My name's Patrice though I've been around as Kabuki Kaiser — which was a perfectly fine pen name until an Italian post-rock band decided to use it as well. Maybe I'll get them to record RPG music. I'm 40-ish, was born in France from a French-Vietnamian-Swiss-Norvegian-Italian-Chinese-Belgian-Corsican-Hippie-Protestant-Catholic-New Age family. I live in India now, in Poona, a small town of 7 million people, where I teach video game design, hopping to HK and Paris here and there to see the family.
I've started to play real early. Got my Holmes box for my 8th birthday and ran my first level 16-18 adventure when I was 11. This was a disaster of course but hey, I was a kid of ambitions. Talked about RPG on the radio at about the same age, played with friends and the club for ages, though all my "friends" were 25-years old and obviously feeling it a bit weird to have me play along.
I went through a Forge phase, absorbed all the jargon, been quite active there for some time and finally realized that the OSR was doing all that the Forge talked about doing but never did. Since I've never stopped to play D&D, I jumped on the OSR (whatever it is, really) wagon as it started to roll.
I run my games with a LL/LOTFP mashup, nothing special enough to release my own retro-clone though I wish the supplements I release, trying to achieve somewhat of a compatibility with both (which also means with all the OSR, all bickering about AC and the like aside) are worth it.
