I'm on the mailing list and might play test if Iago wishes...problem is, I don't live near them, so that would put a crink in things.


Longwinded explanation:
MY RPG experience is weird, anyways.  I was actually hired as a writer for FASA's Shadowrun division...2 weeks before the suprise announcement that they were closing their doors. I never even got my first assignment. (I did, however, get paid...every single  rulebook in the library was sent to me for research purposes. They didn't ask for them back.)

I've been MUSHing for the past 16 years (with a few year gap in the middle), using Amber RPG rules and White Wolf. I was one of the people who designed and implemented the concept of staff to support the wizzes (people running MUSHes), and was the head judge for a while on the first vampire MUSH. I was in charge of the Castle Falkenstien official MUSH, which ultimately never opened because of work overload on several wizzes plus author Michael Pondsmith's apparent hectic schedule.

My roommate holds the record for putting up with Steve Jackson the longest as Head of Sales, and one of my close friends  used to work for FASA and now writes freelance (Trigun and Slayers are hers, for example). Half of Living Room Games (Earthdawn post-FASA, Digital Burn) are my old friends from college.

Despite all this...I'm not really a gamer. I just started my first tabletop game in years (as a player). I can't memorize numerical rules.  I'm pure story, descriptions, and characters. I'm just attracted to the type of folks who run games, because they're stories.  In college, I did live action World of Darkness...but as a rotating NPC for the folks running the game, not as my own player. They'd say "We need a medical examiner," and I'd make up a personality on the spot and run with it...but I didn't worry about the stats, they did.

So, if Iago & Rob Donoghue want me as a playtester, it'd probably be a "Hey, we need a guy who knows enough about games to tell us stuff, but be more like the average joe wandering in a game store than a game lawyer."

Um, Iago....we only have two bits. We didn't expect there to be such a rush.

On the same note, please do not put spoilers in the subject line...the main board shows the most recent topic title, so there's a possibility you could accidently spoil someone with the topic title, even though you're posting on the spoiler board.

This hasn't happened yet, this msg is a pre-emptive strike.

It's low speak. High speak disdains vowels.

Mayyyyyyybe.

Bah...French is a romance language. It has rules it tends to stick by.

English is one of the hardest languages out there. Great Old Ones, with their bileous, gibbonous elder languages, would look at english and say, "Damn. That's enough to drive you mad."*




*Well,  they'd say S'lathgelyic dormanst'vic shlaterfeld, but you get the point.

Hey, don't knock the humans. You can do a lot of interesting things with humans.

Of course, you're talking to someone who often plays mortals on vampMUSHes.

Reply to: DM vs. GM vs. Storyteller

I personally prefer "Game Master," as it isn't proprietary like DM (D&D) and Storyteller (WoD) are.

I prefer "God, Who Art Thy Master."

This may be why I don't get to run games anymore.