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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8563122" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Mid 40s, US Army brat; grew up in a few different states around the country, settled back in NH as an adult.  Pagan, anarcho-libertarian family.  Ordained neopagan/reconstructionist priest.  Terminally online, ever since my family got Prodigy in the late 80s.  Home schooled until college, got the Menzter Basic set for my 10th birthday and played a bit with my brother and miscellaneous neighbor kids without knowing what the heck we were doing for a while.  My dad had gotten us hooked on Tolkien as bedtime stories, so between that and stuff like Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books, we were absolutely primed for D&D. Collected a mix of D&D and AD&D books, plus issues of Dragon, Gamesmaster International, and some other RPGs.  Some of my parents' friends were gamers, and I started attending local conventions around the age of 13 or 14 and through that got exposed to miniatures and more exotic games, picking up copies of games like Talisman, DungeonQuest, Blood Bowl, Dark Future, and Advanced HeroQuest from GW, which my brother and I played endlessly.Got more seriously into RPGs in the 90s with 2nd ed AD&D, Synnibarr, as well as Vampire, Werewolf, and other White Wolf games.  Collected a hundred or so other games I didn't play or only rarely.  In the 90s got into first Vampire LARP through the Camarilla and then boffer LARP with NERO and a couple of others for about 5 years.  Then into Warhammer and 40k, getting passionately into that hobby for about 15 years, traveling to local tournaments around New England and weekend long grand tournaments around the country.  Including winning an invite to GW's Throne of Skulls tournament in Las Vegas in 2011, where I won Best Chaos Space Marine player.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I still casually play wargames occasionally, having substantial painted armies for Wood Elves, Chaos Warriors, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, and Eldar.   Plus Starks and some Lannisters for the Song of Ice and Fire wargame, and Cryx for Warmachine.  Moderated on Dakkadakka.com for several years.Got into M:tG casually in the 90s but didn't have that big a collection before mostly quitting in '97, then came back in 2013 and played that competitively for several years.Got into 3rd ed with some wargaming buddies about 20 years ago and have played steadily since, playing and enjoying every edition, though about 12 years ago, by chance I met Frank Mentzer at a local convention, played a couple of games of 1E AD&D at that con and Frank referred me to Dragonsfoot.  Which got me into the whole OSR scene and blogosphere.  Most of which I only got to play at conventions once or twice a year, until the pandemic.Was married for ten years to a Bulgarian and did some traveling in Europe.  Worked in international travel assistance and repatriation for five of those years, so between those two things got outside my parochial American bubble a good deal.  Have worked in call center management, in contract administration in the electronic payment sector, in homeless assistance and social services I&R, and now back in contract admin but for a hospital, doing purchasing.  Religiously I attend and help officiate holy days with my local Grove and at a UU near me alongside their Earth Centered Spirituality Group, and I attend services with a couple of nice, inclusive heathen groups in the area.  Outside gaming my hobbies include movies, concerts, dancing and drinking at goth clubs, karaoke (those last few mostly on pandemic hiatus the last couple of years), hiking in the NH mountains, and some travel.  Since the pandemic I've added both making fancy cocktails at home and finally going to the gym and lifting weights, after decades of procrastinating on that. Yes, I'm aware that those last two are what the MtG folks call a nonbo.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></blockquote>

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