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[Triggerz]

Are we all old teenagers? Hmmm... I feel like I'm getting old. Recently turned 30. From Quebec, Canada. I speak French, English, a tiny bit of Korean, and a few words of Spanish, Latin and Japanese. I've studied a bunch of things and have a master's in economics. I currently work as an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea.

EDIT: I'm a guy. French roots, although my family's been living in Quebec for centuries.

[Zak]

Alright, let's chip in.
I'm a 29 year old guy currently living in Frankfurt, Germany. Finished University a year ago and am running a night club right now. Speaking german, english, some spanish, french and indonesian. ProbablyHopefully moving to Paris soon for a job at a research facility.

Playing this game since im 12 or 13 and I am currently active in 3 irregular SR groups and another one playing Vampire. Used to play miniature games, but quit a few years ago mainly due to time and money reasons.

[Red-ROM]

Its crazy, everyone on here is about 30 years old. i mean, theres some exceptions, but still, pretty interesting

[Prime Mover]

Male, Austrian/German, 39, married/father of 3 (Ages 10 months to 17 years) and long time employee of local hospital.

Live in the U.S. North Central Pa the woodsy part.

Been gaming since 83 (Club in high school, they handed me my first set of dice and we started making charecters and somthing clicked inside. It was like finding you had a destiny after all. Been running games ever since.)

Played and or own dozens of games but only a few last beyond there introductory phase. Shadowrun was one of the few and somthing I've been running since first edition with a long break during third edition.

Political views: Jaded
Religion: Irony

[Backgammon]

Currently 27 but my age has been known to change over time.

French Canadian living in Montreal, though I speak about 50/50 english and french most of the time. I'm married to an extremely hot polish-canadian girl that I adore, which is basically my greatest accomplishment. My second biggest accomplishment is my career. I'm a Software Engineer working as Senior Consultant for an IT consultancy firm, specifically working with ERP systems (Netsuite to be very specific). Through my time as a consultant, I've learned accounting, business management, inventory management and enough stuff to basically tell you how a company works from a to z. Internally, I partially manage a growing team of 5 consultants. I'm basically a social geek, really.

My hobbies are writting, Shadowrun (I play no other RPG, except I now have an interest in Eclipse Phase I intend to develop), reading, XBOX, capoeira and I've recently rekindled my interest in Warhammer (bought an empire army. Ebay is my new god). I'm involved with the Shadowrun Mission gang and got to wrote part of the Manhattan e-book, which was an awesome experience. I love to cook. I do NOT bake. I have a partial interest in fashion - when I buy clothes, I buy nice shit, but otherwise don't think too much about it.

[Cthulhudreams]

I'm a 26 year old Australian - of Irish descent, but I was born on a military base in Malaysia which causes endless problems. I speak english and schoolboy french, but I've been told before that I sound like Steve Erwin trying to speak french when I do try (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) I did an IT - related degree at the Australian national university, but I do not enjoy programming, so I've been trying to change careers.

I live in Canberra, which is a small country town.. and also the capital of Australia so full of public servants and the primary industry is government. I cannot stand doing one thing for protracted periods of time, so I currently work for a Big 4 accounting firm doing management consulting. Obviously I work mostly for government clients. I play computer games competitively - TF2 mostly, working on getting a Heros of Newerth team together.

[CynthiaCM]

I'm Cynthia Celeste Miller and I live in Parsons, Kansas (the cultural armpit of the universe). I'm the president of a small press game company called Spectrum Games (responsible for such games as Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2 and Slasher Flick). I also do freelancing as a graphic designer and game designer. Another major activity I partake in is playing drums in a thrash/death metal band called Slayground.

Hobbies include RPGs (duh!), miniatures games, terrain building, ghost hunting, death metal music, pro wrestling history (1890s-1980s), vintage comicbooks, 1980s action cartoons, H.P. Lovecraft and watching horror movies.

[AJCarrington]

Just turned 39 and currently living in York, PA USA. I'm Canadian and have been living in the US for the past 2 years with my wife, 3 girls, 2 dogs and 3 cats...yep, pretty much working on my own version of the ark. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Senior management with international corp.

Cut my teeth on classic Avalon Hill games such as Squad Leader and Panzerblitz and was introduced to RPGs back in middle school. This lead to miniature games. Have been playing and collecting games/miniatures pretty steadily since the mid-80s. Have played/followed Shadowrun since 1st Ed - still think that it sets the standard for integrating fluff/setting/rules.

Currently time is my biggest nemesis - never seem to be able to balance family and work well enough to find time to hook up with a regular gaming group - will eventually connect with a PbP game or two.

AJC

[ravensoracle]

I'm 29 and currently living in the middle of the woods near Fredonia, KS (Not to far from CelesteCM in fact. And I do agree this is the cultural armpit of the world.) I live with my gorgeous wife, 3 girls (all knockouts, Dad's worst nightmare let me tell you. ), 2 dogs, a cat and about twenty dear living somewhere on the property.

I've currently gave the finger to the rat race and moved to the country about 6 months ago. I used to work as a field service engineer on medical imaging equipment; meaning MRI's, CT's and various other devices that make you glow in the dark. But I sold the house in the city paid off all the bills and debt. Now I live a comfortable country life in early retirement, paying the bills working as a part time handyman. I get to enjoy volunteering time to help out other disabled Vet's like myself and all my numerous hobbies.

Of which, my hobbies include riding my motorcycle, taking the boat out on the lake, playing with the kids, hunting, fishing, just started blacksmithing, rebuilding vintage electronics, computer games, reading any book I can get my hands on, and Roleplaying.

First gaming experience was GM'ing a old Mage game. Then I moved on to GM'ing an assortment of others including 2nd thru 4th ed SR. I have only rarely been allowed to actually be a player in any game, but my favorite is SR.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Well... Here goes...

I am 42, 6'1" and 205 pounds... Blue Eyes... Would have blond hair, but I still maintain my High and Tight Flattop from my military days... I live in Aurora, Colorado, in a lovely house with my lovely wife (of 8 years), a 4 year old son, 3 cats and 3 dogs...

I started gaming in 1987 durign my 8 year stint with the US MArine Corps. Traveled throughout the world, spent time in Great Britain, Europe, Japan, Korea, Phillipines, Central America and various other places...

I am of Scott/Irish descent (not sure how I ended up with Blond Hair and Blue Eyes... seems more German to me), and I speak English with an understanding of Latin, Spanish, Japanese, and a little Korean... at least enough to get in trouble with anyway...

I am an avid Gun Nut and have been shooting since I was a wee lad of 3... have experience with all sorts of weapons, up to and including small missile systems, mostly learned in the Marine Corps. I have been trained in Hand-to-Hand combat of various styles, demolitions, Honed my weapon skills (Mortars, machine guns, sniper, pistols, sword, bayonet, Knife, etc), Communications technology, Counter-terrorism, Mountain Climbing and Mountain Warfare, wilderness survival (including Jungle, Cold Weather, and Desert Survival), and a various multitude of ways to kill someone (I was a very diversified Grunt in the Corps)...

I spent a year as a Security Guard in Texas after my release from teh Marine Corps before I went to University.

I spent many years at the University of Texas in San Antonio (where I grew up) studying for my BA in Humanities with a Minor in Computer Science (God I hate programming and Math)... and I currently work as a System Administrator for a Leading Payroll AA MegaCorp...

Other Hobbies include an avid interest in COmputers (have been tinkering with them since 1981) and a one-time obsession with photography (any and all types, but specifically in figure and nude studies)...

I have played games from 1st Edition D&D through Starwars, Rifts (love the World, Hate the System), Hero (Champions and their Ilk), White Wolf OWOD (1st Edition through the End of Days), White Wolf NWOD (Changeling, Vampire, Hunter and Werewolf), and currently (when it is my turn) run variations of either NWOD Vampire, Feng Shui (Star Wars Adaptation), or a D&D/Black Company Fantasy Customized Campaign that I have bneen running since 1990... I have been into Shadowrun since its inception and currently LOVE the new edition...

I tend to play twice a week... Shadowrun on Fridays (withouth my Wife) and Earthdawn on Sundays (with my Wife)... after the Footbal Season (when the current GM on SUndays switches), I will again take up the mantle of Gamemaster on Sundays for either the Vampire, Star Wars or Fantasy Game, as we have been switching off GM's every quarter or so over the last 2 years...

Keep the Faith Everyone...

[exSaint]

I'm a 23 (24 next month) year old scrawny white kid who, aside from lack of acne and copius amounts of facial hair, still looks like he's in high school. I've got green eyes and short brown hair. I have zero tattoos and zero piercings. I'm 5'10 and ~130lbs. If most of you saw what I ate on a weekly basis, you'd hate me.

I'm shocked at that lack of Canadian representation (I saw two others that live in Canada, and another two that grew up/were born in Canada and moved). I live in 'the other London', in Ontario, with my girlfriend, two cats: one fat + grumpy cat and the other friendly and playful (almost to a fault). I'd like to get a bearded dragon in the near future.

I'm a roadside assistance provider - I dispatch tow trucks - in a call centre. I hate it only slightly less than I hate school. Ideally, I'd like to be selling cars.

I started roleplaying D&D 3.0 when I was 14 - a guy in my homeroom told me some stories about a few of his buddies playing D&D 2.0 and I switched them over to 3.0. I still to this day do not understand D&D 1 or 2. I started playing online shortly after meeting one of my best friends in real life (from Osh Kosh WI) the following year. This core group followed D&D from 3 to 3.5 to 4 where we realized D&D 4 was.. not good. Somewhere in there one of us stumbled across Shadowrun 4E and a few of us started playing that. It was about this time that I realized D&D was just not as good a system as Shadowrun. I'd like to thank Shadowrun for thoroughly ruining D&D for me.

(as a side note, I typically visit my American friend two-three times a year where we play 'weekend' games - if anyone in the Milwaukee area is interested, you could PM me)

I joined here some two years ago and was relatively inactive. I played in a short lived game my current GM was running then (well, it was short lived for me) and went dormant for 18 months or so. My thirst for roleplaying was never satisfied, and I've come back - now more active (I mainly just read threads).

I don't have any fascinating Shadowrun applicable skills, except for the fact that I have a good understanding of how a vehicle runs (internal combustion engines and hybrid systems). I speak English well and high school French poorly. I eat, sleep and breath hockey despite the fact I can't skate (I do play ball hockey in a league).

I soon plan on getting a car (again) so I would travel for an IRL game.

I'm a competition junkie and cannot stand losing to cheaters. I don't mind losing a fair game.

I enjoyed real time strategy, racing and first/third person shooters.

Other random facts:
- favourite color is orange
- I love Nibs
- I don't understand fads
- I can't cook but I can bake (I make delicious chocolate chip cookies)
- I love sleeping
- I hate getting wet and I positively loathe snow
- I think Pepsi is superior to Coca Cola and I can tell the difference

[Borbag]

Talk about diversity... i really should read the whole thread.
well then, i'm 23, male, single and turkish (or rather, istanbulian, considering the city is larger than a small european country). 1.77 meters long with 74 kg mass. that should be one inch shorter than 6 feet and ~150 lbs? freaking imperial units...
brown eyes, brown-reddish hair... usual stock options really, aside from the fact that my hair is really long (reaching towards the waist area).
I'm an economics major and still in school (mba). i worked as an accountant for a year, and i really hope i won't need to be an accountant ever again. i can speak english pretty well, understand some german, fake french and imitate japanese.
i got conned into playing when i was 15 (they said it was very similar to diablo) with d&d 2nd edition, continued with 3rd. then came university years and i learned that there actually are other games/systems/worlds out there. then my curiosity overtook... after years of research, conventions and lots of forcing peo i can count around 30 seperate systems (name&concept only) on top of my head. i played planescape, dark sun, forgetten realms (peer pressure), ravenloft (mask of the red death)alternity and star wars from the d20 family, every single old WOD games (funny thing, all of them were convention games = i played once or twice each), all sorts of GURPS, Toon, Battletech, Arcanum (home made system), Fallout pnp, Shadowrun (4th only), Legend of the Five Rings. Jack of all trades, master of some (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) i can gm generic d20, planescape, fallout, gurps, feng shui and shadowrun. i'm pretty new to feng-shui and shadowrun. feng-shui is pretty easy but shadowrun... oh boy.
before you say anything, yes, i have a life. works like this: borbag come across interesting game. borbag like. borbag download. borbag read some. borbag find suitable victim. borbag markets game. borbag troll the victim until he/she gms the aforementioned game. unfortunatelly most of these games are short-lived, hence the list. still, better than nothing.
right now i'm playing legend of five rings, and recently started playing shadowrun (i'm the GM).
now comes the fun part. back in 2007, i played my first (and only) shadowrun as a player at a convention. that particular gm somehow vanished, and other than him there are no other GMs. no. one. whatsoever. as far as i know, I'm the only Shadowrun GM in Turkey. If anyone knows about shadowrun, that's because i told them. the good thing is, i can make up rules because no one knows anyway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)
i believe frp is a game rather than a reality simulation; any rule that takes more time than the action itself (like doing math for 5 minutes for tying shoelaces) should be ignored; irrational behaviour should have consequences, violance can be pretty awesome if sufficiently roleplayed(don't say "i hit with my sword", get creative!) and gms with god complex should be reminded that players exist in real life and are perfectly capable of beating the crap out of said gm.
also, i would rather roleplay a lizard brain in a jar than spend the whole session rollplaying.

[toturi]

gms with god complex should be reminded that players exist in real life and are perfectly capable of beating the crap out of said gm.

QFT.

[Nol]

I've lurked here for quite awhile, figured I'd actually register an account to post here (So, hi).

I'm from Pennsylvania, USA, and compared to the rest of you I'm quite a youngster, only 18. Been player paper/pencil RPGs since I was twelve (Yeah, really).

Currently I'm in college doing a double major of Philosophy and Computer Science. I actually have a good deal of SR-related skills and background knowledge - hotwiring, lockpicking, reverse engineering, exploit development, programming (I would totally be the team's combat hacker), and something I'll save for later on in this post.

I'm quite a (post)cyberpunk junkie - I've read both the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies by Gibson, along with Snow Crash and Diamond Age, and I love Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Ergo Proxy, the entire Matrix Trilogy, Blade Runner, and a good amount of mildly obscure movies (Avalon, Brazil, Cypher, etc). I usually GM, and probably due to me starting out in 4e and having a Postcyberpunk background, I tend to not view or run the SR world as a dystopia.

Here's a fun fact: in terms of spirituality (and I would like to note this is one of the few places that will actually have some idea of what I'm talking about) I follow chaos magick with a Qabalistic slant.

[pbangarth]

I might as well raise the average age a bit. I'm 56, and started playing the first Dungeons & Dragons (before it got 'advanced') 31 years ago. I've played many, many RPGs and found none I like better than Shadowrun, which I have played all of its 20 years. I am a Canadian, and have lived most of my life in Southern Ontario (yes, including London). Toronto is my home, in many senses of that word, but currently I live in Whitecourt, Alberta, 2 hours by car northwest of Edmonton, in the middle of the forest where it gets really, really cold in winter.

I've been in the military. I've done martial arts. I was a computer programmer for many years, but my heart was never in it. I made the big mid-life realization while sitting by a cold stream in the Andes mountains. I went back to school when I was 42 to study Archaeology. Undergraduate Anthropology, Master's in Bioarchaeology, and I'm just finishing my doctorate in Archaeology now. The doctorate will be my fifth post-secondary degree. No more school. Ever.

My first role playing character was a Fighter named Trund. He made it through the cavern system and out the opening with one hit point left. Yes, I have lived that legend: a falling rock killed him. The DM was my first wife. A college counsellor with an uncanny ability to see into people within minutes. Except me. We have a daughter, a fine percussionist who is in Liverpool, England and is about to start her doctorate in Popular Music Studies. Awesome.

My second wife writes magical fiction for young adults. She made the most complete, compelling and thunderingly alive world for AD&D I have ever seen. Best acting I ever did was in that game. You guys in Shadowrun HQ could use a talent like hers. Her daughter, my stepdaughter, is in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes, too, and has a great job writing story lines for video games. More awesomeness.

My third wife and I live in Toronto, except for the latest bit in Alberta. She plays Shadowrun... because I do. She likes it fine except when a game drags on for hours and hours. Four is her limit of tolerance. After that, I start paying, in blood or worse. She knows half the jazz musicians in Toronto. She has a doctorate in Education and is testing her theories out on unsuspecting teachers in Whitecourt. Last time I whispered sweet nothings in her ear, she said, "Fuck off. Get a job." This one is a keeper.

I spent the summer and continue now into the fall writing my too-long delayed dissertation in a cabin in the woods on an island in Georgian Bay, part of the Great Lakes. All by myself except for our two border collies and the innumerable rodents in the forest around us. The dogs chase rodents all day long, and I am getting some good writing done. Soon... soon it will be over. Then I will be back to the adventure: climbing mountains in Peru, finding lost cities where my satellite photos say they are. Now if only my knees hold out long enough.

[exSaint]

I spent the summer and continue now into the fall writing my too-long delayed dissertation in a cabin in the woods on an island in Georgian Bay, part of the Great Lakes. All by myself except for our two border collies and the innumerable rodents in the forest around us. The dogs chase rodents all day long, and I am getting some good writing done. Soon... soon it will be over. Then I will be back to the adventure: climbing mountains in Peru, finding lost cities where my satellite photos say they are. Now if only my knees hold out long enough.

Manitoulin Island? I grew up about an hour south of the ferry launch, in Southampton. (again, the one in Ontario - *shakes fist* stupid unoriginal names! lol)

[pbangarth]

No, Christian Island. One of the biggest islands in the Great Lakes, but hardly anyone knows of it. Just off the peninsula with Penetanguishene and Midland. I've been through Southampton.

EDIT: Hey! This post made me a Neophyte Runner! Woohoo!

[Adarael]

I'm Cynthia Celeste Miller and I live in Parsons, Kansas (the cultural armpit of the universe). I'm the president of a small press game company called Spectrum Games (responsible for such games as Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2 and Slasher Flick).

Oh my god, Slasher Flick. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Your company drove my old roommate and I NUTS when Slasher Flick came out, because he'd developed a game called Slash-o-Rama that was essentially the same game. I always pushed him to make the rules better and release the game, and he never did. And now he feels unable to, because of Slasher Flick.

It's good stuff, props to you and your company!

[Tiny Deev]

Hello hello.

My name is Robin, and I live in The Netherlands. I'm 18 years old, and a student. I'm planning on ending up becoming a Game Developer/ Programmer. I've done most sports out there for about a week or more. I consider myself a gamer because its probably what I do most. I play a LOT of computer games. I've taught myself how to draw, because I always wanted to impress people (read: impress girls). And how better to impress a girl then to quickly draw her a rose? Lately I've picked up writing short stories, which I enjoy a lot. I feel that Shadowrun has helped me develop my creative writing skill. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
I've started Shadowrun a few months ago. Before that I played a small roll in a DnD campaign. Boths games were/are run by my brother, Dennis (Dv8).

[tete]

I'm 31 male married (to a gamer no less) enjoy a ton of rpgs, boardgames, video games etc. I live in Seattle Washington USA. I'm a Contract Network Administrator for the Government.

[Tachi]

@tete
*Holds up fingers in a cross*
Back G-man! Back I say! Damn, never have a stake and mallet when I need one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[caul]

I'm 33, married, no kids, I'm the lead trainer for an organization that offers support to people with developmental disabilities, and I live in Missouri.

[tete]

@tete
*Holds up fingers in a cross*
Back G-man! Back I say! Damn, never have a stake and mallet when I need one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

I'm not the guy who reads your email (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[hobgoblin]

@tete
*Holds up fingers in a cross*
Back G-man! Back I say! Damn, never have a stake and mallet when I need one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

he is the decoy, the one in uniform thats there to grab your attention while the plain clothes dig up everything from favorite foods to sexual habits, and archive it all for future social discredit should you ever make a stink about their activities...

[Tachi]

I'm not the guy who reads your email (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Yeah, yeah, likely story. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

he is the decoy, the one in uniform thats there to grab your attention while the plain clothes dig up everything from favorite foods to sexual habits, and archive it all for future social discredit should you ever make a stink about their activities...

*Looks around suspiciously, starts eying everyone in civvies. Hand starts creeping toward gun.*
Then... which one do I shoot in the pinkie toe? I don't have enough ammo to shoot everyone in the pinkie toe. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)


*Warning, emoticon overload eminent.*