Good afternoon, everyone. First and foremost, thank you for taking a moment to check out this massive, TL;DR post. I know it's a bit of a word wall for an introduction, but I wanted to get as much information out there as possible. It's actually taken from another post I wrote about a month ago looking for a game when my schedule was a bit different. I promise, it's not spam. Personally, I hate the stuff. No amount of Monty Python could ever warm a large enough place in my heart to fit a can of it in. So, my name is George, and as of recently, I've been moved to the graveyard (ooooh, spooky) shift at my job. It's put a heavy-handed end to my ability to play with most people on here I was talking to, but that hasn't deterred me from trying to find a group I can meet, slip into, and pick up playing. I'm based out of US Central Time Zone (GMT: -5:00) and looking to play late morning to early afternoon. I generally go to work at 00:00 (midnight) so I need to be wrapped up by 21:30 (9:30 pm) to have time to shower, dress, and make my commute to the resort. I'm open to playing with a non-US player base, but English is my only fluent language. My French is a horrible dialect of cajun/creole and hasn't been used in a decade, so anyone playing in a foreign language, I must politely decline so that don't bastardize your game any worse than my country probably has your cuisine. As for my experiences: I've been playing table-top games since 2002. My first foray was using the D&D 3.0 rules which were pretty damn new at the time. Over the next couple of years, I played and ran a handful of games and systems including (but not exclusively) classic World of Darkness, Legend of the Five Rings, Pathfinder, 3.5, Fireborn, and GURPS. I'm open to these systems, and others, as a player. I have a pretty extensive physical and digital library built up over the last fifteen years, so feel free to pitch most anything to me. I've loved flash sales, and shared files with friends from around the world to better flesh out our collections. My playstyle: I loath min-maxing, power builds, over optimizations. Those are the kinds of people who fail to function in a real world, and while I understand these are all for games, I simply can't understand the character or the desire to play one built like such. I am personally a story whore. I can play an entire session without rolling any combat checks. Maybe a stealth roll, a DM rolled perception check or a saving throw for some unknown (and possibly non-existent) reason. I'd rather understand the world, learn the history, explore the politics, and let my character grow organically in the environment. My characters: Religious. With rare exceptions, all of my characters in fantasy games are religious. The gods are quite present in the form of clerics, spells, archons, tieflings, angels, devils, demons.... they are mighty, fearsome beings who deserve respect, and regardless of how hard a level 4 fighter can hit, it's not enough to slay Zeus. Assassins who worship Vecna, warriors who praise Kord, Paladins who invoke the name of Saint Cuthbert, and clerics who spread the gospels of Pelor. You don't have to be the pope to be religious; and many of my characters have a deity to whom they pray and follow holidays, even if just in name or fear. Lawful. It's rare that I don't (but it has happened) choose a character with a very ordered outlook on life. Not saying I have to play the law-abiding citizen in every instance, but most of my characters have a distinct code of ethics and rules they guide their own life by. Sometimes these conflict with the local laws, and that's fine (to me) for the story. But a code of honor, code of chivalry, a gentleman's code, pirate's code... something that guides my character as who he is and why. I like to work this out with the DM ahead of time to try and make such a code less rare in the world, and perhaps even a small organization of members who are bound by it, if not to each other. What I'm looking for: Recently, in talking with some local friends, we have expressed interest in getting a game together on my one fully free off day during the week and playing that afternoon and evening. At the moment, I am being pressed to become the DM when we are ready to play, and I personally would like to run King Maker. I've heard great reviews from friends both personal and online for this module, and I would love to experience it myself and then run it for my local gaming group. That's not to say I'm not interested in anything else, but this is my priority game, and will jump at the chance to play it from beginning to end over anything at this second. If I were to join another game/campaign/adventure path, I'd like to jump into something above "level one" but not necessarily a high level. I'd like to find a group who has desires beyond find cave, march through the cave, swing sword, cast spell, loot bodies, rinse, repeat. I'm looking for a game with a campaign in mind, even if that campaign isn't written in the DM's mind yet. I want something that can spawn an epic. I want to sit down after work with friends and tell them of the exploits of our party over a drink. I'm looking for something that I can invest myself in creatively and with some passion and get the same rewarding experience from all players involved. Setting? : Well, obviously the River Kingdoms if this goes in flight the way I'd hope. However, if another option is pursued, I'm leaning towards something fantasy based, but that's by no means set in stone. I enjoy the SG-1 RPG and would be glad to play in something of a sci-fi nature. I absolutely LOVE Legend of the Five Rings and will make a character very quickly if that comes up. Modern game: pitch it to me. Supernatural, let's hear it. I'm really open for ideas right now. So long as the people are good, and the story is engaging, I'm generally open to jumping on board. So, TL;DR - 30 year old white male loves long walks on the beach, pina coladas, and getting lost in the rain. Can polish armor, sharpen swords, cast spells, pray to the gods, pick locks, shoot lasers, drink blood, and party like it's 1999. Let me know if your table has an opening, and I promise to shower, shave, and even wear deodorant.