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[Mayhem_2006]

I'm a 37 year old White Male living in England.

I have a degree in Civil Engineering, have an HSE Offshore Commercial Diving Certificate, have completed HSE Confined Spaces Training, Health-and-Safety Management Training and HSE First Aid training. My most recent qualification however, was a post-graduate teaching qualification.

I now work as a primary teacher, teaching the full range of the curriculum to a class of 30 9-11 year olds.

I've been playing RPGs since I was 14, once had a standing ovation for a demo game of WFRP I ran at Gencon UK, and also wrote, planned and ran a 100 person Vampire MET game at a different Gencon UK. I've played around 50 different RPG systems, but now most of my games are played via message board except for a monthly LARP.

[Omer Joel]

Resurrecting this thread... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)

I'm a 29 years old Israeli Citizen. I live in Rehovot, which is a bit to the south from Tel-Aviv. I was born in Chicago, IL and lived there until the age of 4; I have a US citizenship and I occasionally visit friends of my family in NYC. I'm currently studying for a Master's Degree in Geography (focusing on City Planning) at the Tel-Aviv University. I also do freelance English-Hebrew translations and academic editing for a fistful of extra shekkels. I live with my beloved spouse Hani (also a gamer) and our two cats Sake and Chicha in a cramped two-room apartment which is nice nonetheless.

I've been role-playing since 1997, and playing Shadowrun since 1999 (IIRC). I introduced Hani into role-playing games with SR4 back in 2006, and while it took her some time to grok the rules, she dived into role-playing like a fish to water and really had a lot of fun in our game. However, after getting my first full-time job in 2007, I moved away from Shadowrun, then returning to other RPGs, such as Traveller*, Stars Without Number, BFRPG and Lamentations of the Flame Princess (the latter two are D&D "retro-clones"). I'm currently considering getting back to Shadowrun after this hiatus.

My other hobbies include 15mm miniature wargaming (maybe I should build a 15mm Shadowrun collection?), cooking, reading (currently halfway through I, Claudius), computer games (currently re-playing UFO: Aftermath after finishing all three STALKER games in a row) and watching birds and reptiles.

* By the way, I'm currently working on a setting book for Mongoose Traveller for the third-party publisher Spica Publishing; it is now at the layout phase and should be ready in several months.

[wusselpompf]

28 years old, male, German

I am currently working on my PhD-thesis in socio-legal studies (on movie censorship in Germany and the UK). I also give lectures at our local university on a freelance base.
But to pay the bills, I work as head of marketing at a company that provides representation for US companies wanting to expand to the European market.*

I got into roleplaying around '95 and stuck to it ever since, I also like comics, movies, and I am a fantatic supporter of the best soccer team of the world.


* On a side note, we represent a US company, that is very SR-related, as they are actually working on DNI-technology.

[fazzamar]

I'll bite, I'm a 30 year old father of 5 living near Tampa Florida who is currently attending college for a Computer Science BS but I already have a job as a web applications designer/developer although since it's only part time my family lives below the national poverty line. SR was my introduction to RPGs back in 93 and have been playing off and on since then. Hobbies include programming and SR of course. Religion wise I grew up a Christian, Methodist to be specific, but around 17ish I converted (is that even the correct term?) to agnosticism. Technically I'm an independent and have voted for presidents in both parties, but I seem to vote for Dems more often. I'm of Irish and German descent. I was born in Virginia into a military family, my parents divorced when I was 7ish, mother remarried when I was 10, biological father died when I was 11. I think that covers the main demographics stuff.

[Fatum]

I'm 24, born and raised in Moscow. 183 cm, around 120 kg, which brings me over "overweight" straight into "obese" category.

I work for the Central Bank of Russia as an engineer-programmer (which is basically just a fancy way of saying "system administrator"), administrating a bunch of *nix machines, a small Win domain and participating in administrating a z10 IBM mainframe with all the DB software and other weird sticks running on it. While that puts my income into the 1% of highest-wage workers in my home country, I still can't afford a home of my own thanks to the Moscow price level, thus leaving me single.
I used to work in Cosmos Casino as a junior system administrator, and its subsidiary as the only system administrator they had, which gave me a bit of insight into the security systems used there (well, and casino and restaurant automation, as well) thanks to being the only IT specialist at hand.

I graduated from a school with advanced language courses, which left me with fluent if erratic English and some basic German. While the school was geared towards the High School of Economics, I decided engineering to be my calling, and went instead to study in the Moscow Aviation Institute as a radioelectronics engineer, where I am still studying to this day thanks to failing an exam session a couple of years ago.

I'm a huge fan of Planescape, which led me to tabletop gaming to begin with; however, I am only really familiar with the third edition of D&D thanks to only really getting to play around three years ago online due to the lack of interest among my then RL friends. The old Genesis game is what lured me to Shadowrun; however, the online communities I'm a part of make it easier to find players than a GM, so I run games more often than I run shadows. In tabletop gaming, I also have some experience with Dark Heresy system line (both running and GMing, I'm a fluff bunny mostly, though), Pathfinder and GURPS.

In what comes to other hobbies, I'm into collecting 1/72 scale minis, and summer often sees me hiking somewhere a bit to the South of here, like Crimea. Used to do a bit of martial arts, too, but that's behind me thanks to that arthritis I've got. Again, used to be into videogames and reading a lot; don't do those that much now due to lack of time between work and study. I do program on Delphi for fun and common good sometimes yet, my most recent and most popular development being the Servitor bot for IRC gaming.

[Aerospider]

I'm 29 and living in Essex (UK) with my fiance and (soon-to-be) stepdaughter. I work as a contractor in the social services, currently in the role of a system administrator which basically means helping the social workers record their work in line with government requirements.

I've been into gaming since I was knee-high to a neotenous pixie and have been into most forms at one time or another – card games, board games, wargames, RPGs, CCGs, computer games, poker (if you count that). Never got round to LARPing but wouldn't rule it out for the future. I've done some playtesting and sometimes think I would like to do more.

Shadowrun was one of the first (but not THE first) RPG I was introduced to and how could a twelve-year-old gamer not fall in love with a game that lets him be a street samurai in a world of magic, machines and mayhem?! I own dozens of systems now but SR will always be my pet favourite, warts and all.

My only other hobbies these days (since having a family to occupy damn near all my time!) are pool and English sword-dancing. The latter is a form of folk-dancing like morris, only much more interesting. The swords aren't proper swords – they're no good for stabbing or slicing, though the heavy ones can give you quite a whack and the bendy ones will break the skin if you get your hands caught between them. The team I'm in dances at festivals and in pubs – I'm pretty sure we're on You Tube so search for Hawksword if curious. You even have some teams doing it in the US.

[Bigity]

I would have sworn I posted in this thing years go. Oh well.

I'm a 35 year old Caucasian Protestant with a wife and 2 kids (with a third due in September). I speak English and very little Spanish. I've been lazily working on a degree for like 5 years now, it takes awhile when you do one class a semester. My ancestory is pretty mixed like alot of Americans - German (from Svengali), Cherokee Indian, Scottish (the Stuart family line).

I was a computer programmer/admin in the USAF, worked on training programs/systems for Intel students (linguists and analysts) and firefighters (which included actually taking a course on the P-23 crash rescue firefighting vehicle - which has since been retired lol). I got out after the USAF wouldn't send me anywhere but west Texas (I'm from Texas, I wanted to see some new places) and became a defense contractor for about 12 years after the Air Force- worked for both Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.

I got tired of the year to year nature of defense contracting and went to work for a Texas school district three years ago, a job I am leaving next week to go to work for a rancher/farmer financial company in Lubbock TX as an IT person. Texas school budgets are taking a beating right now and it doesn't look good for district employees as far as benefits and raises for the next several years and I got a job offer I couldn't refuse.

I enjoy ice hockey, playing roller hockey, computers and tech of all kinds, and firearms, though my wife keeps me from pursuing that hobby much lately with kids running around (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I also snow ski once or twice a year when possible.

I have never worked on SR but have spent years with it, starting all the way back in '89. I spent alot of time on the two big SR MUXs (Detroit and Seattle) as a player and staff. I have also played alot of AD&D 1st/2nd edition, Star Wars D6, and Warhammer Fantasy RPG.

[Ellzii]

I am from Fort Wayne Indiana. I am a 38 year old caucasian (German, Irish). I was raised Roman Catholic, but now I tend to be more Cafeteria Catholic.

I am a Licenced Real Estate Broker who owns my own firm specializing in property management. I have 3 people who work directly for me and another 8 through management contracts. In 1981 I found this intersting red box at the local dime store. It was called Basic Dungeons and Dragons. After that I fell in love with role playing games. I moved on through the old Expert system then on to Advanced. During that time I also played and ran some Star Frontiers, played some Traveller. Got into Battletech. Then the card game Magic the Gathering (should be Magic the Disease) came out. Somehwere between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Chronicles of Darkus Thel I tried Cyberpunk 2020. It felt like it was missing something. Then Shadowrun 1st edition came out with Sally Tsung on the cover and I knew I had found the game for me.

Unfortunately I graduated high school went in to the Navy and left the role playing world behind. I came back from the 1st war in the sandbox and discovered Doom, Doom 2, and Descent I & II. Then I got hooked on Everquest and later World of Warcraft. I picked up a copy of the 2nd edition core and the Street Samurai catalog & Virtual Realities, but never found the time or people to play. 3rd Edition came out and I found out you could get the books over the net. Now 4th edition is here and I am tempted to start playing again.

I am sure I will add more to this when it isn't 2:00 AM in the morning and I need sleep.

-LZ

[CanRay]

Damn but we're a diverse group, aren't we?

[ggodo]

21 year old Civil Engineering student from the Tir. The one that's not egg nog. I've been interested Shadowrun for decades. Well, like fifteen years. I don't have recollection of where I first saw it, but that memory stuck, and I decided it was the most brilliant premise for anything ever. Since then I've been looking for Shadowrun related stuff intermittantly throughout the years, and once I bit the bullet and decided to GM I gave my players the choice of Pathfinder or Shadowrun. They chose Pathfinder. Two years later I've found the Anniversery edition on sale and buy it. The University based group fell apart, and the Summer group decided to try Shadowrun, so I whipped up a campaign as practice for Summer. It went ok. now I'm running the Summer campaign and loving it. I have so many ideas, I'm sad I'll never get to use them all.

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

Hi, I'm Diogo and I'm a sex addict.

Oh, wait, wrong group (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I'm from Brazil, born and raised in Recife (that we like to call it "Hellcife" because of the heat). 28 years old, graduated in Computer Sciences and right now studying french to submit a request for immigration to Québec (Go Habs!) and taking an MBA in IT management.
I began playing RPG with AD&D when I was 10, first met Shadowrun when I was 13 and bought every book that was translated to portuguese (all SEVEN!!!).

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

I enjoy swimming, cooking, various arts both aesthetic and martial and collect hats.

Black hats? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Tyro]

Portuguese is a beautiful language, but I imagine not much is translated into it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[KarmaInferno]

I would like to revise my earlier post.

I am a howler monkey.

I reside in the Bronx zoo and the warden here does not know that the lock on his office window is broken, giving me access to his computer.

Excuse me, I will be back later. I have to fling some things at people.




-k

[Tyro]

I would like to revise my earlier post.

I am a howler monkey.

I reside in the Bronx zoo and the warden here does not know that the lock on his office window is broken, giving me access to his computer.

Excuse me, I will be back later. I have to fling some things at people.




-k

How did you learn English/how to use a computer/type?

[Kyrel]

Heh. OK, why not.

33 year old male from Denmark. Single/"it's complicated" with no children. I have a Master of Science in International Marketing & Management (or International Manipulation and Exploitation if you will... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ) and today own and run my own company, which sells power supplies and connectors in the Danish BtB market.

I speak Danish (native) and English very well, French and German at touriste level, and I understand and speak a bit of Swedish and Norwegian. Technically I also understand some Latin, but more than a decade's very infrequent use means I'm not very good at it any longer.

I've done competition swimming for 6 years in my youth, and I've been dancing for 30 year (around 16 of them at international competition level ballroom dancing, the remainding 14 a mix of ballroom, tapdancing, jazz, swing, show and more, at hobby and exercise level). I've also done a bit of Tai Chi and a couple of years worth of general gym workout. Oh ya', I'm also a certified movie lover, and go to the cinema around 25-30 times per year (rough average over the last 4-5 years...), plus the theater some 5-10 times per year normally. I also Scuba Dive once every blue moon, when I'm abroad, and I'm currently looking into improving my golf skills.

I originally got into tabletop gaming back in 1989 (mainly Games Workshop games, but also Magic the Gathering (1 year only) and Battletech), did a bit of LARP (mostly in-crowd Vampire) on/off for a few years, and finally got a chance to get into tableside RPG's a couple of years ago.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, but I LOVE classical jazz.

I've travelled extensively throughout most of Europe, andalso had a chance visit Canada, USA, Egypt, Tunesia, and China/Taiwan/Hong Hong on a few occassions.


/Kyrel

[Tyro]

Heh. OK, why not.

33 year old male from Denmark. Single/"it's complicated" with no children. I have a Master of Science in International Marketing & Management (or International Manipulation and Exploitation if you will... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ) and today own and run my own company, which sells power supplies and connectors in the Danish BtB market.

I speak Danish (native) and English very well, French and German at touriste level, and I understand and speak a bit of Swedish and Norwegian. Technically I also understand some Latin, but more than a decade's very infrequent use means I'm not very good at it any longer.

I've done competition swimming for 6 years in my youth, and I've been dancing for 30 year (around 16 of them at international competition level ballroom dancing, the remainding 14 a mix of ballroom, tapdancing, jazz, swing, show and more, at hobby and exercise level). I've also done a bit of Tai Chi and a couple of years worth of general gym workout. Oh ya', I'm also a certified movie lover, and go to the cinema around 25-30 times per year (rough average over the last 4-5 years...), plus the theater some 5-10 times per year normally. I also Scuba Dive once every blue moon, when I'm abroad, and I'm currently looking into improving my golf skills.

I originally got into tabletop gaming back in 1989 (mainly Games Workshop games, but also Magic the Gathering (1 year only) and Battletech), did a bit of LARP (mostly in-crowd Vampire) on/off for a few years, and finally got a chance to get into tableside RPG's a couple of years ago.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, but I LOVE classical jazz.

I've travelled extensively throughout most of Europe, andalso had a chance visit Canada, USA, Egypt, Tunesia, and China/Taiwan/Hong Hong on a few occassions.


/Kyrel

I want your life.

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

How did you learn English/how to use a computer/type?

A super monkey?

[Kyrel]

I want your life.

*Laugh* You're only getting the positives here my friend. While I have been blessed in many ways, my life comes with its share of "curses" as well...

[KarmaInferno]

How did you learn English/how to use a computer/type?

I don't speak English.

You speak Monkey.




-k

[Rubic]

31 year old male, Virginia Beach, VA., U.S. Navy veteran (supply corp).

Currently bussing tables at a local restaurant, while seeking alternate employment. I have an associates in Computer Programming with a focus in game design, little free time to use it in, and no reliable transportation (this last of which I'm pursuing a solution for). My main computer rig failed on me a few months back (motherboard went), leaving me on a 5 year old laptop with half the ram. Although I would like to make games for a living, I would also rather be certain I have a roof over my head and food on my table prior to pursuing dreams, and am considering returning to school for a more widely applicable degree.

My musical tastes lie mostly in rock and alternative, with my favorite band being Barenaked Ladies.

My hobbies are anime and manga (Negima is my guilty pleasure), computer gaming, and tabletop gaming. I'm familiar with D&D 3.5 and 4th, Pathfinder, Shadowrun 4e, Star Wars Saga Edition, Old and New World of Darkness (I prefer new), Feng Shui, Big Eyes Small Mouth (currently possess the red book, but familiar with prior editions), Maid RPG. I have experience with WH 40k Dark Heresy though not much, and enough experience with Palladium games to know I don't enjoy them (I previously played more than a few sessions). As far as characters, I like to create interesting and alternative interpretations of archetypes, such as a cleric/magician who ISN'T a band-aid ([to my crew:] because I'm not a babysitter, and if you insist otherwise I'll start 'healing' with Powerball until you stop moving! I'll pull this game over to the side of the road and bring out the belt, so help me!!). With online games, I tend towards tank or healer, because control is almost never a viable end game focus, and secretly I hate myself and subliminally seek the abuse like everybody else in those jobs, thank God I stopped playing them.... sorry, where was I?

Oh yeah. I also like to draw, and though I tend to be overly critical of myself, I'm somewhat proud of my work. Nothing recent online to show, unfortunately.

I've been to several countries outside my own. While I don't speak as many languages as I used to (formerly fluent in French and Spanish), I have a tendency to understand more than I speak.

[Mr. Smileys]

24 year old male from the Tri-City area, Washington

I am currently working as a Software Developer/Programmer for a Business Process/Software outsourcing company. I know java, C#, VB.Net, JavaScript, HTML, MS-SQL, T-SQL, PL-SQL, DB2-SQL, Database Normalization/Administration, and thats all i can think of at the moment.

I enjoy gaming of all kinds with my very large group of friends and am currently involved in a D&D 3.5 game as a PC, a D&D Pathfinder game as a PC, and a Shadowrun game as the GM. I have been playing RPGs on and off for the past 12 years or so and have accrued a large collection of different systems. I also enjoy gaming on my PC as well as most Consoles. I collect and shoot firearms and also collect blades of all kinds (prefer function over looks though).

[MJBurrage]

I am a British-American from Vermont, just old enough to remember Star Wars before it was "A New Hope", and start playing D&D just before the books got orange spines.

After getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering, I worked in a lab studying acid rain, and got to go to a related NATO conference. Later I completed an MBA, and began teaching business, math, and computer classes at a local culinary school and the state college. For the last few years I have also been studying biomedical engineering part time.

In addition to a score of trips to England, I have traveled to Belgium, France (Calais & Nancy), Germany (North Rhine), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Scotland (Lowlands), Spain (Majorca), Mexico (the Yucatan), Australia (Victoria & NSW) and New Zealand (Auckland). I very much want to visit Islay, Mont Saint-Michel, Rome and Santorini

While I now spend enough time in front of a computer to be visibly sedentary, I have swum two-miles, and backpacked 80-miles. So while sports involving sprinting have never been my thing, I still like hiking and camping. My favourite place in the world is my grandfather's mountain cabin which has electricity but is otherwise off the grid (no phone, no internet, limited radio/cell reception, etc.)

[Cain]

Why not?

I'm Cain, one of the old men here. I've lived mostly in Seattle, until I moved to Oregon a few years ago. I'm a disabled part-time single father with a live-in girlfriend who's 20 years younger than I am.

I've studied a few languages, but don't consider myself fluent in any of them except English. I can swear decently in twelve languages, so if the situation arises, I can cuss out anyone in the world. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I used to study martial arts in Seattle with some of the original Bruce Lee students, but I'm hardly an expert. Still, if you can say you studied with Taky Kimura or James DeMile, it sounds impressive.

Gaming wise, I think I started RPG's sometime around 1980. Dungeons and Dragons, of course. I flitted around with a few others, but in 1989, I finally fell in love with a gaming system: Shadowrun. Been playing it ever since. I used to play video games, but they're too complex for me to keep up (my girlfriend breaks up laughing every time she sees me try and play Minecraft, and I was banned from playing first-person shooters after the notorious Counterstrike Incident (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ).

[Machiavelli]

Heh. OK, why not.

33 year old male from Denmark. Single/"it's complicated" with no children. I have a Master of Science in International Marketing & Management (or International Manipulation and Exploitation if you will... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ) and today own and run my own company, which sells power supplies and connectors in the Danish BtB market.

I speak Danish (native) and English very well, French and German at touriste level, and I understand and speak a bit of Swedish and Norwegian. Technically I also understand some Latin, but more than a decade's very infrequent use means I'm not very good at it any longer.

I've done competition swimming for 6 years in my youth, and I've been dancing for 30 year (around 16 of them at international competition level ballroom dancing, the remainding 14 a mix of ballroom, tapdancing, jazz, swing, show and more, at hobby and exercise level). I've also done a bit of Tai Chi and a couple of years worth of general gym workout. Oh ya', I'm also a certified movie lover, and go to the cinema around 25-30 times per year (rough average over the last 4-5 years...), plus the theater some 5-10 times per year normally. I also Scuba Dive once every blue moon, when I'm abroad, and I'm currently looking into improving my golf skills.

I originally got into tabletop gaming back in 1989 (mainly Games Workshop games, but also Magic the Gathering (1 year only) and Battletech), did a bit of LARP (mostly in-crowd Vampire) on/off for a few years, and finally got a chance to get into tableside RPG's a couple of years ago.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, but I LOVE classical jazz.

I've travelled extensively throughout most of Europe, andalso had a chance visit Canada, USA, Egypt, Tunesia, and China/Taiwan/Hong Hong on a few occassions.


/Kyrel

What a coincidence! I also have my own business, selling high-quality industrial and special cables and complete harnesses into the scandinavian market.^^ This looks like the beginning of a possible partnership.^^ Give me a PM.^^