Introduce yourself

idraluna · February 20, 2026, 10:24pm

Hi all,

My name is Thomas, & I’m also here from Big Purp. I’ve been playing ttrpgs since 2010 or so but only properly discovered OSR/sandbox games in 2022.

I have a blog where I write about OD&D and using GIS software to make hex maps.

I live in Seattle where I work as a landcape ecologist, and aside from adventure games my interests include hex & counter wargames, fiction & history books, & doing one (1) non-competitive powerlifting meet per year.

Griffiana · February 21, 2026, 8:12am

Okay, you’ve peaked my curiosity.

What are your hot takes about those topics?

jared · February 21, 2026, 5:55pm

Okay, one each I guess.

Mid-weight euros have taken over the board game market, and it’s awful. “Engine building” games specifically (that is, games centered around geometric growth patterns) are have some really weird and counterproductive foundational assumptions that produce negative play patterns.
Jack Spicer is as important for his approach to publishing and his explanation of process as he is for his (honestly incredible) poems. We should be talking about him way more, on both fronts.
Friends gets a bad rap undeservedly. It routinely does some very clever formal stuff, both at the plot-level and the joke-level. But I think the type of person who engaged most and loudest with Friends at the time (women, mostly) and the way they engaged with it (as a romance/soap first of all) primed the culture (which historically doesn’t like “women’s media” very much) to dismiss it unduly.
Julian of Norwich should be canonized. Lots of medieval English mystics, tbh. I think the wound of the English Reformation specifically has held the church back from fully acknowledging a lot of English would-be saints.
It’s really weird that “Everyday I Write The Book” was such a big hit for him, because it’s kind of… just okay? Honestly Ron Sexsmith’s cover of the song might be better than the original imo, not least because it really shows off the country underpinnings of the song structure.

Iri · February 22, 2026, 7:05am

I’m Iri, the nutjob who worships at the altar of Mystara and all of its glory (and potential to steal from).

Been playing for a bit (Primarily GMing) over 20 years. Got into the hobby in middle school because of Neverwinter Nights and started playing “old school” with ADnD 2nd Ed at the game store I’d eventually work at before finding out I enjoyed BECMI significantly more. Besides elfgames proper, I primarily enjoy VtM and HERO and starting to get back into 40K after a decade hiatus. Right now working on a project to codify old campaign notes into a proper setting.

Protovalitross · February 22, 2026, 7:46pm

Hey, I’m Tobi, Ontross, living in Grand Rapids. I’m exile from Discord and longstanding Rainbow/Purple member(been active since 2021). He/they/any, 24(25 this year ), massive fan of OD&D, Troika!, and little ultralite thingamabobs. Also curious about Savage Worlds. Played in a good few games, ran a few short lived games. I really like 1910’s esque and far future multiversal fantasy. I’m a furry and it shows in my games. Uhhhhh yeah nm else. Howdy.

Mistuh · February 22, 2026, 8:36pm

Sup, I’m Mistuh from the Purple/Gay Beholder server. I’m a newbie and a goo goo ga ga baby compared to everyone else here.

What I lack in brains and knowledge I make up for in enthusiasm, I hope.

gm_erk · February 24, 2026, 8:01pm

Hey I’m Eric, I live in Dallas TX. I’m a everything-but-D&D tabletop RPG head and community organizer. I help lead a group of GMs that run exclusively non-D&D games at public events.

I have a blog where I review games I just finish campaigns of, report on big TTRPG events I go to, and talk about general tabletop RPG topics related to table dynamics mostly.

bue · March 27, 2026, 7:14pm

Hoi, I’m bue.
Like many others, I hail from the Gay Beholder Discord (which I also joined recently).

I fell into the D&D rabbit hole after playing Neverwinter Nights in 2003 or so, but since I grew up in Liechtenstein and my internet access was very limited, I never had the chance to play or gm at a table. I started playing TTRPGs properly about 6 or 7 years ago. My first game was Shadowrun, which I played on Roll20 with some other euros. I started playing with friends irl just before the plague hit in 2020.

Other hobbies include my dogs, making miso and shoyu and hiking, if time permits.

I’m a teacher in real life and still live in the alps, but now in the land of finance and fondue.
Oh, and I started blogging recently.
You can find me at Blog | Dungeon Dogma