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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5393587" data-attributes="member: 2072">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.</blockquote>

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