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Hi All, thank you for inviting me.

My name is Will, I am a Big TTRPG fan, GM, and Actual play consumer, primarily D&D, I started early when my Dad introduced me around 10 years old to 1st edition. And I rekindled my love of the game in 2016 through friends with 5e. It was an essential outlet and contact point for me through the pandemic of which I am very grateful.

I now mainly run 5e games in person and sometimes online. I'm the type of GM who will over-prepare, prepping notes on 100 NPCs you will never meet, automate and immerse players in a world with far too much detail if given a chance.

I'm also a keen tinkerer coder and maker, with 3d printing I print and paint DND minis monsters and terrain for my games. Online games I run on Foundry VTT, and for worldbuilding use Microscope RPG and Obsidian MD.

I run and play in some private games (weekly) as well as being a regular GM at the People DND Sundays alongside @Guvnor. I also built and admin their Discord server. I mainly play in Westmarches campaigns and am itching to run a standard classic adventure or two.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole with me I am willing to talk all things Critical Role and Dimension 20. I am fully up to date with both. I am also a massive fan of Dark Dice, and I am always looking for more actual play podcasts and shows to watch.

Personally, I'm moving away from WOTC settings and content, and advocate 3rd party writers and content providers.

I'm additionally interested in running and playing Cairn, Troika, Knave and other OSR systems and settings like Ultra Violet Grasslands and Acid Death Fantasy. And always open-minded to try something different.

I am a firm believer in the therapeutic benefits of TTRPGs both socially and psychologically and will likely die on that hill.

I have made many friends through the hobby and look forward to making more here.
 
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@KaiserBear welcome. You are a mighty fine roleplayer and friend.
 
Hi, all!

Long time gamer here (I think I started back with the Holmes "Blue Book" boxed set) back in 1980. Played dozens or more different games over the years, before sort of moving away from the hobby for awhile 15 or so years ago. Sort of coming back to it now, though often more as a collector and reader than a player. Though I'd love to get back into an actual game at some point, work and life often get in the way.

Mostly what I'm really interested in right now is hearkening back to my intro to the hobby. I've been going back to the original "booklets" and 1e AD&D, and looking at them from something of an historical perspective. IE: Trying to understand why the designers made some of the decisions they did, and how to play the games in the ways they seemed to have intended.

Though I'm from the USA (although my family did live outside of London for a few years when I was little), a lot of my formative time as a gamer came with a very "British-style" attitude. EG: White Dwarf was my hobby magazine of choice for many years, and I never really gelled much with Dragon, etc.

Happy to meet you all, and looking forward to being part of the forum.
 
Welcome. Sounds like you will fit right in.
 
Herne's Son said:
Hi, all!

Long time gamer here (I think I started back with the Holmes "Blue Book" boxed set) back in 1980. Played dozens or more different games over the years, before sort of moving away from the hobby for awhile 15 or so years ago. Sort of coming back to it now, though often more as a collector and reader than a player. Though I'd love to get back into an actual game at some point, work and life often get in the way.

Mostly what I'm really interested in right now is hearkening back to my intro to the hobby. I've been going back to the original "booklets" and 1e AD&D, and looking at them from something of an historical perspective. IE: Trying to understand why the designers made some of the decisions they did, and how to play the games in the ways they seemed to have intended.

Though I'm from the USA (although my family did live outside of London for a few years when I was little), a lot of my formative time as a gamer came with a very "British-style" attitude. EG: White Dwarf was my hobby magazine of choice for many years, and I never really gelled much with Dragon, etc.

Happy to meet you all, and looking forward to being part of the forum.
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Welcome and well met! Albeit a bit belatedly.
 
KaiserBear said:
Hi All, thank you for inviting me.

My name is Will, I am a Big TTRPG fan, GM, and Actual play consumer, primarily D&D, I started early when my Dad introduced me around 10 years old to 1st edition. And I rekindled my love of the game in 2016 through friends with 5e. It was an essential outlet and contact point for me through the pandemic of which I am very grateful.

I now mainly run 5e games in person and sometimes online. I'm the type of GM who will over-prepare, prepping notes on 100 NPCs you will never meet, automate and immerse players in a world with far too much detail if given a chance.

I'm also a keen tinkerer coder and maker, with 3d printing I print and paint DND minis monsters and terrain for my games. Online games I run on Foundry VTT, and for worldbuilding use Microscope RPG and Obsidian MD.

I run and play in some private games (weekly) as well as being a regular GM at the People DND Sundays alongside @Guvnor. I also built and admin their Discord server. I mainly play in Westmarches campaigns and am itching to run a standard classic adventure or two.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole with me I am willing to talk all things Critical Role and Dimension 20. I am fully up to date with both. I am also a massive fan of Dark Dice, and I am always looking for more actual play podcasts and shows to watch.

Personally, I'm moving away from WOTC settings and content, and advocate 3rd party writers and content providers.

I'm additionally interested in running and playing Cairn, Troika, Knave and other OSR systems and settings like Ultra Violet Grasslands and Acid Death Fantasy. And always open-minded to try something different.

I am a firm believer in the therapeutic benefits of TTRPGs both socially and psychologically and will likely die on that hill.

I have made many friends through the hobby and look forward to making more here.
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Nice to meet you, KB! 😀
 
Hey!
Ernest here, class '83, currently from St Albans, Herfordshire, UK. Nice to mee you all!
I had been into RPGs for many years, and I stopped in 2017. Now I'd like to come back to this beautiful hobby. Hope to find fellow players and hopefully friends here!

See you around
Ernest
 
Hi Ernest, nice to have your here. Hope you find some games to play.
 
Ernest83 said:
Hey!
Ernest here, class '83, currently from St Albans, Herfordshire, UK. Nice to mee you all!
I had been into RPGs for many years, and I stopped in 2017. Now I'd like to come back to this beautiful hobby. Hope to find fellow players and hopefully friends here!

See you around
Ernest
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Hi Ernest, I know we've chatted before. Have you ever visited Chaos City comics in Heritage Close? Marina, who runs the shop, will be able to tell you about the local gaming club.
 
Hi @Maddz, that's good to hear. I lived in Cambridge for 2 years, between 2019 and 2021. Not the best time to live there, however it was what it was! Believe me, this morning I woke up planning to visit Cambridge in the next few days. A sign of the destiny? I'll write you privately to see when you meet to game, hopefully we can arrange.
Answering your questions, I played different RPGs in years: D&D1, 3.x, 4, and 5. (Sorry AD&D, I met you only in videogames). Pathfinder 1E, World of Darkness (Vampires and Werewolves), Warhammer Roleplay 2E, Call of Chtulhu, Sine Requie, Cyberpunk 2020, and Rogue Trader. Also, I used to be a long time GW Warhammer Fantasy Battle and LoTR player. I also tried Warhammer 40k miniatures and another historical I don't remember the name I'm afraid.
I recently opened e couple of posts aiming to find 2 online groups: Pathfinder 2E, and The One Ring. I am also looking for an online group to play a French RPG set in the Middle Earth and translated in Italian called Tiers Age / Terza Era, not translated in English I'm afraid.

@Nathan, thanks for the suggestions. I will go there right today. Cheers.
 
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Ernest83 said:
Hi @Maddz, that's good to hear. I lived in Cambridge for 2 years, between 2019 and 2021. Not the best time to live there, however it was what it was! Believe me, this morning I woke up planning to visit Cambridge in the next few days. A sign of the destiny? I'll write you privately to see when you meet to game, hopefully we can arrange.
Answering your questions, I played different RPGs in years: D&D1, 3.x, 4, and 5. (Sorry AD&D, I met you only in videogames). Pathfinder 1E, World of Darkness (Vampires and Werewolves), Warhammer Roleplay 2E, Call of Chtulhu, Sine Requie, Cyberpunk 2020, and Rogue Trader. Also, I used to be a long time GW Warhammer Fantasy Battle and LoTR player. I also tried Warhammer 40k miniatures and another historical I don't remember the name I'm afraid.
I recently opened e couple of posts aiming to find 2 online groups: Pathfinder 2E, and The One Ring. I am also looking for an online group to play a French RPG set in the Middle Earth and translated in Italian called Tiers Age / Terza Era, not translated in English I'm afraid.

@Nathan, thanks for the suggestions. I will go there right today. Cheers.
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Hi @Ernest83, I believe Chaos City Comics is closed on a Monday.

You've played quite a wide range of games and list some of my favourites.
 
Hi all

I'm Ross, registered here ages ago but failed to say hello. Been playing rpgs for twenty years, including lots of indie stuff at the London Indie RPG meet up, but also loads of D&D at the Ludoquist games cafe in Croydon. Currently, having moved away from London to west Yorkshire I'm mostly playing stuff online.

NIce to meet you all, probably going back to lurking.
 
Nathan said:
Hi @Ernest83, I believe Chaos City Comics is closed on a Monday.

You've played quite a wide range of games and list some of my favourites.
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We're not actually doing any regular gaming at the moment apart from sporadic convention attendances. We seemed to have dropped the ball when we moved out of Cambridge; about the only regular meets we did were the monthly GradPad board games meets which never restarted post-pandemic.

I'd like to start gaming regularly again, but the type of game we like is more theatre of the mind storytelling, especially games with a rich background like RuneQuest which may not to be your taste. The trouble is pulling a group together again!
 
ross said:
Hi all

I'm Ross, registered here ages ago but failed to say hello. Been playing rpgs for twenty years, including lots of indie stuff at the London Indie RPG meet up, but also loads of D&D at the Ludoquist games cafe in Croydon. Currently, having moved away from London to west Yorkshire I'm mostly playing stuff online.

NIce to meet you all, probably going back to lurking.
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Nothing wrong with a bit of Lurking 😉
 
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