Centauri

I've been playing and GMing on-and-off since the early 90s.

Started with one of the earlier editions of D&D. I tried a couple other TSR products, WEG Star Wars and the Palladium systems. By the late 90s, I had sold most of my D&D and Palladium stuff and kept the Star Wars stuff because it was fun to read. I never did play it.

In the early 2000s, I joined a brief PBP game, and a college buddy started a fairly long-running play-by-email game. I learned about 3.5 D&D and bought back in. I acquired a few more systems over the next few years, learning about Fate and other more story-based, collaborative games.

By 2008, I was pretty jaded about D&D 3.5 and I jumped into 4th Edition, which I loved and continue to love, despite how widely panned it is. Even many who played it appeared to focus on its differences and not its innovations, which really opened my eyes on how a GM could be empowered and empower their players.

About 8 years after that, having collected bits of a few more systems, I had a sort of mid-life crisis. I packed all my books and dropped them off at Half-Price Books. I didn't even wait to see what I could get for them.

But, I still had the dang bug. I got ahold of some of the books again, and found this site (when I ditched my books I had bombed out of the other sites I had joined) and started back up. 4th Edition players are thin on the ground here, but there are a few of them. I'm also up for other systems, and I'm making steps toward running them. I think this forum will be an important resource for me in that regard.