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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8562033" data-attributes="member: 11">When I first joined the boards, before they were the ENWorld forums and were just part of Eric Noah's Unofficial 3E News site (circa 1999), I used the handle Nemmerle (like the archmage from The Wizard of Earthsea) but after one of the many forum collapses back then (around 2001 or 2002), when I re-signed up I put my name backwards on a lark and it stuck.I'm Puerto Rican and grew up in Brooklyn, NY and while I have lived other places, it is where I lived longest and most often - that is until 2019 when I moved to Pittsburgh with my wife (who is from here). I've been playing (and mostly running) D&D games since the summer I turned 12 (1983 - so yes, I turned 50 last year).During my first stint on the boards I was a web developer for a company that owned a myriad of trade mags making the move from print to online, but my return to grad school and change in careers coincided with my not running games (though I played in one or two sporadically). I got my PhD in English Literary Studies with a focus on Post-War and Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture (you can get a sense of my public scholarship from my blog <a href="https://themiddlespaces.com/" target="_blank">The Middle Spaces</a> anything else is behind stupid paywalls) in 2014- near the end, before giving up on academia, I was focused almost completely on comics studies and was on the board for the International Comics Art Forum. However, when the tenure track job market turned out to be even worse than I was warned it would be and when I decided the contract faculty job I had at NYU was not necessarily a great fit, I agreed to the move I mentioned above. I have been unemployed ever since. Thankfully, between my wife's successful-ish career as a YA novelist and some freelance editing on my part we've been able to make ends meet - since the pandemic made finding a new job and switching careers very difficult.My wife is not into RPGs but we have a huge board game collection (which she prefers) and play games on the Nintendo Switch regularly.I am currently running two 5E games based on Ghosts of Saltmarsh. One is a local game my wife's good friend talked me into starting (and whom helped me recruit people) and the other is a remote game with friends as far afield as Los Angeles and Milan, Italy - which I started after the pandemic forced my first game to be temporarily remote and I got the hang of running that way. I still prefer in-person gaming and I don't use a VTT.I love painting minis and making terrain and you can follow some of those projects and general D&D reflection on my instagram account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/how_i_run_it/?hl=en" target="_blank">HOW I RUN IT.</a></blockquote>

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