4th & Dragon : Dungeons and Dragons...and stuff

The Important Stuff

• Rules of Conduct
• Submission Guidelines

Dragon Avenue History

In the summer of 2000, Jim Goings and Christopher Killian starting building a Dungeons and Dragons site for the sole purpose of learning how to build dynamic websites with VBscript, Active Server Pages, and SQL databases. How better to learn that to make a site based on something you love: DnD! On August 7th, 2000, 3rdedition.org opened it's doors. The response to the site was overwhelming and within a few short weeks, the 3rdedition.org Bulleting Boards (3ebb) had over 1000 registered members. Having accomplished his goal of learning web building, Chris moved on to other things while Jim stuck around and maintained the community for several years.

In late 2005 Jim had built a relatively large, but thriving community of Dungeons and Dragons gamers. Unable to devote the time needed to bring the site up to more usable standards, Jim stepped down and sold the site to a community member, Charlie. Charlie ran the site for a couple of years..

In August of 2007, the announcement of the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons started quite the buzz amongst Jim's friends and gaming group. Mike Sigler, Jim's friend, and longtime member, contributer, and supporter of 3rdedition.org worked with Jim to brainstorm how a new community could be build to support DnD players. Before long, Kyle Watt and Kelly Nace expressed their interest and the group started working on the site.

How we came up with the name, the purpose, etc.

Staff

Lord Mayors

The founders and administrators of Dragon Avenue.

• Jim Goings
  My first RPG game was at the age of 8 when I was introduced to Star Frontiers. I soon started playing DnD boxed sets and moved onto Advanced, 2nd edition, and so on. I prefer being a player and try to leave the DMing to those more suited to it. Becka is my wife and the mother of our four children. I enjoy movies, television, and music. I have a home theater and make use of it almost every day. I work in the IT industry for a software company.
• Michael Sigler
  
• Kyle Watt
  I started playing D&D with my childhood friend, Mark, over 20 years ago. I was about ten years old and instantly hooked. We spent many a weekend running all sorts of crazy dungeon crawls for each other. Occasionally we would take a break to play Ultima on the Commodore 64, or fire up the original Final Fantasy on my now ancient NES! Ah, those were the days! Over the years I have played many RPGs but I always came back to D&D. Having played every edition of D&D there is, I am now eagerly anticipating the release of 4th Edition!

Lore Masters

The staff that moderate the forums as well as contribute content to the site (such as news, articles, reviews, etc.).

• Becka
  I'm married to Jim, owner of this site, and we have four children. I homeschool them, which is very rewarding to be able to say I taught them how to read, write, add, subtract... I stay at home, which should be obvious if I homeschool, and I also write books. Probably nothing you'd be interested in, just romance. Maybe your wife would be, though. :P http://www.RebeccaGoings.com
• Kelly Nace
  
• Megan Farnsworth
  Since hatching, Megan has been an avid fan of the outdoors, fantasy, and the printed word. D&D, for Megan, started on a camping trip with her brother DMing an adventure regarding goblins and mischevious will-o-the-wisps and has been gaining great momentum since college. She currently plays in four D&D campaigns, two Star Wars games, and a D20 Modern zombie apocalypse game set in Portland. She's looking forward to the release of fourth edition so she can be just as big of a rules geek as everyone else at the game table. Outside of gaming, Megan is often found inspiring young minds, shamelessly singing along with her favorite tunes(as long as her voice isn't audible), reading all sorts of books, communing with nature, or trying to understand more about the world around her.
• Cameron
  Went to undergrad at Norwich University (The Military College of Vermont) on a Navy ROTC scholarship and got a BA in English, although I earned enough credits in English to get a double major. Spent 6 years as an officer in the Navy and held 4 different named positions and at least a dozen collateral duty titles. Currently at grad school as an MFA student at Emerson College, working on both a fiction and poetry thesis since I haven't decided which genre to submit for. (Update - doing the poetry thesis) I started roleplaying at the age of 9 in the Boy Scouts. Price of Freedom was the first I learned, and then Battletech, Chivalry and Sorcery, and finally AD&D. Very soon after learning AD&D, Second Edition was released, which became the standard Friday night through early Sunday game. I had some of the player's options handbooks, including rogues and clerics. In college, I played 2nd edition for two years and then 3e came out. I was one of the grumblers, but quickly converted after I got all the books for Christmas 2000. When I got commissioned and stationed in Virginia, I joined up with a group that ran 3e (primarily in FR and then X-Crawl) and Shadowrun. We switched to 3.5 in 2003. I moved to Boston and started a group, primarily as DM, which has faded away now. I've run and participated in games via PBP, email, and live. I'm not a game designer (and don't really have the ability to work that way), but I can write campaign setting fluff.
• Galen_Michael
  

Town Guard

Town Guard are the moderators of Dragon Avenue.

• Black Plauge
  What to tell you about myself... Well, I'm a PhD candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maine. I'm the oldest of six boys (no sisters). I've been playing D&D since my sophmore year of college (which happens to coincide with the release of 3rd edition) but had played a friend's totally homebrewed RPG in highschool (that was munchkin heaven). Totally unrealistic rules are a bit of a pet peeve of mine and I've rewritten a few of them as inspiration strikes. The largest project I worked on along those lines was a community generation system which I'll probably update for 4e at some point.