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Introduction - Ross Van Loan - 08-23-2012
Hello, I am an avid bookworm, crazed cinephile and casual RPGer. It isn't unusual for me to have three or four books on the go at any one time. My current reading list is : A Study in Scarlet ; A.N. Wilsons, The Victorians ; The Odyssey. I drift between the books in a nonlinear fashion that has been known to irritate linear, one-book-at-a-time readers. My car is a rolling, if chaotic, library. On rare occasion--rare as in Nessie sightings--I might be seen without a book in hand. A partial list of books that rock my literary world : Heart of Darkness, The Forever War, I am Legend, The Haunting of Hill House, The War of the Worlds, Brave New World.
The movies I'm fondest of are distinctly bipolar. It's either masterpieces & muddlepieces : Apocalypse Now & Starcrash (The Italian Star Wars!) Many of my favourite movies are micro-budget beasts : Dawn of the Dead, Dark Star, Return of the Living Dead, Six-String Samurai. I'm not anti-blockbuster : Close Encounters, Jaws, Raiders are all fantastic. Recent films that I really dig : Kill Bill, Inglorius Basterds, Iron Man, Lost in Translation, The Crazies, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic.
Role Playing games would be awesome if it weren't for their often super-convoluted rule-sets. My preference runs towards simple systems like Fudge. AD&D is too much like a PHD course in minutiae. Besides, I'd rather form a rock and roll band or build a relationship arc than swing magic swords and loot dungeons. Perhaps I'm a pacifistic gamer.
- Sweno - 08-23-2012
welcome to the mad house
If you can tolerate reading on a screen, you'll find things to occupy your time in the fanfic recommendation threads.
There are only two rules
1: play nice
2: have fun
(and you may want to look at DnD 5th edition, they have greatly simplified the rules)
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
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