I'm Zn (pronounced, ZAY-N), and the role playing games and the way we play them today is very different than when I was a kid. My entire philosophy about how to play them has changed since I have become an adult, and I'm experimenting with atypical metagame devices and campaign organization to make for a more practical game.
Let's face it... I'm experimenting with entirely new platforms to play the game and have changed my approach in most every way since I started in the late 90s. It is for that reason that I take the moniker, "the Apostate." -- though..., there might be other valid interpretations of that.
I stared playing AD&D 2e. I moved on up to 3, then 3.5, and have nestled comfortably into Pathfinder. I usually GM, and I usually want to GM if I'm not GMing At least with D&D.
I used to play West End Games Star Wars D6 and the old VtM, ages ago, but I wouldn't have as much interest in either anymore. Although, I would like to try Shadowrun or a similar cyberpunk game as a player but not a GM, though I have never played it.
I'm actually supposed to try out the Sprawl, Apocalypse World hack or whatever, but I haven't played it yet, I'm barely familiar with the rules, and would not be able to GM it well. As there are only two of us interested in playing. Let me know if you want to try that out; my friend will run it for us if we have characters.
For now, I'll just run Pathfinder.
I write a lot, and I write purposely how I wish to. I've been writing a lot for a long time, and on occasion my organizational grammar is not what the English department would tell you is correct. I don't care. I'm familiar with the English department, I'm not ignorant to the particularities, but I know that the point of writing is to express coherently what I am attempting to say. And to that end, I might be a bit on the Beat end of approaches. Occasionally, I leave typos as is when what was intended is obvious. If a thought is too complex, I splice clauses with commas, semi-colons, and the doubledash (which is, something like that em dash -- slightly longer than a hyphen, aligned to the center of the font, dash -- that grammar people could tell you the correct way to use. I understand it pretty well, but I use the doubledash instead.
I write so much of the time that I play my hand at writing code even -- a language where syntax is far more necessarily "anal retentive" than English is -- and pretend I'm a programmer, hoping that one day I'll feel like I accomplish anything from square one, without relying on the work of others so completely to make things work. But, I might try my hand at writing some roll20 scripts since they're in JavaScript and I can most likely make that work.
I tend to have a lot of energy about things, at least while I'm able to focus on the things I want to and am not busy resting to have energy for work, which I then also put a bit of energy into. I'm thirty years old, male, and I live in San Antonio, TX. I have a simple life, a simple job, and I am probably one of the happiest people I know when it comes down to it. I enjoy life thoroughly.
If you want to play in my Pathfinder campaign, it's possible that we could form a long running group as equally as it's possible that you could drop in for a one shot. Join my Discord server to talk to me if you want to play, or think you might want to [https://discord.gg/pFY4gRy]; the campaign information is all in the roll20 game, so ask me for an invite line and you can check it out and see if you want to try it out.
See you you at the table (if your webcam permissions are on anyway)...