About

I’ve been playing a RPG’s since I was 10 years old, so that means that I’ve been playing for over 40 years now. I started with the Holmes “Blue Book” (and a now much battered copy, light green cover of B1 In Search of the Unknown) plus the 1E Player’s Handbook and played into the late 1E and early 2E – for about 16 years before setting AD&D down and not looking back until now – except that I kept my original campaign world, and kept running it with a variety of game systems. While I can trace parts of my campaign world back to the earliest days of my gaming, the world has only existed in a recognizable format since I was about 15 or so. After stumbling across the OSR I decided to try to running 1E AD&D again for a year or two with mixed success. I was never quite able to recapture the magic of playing AD&D that I remember from my teens and twenties, and while enjoyable, it never quite clicked the way that I wanted it to. I also quickly became disillusioned by the OSR in many ways, watching it rail against anything new as well as having a relatively bile-filled relationship with itself. So I tried DnD 5e for a quite a run, but it never was even as satisfying as my revisit of AD&D, and after the revelations regarding WOTC and Mike Mearls, et al, I just don’t even want to give them money, time or space – so I’m returning to AD&D and just moving forward rather than trying to “recapture” what I had in my youth.

The other games that I still play and love, which will undoubtedly get mentioned here, include various versions of Traveller to RTG’s Cyberpunk 2020 / RED to Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and Pagan Publishing’s Delta Green along with a host of lesser known and more obscure games.