So what is this blog thing anyway?
So I started a blog. Not sure why, guess I just wanted to
talk about games, so here we go! I was introduced to gaming in a strange way
really. Back in my teens, in like early 2000 or so, I got into LARPing. Yes, I
did indeed dress up as an orc and ran around my local woods wearing only a
loincloth. It was fun, and then my friends and I discovered DnD 3. Well, that
thing was a revelation. We were sort of obsessed with it for a good long while
in high school, started playing over lunch hour and tried all sort of quite
frankly ridiculous things, which in retrospect where rather funny. Well, skip
ahead a few years and we jumped in joy when 3.5 came out. Then we finished high
school, some when to college, some university and we played less and less. 4ed
came around, but we were poor, so none of us bought the books. But I was always
very much interested indeed.
I read forums; it rotted my brain. Funny thing about forums,
absolutely anyone can post anything, and there is very little moderation
towards content quality. Anyway, I kept on gaming very sparsely, with long bouts of
maybe years between games. Then, about 2 years ago, I found a stable group;
gaming every week (Yay!) really got me back in the groove of thing. I
discovered the OSR and quite frankly, it just felt right. Like this is how it
was always supposed to be and I just saw it. Call it enlightenment. I bought
the re-print of ADnD 1e, and started planning games again. And I read more and
more and more, until I sort of achieved a critical mass. I just had to start
writing stuff. The stuff I make up, my ideas and comments and the way I see and
do thing. So now I write, and we’ll see how it goes.
As to what I’m doing right now, I’m DMing a GURPS 4th
game about SCP agents (www.scp-wiki.net,if
you don’t happen to know. The greatest site I have found in 2012 to be sure)
trying to find dangerous stuff, and am playing in a quite awesome steampunk
pirate.
Welcome to the bearded fool then!
Oh, wondering about the name? I’m bearded and quite foolish
at times. I love simplicity.
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