-
NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
[OT] Who are YOU and what do you DO?
- Thread starter Gregor
- Start date
DonAdam
Explorer
21 yo Economics/Theology double major at the University of Dallas (in Irving, TX)
-gamed since the 6th grade, almost always D&D
-um, that's it. Faith, family, friends (I lump gaming in this category), and academia is all I really need or care about.
Mark Chance- good to see I'm not the only one here who knows what First Things is
(I'm going to be doing graduate work economics and catholic social thought)
-gamed since the 6th grade, almost always D&D
-um, that's it. Faith, family, friends (I lump gaming in this category), and academia is all I really need or care about.
Mark Chance- good to see I'm not the only one here who knows what First Things is
(I'm going to be doing graduate work economics and catholic social thought)
Chris_Nightwing
First Post
Tallarn said:I'm 24, I'm a professional actor currently appearing in Terry Pratchett's Eric in York, England, and I've been gaming since 1990. Apart from that, I don't have much else to say right now...
A friend of mine went to see that. Bravo!
As for me. I am 19, male and currently living in Cambridge, although I usually (actually rarely nowadays but it is my home) live near Peterborough. I am studying Engineering at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and after my first year I obtained scholarship status
. 2nd year is looking to be fun too. I spend most of my time at the moment getting frustrated over circuit boards to earn some money. Term time however, and I do weird things like run around with fake knives killing people, setting up bombs made of balloons outside my room and playing lots and lots of games. D&D struck me about five years ago now, and thank god, it rules . Personal life is messy so I won't go into that. I have been here since the days of yore, when Eric was just an amateur librarian and the wand of thirty nine flavors ruled the earth. I have a website, it's broke, I have lots of handwritten d20 material, it's unpublished. But I get by .
The Forsaken One
Explorer
I love you, there's a sound reason why I take my girlfriend on vacation to Bhure in the Ardennes 8 kilometers from Rochefort
[Getting some Twix candy or something, back when I fetch it and I'll put more about myself up here.]
(That was actually one lame excuse to buy myself mroe time to actually make something up to tell about myself after I couldn't refrain myself from replying.)
[EDIT: Back and now I'm too lame to type more about myself, just got some inspiration for my Witch Docter Voodoo dude class for my game
/EDIT]
Last edited:
Zarrock God of Evil
First Post
I'm a 24-year-old Dane who grew up very close to the German border (in a real border region). I have a BA in Business Languages English and German and specialised in International Market Communications.
I'm currently finishing my MsC in Information Technology (IT, Communication and Organisation).
I'm basically into tons of things from soccer, bowling, fencing to folk music, gaelic culture and Irish nationalism - the latter three especially through my involvement with one of the world's finest Folk Festival's where I work as a bartender in the main tent.
I've played rpgs for 13-15 years or sth like that and run two rpg websites (too busy to do much about them at the present time, though).
There's plenty more to be said (positive and negative), I'm sure, but this should cover the basics of your's truly...
-Zarrock
I'm currently finishing my MsC in Information Technology (IT, Communication and Organisation).
I'm basically into tons of things from soccer, bowling, fencing to folk music, gaelic culture and Irish nationalism - the latter three especially through my involvement with one of the world's finest Folk Festival's where I work as a bartender in the main tent.
I've played rpgs for 13-15 years or sth like that and run two rpg websites (too busy to do much about them at the present time, though).
There's plenty more to be said (positive and negative), I'm sure, but this should cover the basics of your's truly...
-Zarrock
Last edited:
thedangerranger
Registered User
Well here goes.
I am a 24. I am married (2 years) to my high school sweetheart (11 years). I am a network administrator at a Big 10 university (shouldn't be too hard to figure out which one). I have 3 cats, including the "world's softest cat(tm)" I like RPGs in (almost)all their many-splendored forms as well as truly geeky things like information security theory.
I am a recent home owner and factored gaming space in as a purchasing criteria. I dabble in martial arts (mostly to more fully meet with the geek-stereotype guidelines) I have a few very close friends, and tend to keep to myself other than that.
That's enough about me.
I am a 24. I am married (2 years) to my high school sweetheart (11 years). I am a network administrator at a Big 10 university (shouldn't be too hard to figure out which one). I have 3 cats, including the "world's softest cat(tm)" I like RPGs in (almost)all their many-splendored forms as well as truly geeky things like information security theory.
I am a recent home owner and factored gaming space in as a purchasing criteria. I dabble in martial arts (mostly to more fully meet with the geek-stereotype guidelines) I have a few very close friends, and tend to keep to myself other than that.
That's enough about me.
Rel
Liquid Awesome
Great thread. It's funny how you gradually catalogue info about the various posters on the boards and form a mental concept of them. Sometimes you're dead on and sometimes not even close.
Anyway, I'm a very, very lucky man.
It's not because I'm rich (far from it) or famous or extremely good looking. I'm just fairly happy and I always have been. My special gift from God was contentment. Trust me when I say that it has it's downside (mostly that I'm not very ambitious).
I'm now 32, married to a fantastic woman for 8 years and have a beautiful little girl who just turned 2. I never finished college (there's the lack of ambition thing biting me in the butt again) but I managed to find a career as a commercial real-estate appraiser that doesn't require a degree. I live in the same general community where I was born and I love North Carolina. I've got a great group of friends, most of whom I've known for at least 10 years. I game with many of them.
It seems that I'm a people person and generally funny guy. Don't know how I got that way, but I like it. I host a lot of parties and love to just hang out, play all manner of games and chat with my friends about all sorts of things (which sometimes makes it hard to focus on our game sessions). I listen to all kinds of music, but not a lot of heavy metal or rap, which makes me somewhat abnormal in the gaming community. I guess growing up in the 70's gave me a taste for the more mellow, singer/songwriter kind of music and my CD rack contains a lot of Jackson Browne and Bonnie Rait. You'll also find that it is overloaded with almost every album that Jimmy Buffett has recorded. Maybe I'm so happy all the time because it's just hard to be mad or upset when you are listening to music about boats, beaches and bars.
Other than rpg's my hobbies include reading (all kinds of stuff from fantasy & sci-fi to history to astronomy texts), computer games, camping, hiking, canoeing and scuba diving.
I started gaming in around 1980 with D&D, tried most of the early games (Gamma World, Star Frontiers, etc.) and then left AD&D behind in favor of Rolemaster, just before 2nd edition came out. I played RM fairly exclusively for about a dozen years and wound up co-writing a companion book (The Essence Companion) for the Role Master Standard System. Just about the time our game group was getting burned out on the complexity of RM, I heard that WotC was about to release a new edition of D&D so I asked for the books for Christmas (I didn't really intend to play but I've rarely seen a game system that didn't have some idea worth stealing). To my surprise, 3ED&D had an almost perfect mix of the elements we wanted in our games and soon the whole group switched over.
I found ENWorld a short time later when I was looking for an answer to a rules question and I was captivated by the high level of discourse at the site and by the friendly nature of the people here. It became one of the places that I stopped every day to check out rules threads and I soon became hooked on way too many story hours. Eventually I started writing my own story hour, which I just recently finished. Along the way I noticed that a lot of posters were from NC and I proposed a NC Game Day. Before I knew it, I was in charge of the thing and I'm pleased to say that it went great. The second NC Game Day is now coming up in a few weeks and I'm sure there will be many more to follow.
To sort of bring this back to the purpose of the thread, the NC Game Day allowed me to meet a lot of ENWorlders in person and without exception they were a great group of people. In some cases my mental concept of them was way off and some were pretty close. But every one of them were nice people and I can't wait to see them again and meet more of you.
It also sounds like there is a good possibility that Piratecat may come to game with us sometime in September and I'm thrilled at the prospect.
Like I said, I'm a very, very lucky man. (wordy too)
Anyway, I'm a very, very lucky man.
It's not because I'm rich (far from it) or famous or extremely good looking. I'm just fairly happy and I always have been. My special gift from God was contentment. Trust me when I say that it has it's downside (mostly that I'm not very ambitious).
I'm now 32, married to a fantastic woman for 8 years and have a beautiful little girl who just turned 2. I never finished college (there's the lack of ambition thing biting me in the butt again) but I managed to find a career as a commercial real-estate appraiser that doesn't require a degree. I live in the same general community where I was born and I love North Carolina. I've got a great group of friends, most of whom I've known for at least 10 years. I game with many of them.
It seems that I'm a people person and generally funny guy. Don't know how I got that way, but I like it. I host a lot of parties and love to just hang out, play all manner of games and chat with my friends about all sorts of things (which sometimes makes it hard to focus on our game sessions). I listen to all kinds of music, but not a lot of heavy metal or rap, which makes me somewhat abnormal in the gaming community. I guess growing up in the 70's gave me a taste for the more mellow, singer/songwriter kind of music and my CD rack contains a lot of Jackson Browne and Bonnie Rait. You'll also find that it is overloaded with almost every album that Jimmy Buffett has recorded. Maybe I'm so happy all the time because it's just hard to be mad or upset when you are listening to music about boats, beaches and bars.
Other than rpg's my hobbies include reading (all kinds of stuff from fantasy & sci-fi to history to astronomy texts), computer games, camping, hiking, canoeing and scuba diving.
I started gaming in around 1980 with D&D, tried most of the early games (Gamma World, Star Frontiers, etc.) and then left AD&D behind in favor of Rolemaster, just before 2nd edition came out. I played RM fairly exclusively for about a dozen years and wound up co-writing a companion book (The Essence Companion) for the Role Master Standard System. Just about the time our game group was getting burned out on the complexity of RM, I heard that WotC was about to release a new edition of D&D so I asked for the books for Christmas (I didn't really intend to play but I've rarely seen a game system that didn't have some idea worth stealing). To my surprise, 3ED&D had an almost perfect mix of the elements we wanted in our games and soon the whole group switched over.
I found ENWorld a short time later when I was looking for an answer to a rules question and I was captivated by the high level of discourse at the site and by the friendly nature of the people here. It became one of the places that I stopped every day to check out rules threads and I soon became hooked on way too many story hours. Eventually I started writing my own story hour, which I just recently finished. Along the way I noticed that a lot of posters were from NC and I proposed a NC Game Day. Before I knew it, I was in charge of the thing and I'm pleased to say that it went great. The second NC Game Day is now coming up in a few weeks and I'm sure there will be many more to follow.
To sort of bring this back to the purpose of the thread, the NC Game Day allowed me to meet a lot of ENWorlders in person and without exception they were a great group of people. In some cases my mental concept of them was way off and some were pretty close. But every one of them were nice people and I can't wait to see them again and meet more of you.
It also sounds like there is a good possibility that Piratecat may come to game with us sometime in September and I'm thrilled at the prospect.
Like I said, I'm a very, very lucky man. (wordy too)
Thresher
First Post
Lots of interesting people here, Im probably not one of them...
Well, Im 31, unmarried, never married, no kids and like it like that just fine. I work too hard in a job that probably dosnt pay enough for the the stress it gives me and have managed to snag 2 weeks leave as I havent had a holiday in 3 years.
Basically I was told to take leave or they'd hide my swipe card so I couldnt get in the door, as a result Im sitting here in front of the computer, contemplating hitting my bank manager up tommorrow for a few bucks to make a new one for something to do for the next 12 days.
So, I grew up in the country a fair way out of town and learned all sorts of useless things like shooting holes in feral animals, inanimate objects and making explosives in the back shed. Technically I should have been dead about 2-3 times by the age of 18, had skin cancer once and the doctors told me not to go out in the sun too much, as a result I have the much healthier job of staying inside. (Hah!)
Moved out of home at 17, went to the big city, worked in lots of different jobs, car spraypainter, picture framer, graphic designer, house builder, public servent, interior decorator, unemployed a lot, computer tech and somehow Ive ended up in a relatively stable area of the IT industry. So, Im an administrator for the Vodafone WAN across Australia and a fair few other wireless WAN's for universities, AAPT and a fair few other companies... added to my plate recently is looking after the Westpac banking computers as 2nd level support/fault manager for about 260 field technicians and subcontractors across the country.
Needless to say.
I hate my mobile phone
I dont get paid enough
I think Im getting an ulcer
When not being driven crazy by everyone elses problems I try to visit some friends, play some D&D and a whole heap of other games, usually this means a 280km round trip every weekend to get there but I dont mind. Mostly because it means the 'love of my life' gets to be cut loose on the freeway, Ive always loved fast cars and the last one I got I imported over from Japan directly and does 0-100km/h in about 5.8seconds and sounds like an angry peel of thunder.
Apart from that I used to consider myself something of an artist, I went to uni and did a BA in visual arts and havent picked up a paintbrush in about 6 years, anything I do is usually on a PC these days. There I was living the rock n roll lifestyle of a uni student, poor as beans and spent all my beno on things like cheap port, cigarettes, paint, paper and roleplaying books.
It was a good time
Im a bloody awful writer, though once I did manage to churn out a 180,000word supplement which was for a roleplaying game that Wotc used to support but dumped because Ha$bro ares. It got published on a freeware cd, which is probably still floating around out there on the net and gaming circles. Most people liked it... sort of
For a surprisingly 'gothic lookin' type of guy I have a lot of love for life and the mysteries I someday hope we'll uncover about the universe and ourselves in my lifetime.
Until then Im just looking for a way to be idle and rich, rather than overworked and poor which is about as ambitous as I get.
Well, Im 31, unmarried, never married, no kids and like it like that just fine. I work too hard in a job that probably dosnt pay enough for the the stress it gives me and have managed to snag 2 weeks leave as I havent had a holiday in 3 years.
Basically I was told to take leave or they'd hide my swipe card so I couldnt get in the door, as a result Im sitting here in front of the computer, contemplating hitting my bank manager up tommorrow for a few bucks to make a new one for something to do for the next 12 days.
So, I grew up in the country a fair way out of town and learned all sorts of useless things like shooting holes in feral animals, inanimate objects and making explosives in the back shed. Technically I should have been dead about 2-3 times by the age of 18, had skin cancer once and the doctors told me not to go out in the sun too much, as a result I have the much healthier job of staying inside. (Hah!)
Moved out of home at 17, went to the big city, worked in lots of different jobs, car spraypainter, picture framer, graphic designer, house builder, public servent, interior decorator, unemployed a lot, computer tech and somehow Ive ended up in a relatively stable area of the IT industry. So, Im an administrator for the Vodafone WAN across Australia and a fair few other wireless WAN's for universities, AAPT and a fair few other companies... added to my plate recently is looking after the Westpac banking computers as 2nd level support/fault manager for about 260 field technicians and subcontractors across the country.
Needless to say.
I hate my mobile phone
I dont get paid enough
I think Im getting an ulcer
When not being driven crazy by everyone elses problems I try to visit some friends, play some D&D and a whole heap of other games, usually this means a 280km round trip every weekend to get there but I dont mind. Mostly because it means the 'love of my life' gets to be cut loose on the freeway, Ive always loved fast cars and the last one I got I imported over from Japan directly and does 0-100km/h in about 5.8seconds and sounds like an angry peel of thunder.
Apart from that I used to consider myself something of an artist, I went to uni and did a BA in visual arts and havent picked up a paintbrush in about 6 years, anything I do is usually on a PC these days. There I was living the rock n roll lifestyle of a uni student, poor as beans and spent all my beno on things like cheap port, cigarettes, paint, paper and roleplaying books.
It was a good time
Im a bloody awful writer, though once I did manage to churn out a 180,000word supplement which was for a roleplaying game that Wotc used to support but dumped because Ha$bro are
s. It got published on a freeware cd, which is probably still floating around out there on the net and gaming circles. Most people liked it... sort of For a surprisingly 'gothic lookin' type of guy I have a lot of love for life and the mysteries I someday hope we'll uncover about the universe and ourselves in my lifetime.
Until then Im just looking for a way to be idle and rich, rather than overworked and poor which is about as ambitous as I get.
Last edited:
Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
DonAdam said:Mark Chance- good to see I'm not the only one here who knows what First Things is
It's the only magazine I've bothered to keep a subscription to. I guess it's because they keep printing my letters to the editor.
DonAdam said:
Rerum Novarum, here you come!
BTW, did you decide to write up a review for The Office & Affairs... yet?
Similar Threads
