What's this guy's story?
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Belen
Legend
I am 28 and I work as a managing editor for a major medical journal. I used to be a writer, but have not written a word (ther than RPG material) since college. I was born in Athens, Georgia and my father was a Marine Corps officier at the time. I graduated from North Carolina University in 1999 and married a beautiful, young woman in February of 2004.
I am always the type of person caught in the middle. I tend to be a focal point for my friends and family. I have always been this way and cannot figure it out, but I realize that it is a very good trait to have as a GM.
At the moment, I am happily married, we're considering buying our first home, and I do marketing work for WOTC on the side.
I am always the type of person caught in the middle. I tend to be a focal point for my friends and family. I have always been this way and cannot figure it out, but I realize that it is a very good trait to have as a GM.
At the moment, I am happily married, we're considering buying our first home, and I do marketing work for WOTC on the side.
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Kanegrundar
Explorer
I'm 28 and work as a digitizing lab manager for the Farm Serivces Agency of the USDA. It's boring work sometimes, but it pays the bills. I do hate the fact that I have to drive over an hour to work everyday. I work in the same small town in Missouri I was born and raised in, though I now live in Independence, MO. It's a big change for an old country boy like me. I don't really like living in the city, so I'm hoping to move further out on the edges of the growing KC metro area.
I'm getting married to a beautiful middle school band instructor next year. She's the best thing to ever happen to me...even if she let's the dog sleep on the bed. (I hate where I sleep to smell like a dog, clean or not.)
My family is huge, as my fiancee has found out over the last year and a half. I'm the oldest of 4 kids (2 brothers and 1 sister), but I have a lot of cousins. My folks are a bit of a rarity in my area (in most areas by the sound of it) in that they've been married for 29 years with only the occasional bump in the road.
High school was OK. I wasn't overly popular, but I had a core group of friends many of whom I'm still friends with now. College was fun, but I never finished (something I'm working on correcting now). However, I don't really talk to many of my friends from college since they only really knew the wild and crazy drunk that I was back then, and I'm not that guy anymore. (I still enjoy a drink every now and then, but not to excess...except on the 4th of July.
) I do talk to a few guys that I gamed with in college. Too bad we're scattered to the fours winds.
I got into gaming with The Legend of Zelda and the old Hero Quest boardgame. From there I started playing Basic D&D, which got me into everything from AD&D to Alternity to Rifts and then into the whole D20 craze. I don't get to game a lot nowadays, but when I do it's usually with my old group made up of a couple friends from high school, my HS science teacher (who is going to be one my groomsmen), and his wife. My fiancee has resisted RPG's so far, but I have gotten her into playing boardgames like Zombies!!! and DOOM with me, so there's hope for her yet! Beyond gaming, I'm into hiking, camping, fishing, hunting (mostly small game and deer), baseball (watching only, my knees are just barely good enough to liesurely hike a trail, so playing is out of the question), computer games, and reading.
I love my life, though this year has been rough so far. I lost my grandfather (on my mom's side) a little over a month ago. I was there when he passed, so I take solace that he didn't die alone, but it's been extremely hard. I was blessed by having 9 of my grandparents and great-grandparents alive when I was born. I'm down to 2 now. It never gets easier letting go.
There you have it. My life overview in a few paragraphs!
Kane
I'm getting married to a beautiful middle school band instructor next year. She's the best thing to ever happen to me...even if she let's the dog sleep on the bed. (I hate where I sleep to smell like a dog, clean or not.)
My family is huge, as my fiancee has found out over the last year and a half. I'm the oldest of 4 kids (2 brothers and 1 sister), but I have a lot of cousins. My folks are a bit of a rarity in my area (in most areas by the sound of it) in that they've been married for 29 years with only the occasional bump in the road.
High school was OK. I wasn't overly popular, but I had a core group of friends many of whom I'm still friends with now. College was fun, but I never finished (something I'm working on correcting now). However, I don't really talk to many of my friends from college since they only really knew the wild and crazy drunk that I was back then, and I'm not that guy anymore. (I still enjoy a drink every now and then, but not to excess...except on the 4th of July.
) I do talk to a few guys that I gamed with in college. Too bad we're scattered to the fours winds. I got into gaming with The Legend of Zelda and the old Hero Quest boardgame. From there I started playing Basic D&D, which got me into everything from AD&D to Alternity to Rifts and then into the whole D20 craze. I don't get to game a lot nowadays, but when I do it's usually with my old group made up of a couple friends from high school, my HS science teacher (who is going to be one my groomsmen), and his wife. My fiancee has resisted RPG's so far, but I have gotten her into playing boardgames like Zombies!!! and DOOM with me, so there's hope for her yet! Beyond gaming, I'm into hiking, camping, fishing, hunting (mostly small game and deer), baseball (watching only, my knees are just barely good enough to liesurely hike a trail, so playing is out of the question), computer games, and reading.
I love my life, though this year has been rough so far. I lost my grandfather (on my mom's side) a little over a month ago. I was there when he passed, so I take solace that he didn't die alone, but it's been extremely hard. I was blessed by having 9 of my grandparents and great-grandparents alive when I was born. I'm down to 2 now. It never gets easier letting go.
There you have it. My life overview in a few paragraphs!
Kane
der_kluge
Adventurer
reveal said:I was born a poor black child...
Heh, that was on last night. Don't trust whitey!
Let's see... I was born in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1972, but only lived there until I was about 4. I have vague memories of living there. We had a small house, and my family was not wealthy by any stretch.
We moved to Dover, Arkansas, a little town in west/central Arkansas to be closer to my wife's family who also lived there. Subsequently, I attended that school from K-12. My dad worked as a car salesman, car mechanic, and then got on at a nuclear plant as a mechanic, and it paid decent money.
I was introduced to the red box by my sister, actually, who bought it because it looked interesting. She didn't know what to do with it, so she gave it to me. I didn't know what to make of it, either, actually. I played my first game of D&D with some friends at a birthday party in 5th grade. I didn't play again until I was a sophomore in high school. That was a 1st edition. I made a drow acrobat, because the GM thought that drow were cool. I named him after a city the GM used to live in - Delmar (California). For some reason, they believed that all drow names should start with "D".
I lived at home while I went to the local university (Arkansas Tech), and majored in computer science. I started out with a minor in music, but dropped it once I realized how futile that was. My school didn't recognize an official minor anyway, so it would have gained me nothing.
I did play clarinet all through college, and it paid for more than half of my tuition. I took a job my junior year at the local Wal-Mart, and paid for the remaining two years myself. I graduated from college in 1995 with a 2.97 GPA (debt free). I could have done much better, but just didn't apply myself very much.
Graduated from college, and transfered from the Wal-Mart store to the home office in Bentonville as a programmer. There, I did C and VB programming for 3.5 years. I eventually left Wal-Mart and moved to Kansas City working at Sprint.
In Kansas City, I met my wife Kelly, and were married in Jamaica in 2000. Next week we're celebrating our 5 year anniversary, and will be expecting our second child in November.
Last year, I moved to Virginia. I play in a weekly C&C game, and am active in the biggest and oldest community band in the area where I play Bb and Eb clarinets. I like to compose music in my free time, but admit that I have a lot to learn about music. I'm also pursuing my master's degree in computer information systems from an online degree program, and am currently stuck in the mire that is cost accounting. At my pace, I will hopefully finish at the end of 2007.
That sums me up in a nutshell, I suppose. Nothing too extravagent.
I am 32, heterosexual, Caucasian male who is comfortably single and will probably remain a bachelor.
I was born a raised in Texas and deeply miss Austin as life took me to rural Alabama. On the up side, I have a very good job currently and might be able to go back to Austin someday.
Dyslexia and being left handed were issues in my youth, along with many unhappy education experiences. However, survival and success are their own reward and revenge on the naysayer.
Fantasy fiction and gaming in-general have been a part of my life for close to 20 years now - some of my best memories include watching Dr. Who with my dad as a kid. Writing the handful of gaming books I’ve written is a way for me to get some traction and credibility in my plans to have a novel published.
I also own a cat and hunt in the winter.
I was born a raised in Texas and deeply miss Austin as life took me to rural Alabama. On the up side, I have a very good job currently and might be able to go back to Austin someday.
Dyslexia and being left handed were issues in my youth, along with many unhappy education experiences. However, survival and success are their own reward and revenge on the naysayer.
Fantasy fiction and gaming in-general have been a part of my life for close to 20 years now - some of my best memories include watching Dr. Who with my dad as a kid. Writing the handful of gaming books I’ve written is a way for me to get some traction and credibility in my plans to have a novel published.
I also own a cat and hunt in the winter.
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Teflon Billy said:
[singing]Hay there Molly, anch't you proud! I hate you one and all![/singing]
fett527
First Post
Hi, my name is fett527, I mean Travis, and I play D&D.
30 years old until Veteran's Day. I was born raised and still live in the Dayton, OH area. I have lived in just about every suburb South and East of Dayton at some point in my life. My father is a Southern Baptist Minister and my mother has been an executive assistant at a local hospital for pretty much as long as I can remember. And I know what many of you are thinking, but our childhood (one brother, one sister, I'm in the middle) was a blast and my parents were no more strict, and in some cases less strict, than other parents. I grew up hooked on Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers as well as the other 80's cartoons (Silverhawks, Thundercats, etc.). I loved high school and played trumpet, baseball and was in student senate. The college thing was interesting. I started out at a local community college but never latched to anything and dropped out. I had gotten a job at a new lazer tag arena called Q-ZAR and I started working full time. This was the most fun I had ever had in my life. It was a great job and the game was a blast and luckily my two best friends and I worked together and we all eventually manged the stroes in Cincinnati and Dayton at one point. I moved on to other various retail management jobs until I had a friend turn me on to computers. I checked out a career path, went to a business school to get industry certifications and I have been working on computer networks for over 6 years now.
I have been married for 8 1/2 wonderful years to my high school sweetheart (she was dead sexy in her cheerleader uniform and still is.) and we have one devastatingly cute son who is 15 months old.
I didn't start gaming until high school and started right when 2nd ed was published. We gamed a lot and the only hiatus I have taken was when I spent 4 nights a week for a year and a half at the business school when I returned and got into 3rd ed just after it came out.
Currently I live in a great home with a wonderful wife (except for her low tolerance for gaming) and a son that I can't get enough of. My friends (Enkhidu and dshai527) write a stroy hour here that is a blast to be involved with. I am a baseball fanatic (love the Reds and own Dayton Dragons [minor league baseball] season tickets], play softball during the summer, love Star Wars and...I guess that's enough.
30 years old until Veteran's Day. I was born raised and still live in the Dayton, OH area. I have lived in just about every suburb South and East of Dayton at some point in my life. My father is a Southern Baptist Minister and my mother has been an executive assistant at a local hospital for pretty much as long as I can remember. And I know what many of you are thinking, but our childhood (one brother, one sister, I'm in the middle) was a blast and my parents were no more strict, and in some cases less strict, than other parents. I grew up hooked on Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers as well as the other 80's cartoons (Silverhawks, Thundercats, etc.). I loved high school and played trumpet, baseball and was in student senate. The college thing was interesting. I started out at a local community college but never latched to anything and dropped out. I had gotten a job at a new lazer tag arena called Q-ZAR and I started working full time. This was the most fun I had ever had in my life. It was a great job and the game was a blast and luckily my two best friends and I worked together and we all eventually manged the stroes in Cincinnati and Dayton at one point. I moved on to other various retail management jobs until I had a friend turn me on to computers. I checked out a career path, went to a business school to get industry certifications and I have been working on computer networks for over 6 years now.
I have been married for 8 1/2 wonderful years to my high school sweetheart (she was dead sexy in her cheerleader uniform and still is.) and we have one devastatingly cute son who is 15 months old.
I didn't start gaming until high school and started right when 2nd ed was published. We gamed a lot and the only hiatus I have taken was when I spent 4 nights a week for a year and a half at the business school when I returned and got into 3rd ed just after it came out.
Currently I live in a great home with a wonderful wife (except for her low tolerance for gaming) and a son that I can't get enough of. My friends (Enkhidu and dshai527) write a stroy hour here that is a blast to be involved with. I am a baseball fanatic (love the Reds and own Dayton Dragons [minor league baseball] season tickets], play softball during the summer, love Star Wars and...I guess that's enough.
Ankh-Morpork Guard
First Post
I'm a 19 year old Florida boy. Born here in Gainesville, but moved up to Woodstock, Georgia when I was 9...but now I'm back here. I've been a diehard Star Wars fan since my Uncle got me watching the movies when I was around 3 or 4. That got me into the WEG d6 Star Wars game around late middle school, and eventually into 2e D&D in its last couple of years.
I spent pretty much all my time in high school saving up cash and getting ready for a huge move to Britain to be with a girl I'd known for a long time. As many here already know, things didn't work out, and while I spent an amazing 3 months in Wales, I ended up coming back to the States. It took me a while to put myself back together, but I'm now taking classes at a local Community College in preparation for heading to a great school in St. Augustine, Fl(Flagler College) in the Spring of 2006, where I'll be working on either some kind of Art or History Degree.
Also, thanks to BrotherShatterstone here on the boards, I've gotten back into communication with a lot of old friends that I lost when I moved from Georgia in early 2004. And despite everything that happened while I was in Wales, I'd still love to go back there one day...preferably to live. But I figure I'll spend time here in the States and finish up school first.
I spent pretty much all my time in high school saving up cash and getting ready for a huge move to Britain to be with a girl I'd known for a long time. As many here already know, things didn't work out, and while I spent an amazing 3 months in Wales, I ended up coming back to the States. It took me a while to put myself back together, but I'm now taking classes at a local Community College in preparation for heading to a great school in St. Augustine, Fl(Flagler College) in the Spring of 2006, where I'll be working on either some kind of Art or History Degree.
Also, thanks to BrotherShatterstone here on the boards, I've gotten back into communication with a lot of old friends that I lost when I moved from Georgia in early 2004. And despite everything that happened while I was in Wales, I'd still love to go back there one day...preferably to live. But I figure I'll spend time here in the States and finish up school first.
