Hello all, I'm Bill, I'm 25 years old and I'm from Buffalo, New York, a city that once stood as a shining pinnacle of humanity's progress and which now has fallen into decay and neglect. It should come as no surprise then that I prefer Lovecraftian and Post-Apocalyptic type settings.
I got my start gaming in 2005 with a very short-lived D&D 3.5 game being run by a fellow living down the hall from me. I was a druid, it didn't matter, the game lasted all of two sessions because the DM got a girlfriend (who was also an pen-and-paper RPG gamer) and ceased to have time to DM. I got involved with the gaming club on campus and dabbled in a few different games my freshman year. My sophomore year, I got into a 3.0 game that didn't make it past the end of the spring semester as the DM flunked out. I began experimenting with DMing myself, and began a fairly long career of running Call of Cthulhu, with four campaigns having been run to completion as of this writing.
After college, my gaming slowed down some, but I was still active with it -- fortunately, a lot of my friends from school live close enough that we can continue to game together. We've dabbled in Space: 1889, Savage Worlds, things like that, but we keep coming back to Cthulhu and, once we tried it, Pathfinder.
I just wrapped up a long-running Pathfinder campaign earlier this month, and I've been overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the style of gaming it represents: I don't like the gigantic rulebooks, I don't like the endless lists of feats, I don't like there being 700 different classes. I wanted something with lower levels of crunch and a stronger encouragement of "make stuff up, and roleplay a character instead of just crunching numbers."
I discovered the OSR, began researching, and discovered that Lamentations of the Flame Princess is everything I've been pining for and tried to house-rule Pathfinder into functioning as.
I've been working from the PDFs of the Grindhouse edition, just ordered a hard copy last week or so (birthday present to myself), and my group has expressed a willingness to give it a go.