cuteasaurus
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DungeonmasterCal said:Is that sarcasm I smell?
Just a little bit of good-natured teasing.
What's this guy's story?
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Just a little bit of good-natured teasing.
DungeonmasterCal
First Post
cuteasaurus said:Just a little bit of good-natured teasing.
I know...tease away!
Uzumaki
First Post
Joshua Dyal said:I feel a p.break coming on soon myself, but I'm guess a quick trip to the john will fix it.
[size=-2]Sorry if that's inadvertently insensitive. One thing I forgot to mention in my own profile is that I tend to try too hard with dumb jokes.[/size]
Har har har. <|/clap|>
I also play Final Fantasy 11. Brillig on Remora.
MadMaxim
First Post
Time to put a little Scandinavian spin on this thread, as you Americans seem to be ruling it right now
I was born in 1981 in a town near Copenhagen in Denmark. My father is a police officer and my mother is working at a factory. We moved to Jutland (the part of Denmark that's connected to Germany for those of you looking at a map) and have been living outside a city called Horsens since then (it's not that big, but by Danish standards it's pretty large). I have to little sisters who are 22 and 12.
I went to the local school and on to business school in Horsens and then on to University of Southern Denmark in Kolding afterwards. Unfortunately, I didn't get my bachelor degree because I got tired of studying. I'd been doing it since I started in school as a 6-year-old so then I just had enough. Now I'm working at a grocery supplier in Horsens to pay off the loan I got while studying and then I'll probably start getting myself a serious education.
As for my D&D experience, I'll have to admit that I first got on the train with 3.0 in 2000. I actually started back in 1988 with the Fighting Fantasy books which had been translated into Dansih and the Hero Quest board game. Then I moved up to Drager & Dæmoner (Dragons & Demons) which was a Swedish roleplaying game based more or less on D&D but with a different system. Then my roleplaying went on stand-by as there weren't really anyone to play with before 2000 when 3.0 came out and a friend of mine bought it and started a campaign. Now, I got my own group and an Eberron campaign going and that's just great.
Now, I'm 24, living at home, single and just enjoying life with roleplaying games and video games
I do, however, hope I'll get a married some day and have some children, but that's probably far, far away...
That should describe me pretty well.
I was born in 1981 in a town near Copenhagen in Denmark. My father is a police officer and my mother is working at a factory. We moved to Jutland (the part of Denmark that's connected to Germany for those of you looking at a map) and have been living outside a city called Horsens since then (it's not that big, but by Danish standards it's pretty large). I have to little sisters who are 22 and 12.
I went to the local school and on to business school in Horsens and then on to University of Southern Denmark in Kolding afterwards. Unfortunately, I didn't get my bachelor degree because I got tired of studying. I'd been doing it since I started in school as a 6-year-old so then I just had enough. Now I'm working at a grocery supplier in Horsens to pay off the loan I got while studying and then I'll probably start getting myself a serious education.
As for my D&D experience, I'll have to admit that I first got on the train with 3.0 in 2000. I actually started back in 1988 with the Fighting Fantasy books which had been translated into Dansih and the Hero Quest board game. Then I moved up to Drager & Dæmoner (Dragons & Demons) which was a Swedish roleplaying game based more or less on D&D but with a different system. Then my roleplaying went on stand-by as there weren't really anyone to play with before 2000 when 3.0 came out and a friend of mine bought it and started a campaign. Now, I got my own group and an Eberron campaign going and that's just great.
Now, I'm 24, living at home, single and just enjoying life with roleplaying games and video games
I do, however, hope I'll get a married some day and have some children, but that's probably far, far away...That should describe me pretty well.
Altamont Ravenard
Explorer
I'm a 29-year old french canadian male who spends waaaay too much time inside his own head.
I'm realizing that I've been a clown all my life.
I've never really felt part of anything, and as I grow older, I feel like I'm growing apart from society in general.
I have bad habits and no drive.
I have very few, but very good friends. I've had a girlfriend for 8 years this month.
I write pornographic short stories (for (little) money and just the hell of it).
I've been playing D&D since I was 10 and fiddling with the rules since I was 10 and a half.
My life has been remakably easy and uneventful.
When I die, at about 90, I'll have accomplished nothing.
And this is the most depressing post I've ever made, ever.
Have a nice day!
AR
I'm realizing that I've been a clown all my life.
I've never really felt part of anything, and as I grow older, I feel like I'm growing apart from society in general.
I have bad habits and no drive.
I have very few, but very good friends. I've had a girlfriend for 8 years this month.
I write pornographic short stories (for (little) money and just the hell of it).
I've been playing D&D since I was 10 and fiddling with the rules since I was 10 and a half.
My life has been remakably easy and uneventful.
When I die, at about 90, I'll have accomplished nothing.
And this is the most depressing post I've ever made, ever.
Have a nice day!
AR
Rel
Liquid Awesome
"I'm a piece of work.
I'm iron and lace.
I'm shy right up there in your face.
I'm all dumbfounded, stubborn as an ass.
I'm sharp as an arrow in a pile of glass.
I'm a sweetheart, genius, restless jerk.
Lord have mercy, I'm a piece of work!"
Those right there are the Jimmy Buffett lyrics (the source, or at least illustration, of a great deal of the wisdom to be found in the universe - not to be confused with The Universe, Mr. Dopplepopplis or The Gay Master or whatever he likes to be called these days.) that describe me best. I'm a walking contradiction.
I was born in the summer of '71, a seventh generation North Carolinian (kind of a 2nd rate 7th son, if you take my meaning). I've lived here my whole life, visited all kinds of places from California to Europe and Mexico to the wilds of New York City, and never wanted to live anyplace else but here. I grew up right outside Raleigh (the state capitol) in a town that started small and had one of the fastest rates of growth in the whole state. Now the place is too damn big and I live "out in the county".
My parents were both "country folk" who moved to the "big city" to get off the farm. Somehow despite this fact, I've got very little southern accent. My folks got divorce when I was 11 but didn't move far away from one another and I was able to have a pretty "normal" childhood regardless of the fact. Nowadays, they both still live within 15-20 minutes of me and I'm happy to say that I get along with both parents, my stepmother and my siblings (a sister and two stepsisters) great.
I met my wife when we were 6. She was the friend of a sister of a friend. There was absolutely no "love at first sight". I saw her on rare occasion until we went to High School. There I became her friend and later her boyfriend. We somehow managed to stick together through our senior year of High School, made it through the rocky college years and got married when we were 23. Our 10th wedding anniversary was in May.
I did ok in High School thanks to being smart and lazy instead of just lazy. But college was harder to me because not giving a damn seemed to invoke a steeper price. I quit after a year because I felt guilty spending my parent's money when I wasn't really trying. I never went back and to this day I'm just about the only one of my group of friends without a college degree. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much.
Instead I entered the work force and helped put my wife through graduate school as a physical therapist. I started a career as a commercial real-estate appraiser but I never had much passion for it. Eventually, during a slow period when there wasn't much work anyway, I got out of the business entirely and started my own company doing legal videography. I love my job now. If I can get just a little more busy then it will even be lucrative instead of barely getting us by.
I've got a lot of hobbies that I get to pursue on an irregular basis as funds and time allow. I like the outdoors and particularly love to hike, camp and canoe. I also scuba dive and have seen some pretty amazing stuff while doing that (also, because my dad's job since retirement from IBM is a scuba instructor, we get some good father-son time in on this hobby). I love to read, play computer games and of course play RPG's.
But the truly great things I have in this life are my wife, my daughter and my friends.
My wife is funny, smart and I still think she's sexy as hell after 17 years together. I chase her around the house and she lets me catch her often enough to keep both of us happy. She plays a mean game of Scrabble, enjoys RPG's now and then (though doesn't get much time to game since our daughter was born) and is a vicious Cribbage player. Every phone conversation with her ends with us exchanging "I Love You"'s and every night before we go to sleep we kiss and I say, "Goodnight sweet girl." She is my rock and I know for absolute certain that we'll be together forever.
My four year old daughter is my greatest source of joy and fear and I suspect that I'm utterly typical as a parent in this regard. I get to spend a lot of extra time with her due to the sporadic nature of my job. I sometimes really wish that I was busier with work because it would mean a lot more financial stability for our family but I know that I'll always cherish the extra time I've gotten to spend with her in the pre-school years. There will always be time for my wife and I to work more (and try to get out of debt) when she's in school all day long. For now, every day is full of adventures (see .sig) and play and lots of love.
My friends are the best friends in the world. We game together every week, go on vacations together in the summertimes and in between we are always there to help each other out when a hurricane drops a tree on somebody's house. Most of them are accumulating kids in the same general age range as my daughter so we also see each other on the "Birthday Party Circuit".
And when I say "friends" I also would be remiss if I didn't mention how blessed I feel to have the ENWorld crowd to count among them. You folks are the one stop on the internet that I make sure and take time for each and every day. I very much look forward to meeting many of you in person at GenCon and future Game Days.
That's probably enough about me for now. Nobody wants to OD on Rel on a Tuesday night.
Edit: PS - I'm not mad at the world (at least not any appreciable percentage of it) but I AM horny.
I'm iron and lace.
I'm shy right up there in your face.
I'm all dumbfounded, stubborn as an ass.
I'm sharp as an arrow in a pile of glass.
I'm a sweetheart, genius, restless jerk.
Lord have mercy, I'm a piece of work!"
Those right there are the Jimmy Buffett lyrics (the source, or at least illustration, of a great deal of the wisdom to be found in the universe - not to be confused with The Universe, Mr. Dopplepopplis or The Gay Master or whatever he likes to be called these days.) that describe me best. I'm a walking contradiction.
I was born in the summer of '71, a seventh generation North Carolinian (kind of a 2nd rate 7th son, if you take my meaning). I've lived here my whole life, visited all kinds of places from California to Europe and Mexico to the wilds of New York City, and never wanted to live anyplace else but here. I grew up right outside Raleigh (the state capitol) in a town that started small and had one of the fastest rates of growth in the whole state. Now the place is too damn big and I live "out in the county".
My parents were both "country folk" who moved to the "big city" to get off the farm. Somehow despite this fact, I've got very little southern accent. My folks got divorce when I was 11 but didn't move far away from one another and I was able to have a pretty "normal" childhood regardless of the fact. Nowadays, they both still live within 15-20 minutes of me and I'm happy to say that I get along with both parents, my stepmother and my siblings (a sister and two stepsisters) great.
I met my wife when we were 6. She was the friend of a sister of a friend. There was absolutely no "love at first sight". I saw her on rare occasion until we went to High School. There I became her friend and later her boyfriend. We somehow managed to stick together through our senior year of High School, made it through the rocky college years and got married when we were 23. Our 10th wedding anniversary was in May.
I did ok in High School thanks to being smart and lazy instead of just lazy. But college was harder to me because not giving a damn seemed to invoke a steeper price. I quit after a year because I felt guilty spending my parent's money when I wasn't really trying. I never went back and to this day I'm just about the only one of my group of friends without a college degree. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much.
Instead I entered the work force and helped put my wife through graduate school as a physical therapist. I started a career as a commercial real-estate appraiser but I never had much passion for it. Eventually, during a slow period when there wasn't much work anyway, I got out of the business entirely and started my own company doing legal videography. I love my job now. If I can get just a little more busy then it will even be lucrative instead of barely getting us by.
I've got a lot of hobbies that I get to pursue on an irregular basis as funds and time allow. I like the outdoors and particularly love to hike, camp and canoe. I also scuba dive and have seen some pretty amazing stuff while doing that (also, because my dad's job since retirement from IBM is a scuba instructor, we get some good father-son time in on this hobby). I love to read, play computer games and of course play RPG's.
But the truly great things I have in this life are my wife, my daughter and my friends.
My wife is funny, smart and I still think she's sexy as hell after 17 years together. I chase her around the house and she lets me catch her often enough to keep both of us happy. She plays a mean game of Scrabble, enjoys RPG's now and then (though doesn't get much time to game since our daughter was born) and is a vicious Cribbage player. Every phone conversation with her ends with us exchanging "I Love You"'s and every night before we go to sleep we kiss and I say, "Goodnight sweet girl." She is my rock and I know for absolute certain that we'll be together forever.
My four year old daughter is my greatest source of joy and fear and I suspect that I'm utterly typical as a parent in this regard. I get to spend a lot of extra time with her due to the sporadic nature of my job. I sometimes really wish that I was busier with work because it would mean a lot more financial stability for our family but I know that I'll always cherish the extra time I've gotten to spend with her in the pre-school years. There will always be time for my wife and I to work more (and try to get out of debt) when she's in school all day long. For now, every day is full of adventures (see .sig) and play and lots of love.
My friends are the best friends in the world. We game together every week, go on vacations together in the summertimes and in between we are always there to help each other out when a hurricane drops a tree on somebody's house. Most of them are accumulating kids in the same general age range as my daughter so we also see each other on the "Birthday Party Circuit".
And when I say "friends" I also would be remiss if I didn't mention how blessed I feel to have the ENWorld crowd to count among them. You folks are the one stop on the internet that I make sure and take time for each and every day. I very much look forward to meeting many of you in person at GenCon and future Game Days.
That's probably enough about me for now. Nobody wants to OD on Rel on a Tuesday night.
Edit: PS - I'm not mad at the world (at least not any appreciable percentage of it) but I AM horny.
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jgbrowning
Hero
After 33 years, I'm still thinking about what my story is.
I don't think I have a story, so much as a series of poorly-edited interludes meshed together with some BeeGees soundtrack music. Cut to some wacko, cut to me, back to wacko, back to me.
"How deep is your love, how deep is your love?"
joe b.
I don't think I have a story, so much as a series of poorly-edited interludes meshed together with some BeeGees soundtrack music. Cut to some wacko, cut to me, back to wacko, back to me.
"How deep is your love, how deep is your love?"
joe b.
DungeonmasterCal
First Post
jgbrowning said:
Best post yet!
