
Howdy y'all. This is your friendly, neighborhood DM here just chiming in to invite you all to write up a little intro to yourselves, personally, so we can get to know who's at the table. No pressure - write up your memoir or be mysterious and just say hello. My name is James (or Jim). I'm living in NYC (The Bronx). By day, I work for Hearst magazines as a Lead Engineer (web dev) - currently heading the digitalspy.com project. By night, I juggle taking care of my three kids (an 11 year old, a 7 year old and an 8 month old), three cats, and one dog... We also have a chinchilla, a beta fish, and a crawdad, but the kids mostly care for those. So yes, my second career is zookeeper, apparently. I've been role playing since I was a kid and have played/ran all sorts of games. I think I like RPGs best as a form of 'interactive storytelling' - a group of people coming together to help craft a story and have a fun time doing it. The rules, mediated by characters skills, help to mediate the action and flow of the game, and are definitely a major part of any actual RPG - as opposed to just straight storytelling. But ultimately, it is about the story. That said, I'm probably more middle of the road - I'm not a rules lawyer and am willing to break or bend some rules when need be, as long as it doesn't unbalance things, but neither am I writing a novel for my players to witness. I'm a mediator and scene setter and I rely on my players to help drive the story along. Can't wait to start this thing!