Introductions

[Harshax]

My name is Arthur, I've been gaming since '79 or so. Played a lot of D&D. Got my hands on RQ in '93, when I came across an unloved copy of RQ2 in a box of my friend's stuff. Quickly moved on to RQ3/Glorantha, which is the edition I played most. When those books started to get a little dog-eared, and my love of the setting waned, I moved on to HarnMaster Core, and was quite active on the harnforum. Along with RQ, HM has to be my favorite. Tried coming back to D&D with 3E, but got burned out due to prep time before games. Tried being a playtester for MRQ, and was unceremoniously booted from the list [no reason, no explanation]. I did manage to be a playtester for DBRP, for which I am very proud, simply because it is now a reality. I've played a lot of CoC, a setting that still gives me the creeps, and one for which I strictly adhere to the player's code , never wanting to delve into the Keeper's section [no spoilers please ].

I was pretty active on the 4E forum until most recently, when I decided that I had no interest in learning a sixth edition of D&D (or 5.5 if you ask the bean counters), and now I'm here. I can't wait for the rules compendium, and putting together a new campaign for myself and my friends. I'm usually polite, though sometimes passionate. My english is often frustrating, though while it is my first language, it is not that of my spanish grandparents who rarely spoke english in the house.

This looks to be a great forum, with some nice downloads, and intelligent conversation. Thanks for the welcome.

[Trifletraxor]

Welcome to the site Harshax!

SGL.

[cjbowser]

Hi, there...

I just wanted to pop in real quick and introduce myself. My name's Chad and I've been roleplaying since the late 80s. Wow... I've hit the 20 year mark -- I've never realized that until now.

I'm a big BRP fan, having played CoC since the early 90s. Since the early 21st century, I've worked on various CoC projects, and now that BRP is going to be widely available to eager consumers, have a couple things already in the works. At least one will be turned in before the end of the year.

Looking forward to chatting with all of you.

[Unclmick]

Hi,

My name is Mike McIntyre. I started rpging in 1978 with the D and D blue box. We played that for years until in the mid eighties I was introduced to RQ. Which I LOVED. It was such a liberating game for player characters that I never wanted to switch back to any system other than that. Of course next was CoC, and then a list of myriad games all played at some time or another from '78 on. Gamma World, Boot Hill, Car Wars, Paranoia, traveller, traveller 2300, and others. Now that my son is yelling for me, I have to go. So any how, I am pretty happy that BRP is on its way.

Best
Mick

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by cjbowser

I'm a big BRP fan, having played CoC since the early 90s. Since the early 21st century, I've worked on various CoC projects, and now that BRP is going to be widely available to eager consumers, have a couple things already in the works. At least one will be turned in before the end of the year.

Looking forward to chatting with all of you.

Welcome cjbowser! Do tell us more about the BRP projects your working on!

Originally Posted by Unclmick

Hi,

My name is Mike McIntyre. I started rpging in 1978 with the D and D blue box. We played that for years until in the mid eighties I was introduced to RQ. Which I LOVED. It was such a liberating game for player characters that I never wanted to switch back to any system other than that. Of course next was CoC, and then a list of myriad games all played at some time or another from '78 on. Gamma World, Boot Hill, Car Wars, Paranoia, traveller, traveller 2300, and others. Now that my son is yelling for me, I have to go. So any how, I am pretty happy that BRP is on its way.

Best
Mick

Welcome to the board Mick! Do you play any BRP with your son by the way?

SGL.

[Unclmick]

Ahh well my son is 4.5 yrs old, and my biggest problem is keeping him out of my dice bag. As soon as I can if he is interested, I'll run him and or his friends through any campaign they want. My buddy from junior high ran both his kids through adventures when they were younger.

Mick

[MurfinMS]

Hi gang,
My name's Ken Murphy. I'm a native of Southern California, and I've been gaming since soon after I'd overheard an accquanitence going on about a dungeon crawl way back in 77. Joining my first game soon after, the fish hook of gaming was firmly planted in the roof of my mouth.
Played LWB (little white box) D&D off-n-on until I read Steve Perrin's 'zine in an APA announcing the arrival of Runequest with "D&D is a thing of the past" as the headline. The article made good sense to me, and I've been a dedicated RQer/ BRP player ever since.
Over the years our group never really bothered using the Gloranthan setting; prefering various flavors of homebrewing. At some point my high school era campaign wrapped up with sinking below the waves.
A few years later I was reading up on ancient history and gnawing my way through Norse sagas and Irish epics, and decided to do a Alternate Earth camapign focused on epic era Ireland. The Irish campaign ran off-n-on for more than a decade.
Relocating to the Southern US in '91, I hooked up with another group of gamers, and we've been playing various stripes of BRP ever since.
Best,
-Ken-

[neorxnawang]

Hmmm, intro thread.

I'm Jeff Moeller. I'm an immigration attorney in Cleveland, OH, previously from Anchorage, AK. I write RPG stuff in my spare time. Currently between groups and have been for a while. Stuff I've written for BRP/Cthulhu include Mortal Coils (Pagan, 1998), TRV3:OOTV (Pagan, 2002) and The Primal State monograph (2007). I just bumbled on to this site, which is good, because my BRP monograph has been in house for a while and is supposed to be out in June. I'll start a new thread discussing here in a bit.

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by MurfinMS

Over the years our group never really bothered using the Gloranthan setting; prefering various flavors of homebrewing. At some point my high school era campaign wrapped up with sinking below the waves.
A few years later I was reading up on ancient history and gnawing my way through Norse sagas and Irish epics, and decided to do a Alternate Earth camapign focused on epic era Ireland. The Irish campaign ran off-n-on for more than a decade.
Relocating to the Southern US in '91, I hooked up with another group of gamers, and we've been playing various stripes of BRP ever since.
Best,
-Ken-

Welcome to BRP Central MurfinMS! What kind of BRP incarnation are you playing now?

Originally Posted by neorxnawang

Hmmm, intro thread.

I'm Jeff Moeller. I'm an immigration attorney in Cleveland, OH, previously from Anchorage, AK. I write RPG stuff in my spare time. Currently between groups and have been for a while. Stuff I've written for BRP/Cthulhu include Mortal Coils (Pagan, 1998), TRV3:OOTV (Pagan, 2002) and The Primal State monograph (2007). I just bumbled on to this site, which is good, because my BRP monograph has been in house for a while and is supposed to be out in June. I'll start a new thread discussing here in a bit.

Please do! Welcome to the forum neorxnawang!

SGL.

[Richard]

Richard Gorman, have posted on Mongoose Forums and GURPs Tarveller as Captain Skip. Started in 1980 on arrival at Aberdeen University where I set up Aberdeen University D+D Society with friends. Obsessive playing of D+D (I was young and naive...and it was fun!) the wonderful Traveller for some years. Since then Cthulhu, Runequest (3rd preferably), Ars Magica, Trinity, Space 1889, Golden Heroes, Judge Dredd, Boot Hill, Gamma World, Middle Earth, Rolemaster, Paladium, Harn, GURPs, Bushido, 'Spacequest' (My SF BRP adaptation), Skyrealms of Jorune, Paranoia, Star Trek, Chill, Mage etc etc. (Of course, inevitably, wrote own system ('Gladius') and unique (Obsessively detailed) setting which almost saw the light of day in the 90's and played well for many years). Love BRP which, like most I suspect, I got into through RQ and CoC. Adored RQ3. It had a few flaws (Some daft spells and confused magic rules, slightly over complex fatigue and character improvement systems...some way of introducing character background quirks, a less melodramatic version of the Ars Magica virtues and Flaws system would have been nice ) but these were easily fixed with simple house rules making it adaptable and detailed. I guess I had hoped this is what Mongoose would have done. Two decades of in depth hardcore campaigning followed around my own fantasy world (Which later introduced bastardised Gloranthan elements). Joy.
Got my hopes up but was seriously disappointed by what I saw of Mongoose Runequest with its broken combat table and very poorly thought out armour, high skills and crit rules. Excited to see BRP realeases on the way...just before my birthday to! Family circumstances have rather ruined my gaming opportunities but methinks I might be buying myself a wee birthday present on June 13th! Good luck with the forum and publications.