Post by damianmagecraft on Dec 1, 2013 1:12:33 GMT
Name: Damian Magecraft
Age: dusty old fart
Country: USA
Time Playing Palladium: 30+ Years
Time in Hobby: 36+ years
First Palladium Game: PF
Favorite Palladium Game: all of them
Non Palladium Games Played: OD&D, AD&D1e, AD&D2e, D&D3e, D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, WHFRPG, OWoD, NWoD, Fate, Fudge, ICE (Role Master), Chaosium, Marvel Faserip, DCSH, MSH, Cortex, Savage Worlds, Unisystem, FASA, AFMBE, BESM, Brave New World, Champions, V&V, T&T, And many many others.
Favorite Non-Palladium Game: Mage (WW)
Bio
It all started when I was wee lad of 10.
My dad had found out that George Takei was going be the guest of honor at a comic convention; and took me to said convention.
After getting my autographed photo of George we wandered the con. In a small shop was a table set up to demo some weird game called Dungeons and Dragons. The guy doing the Demo was happy to explain the game and help me make a character (a Fighter). After that he ran a short scenario for me and 3 other interested people. we died horribly (TPK) but had loads of fun. I was hooked.
I found out about a shop in town that held games every weekend. And convinced my dad to let me go there (I begged and pleaded until he relented just to shut me up). I was a fixture at that shop for a very long time.
I was just a player for the first 5 years. By then I was tiring of the non-nonsensical predictable dungeon layouts and after the we had killed our third monster (who had waited patiently behind the closed door while killed the one in the corridor) I questioned why the minotaur hadnt eaten all the orcs before we got there. (this was a common question from me back then).
The GM was upset by this continued barrage of questions (granted at 15 I probably wasnt my politest). He got so angry that he shouted "if you think you can do better then you be the GM!"
Never throw a challenge like that at a stubborn ill tempered teen with an attitude... "FINE! Next week good for you?" I shot back.
I have been GMing ever since. Being a born tinkerer I was constantly tweaking the AD&D rules to better fit my play style.
Around a year or two after I started GMing I was looking for some new setting material (that still wasnt out yet) and since the shop I was at was an hours drive from my home town I grabbed this Black soft bound with a Dragon drawn in a red out line. I started reading the rules and discovered it was almost an exact copy of my house rules. Well that settled it. PF became my Rule set of choice from that point forward.
Now here I am some 36 years after that Comic Convention and what fun it has been.
Oh yeah... interesting bit of trivia... That guy that demoed that first game for me? His Name was Gary Gygax.
Age: dusty old fart
Country: USA
Time Playing Palladium: 30+ Years
Time in Hobby: 36+ years
First Palladium Game: PF
Favorite Palladium Game: all of them
Non Palladium Games Played: OD&D, AD&D1e, AD&D2e, D&D3e, D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, WHFRPG, OWoD, NWoD, Fate, Fudge, ICE (Role Master), Chaosium, Marvel Faserip, DCSH, MSH, Cortex, Savage Worlds, Unisystem, FASA, AFMBE, BESM, Brave New World, Champions, V&V, T&T, And many many others.
Favorite Non-Palladium Game: Mage (WW)
Bio
It all started when I was wee lad of 10.
My dad had found out that George Takei was going be the guest of honor at a comic convention; and took me to said convention.
After getting my autographed photo of George we wandered the con. In a small shop was a table set up to demo some weird game called Dungeons and Dragons. The guy doing the Demo was happy to explain the game and help me make a character (a Fighter). After that he ran a short scenario for me and 3 other interested people. we died horribly (TPK) but had loads of fun. I was hooked.
I found out about a shop in town that held games every weekend. And convinced my dad to let me go there (I begged and pleaded until he relented just to shut me up). I was a fixture at that shop for a very long time.
I was just a player for the first 5 years. By then I was tiring of the non-nonsensical predictable dungeon layouts and after the we had killed our third monster (who had waited patiently behind the closed door while killed the one in the corridor) I questioned why the minotaur hadnt eaten all the orcs before we got there. (this was a common question from me back then).
The GM was upset by this continued barrage of questions (granted at 15 I probably wasnt my politest). He got so angry that he shouted "if you think you can do better then you be the GM!"
Never throw a challenge like that at a stubborn ill tempered teen with an attitude... "FINE! Next week good for you?" I shot back.
I have been GMing ever since. Being a born tinkerer I was constantly tweaking the AD&D rules to better fit my play style.
Around a year or two after I started GMing I was looking for some new setting material (that still wasnt out yet) and since the shop I was at was an hours drive from my home town I grabbed this Black soft bound with a Dragon drawn in a red out line. I started reading the rules and discovered it was almost an exact copy of my house rules. Well that settled it. PF became my Rule set of choice from that point forward.
Now here I am some 36 years after that Comic Convention and what fun it has been.
Oh yeah... interesting bit of trivia... That guy that demoed that first game for me? His Name was Gary Gygax.