Good evening, folks.
Lux here, from Derbyshire in the UK. I'm 42, and pretty new to the whole OSR thing.
I started playing in 1982 (it was RQ, a game run on New Years Day by my uncle). I loved it. In the intervening three decades, I've run or played loads of different stuff - although never much D&D.
Wife and I took a break from gaming with our old group when we started a family. Now the little chap is a bit older, I've fallen in with my local gaming group from twenty years ago. They love the horror/weird of aspects of Call of Cthulhu.
I picked up the Grindhouse Edition a couple of months ago (Leisure Games were kind enough to throw in a print copy of Better Than Any Man left over from Free RPG Day too). D&D as such doesn't really do that much for me, but LotFP's 'Early Modern' leanings totally hit the spot. I suggested it to the group in the pub on Sunday, and got the go ahead.
I'll be running my first game tomorrow night. I'm going to run Tower of the Stargazer (with a few little alterations) and set it somewhere in the Netherlands. If they survive, I'm going to try and tie in to a visit to Amsterdam.
Joop van Ooms is just *too* brilliant not to use.
Very much looking forward to it 