Where in Scotland?

allow me to say 29/male/redhead/norway...

beyond that, not much to say really...

Been reading this from the start, and finding it interesting.

so here's my bio...

early 40's London chap, long haired, pierced, green eyed, between 5 1/2 and 6 ft, been roleplaying for about 26 years, started with gamma world, then onto ad&d, then onto call of cthulhu, then onto shadowrun.
everything i buy and every game i run is part of the collage of the things i like - that's the game i wrote rules for, and now it's the only game i run, and i'm having no fun at all putting it down on paper for others to have fun with

i work in london in the music biz, read a lot, love my computer, don't do much in the way of sports, just had a dog die recently, love travelling and hope to do either new zealand or america at some point.

no kids, swedish mother, indian father [that's indian, from india - for you yanks], can be a real pain to be with, am impatient with people who prefer to procrastinate rather than actually do something [though much better than i was], good listener, currently looking to leave my job and start things for myself, like music from sisters of mercy to frank sinatra

i piss people off, i love women in high heels and jeans and a white shirt, i don't drink beer but i do enjoy a bottle of wine while i sit and talk to people and enjoy a good meal.

if you're ever in london, gimme a shout

I'm a 27-year-old chemical engineering graduate doing environmental work in the state of South Dakota in the US. That location keeps me from getting in anywhere near as much gaming as I would like.

Hobbies include gaming, making beer, and cooking.

I'm a 27 year old male living in Burien, WA, just south of Seattle. I'm pleased, but not surprised, to see my fellow Washingtonians here. Shadowrun feels like a hometown game to me. In fact, at the Penny Arcade Expo last year, had one of the writers for Wizards of the Coast berate the local gamers who had never played Shadowrun.

I'm a courier for an off-site data storage company and I'm currently starting an RPG company. I'm not married, and have no children, but I do have a wonderful girlfriend.

I speak English and have forgotten more Mandarin Chinese than I ever learned.

I've been playing RPGs since I was about 13, and Shadowrun was my second game, and in my first session had more influence on me than all my D&D games combined. I've also played RIFTS, WoD, numerous homebrews, and Savage Worlds (which is my newest love, though I do feel some guilt at being unfaithful to Shadowrun).

If anyone out there plays D&D, I'd like to make a shoutout to Privateer Press and their Iron Kingdoms setting.

Outside of RPGs, I'm into just about anything geeky. Computers, wargames, Sci-Fi, books, boardgames, videogames, food, firearms, politics, and office supplies are just a few of my nerdities.

Hmm. My wife works in Burien. Might move down there if we end up sticking around these parts (not likely).

I'm 30 as of last week, and would like to appologize for posting drunk the day before my b-day. I'm a white, male, redheaded (auburn, not orange) UK mutt with some Dutch and Souix (not enough to do me any damn good in the sun). I'm 5'9" and 200lbs, in pretty good shape except for a small gut, and heavily muscled from growing up on the farm. Also, I'm directly descended from Ben Thompson's (the gunslinger) brother.

I lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado until mid June and now am in the very southwest corner of Kansas (1 mile from Colorado and 22 miles north of Oklahoma) at the farm where I grew up, because it was deserted and someone had to take care of the gas wells and cattle (plus I had just become unemployed when the company I was working for tanked). Though the airable land is all leased out, I keep a pretty good garden, zen moments are very important, they keep me from killing anyone.

I'm attending college at OPSU majoring in CIS with the intention of getting a CISSP (white hat hacker) certification after I graduate. I have an Applied Sciences Gunsmithing degree and a fairly large gun collection. When I'm not studying, greasing welljacks, or doctoring cattle I tend to fire off a lot of ammunition. I read, well, almost everything I can get my hands on. I took TKD as a kid and learned CQC from one of the original 5 Delta Force instructors (Nam, 3rd SOG TLC vet). Also, I used to teach a CQK class, and, inside 20 feet, if you have a gun and I have a knife, I'll usually bet on me. I haven't been in a fight since high school, every violent confrontation I've had in the last 10 years can't be called a fight because I annihilated my attacker in 5 seconds or less each. Yes, that includes the time 6 gang bangers jumped me.

I've been playing RPGs since DnD 2.0 and have been playing SR for about 3 years.

I'm mean, ugly and I carry a gun. I'm a shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and torture the corpse for information kind of person, but, despite that, I'm a fairly nice guy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

My most recent ex-girlfriend described me as a teddy-bear who just happened to have real teeth and claws.

Oh, yeah, and I'm an athiest Republican.

"Auburn, not orange?" Well, aren't you color-conscious! We need more guys who appreciate the different between maroon and burgundy.

And your drunken posting was certainly well-behaved enough to be forgiven, as far as I saw. Carry on.

I'm from Dundee (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Tachi, so you are actually part hermit, part rancher and part Walker, Texas Ranger? Cooool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

So, let's see...

I'm a 30-years old German (with, according to some superficial genealogy, Polish roots on my father's side), living in Braunschweig, second-biggest city of the state of Lower Saxony (~250,000 citizens).

I'm about 180cm tall and weigh about 92kg (yes, I should exercise more - but I'm helplessly lazy, plus my GF is a gourmet-level hobby-chef), blue eyes, dark-blonde hair slightly more than shoulder-length, shoe size 42.
Son of divorced parents (father's a physician, mother's a nurse), brother of two younger siblings.

I'm recently engaged to my GF of ten years (who holds a MA in German linguistics and history and is about to finish a two-year apprenticeship as a TV journalist, camera operator and digital video editor). We actually met through playing RPGs together...

I hold a Diplom (German MSc equivalent) in biology (specifically, microbiology/genetics/zoology) aquired at Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany's oldest technical university (250+ years), with a thesis on bacterial biodiversity in soil samples done using molecular techniques.
Since May 2008 I've been working as an editor at one of Germany's three major publishers of school textbooks, specifically in the high school division's natural sciences department.
My scientific interests are in the fields of biodiversity and evolution research (and I will staunchly discredit "Intelligent Design" as religious garbage whenever possible!).

Besides my native German I speak and read/write English fluently and retain very rusted knowledge in French and Spanish (enough for some very superficial reading) from my school days (9 years of English, 5 years of French and 2 years of Spanish).

I dabbled in taekwondo in my teens and quit with a yellow-green belt after receiving an accidental rib-kick while sparring that left me with intense pain and breathing problems for three weeks. I did a standard 10-months conscript tour in the German army aged 19-20 where I was trained as gunner on the Leopard 1A5 MBT.

I usually wear all-black clothing and love listening to extreme metal music (especially Norwegian-style black metal), yet I'm a very extroverted and all-round funny person (with a special fondness for irony, sarcasm and dark humor). I like to present myself as cynical but am in fact a thoroughly positive and ultimately optimistic character.
I'm an avid festival-goer (not surprising as I live in the country with the biggest metal festivals in the world) and can usually be found at Dong Open Air and Summer Breeze (a smaller, less expensive and all-round better Wacken alternative I cannot recommend enough) every summer.

I'm a scifi fan in general, especially all things Star Trek and Cyberpunk-ish. I've been playing Shadowrun since 1992, originally discovered the game through the novels and the SNES game before finding some guys at my school who played the pen & paper version. I love scifi and horror games (e.g. Call of Chthulhu or KULT), my true RPG love, though I'm a really big SR fan, is Cyberpunk 2020.
I also like boardgames and dabbled in wargaming once (somewhere back at my mother's house sits a half-painted Blood Angels space marine army worth about 3,000 points in WH40K 2nd Edition). I love PC gaming, currently playing GTA: Vice City and Fallout 3 - my all-time favorite is Deus Ex.

I am not a religious person (in fact, I wasn't even baptised - one of the few decisions I actually honestly thank my parents for) yet at some point in my late teens I decided that I wanted a spiritual aspect in my life and, after studying some philisophical schools of thought, arrived at my very own syncretist belief fusing pantheistic, agnostic and some satanist ideas.
Concerning politics I see myself as a social democrat with some green tint (quite natural for a biologist) and am a proud member of the German Pirate Party.

I'm not actually playing SR anymore as I lack a gaming group but I do demo the game at conventions as an offical supporter of the German SR licensee, Pegasus Spiele. In addition, I recently started freelance proofreading for Pegasus, currently working on the German translation of Runner's Companion.

That should cover it...

I'm an Army Veteran ("disabled") turned musicologist. I do alot of work with obscure music and instruments from 16/17th century Italy. I'm currently living deep in the heart of Texas... but I've never actually stayed in the same place for more than three years... so, yeah.

I started playing RPGs since I was old enough to read. My dad DMed for me and my siblings (now I do). I started with AD&D and play everything from White Wolf to SR to D&D to Paranoia and beyond...

He he, yeah, if Walker was the pierced and tattooed phreaky freaky type.

Tattooed as well? Coooooool (having some tatts myself) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

I've got 2 tatts and 4 brands, but, by the time I'm done I'll have a full shirt, and then some.

This is why I say people with red hair should never become motivated. They are as crazy as hell.

I don't mean any offense by that, unless I'm offending myself... is it just me or is there an unnatural amount of redheads who play Shadowrun?

Im am a redhat as well...and basically you are right about our mental status. So i think i should never come to power....otherwise it could get really nasty for most of the people on the planet.^^

I'm only a red head when I let my hair grow out...instead it grows in dark but betrays me at the first hint of sunlight.

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Oh yeah, i know this problem. Acutally i´m some sort of tortouiseshell-colored. While my beard is completely red, my head hair is street-dog blonde, only showing his red taint in direct sunlight. The other usual body hair is so bright, that it can hardly be seen. Oh yeah...typical sign of madness....FEAR ME!!! ^^

I'm a 29 year old man who's employed as a Crossing guard in Salem (the famous, Massachusetts one), living a couple of towns over. While I have a physical aspect to describe, I'm not going to unless I'm going to game with one of you - privacy thing. Well, I'm dark-brown haired, and I have a redhaird cousin.

The "bastard stepchild" thing makes them rebels. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

That explains everything. *Is also a redhead but only with long hair... or facial hair*

I'm from Regina (it's actually on the SR map!) in Canada. I have a degree in Electronic Systems Engineering, with my focus being on computers and how they communicate in a network (wired and wireless). Right now I work as a professional Software Engineer, writing some boring software for local governments here in Canada. In my spare time (when I'm not gaming) I do some contract video game programming and would very much like to make a career out of it some day.

I'm married with two little girls: one is 3 and the other 9 months.

So, uh, you're all saying that it's a Bad Thing^TM that I want to rule the world?