The Somberlain

"In all of my travels, I've seen but one road with neither beginning nor end. I'll wager, though, many an unwise traveler has found an end of sorts on the Somberlain."

-from the journal of Greyfavell the Wanderer, 6th of the Flame, 7,487

My RPG Person Profile

[This is Zak S.'s idea, from his blog Playing D&D with Pornstars. Between this and the first post you've got all the info you'll need about me!]

I'm currently running (at home): 2+ year Labyrinth Lord campaign with some house rules and AEC options, plus some one-off sessions of Into the Odd when I get the chance. 

Tabletop RPGs I'm currently playing (at home) include: Nothing at present. (Seattle people get at me!)

I'm currently running (online): Monthly house-ruled Labyrinth Lord game set in the Underdark using some of the Veins of the Earth material posted on the False Machine blog. 

I would especially like to play/run: Dungeon Crawl Classics, 5E, Eclipse Phase, FASERIP, more Into the Odd

...but would also try: I'd try anything as long as it's not with a bunch of dinguses. 

I live in: Seattle, Washington, USA

2 or 4 well-known RPG products other people made that I like: The Dungeon Dozen by Jason Sholtis, Fire On the Velvet Horizon by Scrap Princess and Patrick Stuart, Into the Odd by Chris McDowall, Vacant Ritual Assembly by Clint Krause

2 or 3 novels I like: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Watership Down by Richard Adams, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron (collection, not novel, but yeah)

2 or 3 movies I like: Nightbreed, Neon Maniacs, Big Trouble in Little China

Best place to find me on-line: G+

I will read almost anything on tabletop RPGs if it's: About why RPGs are important or meaningful to you, if it's got tips to make me a better GM, or if it's packed full of cool/weird stuff that triggers my imagination. 

I really do not want to hear about: how your way of playing is the right way, min-maxing, talking about "censorship" when people call you out on being a jerk. 

I think dead orc babies are ( circle one: funny / problematic / ....well, ok, it's complicated because....) an interesting way to explore morality in-game, but ultimately up to each individual group. 

Games I'm in are like (link to something):

This

This 

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This

And this

Welcome to Lend Me Your Steel-Bearing Hand

A Brief Gaming History:

When I was 11, my dad bought me the Moldvay Basic D&D boxed set at a flea market in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey. It was missing some of the dice (including the d20)*, but I took it home and fell in love with it. I immediately started drawing dungeons and rolling up characters. I didn't quite grasp the rules, but my enthusiasm more than made up for that. I ran my friend Doug through the included module--The Keep on the Borderlands, and the whole thing filled me with this sense of mystery and possibility that I never lost. Doug and I got our other friends involved in our games, and he and I switched off running them (he ran more than me, though). We moved on to Shadowrun, Marvel Super Heroes, Gamma World, GURPS and Call of Cthulhu through our teenage years.