Originally published on Jul 24, 2009 at http://canageek.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/mybackground-gamer/
If I’m going to talk about gaming I think its important that you know about my background as a gamer.
As a gamer I mainly player D&D. I started with 2nd edition when I was in grade 5 or 6, and moved to 3rd edition when it came out. When I read the PHB it felt like D&D made sense now- no more arbitrary race/class restrictions or maximum levels, I played a small amount of D&D up until 2002 when my father and I joined the Living Greyhawk campaign. We got heavily involved in that and to this day the vast majority of my gaming experience is with Living Greyhawk, and with the end of that campaign I moved to Living Forgotten Realms.
Which, yes, means I’m a 4e supporter (It’s ok, you can put down the flamethrowers...please...). I don’t agree with everything it does, but I’m enjoying it more then 3e when I can find a good adventure. (Adventures should be more then 3 fights and a skill challenge people!)
In the past I’ve also enjoyed playing Call of Cthulhu (CoC), and a game in the Alternity system. I did find that CoC’s combat system was too jagged, and Alternity was overly complex in terms of character creation. Nevertheless I enjoyed both, and am running an ongoing CoC game if I could ever get the players together.
I’ve played around on Play By Forum (PBF) in a number of systems on www.dndorks.com and find that I enjoy description heavy games when I can take ten minutes to write my response and such—I’m not a improve specialist able to pull perfect prose off the top of my head.
In the past I’ve bought a lot of gaming books, but found I didn’t use the 3.5 ones as I could never trust there balance, and didn’t use the d20 Modern ones because the core game was so unbalanced. I have a number of other books and such that I never got around to funning or resting so I’ve been cutting back on my purchases: So far in 4e all I have is: 3 core books, PHBII and Arcane power. Oh...and a DDi subscription. What I do like purchasing is adventures as I don’t have a talent for writing them, and I’m likeing the new Dungeon magazine for that: The old Dungeon mods I played never felt very good to me, though that could just be bad examples.
I’m currently running a game of 4e at dndorks with some more information at in another thread . I’m currently full on players but I’ll be sure to advertise openings here. However my digital paramour, Ada, is recruiting a serenity game and I'd like to point you all in her direction.
As I've mentioned it, I'd like to point you all at www.dndorks.com It was one of the first gaming webcomics, and while its kinda been wandering around for a bit its forums are an excellent place to run games. I joined it far to many years ago (the date it says in the forums is a lie) so don't look at my early posts....I was just finishing grade 9 at the time. Annnyyyway there is an amazing silverlight mapping tool I'm using now and they keep adding more PBP/PBF features so if your thinking of running a game online I encourage you to check it out.
Anyway, that’s my gaming past. I think I’ll write about my views on the different editions of D&D at another time. See you later my friends, and until then, Stay Geeky!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Pretty sure I'm not switching to blogger
So I hate to have published a dead blog, and am thinking of deleting this, but for now at least goto http://canageek.wordpress.com to read my blog. Mirroring each post is too much of a pain, and the extra layout options aren't worth the stress of the interface (I've tried to get one post to publish on schedule 3 times, and its not working.) So you will see posts appear for the next bit, but yeah, this is a dead blog. Sorry to clutter up the net like this.
So who am I and why do I have a blog?
Welcome to my blog. While I’m probably the last person on the internet to get one of these I still feel rather narcissistic having one of these. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with this yet, I’m certainly going to talk about gaming and RPGs, that is the tabletop, dice based games, not those newfangled computer games. I will probably indulge in talking about myself from time to time, though I’m not sure of how open I’ll be as of yet.
So why did I start a blog? Last Halloween I joined Twitter in an event called War of the Worlds 2. I tweeted from time to time until another even along the same lines as War of the Worlds Two known as Twitter Fiction Event run by @MassTwitFic came alone. I installed tweetdeck and spent the whole day online and after that never quite left. I got used to talking with people online on twitter, and wanted to have longer discussions. I wanted to post long articles and opinions without having to break them up into 140 characters and flood everyone’s feeds. So, here I am.
So, who am I anyway? I’m a Canadian geek. I’m a chemistry major at McMaster University. I’m not going to go into more detail as I’ll be job hunting come fall and I don’t want an employer looking into my private life. So don’t be surprised if my picture changes a bit come September. Now I’m not going to post about me getting high and drunk and having random sex as well, I’ve never done any of those things. I drink, but have never been drunk. I suffer enough from a medicine I have to take to fill my mind with illicit chemicals, and well, I’m a romantic. Also I’m currently in a long distance relationship with a very lovely women. ^^.
I’m a bit of a computer geek, I’ve done a touch of programming in a few languages, but I’m by no means a programmer. I play the occasional computer game, leaning towards RPGs and Turn Based Strategy. I’m currently leaning towards organic chemistry as a focus, though some elements of inorganic interests me. So far analytical chemistry has bored me, though people keep recommending I go into it for some reason. I’ve also tried Quantum chemistry and liked the fact it let me program and do chemistry, but I found it too ‘physicsy’ for my tastes.
So I’m not sure what else to say about myself. I’ve got a few more posts ready about gaming and we’ll see where this thing goes!
Originally published at http://canageek.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/so-who-am-i-and-why-do-i-have-a-blog/ on Jul 23, 2009. Since then I've decided to focus my blog(s) on RPG things and have a separate (and unlinked) blog about other stuff.
So why do I have this blog if I have my wordpress one? Well, I'm a touch frusterated with the themes on wordpress so I thought I'd try this out. So far I'm likeing wordpress better, but hey, I'll give this a try. By the way if anyone knows of ways to import wordpress to bogger easily let me know? So if you want my MAIN blog check out http://canageek.wordpress.com
Until next time, Stay Geeky
--Canageek
So why did I start a blog? Last Halloween I joined Twitter in an event called War of the Worlds 2. I tweeted from time to time until another even along the same lines as War of the Worlds Two known as Twitter Fiction Event run by @MassTwitFic came alone. I installed tweetdeck and spent the whole day online and after that never quite left. I got used to talking with people online on twitter, and wanted to have longer discussions. I wanted to post long articles and opinions without having to break them up into 140 characters and flood everyone’s feeds. So, here I am.
So, who am I anyway? I’m a Canadian geek. I’m a chemistry major at McMaster University. I’m not going to go into more detail as I’ll be job hunting come fall and I don’t want an employer looking into my private life. So don’t be surprised if my picture changes a bit come September. Now I’m not going to post about me getting high and drunk and having random sex as well, I’ve never done any of those things. I drink, but have never been drunk. I suffer enough from a medicine I have to take to fill my mind with illicit chemicals, and well, I’m a romantic. Also I’m currently in a long distance relationship with a very lovely women. ^^.
I’m a bit of a computer geek, I’ve done a touch of programming in a few languages, but I’m by no means a programmer. I play the occasional computer game, leaning towards RPGs and Turn Based Strategy. I’m currently leaning towards organic chemistry as a focus, though some elements of inorganic interests me. So far analytical chemistry has bored me, though people keep recommending I go into it for some reason. I’ve also tried Quantum chemistry and liked the fact it let me program and do chemistry, but I found it too ‘physicsy’ for my tastes.
So I’m not sure what else to say about myself. I’ve got a few more posts ready about gaming and we’ll see where this thing goes!
Originally published at http://canageek.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/so-who-am-i-and-why-do-i-have-a-blog/ on Jul 23, 2009. Since then I've decided to focus my blog(s) on RPG things and have a separate (and unlinked) blog about other stuff.
So why do I have this blog if I have my wordpress one? Well, I'm a touch frusterated with the themes on wordpress so I thought I'd try this out. So far I'm likeing wordpress better, but hey, I'll give this a try. By the way if anyone knows of ways to import wordpress to bogger easily let me know? So if you want my MAIN blog check out http://canageek.wordpress.com
Until next time, Stay Geeky
--Canageek
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