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.
