An Official Hello
The whispered hope of re-contacting Steve Perry or his wife or any of the other players in that 14-month classic of shared mania during those insane, explosive weekends...
Why am I here?
I thought I'd washed my heart and mind of all RPG. I thought I was free, free to choose and free to grow, unencumbered by the precious burdens of Director/Moderator... but once on-site here I watched, astounded, amazed by my fingers' seeming will of their own, registering me and uploading my own drawing for Avatar, and typing this greeting to the staunch and creative among humankind... and the elf realms and dwarven kind...
It all rekindled when my boys reached school age, I guess. I shifted to "Earn MORE Money" mode and began copywriting and screenplays. A year ago I started getting Maestro moving, and now I await word from my lawyer-partner in Hong Kong, while negotiating with a Romanian director here in Bangkok and putting finishing touches to the 143 pages of screenplay based on the life of Corrado Feroci.
A faster development, a more creative interaction... yes, that is the lure of RPG for me. You've been in pickup games, even GOOD games, but did you ever PAY $10 a game for a twice-a-month campaign? for 14 months? That, my friends, was my entree into the world of dungeons and dragons and human-based mysteries solvable by teams of Player Characters, intent on developing their characters, their skills, their experience and The Plot.
As each session began, we started with a printed version of what happened LAST session, complete with drawings, to review and bring us up to where we are now. There's the cliff. Here are your fingernails. You're just hanging on.
What do you do NOW!