I saw no source of light I flew into the Darkness and I was afraid. And alone.                                 -the Book of Nod^tm  
I guess you have found your way into the darkest and most insane recesses of my mind...   
you have found yourself in the section of the mind which feeds my addictions to Role Playing.  Oooo.  Scary.   

What?  What's role playing you may ask.  Well.  Ever heard of D&D?  That's role playing.   
What?!?  What's D&D??  Hmm... the easiest way (but not really the most accurate way) of explaining role playing would be like this:   
take one part acting (this can be live action or simple table side improv and banter)   
take one part board game   
add some dice (or some other way to determine random outcomes, ie paper/rock/scissor works)   
and create an alternate and fantastic persona that you would like to pretend to be (ie a Vampire or a Knight, or even a regular Joe)   

Now, take away the board.  You don't need it anymore.  You're "board" is the nothing less than the world your character lives in.  That is important to remember.  You and your character do not live in the same world.  For one thing your character ain't real (although there are some nuts out there who believe they are).  Secondly your character may not live in a world even remotely resembling ours.  The "world" is created in the imagination of the players and the game-master (or storyteller or dungeon-master or whatever name is given to the referee and adventure maker of the game).  Instead of moving six spaces closer to the Conservatory from the Library (get it?), you run down the street and the GM tells you what happens as a result of your actions.  Sound confusing?  Sound interesting?  Try it out.  
There is a whole lot more to it than that, but that is all the time I am willing to put into the explanation.  

So... what games have I played?  I think I have played all of them, but not regularly.  I used to be such a junkie, and I would go to all those cons and stuff like that.   
Here are some of the things I used to be into:   

*Just about anything from the Palladium RPG Company.  I can still remember sitting around a table after school, drinking soda and eating pizza (this was before beer and cigarettes were an option for me), and rolling up the freakiest little mutant badgers you could ever imagine... (if the above link wasn't good for you, check out this one.)   

*Anyone who role plays has played D&D and/or AD&D.  I am not even going to bother to give you links.  Look it up in yahoo and spend a year or two going through the links yourself.   

*Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing Game.  I've never come across a good Warhammer FRPG site, let me know if you find one.   

*Toon and GURPS are a couple of Steve Jackson games that we played more than once (that doesn't mean we played them more than twice though)   

*Star Wars and Paranoia (to a lesser degree) are two of the games from West End Games that we indulged in.   

*If you've enjoyed Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, then maybe you should try the RPG based on the books.  One of my personal favourites, not because of the system or anything, just 'cause I liked the books so much.   

*So... I guess those are some of the silly games I have played.  And now this leads me to White Wolf.  If you role play and you haven't heard of White Wolf, well... you need to get out more.  Then again, if you role play you probably need to get out more too...  Anyway, this is the current mess o' games that I have been getting wrapped up in, so check 'em out and look for my characters page.   


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