Introductions

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Who are you?

Introductions

jhubert 31 Jul 2008 12:06

This thread serves as a general introduction for all new contributors to this wiki. Please tell us a bit about who you are, including:

• Where do you live (and have you already created a wiki entry for your home town)?
• What do you do as your day job?
• What RPGs do you play?
• What kind of contributions did you make/do you plan to make to the wiki?
• How did you find the wiki?

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Re: Introductions

jhubert 31 Jul 2008 12:15

I'll start.

• I currently live in Aachen in Germany, although I was born in Erlangen, where I lived for most of my life.
• I'm currently trying to do my PhD in the field of Computational Materials Science (simulating the growth of crystals on the computer). Originally, I studied physics.
• RPGs I am currently involved in:
  • I'm currently GMing a long-running weekly Exalted campaign, which has the usual amount of high-powered drama you'd expect.
  • I also recently participated in a Dark Heresy adventure with my old gaming group (which I visit - along with my parents - every six weeks or so).
  • I plan to run a D&D 4E one-shot in August, since I want to get more familiar with the system.
    • And the reason for that is that I'm trying to write a D&D setting: Urbis - A World of Cities. The basic idea of this setting is that a "typical fantasy world" evolved to see its own magical industrial evolution. Give it a try - and play a game of "spot the tropes" while you are at it. ;)
• I started the wiki, so I'm largely responsible for the overall structure. I'm especially proud of the timeline and the all-new Tropes section. I plan to steadily add to both sections in the future, while not neglecting the other sections either.

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Re: Introductions

quarkstomper 01 Aug 2008 14:48

I wrote a response to this yesterday, but for some reason it didnt' post. Probably I hit "Preview" instead of "Post".

Okay. Introduction, Take Two:

• I live in the City of Sheboygan in the Enchanted Land-O-Cheese (also known as Wisconsin. As you can tell from all the red links, I haven't gotten around to making an entry for any of this yet.
• I tell people that in my Secret Identity I'm a Ninja Cartoonist. I real life I work in a factory where I make parts for SUV's and worry about the state of the auto industry.
• These days I mostly run GURPS. I've also run and enjoyed Champions, Castle Falkenstein, Teenagers From Outer Space and (of course) AD&D (still haven't gotten around to upgrading from 2nd ed). I'm currently running:
  • Saturday Morning Travelling Rock 'n' Roll Band — a light, silly game based on cartoons like Josie and the Pussicats
  • A solo game with my wife set in a D&D-style heroic fantasy world
• So far I've posted the Hodag article and a couple of the tall-tale Mythological Critters; the bio of P.T. Barnum and some local interest articles. Future articles will probably be eclectic and random.
• I read about it in jhubert's post on the Steve Jackson Games Forum.

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Re: Introductions

Aife 02 Sep 2008 17:56

Hi, folks.

I live in Santa Cruz, which I haven't written up—but I did join to make an entry for Santa Carla, which in part was based on the Cruz. So that sort of counts.

I'm a grad student by day (sometimes also by night), which pays lousy but beats looking for a real job. On the bright side, I get poorly-monitored internet access all day; on the other hand, I'm often too busy to enjoy it.

I've played a scattering of RPGs: D&D and several offshoots like True20 and Mutants & Masterminds; some indie games like Universalis and With Great Power; some "misc" weirdness like Amber DRPG and Jadeclaw. I'm running a Mutants & Masterminds game (set in Santa Carla, because why avoid being cheesy with superheroes?), though it'll probably be wrapping up soon as the academic year starts.

Contribution-wise, my bloated folder of gaming bookmarks has a subsection labeled "cool real world stuff" that I hope to eventually share via articles here. Next up is probably the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, if someone else doesn't get around to it first.

I saw the thread about this wiki on RPGnet, and I've long been of the opinion that real world history and weirdness is better for gaming than any fantasy setting I could create on my own, so I think the concept of this place is really neat. I'm a novice to wiki contributions, so hopefully I won't mess up too much. :)

Re: Introductions

r_b_bergstrom 06 May 2009 20:39

As much as I hate drudging up an old dead thread, it seemed only fair that I share, now that I've learned things about you folks…

• I live in Seattle.
  • Prior to that I lived in Albuquerque and before that Minneapolis.

• I no longer have a day job. We moved out here when my wife scored a really good job, and now I'm essentially a kept man.
  • Prior to the move, I managed a game store in Albuquerque. During that time, I was a level two Magic:The Gathering judge, but have ironically let my certification lapse after moving to the heart of Magic: The Gathering territory.

• I'm currently running a Deadlands Reloaded campaign for 5 players,
• and a solo Trail of Cthulhu campaign for my wife.
• I also have a weekly group I get together with that does one-shots and short-shots, so I play a lot of different games.

I've been GMing for several decades, and have tried quite a few different systems and settings. If I listed games in the order of how much I've run them, it'd be:

• Amber DRPG
• old-school D&D
• 7th Sea
• d6 Star Wars

I've also got a fair amount of experience with Continuum and Cyberpunk 2020. Lately, my tastes have been turning towards mechanical elegance, so in the future I'll probably be converting other games to Gumshoe, F#, or Wushu, depending on the needs of the type of story/setting I'm running.

Because of the campaigns I'm currently running, I started my contributions here with

• Western Characters
• Cosmic Horror Tropes

and then gradually diversified into

• Time Travel Tropes
• con games
• various science topics - see astrophysics for links
• Post Apocalyptic Decay

Etc, etc. I'm sure there'll be more soon enough.

• I first learned about arcanawiki via a mention at White Wolf's Scion forums, where I used to be a frequent contributor. I ran a Scion campaign for around a year and a half, but frustration with the mechanics was making me bitter and jaded, :) so I wrapped it up.

Re: Introductions

Natie 14 Apr 2010 16:49

• Where do you live (and have you already created a wiki entry for your home town)?

I'd tell you, but I'm pretty much ashamed at the lameness of the area I live. Other than the supposedly haunted house down the road, there are no famous or even notable things around here.

• What do you do as your day job?

Working at a relatively fancy restaurant while I work on college to be a graphic designer.

• What RPGs do you play?

D&D 3.5 mostly. It was the first game that got my attention and it just keeps delivering. I play a few other games on the side, but I still prefer the one I've been doing for the past ten years.

• What kind of contributions did you make/do you plan to make to the wiki?

Honestly, I don't know what I'll be able to contribute, but whenever I find something, I plan to add it. I think I'll be particularly useful in the Mythological Characters section, though.

• How did you find the wiki?

It was in the "You May Like These Other Wikis" thing at the bottom of my screen once, so I guess you could just call it luck.

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Re: Introductions

jhubert 15 Apr 2010 04:47

Welcome aboard!

Our little project is very close to reaching 2000 content pages, and I hope we will reach that number this weekend - so you are just in time for the celebrations! ;)

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Re: Introductions

the manwich horror 22 Apr 2010 05:40

** Where do you live (and have you already created a wiki entry for your home town)?**

Knoxville, TN. (And working on it!)

** What do you do as your day job?**

Unemployed. The most interesting job I've ever had was antique book restoration, though.

** What RPGs do you play?**

GURPS most anything. I ran a long GURPS Vampire game and some world jumping games.

** What kind of contributions did you make/do you plan to make to the wiki?**

I really love the concept of the wiki, I hope to be able to add the occasional interesting page, or at least produce useful edits.

** How did you find the wiki?**

Mr. Hubert posting on the SJGames forums.

Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. This project looks really interesting and I appreciate all the work everyone has put into it.