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| ====== Restless, your humble Dungeon Master ====== | ====== Restless, your humble Dungeon Master ====== |
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| ===== About me ===== | ===== About me ===== |
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| I'm a middle-aged, married computer nerd who hasn't gamed since the early 1990s except for a couple sessions here and there. I am trying to get back in the swing of things. I was the forever DM when I was younger and I'd love to be DMing again for that creative outlet. | I'm a middle-aged, widowed computer nerd who hasn't gamed since the early 1990s except for a couple sessions here and there. I am trying to get back in the swing of things. I was the forever DM when I was younger and I'd love to be DMing again for that creative outlet. |
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| My game of choice is, surprise-surprise, old-school //D&D//. We used to play a weird mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and //AD&D//, but once I started college in the late eighties and //AD&D 2e// began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming. I ran a game for a while through the summer of 1992 and after that I just left the hobby. | My game of choice is [[dict>classic_d_d|old-school]] D&D. We used to play a mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and AD&D 1e, but once I started college in the late eighties and AD&D 2e began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming in favor of school. I ran a game for a while through the summer of 1992 and after that I just left the hobby. |
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| Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007. I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third!// It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found the humble early rumblings of the OSR. | Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007. I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third!// It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found a whole old-school movement. |
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| This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together. Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition. | This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together. Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition. |
| ==== Influences ==== | ==== Influences ==== |
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| [[user:restless:appendix_n|I have a personal appendix N]] that may give you an idea of the sorts of fantasy and gaming I like. | [[user:restless:appendix_n|I have a personal appendix N]] that may give you an idea of the sorts of fantasy and gaming I like and //may// be reflected in what you see at the table. |
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| [[user:restless:dming_style|I have put together my personal DM merit badges that reflect my DMing style.]] | [[user:restless:dming_style|I have put together my personal DM merit badges that reflect my DMing style.]] |
