Life As An RPG

Yea, mostly this will be a post on RPGs and such. So if you aren't interested skim or skip (I might put non-RPG stuff in to throw ya, you never know, I never know!).

First off if you haven't perused Gamethink yet and care anything or are interested in RPGs you should. It's heavy hitters of the industry there as far as I can tell including writers and editors. Something like that. Anyhow I enjoy it because I like to hear what the people directly involved think about what they do.

Anyhow, I am unpacking from college and going through my huge assortment of RPG books (nearly 60 pounds of them) and just thought I'd randomly talk about them. I own core books for 8 different games. Those being Big Eyes, Small Mouth (BESM), Blue Planet, Dungeons and Dragons (D & D), Engel, Exalted, Nobilis, WindZone, and Xro Din Chronicles. I have supplements for most of those (minus BESM, Nobilis, and Xro Din) although many times its only one or two books that I have randomly acquired through sorting cards for Jason, etc. One supplement which I won through a PointCon raffle has no use for me: anyone ever heard of Killing Fields? Yea, ok, total number of books is 42! A very good number, the meaning of the universe and all. Ok I'll admit it right now, I am feeling very nerdy or whatever you classify gamers as. Come to think of it, I just ordered Forgotten Realms so I suppose I have 43 books.

Personally I have to say my favorite read is definitely still Exalted although both Engal and Blue Planet are wonderfully well written plotwise. Xro Din was not well put together at all, it sounded like a good story (and maybe in later books they fill that in) but the first core book was sorely lacking in anything like that.

Alas of all the games I own I have only played D & D and Exalted (actually I've only run Exalted, badly). So I haven't been able to expierence any of the others.

Not enough time or game running ability to play them all (or players to be in them for that matter). This was gonna be longer but I got distracted so what they hey, this'll end here.

I guess you get crazier when you get older. And I certainly am older today.