Howdy folks, I'm an RPG player/GM from way back in UTC+12/13 (New Zealand) hoping to get back into the RPG world. I can (sometimes) play during the day on Wednesdays as well as weekends, which might make it a bit easier to coordinate with evening play in other time zones. I own, but haven't yet got to play (past session zero at least) FATE Core, FATE Accelerated, Secrets of Cats and Awesome Adventures (powered by FATE). I was first introduced to RPGs with Basic Set D&D c.1982 and was a regular player and GM in various systems from the mid-1980s to late-1990s. I mostly GMed a home-brewed GURPS variant in the Palladium Cyberspace and TMNT worlds across different campaigns. I'm well over D&D and medieval swords and sorcery generally, but could be interested in most other genres. I've played all sorts from the heavy crunch of RoleMaster, GURPS, Twilight 2000 and Hero System to the featherlight Paranoia and Teenagers From Outer Space, but these days FATE feels like the right balance of strong support for the things that make characters and stories interesting, without getting in the way with too much crunch and book-keeping. I describe my preferred genres as "near now", meaning more-or-less anything from the black powder swashbuckling era to small-scale sci-fi (Firefly and The Expanse, hell yeah; Star Wars and Star Trek (beyond Enterprise, at least), not so much), via the Old West, Steampunk, 1920s cliffhangers, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Cold War spies, 1980s detectives, Cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, etc. I'm not a fan of high fantasy or high magic settings, but don't mind a defining twist in the world-building - Call of Cthulhu, subtle or difficult magic, TMNT, alternate history, time travel, etc. While I haven't actually played for years, I have always felt connected and kept in touch with the hobby. I currently have in development a powered-by-FATE world of Zootopia/Animal Crossing/TMNT-style humanoid animals living in a Steampunk-level cold war society on an Earthlike moon of a gas giant with four other potentially habitable moons. Think Apollo-era space-race crossed with Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, if Armstrong and Aldrin were Tom Nook and Rocket Raccoon. If any of that clicks with you, drop me a line.