Shaking hands after the battle

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Someone mentioned we might want to introduce ourselves, since a lot of us don't know each other. So, let's do that.

I'm Clinton R. Nixon. I live in New Orleans, LA with my awesome cat Violet, and am engaged to a . Besides playing RPGs and occasionally writing one, I play the ukulele constantly. I'm a songwriter, although I play a lot of covers as well.

For work, I'm a programmer. This next weekend is , a 24-hour web application contest where I hope to make an app which will help you find other game designers, RPG players, board game players, or basically anyone interested in the same stuff you are in your local area. Let's hope it happens.

Lastly, I play regularly with Rossum (1984 Prime) and nyarly (Workers Paradise).

[CodexArcanum]

Good idea, almost started this one myself. Curse you 9 to 5!

Hey ya'll, I'm Chris Andrews. I live in Baton Rouge and go to school at LSU.
I work at the school, keeping the business college's website looking good.

Clinton and I share a fair number of interests. I program a bit on the side, mostly learning still. I also love music, and am working on my guitarr playing. I love RPGs, and love designing them. I'm also big into computer games. In my sparest of time, I like to write science fiction and poetry, sketch, and do some artsy stuff in photoshop.

I have a Live Journal where I rant at. I need to update it, but will likely do so soon.

EDIT:
I'll just post more personal greetings and the like here, updated as new people post, since just introducing myself is no way to say hi.

Clinton: I'm sorry about my comment back at the start of the week, I just tend to get a little star struck. It's pretty cool that you live in NO. We should organize a Louisiana Gamer's convention sometime or something. Might be fun to trade design ideas and do some roleplaying.

Rossum: Cool, more LA area gamers. Is there good gaming in NO? I have trouble finding a really good group here in BR. Do you guys happen to know a Joe Covert?

Andy: Cool, another LJ user, I'll have to buddy up to you when I get my home internet back. Maybe next year we can have a Game Chef LJ community.

[hardcoremoose]

My name's Scott Knipe, but my friends (and even my wife) call me Moose. You can too, if you want.

The suburbs of Ann Arbor, MI, are home. We're moving from one burb to another here shortly...we'll be owning our first home, and I'll finally (at the tender age of 33) realize my life long dream of owning my own dog. I'm pushing for a schipperke but they're not inexpensive. Take a look:



Don't laugh...they'll take a bullet for ya', loyal little buggers.

I've done a couple game design things in the past, namely WYRD and Charnel Gods. Then I fell into a two year bout of writer's block and out of frustration went into semi-reclusion. The Hour Between Dog And Wolf is the first thing to get past that block pretty much since I published Charnel Gods, and I'm happy as could be about it.

[Doug Ruff]

Hi everyone. I'm Doug Ruff, and I live in Hastings, which is a town on the South Coast of England. I live a few minutes from the sea, and if I lean out of the highest back window in the house, I can just see it.

I share my home with my partner Claire and a recent addition, Tigger. Tigger is a ginger cat with one eye, inherited from my mother. He's only been here for just over a week, but he's settling in fine; he's sleeping on the sofa next to Claire. He sleeps a lot, and he's very good at it.

I'm spending more and more time getting involved with game design recently, with several projects on the boil. In fact, it's way past time I finished some of them. I also spend fair amount of time using up Clinton's bandwidth at The Forge.

Spare time at a premium at the moment (I'm having a house clearout, then there's decorating to do!) but I'm planning to get some gaming in, as my regular group is talking about starting again after a break. I always like to have at least a little time left for play - I'm hoping it will stop me from being a Dull Boy.

[jmstar]

I'm Jason, and I live and work in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. I work with accessibility at a major University, which means I am a combination Web geek and disability services advocate. My job rules.

I am 35 and married to an awesome woman. I've been gaming since 1977 and being a frustrated designer almost as long. I'm not going to be frustrated any longer!

In addition to The Shab-al-Hiri Roach I'm working on a projecty called Open Boat, which is going to be a totally killer game about insanity, murder, and cannibalism on the high seas. Ironically, Open Boat would have met all the criteria for the Game Chef competition, had it not been in the works for two months.

If you live in the Triangle and competed in this contest, I want to game with you. Andy knows how to contact me. I also hang out at the Forge as jmstar.

[Simon W]

Hi, I'm Simon Washbourne. I live in a village called Churchdown (supposedly the biggest village in England), which is between Gloucester (called Glevum by the Romans and where some bits of Harry Potter were filmed) and Cheltenham (a Regency-period town and where there is a famous racecourse). It's setting is the Cotswolds - a range of beautiful green hills dotted with sleepy country villages.

I made a raid across the border into into Wales a few years ago and came back with a gorgeous blond Welsh girlfriend Annette, who stays weekends but has to return to her native land during the week. When she's not here, I have my two cats Honey & Molly for company.

I role-play at least once a week and write tons of rpg's, a few of which can be found on my website Beyond Belief Games.

When I'm not writing rpg's, I paint miniatures (which I used to do for a living), go to music or comedy gigs (it's festival season again- hoorah) and start lots of things that I never finish or keep up - like Judo, fencing, archery, the Sealed Knot (English Civil War re-enactment) and so on.

[Paka]

[PlotDevice]

Evangelos Hugo Paliatseas. Evan usually.

Dad's Greek, Mum's Czechoslovakian, they met in Canada and I was born in the land Down Under. Married to a girl of Sri Lankan parents, so if we decide to try for Munchkins they are guarenteed to be confused.

We have 4 cats (2 orientals, 1 devon rex and 1 cornish rex) and 2 Corgis (cardigan).

I have gamed for 24 years. For the previous 11 years of my life I gamed in my head without system.

Last year I did the 24 game challenge, and it proved instrumental in inspiring me to publish my own games. I have been writing and running games for conventions in Australia since 1989, and only in restrospect do I realize how many good ideas I had back then. I created for giggles, and am now happily self publishing my back catalogue and any new concepts that strike me.

I work as the Change Control Coordinator for E*Trade Australia. It is kind of like being a policeman over a bunch of unruly programer ninja monkeys who are receiving instructions from megalomaniacal bipolar marketing tree sloths.

Very happy to meet you all. I have said it before, and will say it again, you guys n' gals ROCK.

Warm regards,
Evan

[BrennaLaRosa]

Oi! You think yer kids'll be confused?

I'm Brenna Beattie, Self-Proclamed Goddess of the Pink. I currently reside in Herndon, VA, am African/Cherokee/Scottish/Irish/Creole/German/Puerto Rican/Danish and am engaged to my very own Sicilian/Scottish/Powhatan Bloodsucking Merchant Scum.

I've been gaming since I was about 8,and this is my second game creation. I am an avid roleplayer (live and table), costumer and artist-of-all-media. My other games are Giant Transforming Robo-Team, Go! (in beta-testing) and Paladin: Eternal Crusade (in development).

If you're ever in the D.C. area, look me up.

[Ben Lehman]

I am Ben Lehman. I live with Andy Kitkowski and his wife Orie in Cary, North Carolina (just moved here.) Right now I'm mostly unemployed but I do editing for Universalis and may have another paying writing/design gig upcoming. In the meantime, I'm working on publishing which is actually my IGC game from last year. I'm very excited about it -- it has gotten rave reviews from most of the playtesters and it has a lot of cool new pieces.

In the fall, after GenCon, I'm hoping to travel to Europe for a bit and then go by train to China, where I want to live for at least a year. Still haven't decided where in China to live or what work I want to be doing, yet.

yrs--
--Ben