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Obligatory Introductions Thread

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Tue, 2009-07-21 13:00

Colin Chapman Colin Chapman's picture

Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hey, every forum has one. ;) My name is Colin Chapman, I'm a primary school teacher (elementary school for those Stateside), husband, and the father of a strange diminutive imp called Rosie. My gaming even enters into my teaching as I run an after-school RPG Club for kids aged 9-11. I'm also an established rpg freelancer (recently retired for reasons divulged below) involved to a lesser or greater degree in the following rpg publications: TALISLANTA PUBLICATIONS: A Players Guide to Talislanta, A Gamemaster’s Guide to Talislanta, The Menagerie, Hotan's History of the World, Northern Reaches, The Darkness, Chronicles of Talislanta: Revised and Annotated, Midnight Realm, Talislanta Fantasy Roleplaying Game, 4th Ed., Talislanta: Tenth Anniversary Edition, ORE PUBLICATIONS: Wild Talents, Wild Talents Essential Edition, Talent Operations Command Intelligence Bulletin 3 Marine Talent Operations in the Pacific Theater, Will to Power, ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN PUBLICATIONS: Book of Archetypes 2: Attack of the Archetypes, Book of Archetypes, Enter the Zombie, Zombie Master Screen, IRON KINGDOMS PUBLICATIONS: Iron Kingdoms World Guide, Iron Kingdoms Character Guide, Lock & Load: Iron Kingdoms Character Primer, Monsternomicon: Volume 1 - Denizens of the Iron Kingdoms, half a dozen Guts-n'-Gears articles for No Quarter magazine, OMNI SYSTEM PUBLICATIONS: Atlantis The Second Age High Medieval, The Omni System, Hellas: Worlds of Sun and Stone, Hellas: Princes of the Universe (due this year), Terran Trade Authority, A|STATE PUBLICATIONS: Lostfinders Guide to Mire End, CASTLES & CRUSADES PUBLICATIONS: Castles & Crusades Player's Handbook, Castles & Crusades: Collectors Edition, WASTE WORLD PUBLICATIONS: A Fist Full of Credits - Waste World Starter Pak, Hydra, UBIQUITY PUBLICATIONS: Secrets of the Surface World (Hollow Earth Expedition), Mysteries of the Hollow Earth (Hollow Earth Expedition - due later this year), CARTOON ACTION HOUR SEASON 2: Cartoon Action Hour Season 2, Giant Transforming Robots, FAERY'S TALE: Faery's Tale Deluxe, MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS: Arms & Armor (d20 System), Barbarians of Lemuria, Tribe 8 Companion. I recently retired from freelancing to start work on all those projects wriggling at the back of my skull through long years of freelancing. I started my first personal rpg project back in May, and writing on it is nearing completion. Its working title in Mutants & Musclecars, and you can read about it here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=10636352 Beyond that, I'm a mod/admin on the Cthulhutech forums, responsible for massive resource threads like this: http://cthulhutech.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=936 Some of you will already have seen the free EP-appropriate music thread I started on the forums here. Outside of gaming, I'm an Atheistic Humanist, newly-discovered Transhumanist, and left-wing monkey with a love of history, sci-tech, art, and research, and that's me in a metallic circuit-embossed capsule.

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Tue, 2009-07-21 14:11

H_plus_plus H_plus_plus's picture

Lots of RPG's

Hey Colin, you've been involved in some great games! Love Godlike and the ORE. I too am English and a newly-discovered Transhumanist. Eclipse Phase along with GURPS Transhuman Space, Shadowrun and Corporation are my games of choice right now. Really looking forward to the book and pdf as this forum will really animate when we have the core-rules to discuss. Chris

Tue, 2009-07-21 15:26

GregH

I'll see your introduction and raise...

Greg Higgins. Currently unemployed but heavily into community stuff that keeps me sane in bucolic Battle Ground Washington. Single (but an uncle) graduate from the Art Institute of Portland. I did some graphic work and some character work for a (sort of counter) Transhumanist game called "Fourth Millennium" back in the day, but overall I play em' more than work with them. Mostly secular, love SF from atomic rocketships to Transhumanist transcendence. Largely apolitical (one of those fools that believes in Third Parties for the most part). Love art, hanging around in the wonderful northwest, coffee, cultures in general, wont' turn aside a fancy technical gadget but my heart belongs to antiques from the Victorian era and writing instruments in particular. Fanatical fan of good ol' HP Lovecraft, have proudly aided in several film projects for the HP Lovecraft Film Festival (my favorite being the animated "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"). Currently comitting a number of atrocities in the RPG "3:16 Carnage Among the Stars". End of Line...

Tue, 2009-07-21 16:13

Colin Chapman Colin Chapman's picture

Man, I know what you mean by

Man, I know what you mean by Third Parties. After years of being Labour, then Lib Dem, I grew sick of the main political parties here and ended up voting Green.

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Tue, 2009-07-21 16:14

Colin Chapman Colin Chapman's picture

Thanks for the kind words,

Thanks for the kind words, mate!

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Tue, 2009-07-21 17:01

Jimson

Name is Steve and I’m from

Name is Steve and I’m from Minnesota, married and have a son. I’m just recently getting into cyberpunk (Shardowrun) and transhumanist (EP and reading Nights Dawn) genres. I started playing table-top RPGs around 2001 with D&D 3rd ed. Before that, I played PC and console RPG’s. I’m really looking forward to EP, but with only being able to get together with my gaming group about every other month, trying to fit EP in with our Shadowrun campaign may get tricky. I’m a big fan of Star Wars and Star Trek, Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) and the Forgotten Realms (but that’s dying down with the mess that is 4Ed). Now all my RPG money is going to Catalyst (just picked up the PDF of Running Wild). I think I have to thank Catalyst for broadening my horizons from some of the main stream RPG genres.

Wed, 2009-07-22 11:36

schoon

Sean from Oakland

Let's see here: in real life I'm a program and product manager for a high-power electronics firm (satcomm, deepspace communication, medical, energy transformation, etc.).

I'm part of a regular gaming group where we play D&D 3.5, GURPs, and Dark Heresy - - and hopefully Eclipse Phase!

I've done writing for Black Industries (and now Fantasy Flight Games) for the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader lines, but "free time" kind of limits the quantity of work I can do!

Thu, 2009-08-20 01:05

black campbell black campbell's picture

Scott from Albuquerque

I'm finishing my doctoral work in modern history at UNM. Been playing for 30 years or so, was a police auxiliary and an intelligence analyst. I've written two novels, one still available on Amazon. I've also worked in the RPG industry, but got tired of not getting paid. Most of my work was on Victoriana, including primary writer on "The Smoke" and the upcoming Faulkner's Guide. Also did a London sourcebook and wrote a sizeable chunk of the Africa book for "Imperial Age" by Adamant.

Thu, 2009-08-20 09:43

jknevitt

James Knevitt

Artwork planner/coordinator for Gillette by day, budding freelancer by night. Live in Providence, work in Boston. Writing CITY OF CLOCKS for Seraphim Guard, plus some stuff on the horizon for Arc Dream Publishing. Married, zero spawn.

That's about it, really. I'm a massively dorky ultra-left atheistic humanist transhumanist, and I identify strongly with anarcho-syndicalism and soft anarcho-communism; I like to think I fit squarely into the EP definition of an outer-system Autonomist.

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Sun, 2009-08-23 17:16

#10

Imajica

I swear there isn't a game on

I swear there isn't a game on the planet Colin's not been involved in. Imajica - John to those who know - one of the site admins for www.nextgenrpg.com, admin for Colin's own website, involved in numerous games and projects for a couple of decades now, player and GM. I'm in IT on a godforsaken rock in the middle of nowhere. And I'm also the webmin for a number of Drupal sites including my works intranet... I'm just saying.

Sun, 2009-08-23 17:41

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Colin Chapman Colin Chapman's picture

Hey John! I do get around,

Hey John! I do get around, but I'm not involved with EP, and since I started R.A.D. and formulated the V6 Engine, EP is one of the few new or forthcoming rpgs to actively grab my interest.

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Wed, 2009-08-26 17:26

#12

puke

wow, i thought Clocks died at

wow, i thought Clocks died at DP9. glad to hear it was picked back up!

Thu, 2009-08-27 00:54

#13

Primus

Greetings!

Call me Primus. I am long time gamer from the Milwaukee, WI area who particularly enjoys sci-fi. My first RPG was TSR's Star Frontiers and I currently love Mongoose's new version of Traveller. I've been captivated by transhumanist memes every since GURPS tried their stab at it and I've been waiting with bated breath for Eclipse Phase since I first saw a teaser ad in one the trade publications at my FLGS.

I confess that I don't have the rules just yet. The last couple of months have been pretty damn expensive for me, so I can't even justify the expenditure of $15 for the PDF right now. In real life I work full time as a call center operator for a local non-profit organization and I'm starting going back to school this fall to get a degree in a field that's a bit more technical, marketable, and lucrative than my pathetic BA in Journalism.

Anyway, I look forward to contributing to the discussions on this forum. See you folks around!

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Primus

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Fri, 2010-07-09 05:39

#14

Draconis

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Thu, 2009-09-17 20:53

#15

The Doctor The Doctor's picture

*hat into the ring*

Hi. My name is Bryce, and I go by the handle The Doctor as often as not. By day I work as a security professional for a consulting firm, and by night I hack hardware and software for fun. I've really gotten into microcontrollers lately, as well as designing and building non-traditional synthesizers (most of which incorporate chip lasers in some fashion). When I have time I hang out at HacDC, a hackerspace in Washington, DC.

I first found out about Eclipse Phase from a good friend of mine who turned me on to Orion's Arm a few years ago.

As you've probably guessed, I also identify as a transhumanist, though less in the philosophy and more in certain technologies and what people can make them do outside of a laboratory or factory setting (hardware hacking and DIY, basically). I'm especially interested in rapid prototyping and fabrication (I helped work on a RepRap and fell in love with the technology), distributed computing, cryptography and cryptanalysis, open source hardware and software, wireless data networking, artificial intelligence, and information security (surprise, surprise).

I've been collecting RPGs for the better part of twenty years (my family got me into them as a way of making friends) though I've actually played very few of them because I usually have a difficult time finding other players. I'm really into EP right now, which is an odd game because it's the first that I've ever wanted to really sit down and write stuff for.

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Sat, 2009-09-19 15:38

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ShimmerGeek ShimmerGeek's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hi guys,

I'm a Computer Games Student from Scotland - at the moment I'm Roleplaying once-a-week (playing Orpheus - I'm definitely not a WoD fan, but I love that setting so far) and as of this week coming, I'll be GMing once a week (Shadowrun) and hopefully playing another game of either Unknown Armies, or possibly Eclipse Phase (if there's enough space in either of them :) newbies get first pick, and I am not new ^^)

I've played all sorts of things, and ran all sorts of things; though a few favourites of mine are Unknown Armies, Nobilis, and anything Cyberpunk-ish (mainly Shadowrun, though some of the Ex Machina settings are great too)

At the moment I'm looking forward to picking up print copies of Eclipse Phase, the Kerberos Club, and the new Shadowrun stuff :)

Okay.. yeah, I know, I should really say something about me more than 'Yay! Roleplaying!' on the introduction thread ;)

I'm a girl, I love Roleplaying/Boardgaming/Cardgaming/Videogaming and stories of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supers genre in any medium (Movie/TV/Novel/Graphic Novel/Comic)

Uhm, keep feeling like I should say more, but I guess I'm defined by my passions, heh :)

I love Eclipse Phase so far - Thanks!

Thu, 2009-10-29 07:59

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7thSeaLord 7thSeaLord's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Greetings. Longtime Aussie RPGer (and SF fan) here. My problems all began with buying a certain game that comprised three softcover books in a small black box, and just kind of took off from there. Yeah, THAT long ago. As far as gaming goes, my preferences usually run towards swashbuckling and high adventure (ie. Doing Cool Stuff), but I have been known to go outside this. Have played most "name" RPGs at least once, and have refereed long-running 'Traveller' and 'Star Trek' (FASA) campaigns. Currently, I run a '7th Sea' campaign (pirates and magic) and participate in campaigns for several other systems. So, how did I get mixed up with 'Eclipse Phase'? Basically, I saw the book on the 'Just In' shelf of one of Sydney's FLGSs, got curious and had a look. Then I had another look. And another. And ... you get the idea :). Just bought the book a few days ago, and I am STILL going through all the stuff in it. I am impressed, to put it mildly. Much as I love space opera style settings (and I still do, trust me on this), I also know they have major limitations on various points. Hmmm. What else? Based on what I have picked up via this site, I have definite Transhumanist sympathies (at least!). My personal politics, depending on what exactly you ask about, vary from somewhere to the left of Che Guevara to (mostly, I admit) somewhere to the right of Ghenghis Khan. My interests include Australia, Forteana, miniature painting (only for 7th Sea' so far), history, SF, space, militaria, technology, whatever else might grab my attention, and combinations thereof. I'm happily married with one fairly well-adjusted teenage daughter. Can also say without shame that I really like all incarnations of 'Star Trek'; and that my favourite authors include David Weber and Terry Pratchett. Suppose I could detail my various personality flaws, but am probably best off saving them for the discussions.

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Sun, 2009-11-22 14:30

#18

Wild_Cat

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Testing. One, two, is this thing working... [ear-shattering feedback] Looks like it is. Hi. I'm Max, also vaguely known as Wild_Cat on various ill-defined subsections of the Internet. Use whichever you like. Pleased to meet you all. I hail from Aubagne, France (anyone feel like playing EP somewhere nearby?), am 26 years old, and have been roleplaying for 10 years or so. I started with AD&D (unsurprisingly), and quickly moved to Shadowrun 3, which became my weapon of choice until my group split up, shortly before 4th edition hit the streets. To this day, 2050s-60s SR remains my favourite setting, with its neon-lit, kick-a-dumpster-bin-and-a-Predator-falls-out back alleys, and intricate metaplot (SR4 is okay, mind, but it doesn't have that I-played-it-for-almost-10-years nostalgia factor). But I digress -- Eclipse Phase, then. Turns out that I didn't know anything about it, other than a few word-of-mouth "it's awesome, you have to try it" and "it's CC licensed, you can yarr it legally!", until I went to the Monde du Jeu convention in Paris a couple months ago, and found out that 1. Rob Boyle had written it, and 2. He was there. I and a friend decided to take advantage of the situation, and asked Rob to tell us about that new game of his. We chatted for more than an hour (if you read this and remember me, Rob, thanks again -- [i]that[/i] is customer service of the most awesome kind), during which it was made clear to me that the EP setting was simply mind-blowing. Yeah, first real contact with transhumanism here. So I yarred the PDF, liked it, ordered the dead tree book, and am now planning to resurrect part of my RL gaming group to start a game of it. Wish me luck.

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Tue, 2009-11-24 20:03

#19

Mike Taylor Mike Taylor's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Oops! Looks like I missed this! Anyway, I'm Mike Taylor. Some of you may know me from RPG.net, which is where I discovered this wonderful new game setting. I'm from South Georgia, although I lived in Chicago for nearly a decade before moving to my present home in Southwest Florida. I was a [i]BattleTech[/i] fan back in the late 80's to late 90's. You can count me among the lucky few to have played with the VR pods at North Pier's BattleTech Center, back in the days of Darklord, Isis, Narf, Hellraiser and Pyrotech. (I was Cheese.) Nowadays, I work big box retail (Black Friday looms nigh! AAAAH!) and try to keep out of the Florida sun. I've been a gamer since 1983, starting with the Red Box Basic D&D set and progressing from there.

Mon, 2009-11-30 11:20

#20

Arathi

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hi, I'm Jakub Nowosad from Poland. First of, sorry for any mistakes in my English. I'm a lawyer and a rpg gamer for 13 years.　I know about 100 games but my non-polish favorites are: Blue Planet, Transhuman Space, Castle Falkenstein and now EP. I'm the organizer of some polish conventions and an active member of my local fantasy club "Stowarzyszenie Rzeszowski Klub Fantastyki Nawigator" (try to read this correctly :-P ). I was a member of the Network of European Technocrats, but now I just watch news about technocratic societies, sci-fi, H+ and other similar threads. My hobby is memetics. I even have my own theories about memes. I hope my adventure with EP will be long and full of fun. EDIT: you can find me on Facebook and My Opera... ^^

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Wed, 2009-12-16 00:55

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TheRawrnstuff TheRawrnstuff's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hmm, it seems I'm pretty much the junior here, many of you playing long before I was even born. Hi y'all. I've been playing for some 8 years now, 6 of them acting mainly as a GM. I've tried my feet in some dozen or so games by now, with more on the way. I'm a glutton for RPGs, and especially for the ones that need actual dice. My favourite games include, but are not limited to Hell on Earth; Wasted West, Legend of the Five Rings, Cyberpunk and several settings for d20 system. My favourite system is with no doubt the one in Cthulhu, but for me the setting just didn't click. I've been searching a good SF game forever, and so far it seems I've found the best now. I hail from Finland (so I apologize my "accent". In school we learn british, but media is filled with american. Let's add some australian and we're pretty much done.) and am about 22,6 years old. My name you wouldn't understand, but it could be translated as "James (from the) House of the Smith". Naturally, by the age of 22 (and a half!) I really haven't got that much chance yet to get myself any cool-sounding jobs or titles, but I'm working on it. Promise. Currently I'm studying as a hardware engineer, even though that's not a job I've ever dreamed of having. In my past I used to host an actingclub, do some stand-up, work several years on a confirmation camp, found God, lost God and did a lot of charity- and trust jobs. On my free-time I mainly just mingle with the girls, design and write freelance, still do some trust jobs (for example, for my syndicate/trade union) and, of course, RPG with my friends (well, at least with those who haven't travelled god knows where to study).

Tue, 2010-01-05 08:24

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The Green Slime The Green Slime's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Namaste all. My name's Chris, and I'm a self-replicating electrovorous slime mold from beyond the m- *coughcough* excuse me, I mean to say I'm a healthy hominid male of 28 solar revolutions, 2952 fluid ounces and 18033990261.6453 angstroms. I very much hope we can all agglomerate our organic tissues in the ritual called friendship! I've only recently discovered EP on a P2P network but I'm deeply enamoured. My long-held interest in gaming had more or less petered out over the past few years, though I'd kept up half-heartedly adding ideas to a post-apocalypse story/setting which, while similar in theme and mood, would only ever have been the merest shadow of the EP universe. Discovering such a well-realised game fully in line with my own frustrated imaginings was a godsend, and in exchange for curing my near-fatal artistic constipation I feel I must lend support however I can. The incarnation through which I type this lives in the UK, at present without gainful employ but training to enter the security field. When vertical I engage it in many pursuits and preoccupations such as progressively challenging gravity with large metal discs, perambulating at speed and engaging in the arts of bodily combat. I also gain pleasure from vibrating the air at bass frequencies by means of plucked strings. My knowledge of the lower spectra of human culture, particularly in the forms you call "film" and "music", is vast. Memetically I am host to progressive yet cynical leftist political thinking with paradoxical enmity toward most all larger human institutions, which justifies my not voting. I also espouse the belief that the greatest retardant acting upon humanity's advancement up the Kardashev scale is adherence to non-dialectical Cartesian thought-patterns.

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Sat, 2010-01-16 09:36

#23

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hi, I'm Anders Sandberg. A bit of academic jack-of-all-trades with background in computer science and neuroscience. I have also helped make a neuroscience exhibition, founded the Swedish transhumanist association, and written various papers and books on transhumanist issues. These days I am working in the Oxford philosophy department (!) at the Future of Humanity Institute. I actually have existential risks and enhancement issues as part of my job. I have been roleplaying since sometime back in the late 80's. 2300AD (and recently, 2320AD), lots and lots of Storyteller games (esp. Mage) and increasingly home-brew sf or superhero settings. Eclipse Phase feels almost like the writers have picked my mind on in many areas (hey! do you have a bootleg ego copy of me?!) - I am very fond of strongly transhuman settings with the potential for a bit of nightmare fuel. I'm also the originator of the futuristic warning signs I happily notice are used as icons here and there.

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Sun, 2010-03-21 14:36

#24

Catadmin

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hai. I'm Brandie, living in not-so-sunny-at-the-mo Florida. By day, I'm a database administrator, by night, I'm doing all sorts of writing gigs (fiction, etc.). I'm a baby EP & SR freelancer. So far, I've done some editing on EP and am hoping to get in some writing of my own soon. Other stuff I'm doing right now includes re-writing a fantasy novel, the new creation of at least three, possible four, short stories, and active submissions in the pipe for non-RPG stuff. I also present at local user group meetings and SQL Saturday events (free code camps for people interested in that kind of stuff). I'll probably be lurking more often than not, but I just wanted people to know that I'm here.

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Mon, 2010-04-12 19:03

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Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

29 years old, living in Poland(but planning to move to UK within couple of months). Long time gamer and hard SF fan, with deep love for Peter Watts, Alastair Reynolds, Gregory Benford and Stephen Baxter books as well as work. While these days I enjoy almost only hard SF, I confess that when I was younger I loved Resnick's Ivory novel and Star Wars D6 RPG among others. RPG settings I love include Dark Sun, Blue Planet, Fading Suns, Transhuman Space, and of course Eclipse Phase. Personally I am interested in too many things to list among others-China in international relations, transhumanism, space exploration, influence of technology on religion and myticism, extrasolar planets... In EP I am interested in religious cults and beliefs adopting to technological change, or coming out of it. Since I also like exotic post-apocalypse settings my interests are also post-Fall Earth and various worlds beyond Pandora Gates. As to my profession-currently unemployed, previously worked for legal department in international banking corporation(although I studied journalism and international relations working on EU-China relations). Would love to visit places like California, New Zealand, China, Antarctica and work in ESA or EU-Chinese institutions in the future :) My beliefs are centered around the idea that humankind must explore and spread through space in order to escape extinction and to spread both life, biological diversity and intelligence. I highly value diversity seeing it pool of endless solutions for survival in different and ever changing conditions presented by the world-regardless if it means a catholic station on a planetoid or dyson tree inhabited by society made out of four sexes that change throught the lifespan of the individual ;) Eclipse Phase really sparked my interest-it contains a lot of ideas that I guess were wandering around in my mind after reading hard SF books. I think it is the first system that captures the feel of new modern Hard SF in RPG setting.

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Tue, 2010-04-13 15:32

#26

Thampsan

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hey there all, it is great to see the EP forums so abuzz with activity. On the internet I go by the handle Thampsan for most any online game or forum (anyone here play League of Legends?). I am a University graduate from Australia who majored in the fields of Sociology and Philosophy, and hopes to further his degree by doing my Masters (and eventually PhD) in Philosophy. I am also an avid transhumanist, I lurk on several big transhumanist/extropian email lists and always keep an eye out for the latest technology (and singularity focused) conferences. My influences include Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil and James Hughes. RPGs of all sorts, both PC based and real world based are my other central passion. I tend toward D&D, but dabble in Cthulhu and some World of Darkness (Geist, Mage), and am eagerly awaiting the Dresden Files RPG. Though most of my RPG preferences are fantasy based this was primarily because I had never gotten into other science fiction (more particularly - space opera) RPGs. They just felt limited, and I can appreciate a bit of space-opera (Stargate, Farscape, Star Trek, etc) but when it comes to RPGs I always found them a little silly. Eclipse Phase is the first good science fiction RPG I have played because of the way it incorporates the ideas of transhumanism into a workable RPG mechanic where other systems have failed. I tend to ST/GM/Referee almost all the RPGs in my gaming group and am currently working on a suitably epic Eclipse Phase campaign for my group. Outside of gaming I am also an atheist, left leaning (though with some notable sympathies toward the philosophy of Ayn Rand) and consider myself a Extropian Nietzschean in so far as I have been influenced and am passionate about the writings of the eponymous philosopher and am quite hopeful about the singularity.

Mon, 2010-04-19 13:25

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wesleystreet wesleystreet's picture

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

Hello! I'm Wesley Street. I'm recently married and a native and resident of Indianapolis. While I started gaming at age 12 with 2300AD and Shadowrun I left it behind for other pursuits until about three years ago, at age 28, when I rediscovered the pleasure of rolling dice. And the confidence to be a Game Master. I'm a projects manager for a software-as-a-service company by day and I freelance on Shadowrun projects by night; primarily the Missions line but I've also worked on a couple of PDF-only releases. I'm hoping to soon see regular graphic design and writing work with a new start-up gaming company. I GM a regular Saturday game - we started with D&D 4E and have moved into Shadowrun. I also have an interest in Earthdawn, Eclipse Phase (obviously),Cthulhutech, Spycraft 2.0 and Star Wars (of which my wife is currently prepping to GM) . This year will be my first year at GenCon where I actually play games... *shocked face* Outside of gaming I maintain other geek interests including comics and science-fiction movies and literature. I'm also an avid bicyclist, gym rat, young adult "minister," amateur chef and fine arts/graphic design aficionado. I'm a leftist, I like pop and up-tempo/1990s hip-hop music and I've never been put on trial for a war crime. I'm also not as witty as I probably think I am.

Mon, 2010-04-26 10:38

#28

JediSoth

Re: Obligatory Introductions Thread

I'm Hans, also from Indianapolis. I've been gaming since around 1982 (started with D&D, of course) and work in Catalog production. Unlike most of my gaming peers, I tend to be conservative and find rules discussion kind of tedious and boring. Despite that, I help out on various projects with Rite Publishing in my spare time (Litorians being the first RPG product that has my name on the cover!) doing things like writing, proofreading, and emergency layout assistance. Widowed in 2008, I remarried this year and have a beautiful, supportive, non-gamer wife and step-daughter. I aspire to become a published fiction author and am currently shopping around a Middle Grade sci-fi novel and a sci-fi superhero novel. I am also the Submissions Coordinator & Publisher Relations for The ENnies (EN World RPG Awards). You may have heard of us. :)

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Fri, 2012-10-26 23:38

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bibliophile20 bibliophile20's picture

Obligatory Introduction

I'm Joseph, from upstate New York (Rochester to be precise). I'm a latecomer to gaming by the apparent standards of this board; only got into the hobby seven years ago, in my early 20s, due to being introduced to it by my then-mentor, Matthew Schocke (also known as on the internets as Viridian or S'Tar'Kan). However, I've taken to it like a fish to water; in the last seven years, I've played--and GMed--Shadowrun, D&D 3.5, oWoD Vampire, nWoD Geist, Mage and Changeling, Pathfinder, FATE (Dresden and Diaspora), and have an extensive "bucket list" of other games I want to play or run. Eclipse Phase is at the top of that list. I'm an intensive reader, as my preferred screenname no doubt reveals, having read extensively in sci-fi and fantasy, am a fairly good cook, raised in a religious fundamentalist Jewish community, now consider myself to be agnostic, and work as a science tutor for high schoolers. I wanted to be a teacher, but I refuse to apply to work in the public school system until No Child Left Behind (aka No School Left Standing) is repealed. My areas of teaching specialization are biology, ecology, astronomy, physics, and geology--essentially, I am a walking insult to Biblical literalism. :) Politically, I consider myself to be a radical moderate, and think that living aboard an Eclipse Phase-style anarchist habitat would be nearly ideal for myself.

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Mon, 2012-10-29 10:38

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RustedPantheress RustedPantheress's picture

I'm [name redacted], an

I'm [name redacted], an electronics student from Seattle, daughter of geek who has been gaming since D&D and Traveller first came out. I enjoy gaming, reading sci-fi, writing, writing RPG settings, hot coffee, and punching men in the face when they flirt with me. My characters tend to be reflections of me (The only exceptions being that for this setting, I am pissed at the lack of a "Constitutional Monarchist" faction. I might create one shortly), in that they tend towards the tech/rogue side of things and I'm too lazy to create different personalities for them.

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Somebody is using bad science! Snark, facts, snark. Your body is corrupted: Cool, do more science to it. Your mind is warped: That's nice, want a cookie? What do we say to the God of Death? Not today!