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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8562762" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Born in France in 1964, so a while ago now. Always loved to read and started to write software really young especially for France at the time. Also read lots of science and discovered about D&D in the scientific press, just a very short article that I've been unable to find since then. But also incited me to read the Lord of the Rings, about the only fantasy widely available in France at the time. Then went on a fateful linguistic trip to the US, talked to the family about D&D, and they managed to find and offer me the basic set. My english was too bad at the time to run it for the boy of the family and his friends, but started right way with high school friends when coming back, and been playing ever since. Did a number of work experience in software before graduating from Ecole Centrale, then went on to work as a software, then systems engineer for a large French company, then branched into product management, then pure management. Started heavy LARPing in parallel to TTRPG, organised large events and ran multi-years campaigns. Got married, one, then two, daughters, moved to the UK where our third daughter was born. Stayed 5 years in the UK, great time there, lots of roleplaying with new friends. Went back to France, stayed a few years, then moved to Australia. Branched into managing into different domains, security and defense. Did some roleplaying there, but mostly kept playing with my old friends over Roll20. Then moved to Singapore, alone with my wife since my daughters were in the UK (now Australia), Italy and Canada. Ended the marriage, moved back to France, found another partner. Resumed playing mostly face to face until Covid hit. Now CTO of a French-US Joint Venture in the Defence sector for NATO (so very hot these days with Ukraine), quite happy but getting a bit tired of the politics at high level in company and parent companies, looking forward to retirement in a few years to increase the level of roleplaying and LARPing, and taking care of grandchildren.Edit: Forgot to mention that, for my most frequent games today, our weekly campaigns, 3 other players are friends that I've known since engineering school back in '84, so not far from 40 years ago. And 2 people are also people that I've been organising LARPs with/for since '88. And although we have younger players and others recruited more recently, especially in other games, I think it's great that some gaming friendships lasted for that long, especially with my long overseas periods...</blockquote>

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