Greetings, fellow gamer! I would like to form a group or be inducted into one for a long/multiple campaign(s). I am tired of one shots, and want to experience a good story building opportunity with others! Currently I have nothing restricting the times I can be on, though in the next couple of weeks, that will change. Into what, I do not know, but for the time being I can play and be online to my hearts content. Here is a bit about myself: Me as a GM: I am an experienced GM, though only by necessity. Most of the time, I'm surrounded by bad GM's. You know who they are. They are the ones who are out to kill the players and see them as nothing more than cannon fodder; either that, or they are just so inexperienced they can't move the story or combat along at all without checking the book every 2 seconds. I'm not going to say I'm a particularly good GM, but everybody who has ever been a player in one of my games usually gives my sessions either a 9 or 10 out of 10, so I'll take that as a good sign (probably because of the comparison between my style and that of the others I mentioned). I am however, as a GM at least, very prone to procrastination, and can be very lacking in knowledge of the rules depending on how new to the system I am. Most of the time, I end up just playing things by ear (though I do have a basic outline of what should and could happen). I like Narrative and Descriptive styles, as they play to my strengths. I am the type of guy who likes to play the Rule of Cool, and will fudge rolls if it makes the game better in some way. That does not mean I will give players unlimited lives; I expect my players to follow common sense. Sometimes, a player does not know something the character should, in which case I'll try to alleviate the gap in information in some way, but if a player expects to go around being murder hobos in a political/social style campaign, then their asses are getting taken down by whatever security force exists in that world. I also expect my players to be mature. Even though it is a pet peeve of mine, I know that table-talk is also part of getting together for a session, but I also like to keep things moving along at a good rate (Immersion is big for me). Me as a Player: I am an eager player. My favourite part is usually character creation, because most other GM's I've ever played with are my complete antithesis. I've only ever had 1 GM that I've truly enjoyed playing under, because she was perfectly prepared beforehand (unlike me), got into the characters she was playing, was smart and quick enough to make things up on the fly if we broke the game, and managed to keep us under the illusion that weren't playing on a rail road. If table-talk got out of hand, she was swift with her iron fist, bringing us back into proper immersion. That would be the kind of GM I would dream of playing under again, if it were up to me. I like diving into the rules and the lore, and ask lots of questions if I am new to a system. Though I enjoy it a bunch, and want to develop my talent for it more, my role-playing needs a bit of work. I absolutely love using accents vivid descriptions to try to flesh out my characters, if at all possible (and not game-breaking), even though those need work too. I tend to lean more towards logical paths of action, and try to play my character as if I were in their shoes. A confession I have to make though, is I love to power-game at the same time. What can I say, I like to have as many advantages as I can get away with. Blame it on trying to survive Player-Killer GM's. I can be quiet at times, but that's usually because I'm trying to think of the best path of action for my character; I have no qualms about being active in conversations, arguments, and just plain being silly. I have the most fun when the GM is coordinated enough, and the players are all in a rhythm together. I also pride myself as one of the few players who is fully capable of separating in-game knowledge from out-of-game knowledge. I loathe metagaming with a passion. Games I'd like to GM or Play in: I am the most familiar with Eclipse Phase (I own all the books and supplements, know all the best links, and have a substantial plethora of imagery and characters built for this game), and Pathfinder (I just love this game. I only own about 20 books of it though). I have been both a player and a GM for both of these systems, and find character creation to be a cinch (I can stat a character for both in less than 30 minutes). If I were to have a preference for any types of games, it would be those two. However, I also own a spattering of other books and pdfs, and am not opposed to playing others. Other games I'd like to play at some point, in no particular order are included below: Iron Kingdoms, Shadowrun, A Song of Ice and Fire, Dragon Age, 13th Age, Apocalypse World, Dungeons the Dragoning, New World of Darkness (Hunter, Mage, Sin-Eaters, and all its other splats), Burning Wheel, Anima: Beyond Fantasy, Call of Cthulu, Firefly, Mindjammer, and Mutants & Masterminds. How I would like to play: I would like to be part of an active group who play roughly once every week, or once every couple weeks at the least. I want to be able to talk in real time as well (I just recently purchased a shiny new microphone), and abhor text based communication (I would like to think I am a scholarly fellow competent with basic literary functions, but I just cannot type fast). I don't mind being on camera, and don't mind being streamed or featured on Youtube videos if our sessions were to be posted. I will refuse to play with a group smaller than 5, mostly because I usually only ever have 2 available players as a GM, and that's just super frustrating. I've tried to use the audio system here on Roll20, but it didn't seem to work very well, and am thus not opposed to Skype as a means of communication. Ideally, I'd like to be part of a long and in-depth campaign, with lots of action and mystery and intrigue. If you would like to know more, or would like to recruit coerce me into becoming a part of your game, please, let me know here or with a PM. I look forward to hearing from the community here, and cannot wait to start gaming!
