to have a backstory, or damn it, I will provide one.
• Lose patience with tactics or powers that basically prevent us from actually playing the game. 3e Rope Trick is the clearest example of what I mean.

As a player, I

• Gave up on the 9 alignment system when I saw 5 players of non-evil alignments all rationalize killing a bound captive. If everyone can do everything, then the system is pointless.
• Oh lord will my paladin put his faith in your business.
• Believe that good roleplaying can sometimes lead to poor tactical decisions or leaving treasure on the battlefield.
• Enjoyed 3e until I saw 4e. In fact, I've enjoyed every new edition more than the previous one.
  

 

[Aeolius]

Hello, my name is Aeolius. It had been sixteen years since my last tabletop D&D game...

Yes I run an undersea game, keep saltwater aquariums, and have a seahorse tattoo. I have always loved the sea but did not pursue the interest in school, as one of my older brothers got his degree in Marine Biology.

I want to roll up a Spellstitched Swarm-Shifter Dread Necromancer Emancipated Spawn Half-Scrag Sea KIn Lacedon with Aboleth Grafts.

My wife is not a gamer, but I did meet her in a chat room on AOL, if that helps reestablish some geek points. In a few days we will celebrate our 17th anniversary, or, as we call it, 17 years of having not killed one another.

I think gnomes are cooler that dwarves, but dwarven women have beards darnnit!

I prefer running my games in the World of Greyhawk. In 15 years of DMing games online, only one game was set elsewhere; “Penance of the Damned”, a game set in Hades where PCs began as larvae. But, in 15 years of carving out my niche on Oerth, I have not run an urban campaign.

I would like to play Fizzgig in a Dark Crystal RPG.

I do, in fact, carry a hagstone on my person. I also have a collection of faux shrunken heads and a squid hat.

I have kept my next game, an all-animal campaign, on the back-burner for over a decade.

I have yet to hear anyone else refer to themselves as a “leap-grognard”; 1e to 3e with the possibility of returning to the fold with 5e. I did begin with Basic in 1979, though, and made use of several 2e supplements.

I am a closet Steampunk fan. One NPC in my game is a mechanatrix, so I get my fix.

My Night Hag Family Tree is up to revision #17. I have had the same night hag protagonist NPC in all of my online games since 1995. Nigel Findley’s “Ecology of the Greenhag” (Dragon #125) is more important to my games than the DMG.

I was the second TSRO hired to moderate TSR Live! on AOL, 5 minutes after TSRO Bocob.

I really do not care for combat, as excessive die rolls spoil my “willing suspension of disbelief”. I like my games combat-light and role play heavy, with an emphasis on story over stats.

I think Dr Who is infinitely cooler than Star Wars.

I took the name Aeolius in 1985 as my first AppleLink (later to become AOL) screen name, by combining the Greek wind god Aeolus with aeolian, as in aeolian harp. Yes, I am obsessed with the sea and am named after the wind. Get over it. The scientific name for shrimpfish is aeoliscus strigatus, while a certain species of nudibranch (sea slug) is known as an aeolid... so I’m keeping the name.

I have a veritable snot-load of game material floating about in my noggin. One day... one day...

I enjoy using Apple computers and products partially because it annoys some people that I do so.

I like DMing on-the-fly with little to no preparation. Sometimes the random things that come out of my brain in such sessions make perfect sense, after a few months.

I DM in a chat room, but still enjoy speaking in mock kuo-toan, ixitxachitl, and locathah.

 

[Ambrus]

What a cathartic thread!

Ambrus:

• Feels unreasonably proprietary about the idea of dragon-themed PCs.
• Bought a 2e Draconomicon in 1990 as his first gaming book and read it religiously.
• Named his favorite PC after a ferengi in TNG.
• Has barely glanced at a Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Eberron or 4e books.
• Views Planescape as a sort of gaming renaissance.
• Only read LotR after years of gaming and felt it was full of gaming cliches.
• Only started gaming in his senior year of high school and feels his childhood was a wasted opportunity to game.
• Thinks that RPGs should be a fundamental aspect of scholastic curriculums.
• Is secretly baffled that sports are more mainstream than RPGs.
• Is tempted to play monster as PCs far more often than humanoids.
• Feels that single-classed human characters are only suitable for DMs and unimaginative players.
• Thinks about his characters far too much.
• Is a shameless character optimizer.

 

[Bold or Stupid]

My name is Joel and I...

1) Have a screen name inspired by The Animals of Farthering wood.
2) Am a powergamer, because I see something wrong with the idea that adventurers wouldn't work hard to beat every threat.
3) Hate Gygaxian prose.
4) Would never date someone who doesn't game.
5) Think sex is the ONLY valid excuse for missing a game.
6) Wish I was able to play more.
7) Hate the idea that rewal life is more important.
8) Hate a lot of fantasy fiction.
9) Love killing PCs.
10) See nothing wrong with having a GMPC as who does cool stuff as long as they don't dominate the plot/problems.

 

[Stoat]

Hi, I'm Stoat.

* I got my screen name because the IT people in college wouldn't let me be "Weasel". Thanks IT people!

* I love tinker gnomes, but do not care at all for Dragonlance.

* I have to resist the temptation to throw robots and lasers into ever game I DM.

* I'm a terrible player when I'm not DM'ing. I get distracted. I distract others. I start fights with NPC's for no good reason.

* I prefer players who take foolish risks and strongly dislike cautious PC's.

 

[Dark Mistress]

Hmm I am not sure I have any where gaming is related. Which is mildly troubling in it's own way.

The ones I know I do have about non gaming I can't say in polite company or ENworld.

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

• ... think the thing D&D closest resembles is anime.

Totally agree. 4e has highlighted the anime-ness for me, but looking back on just about every D&D game I've played, I now realize how wonky and anime it all is.

I...

DM a [mostly] generic sandbox PoLand campaign. Except that there're airship-flying gun-toting tinker gnomes living on the moon.

Recently reread some teen fiction. I stopped reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight a few pages in, but liked Jeff Grubb's The Brothers' War even more ten years later.

Love using accents, but suck at most of them.

Never played a campaign that's lasted more than five levels. Consequently, the words "We're starting at 1st level" make me sick.

Hate not using some kind of map. If you describe a gold statue in the NW corner of a great hall, I'll imagine a stone obelisk in the SE corner of a cavern. If my DM notes show a stream running crosswise through a field, somehow you'll get the idea that there's a wall running north-south through a desert. Seriously, maps are my friend. Especially battle maps.

Love Planescape, but have never played a really fun PS session.

Am addicted to this thread.

 

[Bearsquito]

Hello.

My name is Bearsquito, and I

*haven't played a munchkin character in 9 years
*optimize some aspect of my characters to ease the shakes of munchkin-withdrawal, even if I never use that aspect in game
*blame my heavy use of Palladium's Rifts RPG for my munchkin addiction
*prefer Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1st Edition) to all other fantasy RPGs
*began playing D&D in its 2nd Edition form (AD&D 2e)
*quit playing D&D in its 3rd Edition form due to issues with my playing group and one player's love for all things Kender
*enjoy playing D&D 4e because it is a tactical boardgame with role-playing elements
*fail miserably at GMing original ideas, but usually produce a fun experience using published adventures
*have been playing various RPGs, CCGs, and miniature-based wargames for more than half my life (approximately 15 years of Warhammer, Rifts, Vampires, Werewolves, Mages, <cough>Changelings<cough>, more Warhammer, space Warhammer, and Magic: The Gathering)
*wish that I could game several times a week. Stupid being an adult and having responsibilites....
*love puns.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My name is Thornir and I

• Have played lots of RPGs, but have only really loved playing D&D
• Loves me a chance to roll some dice
• Can do an OK job roleplaying a PC, but give me a few sessions to get to know them a little
• Am always fighting the need to be a rules lawyer (I often lose the fight)
• Took seven years to finally finish reading LotR because I kept getting bored reading it
• Hate edition wars. I've played them all (except 4e, but only for lack of a group) and have found each to be enjoyable in its own way
• Am often disappointed that the games I DM don't seem as cool as they were in my head
• Fudge dice rolls when DMing to keep PCs from dying, because I hate having to work a new PC into the party