Toronto Gamers! (Or Ontario Gamers) Introduce Yourself

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

I'm in Toronto (Scarborough to be exact) near Kennedy Station. I've been playing & DMing since '82 (D&D, Call of Cthulhu, V&V, FASA Dr. Who & Battletech... to name but a few). I game when I can (hopefull this weekend) but I spend most of my time working on gaming websites.

Thrilling d20 Adventures (d20 Pulp Heroes)

V&V Emporium

Cheers,
Tim

How can you possibly live so close to me and yet not be in my group?

Seriously, you're like 5 minutes away. I live in those buildings beside the construction site across from the McDonalds at Eglinton and McCowan.

 

[IceBear]

Oh, so many groups in Toronto and yet I'm not in any of them

It feels like a part of me is missing without a regular session.

IceBear

 

[DonB]

You went to Mac? So did I... were you ever a member of the dreaded M.A.G.I.C. (McMaster Adventure Gaming Interest Club, for those who must know)? I had the shame of being vice-president for a year... *laugh*

I was! I didn't find M.A.G.I.C. that bad - I met some great friends and had a few awesome campaigns through it - but I wisely stayed the heck out of the executive!

Ah, for the days of university - no money (well, less money) but SCADS of free time!!

Don
(Mac '92 - Anthropology)

 

[Chroma]

I was! I didn't find M.A.G.I.C. that bad - I met some great friends and had a few awesome campaigns through it - but I wisely stayed the heck out of the executive!

Ah, for the days of university - no money (well, less money) but SCADS of free time!!

Don
(Mac '92 - Anthropology)

Ah heck, I met most of my current group through M.A.G.I.C., including my now-ex-girlfriend... if it weren't for the club, I'd prolly be playing EverQuest Online or something while eating cheese in a basement...

Free time... how it is missed!

Kevin
(Mac '97 - Psychology)

 

[MThibault]

Ottawa gamer here. I live downtown, snugly between the river and the canal. I've been playing since 1980 and DMing off and on from day one (I was the first of my friends to buy the rules).

Sort of wierd that *two* of my editors have posted here.

Cheers.

 

[IceBear]

Ottawa gamer here. I live downtown, snugly between the river and the canal. I've been playing since 1980 and DMing off and on from day one (I was the first of my friends to buy the rules).

Sort of wierd that *two* of my editors have posted here.

Cheers.

Yeah, I played one game of D&D back in 82 and then DMed every weekend until I went to university in 88. Since university I've been playing more than DMing (no time to DM) but in the past year I haven't played at all and it's driving me nuts!!!

Wanna hear how enthralled I was with the game? (Anyone who is against copyright infringement please stop reading). I lived in a very small town in Nfld and had no computer access (not that it would have helped me then) so there was no way for me to get the D&D books. I actually copied the D&D Basic Rulebook (the red book) by hand from a schoolmate that had gotten it for Xmas.

IceBear

 

[Fiery Todd]

Re: Re: FDP!

And to show just how small the Toronto gaming community is, I game from time to time with a guy named Greg Small who says that he knows some of the FDP people when he used to game with them.

Yeah, we hooked up with Greg at Gen Con this year. Great friend. Great gamer. He introduced James and I to Robin Laws, which was really cool...

 

[Fiery Todd]

I'm in Toronto (Scarborough to be exact) near Kennedy Station. I've been playing & DMing since '82 (D&D, Call of Cthulhu, V&V, FASA Dr. Who & Battletech... to name but a few). I game when I can (hopefull this weekend) but I spend most of my time working on gaming websites.

Thrilling d20 Adventures (d20 Pulp Heroes)

V&V Emporium

Cheers,
Tim

The V&V Emporium is just to cool for school.

Cheers!

 

[mudlark]

another Toronto gamer

I've been a gamer since about 1985; starting with D&D.

I still remember the first gaming session that we had -- I think that it was a pink module called "The Lost City". With a couple level 1 characters, we cleared the entire "dungeon" in an hour or two, ending up facing the equivalent of an EL 15 mob at the end. Fortunatelly at that point, the DM's NPC -- a level 25 elf/titan/fighter/magic user arrived, pulled the horn off the 30 foot tall creature, instantly killing it ... and all of the level 1 chars shared the experience, becoming level 10. Or something like that.

However, that taste of "munchkin-ism" was enough to hook me, and I quickly moved on to AD&D (so that I too could have an elf/titan/fighter/magic user).


Stopped playing when 2nd Ed came out, though not after getting sucked in with those ridiculous add-ons. ("the complete final fighters monsterous compendium we promise this is the last one")

Been living in Toronto for the past 13 years, and I pick up most of my 3rd Ed material at Sci Fi world on Steeles (between Keele and Dufferin). I play more often than I DM, usually with Zyzzyr

Living at Yonge-Finch, working at Bay-King.

 

[IceBear]

I'm heading to Sci-Fi World tonight around 9pm to pick up my copy of BoVD.

Don't know if I'll run into any of you there.

IceBear