Hi, I’m Doug. I just moved to Santa Monica from Chicago (by way of 7 years in North Carolina), and I’d love to do some hanging out with local TTRPG gamers. …maybe get involved in running some games eventually.
I discovered gaming in 1977 with D&D and was completely taken with it. When Champions (superhero roleplaying) came out, I dove into it hard. Eventually, I started doing freelance work for Hero Games and then became line editor for Mayfair Games’ Role Aids line of AD&D supplements. After leaving Mayfair, I settled back to just running one-shots at GenCon every year and lately a small 13th Age campaign for my players in NC (soon to be remotely). For various reasons, I don’t play as much as I used to, but I’m very much a supporter and enthusiast of other people’s games and game producing.
Outside gaming, I’m primarily a professional artist and graphic designer, specializing in ceramics and mixed material sculpture. Looking forward to enjoying the art scene in L.A.
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Welcome! I also live in Santa Monica, and a bunch of us here are Westsiders and play locally.
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Hi, and thank you! I’m happy to hear there are folks nearby. I’d love to get together sometime… maybe get coffee or beverage… and learn about the local goings-on.
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Hi all! I am Michael, a software engineer in the Del Rey area of Los Angeles. I am a lifelong gamer. I have many board games, TTRPG, and video games that I have each spent many hundreds of hours playing and am still terrible at. I grew up with dialup MUDs, then discovered D&D. My click of highschool buddies played a lot of one shot Rifts, Paranoia, AD&D, and GURPS. We still get together once in a while for a good long night of Axis and Allies. Lately I have been playing X-wing miniatures, despite having discovered the game only right after it started dying as a scene.
I am just now getting back into the TTRPG hobby after running LMoP for my wife and 8 year old son and a couple of friends. It has been a few years since I last played. My life has been a pattern of playing for a few years, then life gets in the way.
I’m looking forward to the conversations here and hoping to meet some of you across a table soon!
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Welcome all! Happy to see many locals (to me)!
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