Introduce yourself! (Page 6 of 9)

Greetings everyone, my name is Andrew. I'm 35 now and I live in Jersey City, NJ, with my wife, two dogs, and partially-formed future human child (due in August). I moved to the NYC area about 5 years ago for a job, and now I *ahem* work for the government. Before that, I had a pretty odd life in Ohio and I just try to avoid that place now.

I started playing AD&D about 25 years ago when my friend and I were hacking our way through the old SSI DOS games, Pool of Radiance and Secret of the Silver Blades, etc. We wanted a more interesting experience than the computer games could provide, and right about then his sister dumped a bunch of her old boyfriend's gaming books on our heads.

I've played some game or another ever since. From D&D and its derivatives to Rifts and Vampire and many others. I have the dubious honor of having designed Palladium Books' original website logo. It hovered there for about 15 years, and I got $100 worth of products from their website for it. Hoo rah.

In the last few years, my buddies and I have been figuring out various gaming systems through the internet, first by using chat rooms and VOIP, then Google Wave and another VOIP, and finally Google Hangouts using Tabletop Forge and now, Roll20.

I came to LotFP when an old friend invited me to his G+ Hangout game, and decided to use the LotFP rules. I'm quite enamored with the old-school ideals and Jim's philosophy in particular. About a month ago, I started developing an RPG of my own with a magic system that mirrors what he put up in the Dev section. I've been giggling my way through the rules and the forums for the last few days.

Hi, I'm 21 years old and I live in Turku, Finland, with my wife, synthesisers, and records. I'm interested in history, music, films, and 20's & 30's pulp literature.

I don't remember when I first role-played, but I was quite interested in such games from about 10-year-old. I had troubles with finding a group, though, so my fascination was manifested mostly through reading magazines and rule-books. That sounds really lone and it truly was. Anyway, I have been gaming actively for several years now, mostly Call of Cthulhu but some others as well. I'm currently active in two groups. The another one has been dedicated for CoC, but as we formed the other we --after hacking through couple of Conan-inspired BRP adventures-- decided to play something 'old school'.

LotFP proved to be the most interesting of these systems and now we have played it for almost a year. I really like the style and spirit of the game. Clearly separated character classes is a great idea, each has its own specialty and doesn't interfere with the others. Thus all types of characters are needed. Still 'level inflation' is avoided: even though the PCs become able to stand more damage etc. failure is always equally likely. The characters simply can survive from increasing number of failures before they are defeated. Thus there's no need to constantly increase the power level of 'regular' enemies and thus nullify the character improvement.

My name is Chad, age 33, from Bremerton WA (a short ferry ride from Seattle).
I've always liked the idea of RPGs and I read every book I can. I like the more out there stuff like Jorune, Rifts, and Planescape. I like fluff more than crunch. I prefer setting to system.
I love art and enjoy the richness of DCC and LOTFP.

I found LOTFP looking for weird art.
I'm a new GM looking for some sort of holy grail, a font of wisdom that will serve as a template to design my own system.
I get my grindhouse box this week I hope. Coming all the way from finland...

I'm Libertad, I post on other message boards related to tabletop games.

Started reading Dungeons & Dragons books around 2000, got my first group together around 2004.  Played 3rd Edition immensely and still avidly consume it, played a little bit of 4th Edition.  Recently checked out 1st Edition AD&D and various old school retroclones.  Never played in or DM a game for an old school game yet.

I downloaded the lotfp rules some time ago, can't remember when, after browsing the Internet for retroclones.  I particularly enjoyed many of its new spins on traditional old-school gaming, such as thematic changes to spells, the Specialist class, and of course Summoning.

I purchased the Vornheim book after hearing many good things about it, and I got hooked on Weird Fantasy.

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Hello,

I picked this game up after reading the reviews and thoroughly enjoy the rules. I've played since the early 80s and this is a nice new take on things.

Cheers all!

Well. 

My name is Kyle, I am 26 years old and living in Canada (the expensive city of Vancouver).  I first started roleplaying in Highschool when the guy sitting in front of me in Band Class was reading some book with characters and descriptions.  I asked him what it was and he lent me an old copy of the game (White Wolf's Vampire:  The Masquerade) and invited me into his gaming group.

Which turned out to be basically a LARP group, and so I was thrown into the character-acting fire right out of the gates.  Still, by the time the game was wrapping up and my character died, I realized I got upset and that I had grown attached to the character...  which is basically the point I got hooked on the game.

I have since played Dungeons and Dragons, Rifts, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Chaosiums Call of Cthulhu (also the D20 version), any and every White Wolf game basically, plus a bunch more weird and obscure games...  (things like Little Fears)

I found I have a deep love of the mystery / horror genera of games, and I really like them dark and gritty, which is how I got pointed in the Lamentations direction (I searched HORROR on Drive Thru RPG and Lamentations came up.)
Love the idea, love the art, love the balance of Fighters vs any other class, LOVE the concept of one monster / having a rare number of monsters to evoke a sense of mystery and fear.  Totally looking forwards to running a game of this when I get some players together.

Anyways, thanks for having me in the fan base and nice to meet you all.

Hi everyone!  I'm 37, live on the pleasantly foggy California coast near San Francisco.  I started gaming with the Moldvay Basic set ca. 1983-84.  Played AD&D1e and some other TSR games in grade school and college, drifted to other systems starting around 1999 -- folks in my group were mostly into Call of Cthulhu, Fading Suns, Palladium Fantasy, and White Wolf games.  Returned to old-school D&D in late 2004 via Castles & Crusades, then moved on to other OSR flavors...

My arrival at LotFP was largely driven by my interest Early Modern historical/fantasy gaming, which has been steadily increasing since the bug bit me 2009.  I've checked out a few other EM-era games -- Witch Hunter: the Invisible World, Honor + Intrigue, Renaissance, Sabres & Witchery, etc. -- and homebrewed my own Barbarians of Lemuria variant, but when I heard that LotFP was going Early Modern, how could I resist?

LotFP has now replaced Labyrinth Lord as the system for my Barrowmaze game.  I was really impressed by the Better Than Any Man adventure, now I'm looking forward to getting my hardcover Rules & Magic book and checking out some other modules!

(Edited to fix spelling errors)

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My name's Chris, I'm 36 and live in Seattle.

I started with D&D 2E in high school, along with bits of Shadowrun, Paranoia, Marvel Heroes, and a couple of homebrew games.  Then took a hiatus from RPGs for about a decade or so and have gotten back into it.

More recently, have played/ran D&D 3.5, D&D 1E, Pathfinder, (also Tremulus, Fiasco and a few other storytelling games...)

I also have a massive board/card game collection (in the hundreds).

I first saw LotFP (Grindhouse Edition) at a bookstore and was intrigued, but was already in the full swing of other games and didn't see room for another fantasy game at the table.  Then many months later I picked up Better Than Any Man at Free RPG day and was sold instantly.  It's a great foil for Pathfinder, almost opposite in every way (note: I love Pathfinder, but just pointing out how there's now room for another Fantasy RPG at the table...), and is exactly what I wanted out of D&D 1E but was having trouble getting.

Cutter Goode here from Belfast in Northern Ireland. I’m 42 years old, so should be getting to grips with the meaning of life if Douglas Adams is to be believed. I’ve been casually monitoring the OSR scene for a few years now and have bought a few bits and pieces on pdf.

This week I ordered the LotFP rulebook and Carcosa from Jim in reaction to Monte Cook’s Era of the New Men (or Numenera, as he seems to prefer to call it…). I wanted something real, recognisable, written with humour and free of nouveau jargon.

I don’t hate ‘story games’, but given the choice between words and numbers, I prefer numbers.

I started gaming with AD&D back in the early ‘80s and passed through the predictable phases of Cyberpunk, Shadowrun and World of Darkness before settling into Call of Cthulhu and SLA Industries as my systems and settings of choice.

I was also witness to the creation of several home grown games in the ‘90s, and of all of these I regard Wasteland Games’ Heretic to be the most beautiful.

But I never forgot AD&D.

I haven’t played very much since my kids were born but circumstances are now making gaming more of a realistic possibility again. If I have to nail my colours to a mast it might as well be Jim’s mast.

I’ll use small nails Jim, you’ll hardly feel a thing.

Hello, I am a 37 year old construction accountant by day, skateboarder by night, living in south Austin Texas. I began gaming around the age of seven with a game called OGRE by Steve Jackson. I got into fantasy role-playing around the age of eight with some friends at school using the red box version of D&D (not sure what edition that is). Played AD&D until they released second edition (I think I was starting high school about that time), then began playing Rifts with some kids in high school. Switched to Cyberpunk 2020 for a few years, then stopped playing games altogether when I started college.

It was only until a little over a year ago that I got back into gaming after moving to Austin with (ironically) OGRE. Steve Jackson Games is located literally a few miles from my house, and I happened upon a game going on at my local comics shop. I wanted to get back into role-playing a bit more, but found the newer editions of D&D to be a little uninspiring. I realized a little later that OSR was a big thing after visiting some forums, so I did a little research and came across LotFP.

I've started a small group just recently using these rules and Carcosa as the campaign setting. I dig the low-fantasy/sci-fi/horror feel to it.

Hi, my name is Judd. I'm a 38 year old librarian who lives in Queens and works in the Bronx in NYC.

I've been playing lots of Burning Wheel in the past few years. I came by LotFP by way of Seclusium.

I'm looking forward to playing.

Hi. I'm Patrick and I live in Madison, Wisconsin.

I bought my first set of D&D rules in 1983 for $1.00 at a garage sale when I was 7 years old. I wasn't really playing by the rules until about 5 years later when I finally met some older gamers. As a teenager I abandoned gaming for awhile but always wanted to have a regular group and kept buying and reading books, many of which I still have but have never used. I drifted in and out of gaming as an adult because finding a regular group was always a challenge. I spent 8 years, off and on, playing in a Deadlands game.

In 2008 I hadn't played with a regular group in over a year and I wanted to get back into gaming, so I convinced one of my gamer friends to take me on as a roommate and that helped to create a space for everybody to play at. There are three core players in our group and we've seen a lot of people join our group for a time, but then move to another city, or have children, or get a new job, and our game has changed systems and campaigns just as often: Mage: the Awakening, fantasy setting using World of Darkness rules, Legend of the Five Rings, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Stars Without Number, Deadlands, Champions, Apocalypse World, Dungeon World, Arkham Horror (it's a board game but you *can* role-play it), and of course, LotFP.