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<blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1038249" data-attributes="member: 5328"><p>G'day!</p><p></p><p>I thought we were supposed to list this stuff in our user profiles, but since we are repeating it here I'll repeat it here.</p><p></p><p>I'm 38 and single (never married): a retired economist living on my annuities and investments. When I retired from the Australian Public Service (Bureau of Transport Economics) I sold my expensive semi-detatched house in Canberra and moved back to Kempsey, the country town where I grew up.</p><p></p><p>I started playing RPGs with AD&D at Sydney Grammar School in 1980. Since then I have also played <em>Traveler</em>, <em>Rolemaster</em>, <em>MERP</em>, <em>Champions</em> (three versions), <em>Marvel Superheroes</em>, <em>Justice, Inc.</em>, <em>James Bond 007</em>, both <em>Star Wars the Role-playing Games</em>s, <em>Space: 1889</em>, <em>Vampire: the Masquerade</em>, <em>Vampire: the Sabbat</em>, <em>Werewolf: the Apocalypse</em>, <em>CyberPunk 2020</em>, <em>Call of Cthulhu</em>, <em>RunneQuest</em>, <em>DragonQuest</em>, <em>Castle Falkenstein</em>, <em>The Fantasy Trip</em>, <em>In Nomine</em>, <em>Bushido</em>, <em>Fading Suns</em>, <em>Immortal</em>, <em>Hunter Planet</em>, <em>Chivalry & Sorcery (3rd edition)</em>, <em>Legend of the Five Rings</em>, <em>Flashing Blades</em>, <em>Privateers & Gentlemen</em>, <em>ForeSight</em>, <em>HindSight</em>, and <em>ForeSight Enhanced</em>, not all of which I can recommend. I have taken part in a couple of freeforms (that's Australian for 'LARPS') but I found them not to my liking.</p><p></p><p>I was involved with the role-playing club at the University of New South Wales from 1982 to 1984 (I designed the module <em>Escape from Fortress Fohgidon</em> for their first mini-con), and at the Australian National University from 1986-1989. I collaborated with Tonio Loewald on some of the ForeSight flexiforms run at CanCon and later with the redoubtable Andrew Smith on the very successful <em>Canberra by Night</em> Vampire event, a successful Jack Vance fantasy freeform (mostly his) and an unsuccessful Jack Vance SF freeform (mostly mine). In 1998 I ran an SF freeform at Sydcon called <em>Uninvited Guests</em>, which was very good but with didn't attract the interest I had been hoping for.</p><p></p><p>I designed a very detailed non-conventional fantasy setting, <em>Gehennum</em>, of which a partial description is on the Web. I also designed a rather detailed firm-SF setting called <em>Flat Black</em>, on which an unsuccessful comic book project was based. At the moment I am working on a novel set in Gehennum and a random planet generator for Flat Black.</p><p></p><p>I am unable to pursue my passion for RPGs at the moment because there seem to be no roleplayers closer than about two hours drive. I am also finding that there aren't very many people who share my other interests hereabouts. I think that I might move to a town with a university in it and do a Graduate Diploma or Masters in history or planetary science or a PhD in Economics so that I can meet some more like-minded people (and, with luck, some intelligent and intellectual single women).</p><p></p><p>Apart from RPGs, my interests are cooking, wine, SF, fantasy, biology, planetary science, [digital] photography, history, and body-surfing.</p><p></p><p>I am 179 cm tall, and since I retired I have got my weight down from 127 kg to 97 kg: I'm aiming for 86 kg by the beginning of summer (December) and ought to make it by October. For some reason people I meet casually all seem to assume that I am a Rugby player. You can see my photograph at <<a href="http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?set_albumName=albun20&id=Agback&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?set_albumName=albun20&id=Agback&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php</a>>.</p><p></p><p>Until now I have always been too busy to travel overseas, and had better things to do with the money. But now that I am no longer working, and now that I'm spending rather than saving, I have scheduled a trip for the coming Spring. I will be in California for the second half of September and in Monmouthshire for the first half of October.</p><p></p><p>I have a dog, a three-year-old Labrador bitch named 'Lily'. My favourite writers are Mary Renault and Jack Vance. The last book I read was <em>Worlds Apart: a textbook in planetary sciences</em> (Consolmagno & Schaefer 1994, ISBN 0-13-964131-9). And I suffer from bipolar mood disorder.</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p></p><p></p><p>Agback</p><p></p><p>{EDIT: coding, spelling, punctuation}</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agback, post: 1038249, member: 5328"] G'day! I thought we were supposed to list this stuff in our user profiles, but since we are repeating it here I'll repeat it here. I'm 38 and single (never married): a retired economist living on my annuities and investments. When I retired from the Australian Public Service (Bureau of Transport Economics) I sold my expensive semi-detatched house in Canberra and moved back to Kempsey, the country town where I grew up. I started playing RPGs with AD&D at Sydney Grammar School in 1980. Since then I have also played [i]Traveler[/i], [i]Rolemaster[/i], [i]MERP[/i], [i]Champions[/i] (three versions), [i]Marvel Superheroes[/i], [i]Justice, Inc.[/i], [i]James Bond 007[/i], both [i]Star Wars the Role-playing Games[/i]s, [i]Space: 1889[/i], [i]Vampire: the Masquerade[/i], [i]Vampire: the Sabbat[/i], [i]Werewolf: the Apocalypse[/i], [i]CyberPunk 2020[/i], [i]Call of Cthulhu[/i], [i]RunneQuest[/i], [i]DragonQuest[/i], [i]Castle Falkenstein[/i], [i]The Fantasy Trip[/i], [i]In Nomine[/i], [i]Bushido[/i], [i]Fading Suns[/i], [i]Immortal[/i], [i]Hunter Planet[/i], [i]Chivalry & Sorcery (3rd edition)[/i], [i]Legend of the Five Rings[/i], [i]Flashing Blades[/i], [i]Privateers & Gentlemen[/i], [i]ForeSight[/i], [i]HindSight[/i], and [i]ForeSight Enhanced[/i], not all of which I can recommend. I have taken part in a couple of freeforms (that's Australian for 'LARPS') but I found them not to my liking. I was involved with the role-playing club at the University of New South Wales from 1982 to 1984 (I designed the module [i]Escape from Fortress Fohgidon[/i] for their first mini-con), and at the Australian National University from 1986-1989. I collaborated with Tonio Loewald on some of the ForeSight flexiforms run at CanCon and later with the redoubtable Andrew Smith on the very successful [i]Canberra by Night[/i] Vampire event, a successful Jack Vance fantasy freeform (mostly his) and an unsuccessful Jack Vance SF freeform (mostly mine). In 1998 I ran an SF freeform at Sydcon called [i]Uninvited Guests[/i], which was very good but with didn't attract the interest I had been hoping for. I designed a very detailed non-conventional fantasy setting, [i]Gehennum[/i], of which a partial description is on the Web. I also designed a rather detailed firm-SF setting called [i]Flat Black[/i], on which an unsuccessful comic book project was based. At the moment I am working on a novel set in Gehennum and a random planet generator for Flat Black. I am unable to pursue my passion for RPGs at the moment because there seem to be no roleplayers closer than about two hours drive. I am also finding that there aren't very many people who share my other interests hereabouts. I think that I might move to a town with a university in it and do a Graduate Diploma or Masters in history or planetary science or a PhD in Economics so that I can meet some more like-minded people (and, with luck, some intelligent and intellectual single women). Apart from RPGs, my interests are cooking, wine, SF, fantasy, biology, planetary science, [digital] photography, history, and body-surfing. I am 179 cm tall, and since I retired I have got my weight down from 127 kg to 97 kg: I'm aiming for 86 kg by the beginning of summer (December) and ought to make it by October. For some reason people I meet casually all seem to assume that I am a Rugby player. You can see my photograph at <[url]http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?set_albumName=albun20&id=Agback&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php[/url]>. Until now I have always been too busy to travel overseas, and had better things to do with the money. But now that I am no longer working, and now that I'm spending rather than saving, I have scheduled a trip for the coming Spring. I will be in California for the second half of September and in Monmouthshire for the first half of October. I have a dog, a three-year-old Labrador bitch named 'Lily'. My favourite writers are Mary Renault and Jack Vance. The last book I read was [i]Worlds Apart: a textbook in planetary sciences[/i] (Consolmagno & Schaefer 1994, ISBN 0-13-964131-9). And I suffer from bipolar mood disorder. Regards, Agback {EDIT: coding, spelling, punctuation} [/QUOTE]
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