Feel free to tell us a little bit about yourself - who you are, what sorts of games you enjoy, and anything else you would like to share!
Hello, my name is Justin and I am game developer and software engineer in West Los Angeles. I set up this community to meet other folks who enjoy different kinds of tabletop games.
I started gaming very early, after seeing a bunch of Dungeons & Dragons books on my uncle’s shelves, my mom explained to me the very basics of role-playing. I took my impressions of that and stiched together a small monster manual and a map, and did a bunch of freeform role-playing with my siblings. Shortly after I started gaming with family members, and got a hold of the Mentzer Red Box, and pretty much have never stopped.
I also love practicing jiu jitsu, which is the only other hobby of mine that rivals tabletop gaming, and I do quite a bit of video gaming when I have the chance.
I am looking forward to chatting with, and hopefully gaming with all of you!
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Hi, I’m Sam. I’m a PhD student in New Jersey.
I am primarily an OSR & OSR-adjacent RPG fan (anywhere from OD&D to Troika!), but I sometimes run freeform 2d6 vs roleplaying with friends.
Outside of gaming and school, I enjoy bouldering, movies, and reading usual Appendix N shtuff (reading Vance’s Dying Earth stories right now). I’m not much a video gamer anymore but enjoy roguelikes (but still haven’t ascended in NetHack…) and I have about 2.5k hours in Runescape… unfortunately…
Thanks for setting this up Justin!
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Hello party people
I’m Phlox, of the blog Whose Measure God Could Not take. In the past few years, I’ve gotten really into OSR play, mostly running GLOG or BX clones. I know Justin from the big OSR server on discord, where I’ve appreciated his contributions.
Outside the gaming world, I’ve been trying to read more, write more, and stabilize my exercise routine, and have enjoyed some moderate success.
Hope the forum takes off!
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Hi i am Vincent,
I am studying electrical engineering.
I am playing my own osr adjacent ruleset weekly and like to try out other systems from time to time. I keep obsessing over shadowrun but cant manage to convince others to play it with me.
Besides pnp i am dancing and participating in political organizing.
I love the idea of a forum cause besides checking out blogposts i have completly disengaged from the discord
Although the irony of me typing this on my phone does not pass on me
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Greetings folks. I’m Kalin, but mostly just go by Jenx online.
I’ve been doing some kind of roleplaying for a solid 20+ years now, and my recent obsession in that sphere has also been OSR play (I very timely jumped on the boat as it was halfway sunk into the ocean…). I am also a professional artist and have done art and art direction for a bunch of RPG books, mostly RuneQuest and Glorantha ones for Moon Design/Chaosium.
Beyond TTRPGs I have an interest in tabletop wargaming (be it boardgame or miniatures), model making and boardgames in general. I don’t play as much video games or care for them as I used to, but I do still do some of that as well.
Related to all of the above I also enjoy doing amature anthropology and history relating to my hobbies, as I find it just as fascinating why and how people play the games they play, as I do the games themselves.
Finally, I am old enough to remember hanging out on forums, let’s see if this one will bring back that vibe!
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Hey there! I’m Carlos, but I prefer ‘Havoc’ online as it sounds less like the name used at my job :^) I live in São Paulo state, Brasil.
I started gaming about 13 years ago or so, mostly Brazilian games like 3D&T, New World of Darkness games, and our own invented systems. After years of that, after my friends started moving on to other things, I began feeling unsatisfied with those games and wanted to see what the fuss was all about with this OSR deal.
Because of that, I don’t have a lot of affection or attachment to traditional D&D games and am more attracted to the DIY nature of the hobby, as well as the philosophical underpinings of priorising played experience over heady theory.
Currently I DM a Pendragon-ish B/X game on the OSR server and play Wolves Upon the Coast, and it’s been very interesting to finally know this side of the hobby.
In fleshspace I’m a lawyer (hold your tomatoes until the end of the performance please) and I quite enjoy listening to music, chilling with my friends, reading and writing, playing old ass videogames, and watching movies, roughly in that order of priority. RPGs really are my main hobby however.
I’ve never really used forums in any extended capacity unless you count Reddit, so I’m excited in seeing how I adapt to this newfangled contraption.
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Hi all! I’m Dom, aka Domopunk. I’m from the East Coast of the US and found my way here from the purple/rainbow OSR server.
I’ve been gaming since the mid 90’s, starting with what I think was a home brew hex crawl using some house-ruled version of AD&D 2e run by a friend’s dad. After a bit of a break, moved on to a lot of 3/3.5 in high school and college (RIP those near-daily 6+ hour sessions), with a smattering of other games before taking a long break.
Got back into ttrpgs about 6 years ago and have been mostly GMing since then. I tend toward OSR and adjacent stuff (mostly b/x or OD&D, Cairn, Liminal Horror, and Mothership), but I’ll try pretty much anything. I’ve been trying to get into writing and blogging, with limited success (I partly blame being the parent of a young kid, and also self-sabotage).
Other hobbies include reading, video games, trying to draw, and attempting to recapture my glory days of lifting without injuring myself.
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hi all, I’m Matt/Evil Tables
I’m currently in SLC, Utah. I’m a former philosophy phd turned software dev after deciding working in university system wasn’t for me.
I’ve been gaming in the OSR space for about 5ish years now, mostly playing Old School Essentials and other b/x adjacent stuff. I also like weird fiction.
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Hey, everyone - Timmy Mac, here!
I’m in the Boston area. My regular game group has a rotation of GMs. I just kicked off an Arden Vul campaign using Swords & Wizardry (mostly). My co-GMs run Traveller and various other games.
I’ve been playing games since 1983 when I got the B/X starter set. Moved on to AD&D (and Traveller, and Car Wars, and Twilight 2000, and Champions, and all those 80s/90s games). Had a pretty long hiatus from the hobby but back now and I loving it. Recently finished a three-year Low Fantasy Gaming campaign.
I work for a startup in a product ops role, train jiu jitsu, and read a lot.
Really excited to see a forum - been getting back into blogs/RSS and other slow web type things and miss the days of forums for sure!
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T.
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My middle kid absolutely loves Shadowrun. He and his buddies have been playing it for years now. His favorite game by far.
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Always nice to hear of fellow Chummers
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Hey, y’all:
I’m Tom, and I live in Santa Monica, CA. I found my way here via @jamiltron and his many, much-appreciated efforts for our local Westside Tabletop Adventure Games group here in Los Angeles.
I don’t have a ton of RPGing history (I played some version of D&D and TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes sparingly as a kid, devoting myself instead to comic books, the NES, and sci-fi and fantasy novels), but I’ve fallen for the hobby in a big way since dipping my toe back in last year. Thankfully, RPGs seem more varied, more interesting, and more available than probably any time in history, so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do!
When I’m not playing in one of @jamiltron’s WTAG campaigns, I’m attempting to hip my family (and especially my 10-year-old daughter) to either Mausritter or 5e D&D. In the daytime, I work in advertising as a freelance creative director and creative, and at night (when I’m not gaming) I’m either playing an instrument (guitar and accordion) or working on a graphic novel that I’m writing and drawing.
Great to be here, and to meet all of you!
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Hi I am Rens.
I started playing tabletop rpgs in university some 7-8 years ago and I have since tread on many a dead author as I pillaged rules and mechanics, tweaking them before the bodies were even cold. I.e. I am a firm believer that rules are tools to be used by a referee or table as they see fit, regardless of the author’s intend. A genuine philistine.
At the moment I have less time to run games than I would like, but I am aiming to get an in person dungeon crawl table going in the near future.
Living as a native in the Netherlands I doubt I’ll be able to join any of your games, but I am excited to read everyone’s ideas and experiences.
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Hey I’m elmcat. I’m a software developer from Germany and fellow tabletop enjoyer.
I started playing with Shadowrun in the 90s, along with some obscure german games. For the longest time D&D was just video games and Drizzt books for me until 5e came along. That became my main game after spending a long time in the PBtA scene. However switching to online play and VTTs with the 5e play culture just broke every inch of enthusiasm I had left for this hobby and I took a break for couple years. What rekindled my excitement for the hobby was the discovery of Dolmenwood that led me down the OSR path. The style of play was exactly what I’d been searching for, even though I hadn’t been able to articulate it before. I dove deeper into OSR and stuck around for its incredible DIY culture, which continues to inspire me.
Beyond tabletops I’m into kimchi making, exploring history through art, and linux. I give discourse a try since I remember forums from back in the day and the communities it can build. Best to diverse and find places and not betting all the cards on Discord that will surely burn down eventually.
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Hi, I’m Gary and found my way here via Justin. I live in Santa Monica ane been playing for too many years - okay since 1975 (yes, I remember the introduction of D&D). I play to be with people and don’t play on-line.
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Hi, everybody!
I started playing RPGs in the early 2000s as a kid. There were periods of draught, but my interest never really waned. Finally, around 2015-2016 I started playing and participating in online communities actively again. Mostly in the OSR sphere.
Nowadays, due to (happy!) family circumstances, I have very little time for this precious hobby, but it’s always in the back of my mind…
So I’m looking forward to having some laid-back forum-based conversations with you all.
Hehh, it’s not running on a phpBB base, so it will never really bring back that vibe 
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I almost did phpBB but I have memories managing it, and I sorta helped manage the Discourse community for a video game I worked on, so it was most recent in mind.
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I have no idea what this mythical phpBBS is that you speak of, but this convo reminded me of the original BBSes I used to visit back in the day… And how thankful I don’t need to tie up my parents’ phone line with my modem anymore to reach them, ha. (I ran a BBS back in the day called Silicon Synapse… I must’ve been reading Neuromancer around then).
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