Shadowspawn
Lurker

Age

46

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Location

City:

Augusta

State:

Maine

Zipcode:

04330

Country:

usa

Willing to Travel:

30 miles

Availability

LFG/LFP:

LFG

Availability (Days):

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Availability (Times):

Afternoons, Evenings

Desired Gaming Frequency:

Weekly - 2 games per week

Gaming Preferences

Player/GM:

Player

Preferred Genres:

Dark Future, Fantasy, Horror, Post Apocalyptic

Favorite RPGs:

AD&D, BRP / Call of Cthulhu, White Wolf (Vampire / Werewolf)

Gaming Worlds:

Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Shadowrun

Preferred Playing Style:

50% Roleplaying / 50% Combat

Ideal Group Size:

Medium Groups (Between 4 and 6 players)

Online RPGs?:

Yes

What are you looking for?:

I'm pretty open as far as games go. As long as there is some semblance of reality/continuity involved. I do tend to shy away from a lot of the more recent games however, simply because they tend to get too bogged down in rules-lawyering for me.

Ideally, I am looking for a local group with similar interests more than a specific game. In my experience, how the group interacts is generally more important than the game system when it comes to an enjoyable experience. Although, in a perfect world, I would love to find a group who has managed to work the major bugs out of a universal system like Chaosium's Basic Role Playing and enjoys using it for different genres.

I am available in the evenings to travel (we have kids) or pretty much any time if we play at my house. I have a couple of teenage kids who would be interested in playing as well if someone wants to try and work that in somehow.

About Me

Real Name:

Jeff

Biography:

I have been playing RPG's since the early 80's, although I haven't played much since moving to Maine. Currently, I am playing a little CoC and World of Darkness online and on the phone with an old friend, but would be interested in a local game. I have played a lot of Fantasy and Cyber/Horror, but am open to just about anything run well with the right group.

I am looking for a few old-school type gamers who understand that the specific rule system is just a tool to allow roleplaying in whatever genre you choose. It isn't about shelling out endless cash to some big company for a huge line of books that will just be replaced in a few years with a new edition.

A GOOD game is one you buy ONCE and play for a lifetime. Of course there are always adventures and supplements to buy, but the system itself should be inexpensive and run smoothly in the background. If I wanted to play a board game, moving from square to square, with detailed rules about facing and "attacks of opportunity," I would play a board game. If I wanted to play a video game, sitting around with my trusty calculator figuring just the right combination of feats to allow me to execute a flying-double-scissor-hurricane-decapitation move, I would play a video game...

What I want is a ROLE-PLAYING game... where if there's a cooking skill and no-one took it cause they were trying to min-max their damage output, we go hungry... where if there is a complicated scenario involving movement and combat in an area that is not neatly broken up into 5-foot squares, I can just say "I do such and such, what do I need to roll to hit?" and the DM can give me a number and we can MOVE ON... instead of looking up skills and feats and arguing all night over what our characters should be able to do.... just sayin'.