Introduction

[prizefighter2112]

Greetings fellow nerds.  I'm Josh, I live in Austin TX.  I've been gaming since my grandfather introduced me to AD&D when I was thirteen, back in the year of our lord, 1996.  I have really only played D&D, with very brief side tracks into shadowrun, cyberpunk, and battletech.  Only recently have I taken up the mantle of DM, and I have found both the podcasts and the actual plays here at RPPR to be excellent for fostering ideas.  Not to mention extremely amusing.  They've also sparked a real desire for more variety of games, whetting my appetite for wonders such a Monsters and other Childish Things, and Call of Cthulu.  So to Ross, Tom and the rest of the RPPR crew... a Salute.


I also like kender...*cringe*

[Boyos]

Uh oh another codered supporter! lawl just teasing!

[clockworkjoe]

Thanks! What are you running right now?

[prizefighter2112]

Thanks! What are you running right now?

We have an ongoing 4e Eberron campaign that we rotate DM responsabilities.  I'm in the middle of reading Trail of Cthulu, and a buddy just hooked me up with a compendium of all the Dragonlance modules in 2nd edition.  Idly contemplating converting those to 4e, or just stepping into the wayback machine and running them AD&D style.  Also have a buddy gearing up for a nWoD one-shot, which I'm VERY excited for, and another buddy wanting to kick the tires on Warhammer Fantasy.  I'm just absolutly dying to play in a CoC scenario, I just have to convince someone to run it.  Also taught my wife, mom, and little sister the wonders of 4e, and now my wife has started DMing a little family game on Sundays.  Adorable!

[Tadanori Oyama]

Eberron! High Five!

[ristarr]

Hi Everyone, 
I am Richard from Atlanta, GA.  I started playing games with AD&D many years ago in high school in a small town in Alabama.  Not the easiest place to find gamers.  We played pretty regularly for several years until graduation.  I gamed in college, but nothing regular.  We played a lot of cards ( bridge mainly ), Illuminati, Talisman, etc in addition to pickup games of DnD.

I stopped playing for many years until a WotC store opened up about the time 3.0 came out.  I ran a game for some people at work for a couple of years until the internal party strife drove everyone apart.

About a year ago I picked up 4.0 and met some people in town through meetup.com and started playing some.  I am now running a 4.0 campaign, but not playing in one right now.  I don't understand all the controversy, the system seems to work pretty well.  I guess it is just the normal "change is bad" thinking.

At Dragoncon this year, I played in a lot of great games.  They were mainly with the Arc Dream people.  One game with Ross ( Sucrose Park ) and two with Ben Baugh ( Candlewick and Kerberos club ).  I didn't really know anything about the ORE system before playing in it, but everyone was great about explaining how it worked.  I actually heard about Monsters on a podcast driving home from work the day before the con, so I was happy to see the games being ran there.  I also played in a great AD&D game that was a "historically based" version of a rescue of Richard the Lionhearted, complete with pictures and layouts of the actual castle he was held in.  I think that playing with all these great GMs help convince me that it is not so much the system as it is the people you are playing with that makes a great game. 

A couple of us are trying to get a rotating game group going.  Kind of a GM's choice game.  Someway to play all the games that are gathering dust on the bookshelves.  The ones I really want to run/play are Monsters, Kerberos, Delta Green, CoC and Dread.  So hopefully we will be able to get that going.  I am amazed at the number and quality of the RPGs out there.

I have just started recording our games and it is turning out pretty well.

Enjoying the podcasts and forums!

[Vega Baby]

Hello everybody.  I'm relatively new to the hobby of RPing, and have only been playing for about a year.  My first game, oddly enough, was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, though I have since moved on to the greener pastures of D&D and Monsters and Other Childish Things.

I'm currently running a 4E campaign, with a few Monsters one-shots thrown into the mix every now and then. The RPPR Podcast has been a huge boon to my DMing. Also, it introduced me to Monsters, which has swiftly become my favorite system.

So yeah, that.

[Diametes]

Hello to all. I registered back in October, but figured that March was a good time to post.

I've been listening to RPPR since the Tides of Doom adventure and instantly fell in love with the podcast. The mental imagery of the first monster still sends jawesomeness through my very core. I started my RPG career in high school with a homebrew game based on Final Fantasy Tactics, and from what I recall it was fairly good. From there I jumped into a Deadlands game with that same group and later a 3.5E campaign.

My current group is running a 3.5E campaign (Tried to get my friend to run 4th, but he believes it to be Satan incarnate) that's been going since last October. With the exception of our GM and myself, the other people are relatively new to RPGs. I'd feel horrible in saying that the GM and I popped their "RPG cherry" with RIFTs. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I absolutely regret that decision. Between our RIFTs game and current campaign, I attempted to run Dark Heresy with the group. The general weakness of the characters and the fact that they could not run around blowing everything up was mind-boggling to them. They're more of the "Fight me or give me a quest!" variety. Now that the 3.5E campaign has mellowed them out, I'm going to attempt to get a Rogue Trader game started in a few weeks.

[Maze]

O' hai guys! Welcome!

[+1 Hat]

Hello the forum.

Bill here.
That Bill, yes.

Been ghosting since the new forums went up, got tired of making Dan be my occasional forum puppet.
Decided I needed to make myself known before a whole year got by me.

Things worth knowing:
Been gaming since sophomore year of college, so 2004. Dan brought me into the fold with Star Wars d20, back when many of us lived in Scholars Hall @ MSU.
Neti are a fun race Declarative sentences are declarative.

Met Ross (and Patrick) via Matt Howell (Orphan Bane, Matt-in-the-Hat Irl) junior year via a late winter break one-shot (Twilight 2000, IIRC). Collided a few times since, then left town for a couple of years. Came back, moved in w/ Dan (hurray low rent), played some 4e, got yelled at by Mike, ran my own game (this sentence is not chronological), let that game die in a pile of 'meh.' because I was tired of being unemployed, got a job that mostly keeps me out of gaming.
Hoping to correct that last bit soon.

True story: I can't listen to any actual play I'm in for more than about ten minutes before I get the Jibblies. It's not the whole voice-minus-skull-resonance thing, that I can handle, but I just can't be entertained by them. Things that are funny at the time, or are great from other people, just turn dumb when I know it's me.

Other true story: I haven't ever been an active, frequently-posting member of a forum before, but I'm trying to get comfortable writing by just doing more of it, so maybe you'll be seeing more of me around these here parts.

[Boyos]

Woot! Don't be scared of posting in forums, there what makes the internet fun between porn sessions and mmo's!

[Sean-o-tron]

Hooray!  Join in the discussions, you will get sucked in if you're not careful.

By the way, great job on the first DRYH game (just finished listening to it).  Any plans for more?

[+1 Hat]

Well, Ross's DRYH books are setting across the room from me right now, and have been for a month, or maybe two.
It's just plain hard to organize much of anything with daywalkers these days - I work overnights, and 4x10s at that.
I do rather enjoy the game, though, and it's high on my list for when the RPG inertia pendulum swings my way again.
That and Dogs in the Vineyard, should my books ever arrive - need to email the author about that.


Edit: Acronym fail.

[Setherick]

Hello the forum.

Bill here.
That Bill, yes.

Bill learn where the damn introduction sticky is. <3

[beowuuf]

I'll second the comment about DRYH - in a set of strong podcast offerings for the ransom, your DRYH game was definitely one of the best!