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Post by chronovore on Feb 27, 2017 15:24:19 GMT -8
You're just pushing that one because it found you ex-patriate gamers in Japan. EXACTAMUNDO.
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Post by EricaOdd on May 4, 2017 13:28:14 GMT -8
I originally made this post up in the Savage Rifts show thread.
I am EricaOdd.
I weigh in on rules stuff in the YouTube comments of the Savage Rifts game. I've been annoying enough that they asked me to join the forum... LOL
I don't mind being odd, but I do try not to be annoying.
A little about me... My name is Erica, and I am odd. I cut my gaming teeth as a mere tween on AD&D way back in the day when disco was dying and Reagans roamed the countryside. Preferred system these days is Savage Worlds, but I play 5e and am currently running Pathfinder (Skull and Shackle AP, but it will be my last... PF is getting too bloated and complicated for my tastes these days.)
O.D.D. is also the name of my game group: The Order of the Dice of Doom.
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Post by saulster on Sept 18, 2017 14:47:41 GMT -8
Ohh I didn't know you were supposed to introduce yourself on the forum.
Hi I'm Saul, (the forum say's "Hi Saul") I just turned 50 in August and I been gaming since I was 11 years old, started in 1978, when my older brother talked about this new game he had played in High School. After about 3 months he finally got copies of the 3 little books and he made a 20 sided die out of wax. Yes WAX!!! My brother was a nerd (pretty freaking smart too)and he somehow made a pattern out of paper, numbered and cut it out, got a large ball of wax flattened the sides and used the paper pattern to cover up the ball of wax and viola, we had a 20 sided die. I was by no means perfect and we would get excited in a big fight but we couldn't hold on to the 20 since it would get soft in our hot little hands. Still we had the bestest of times. Finally when they opened up book store that sold dice in our area, we had real polyhedral dice that you had to color in the numbers with a crayon, that was a step up. Well other than a brief stint when I went to college, Chico State, in 1988-90, I been gaming the whole time. I played all kinds of games and I own quite a library of RPG's. My favorite was Space Opera which I ran for 20 years from 1984 to 2004, with my college hiatus. I am currently running 5th edition D&D with family and friends, The One Ring with old friends from H.S., Star Trek Adventures with the wife,son and 2 Trekkie friends. Online I play with distant friends from H.S., where we rotate GMing and games. So far I have run Deadland Reloaded, Numenera, Dresden Files using Fate Core, Game of Thrones and Edge of the Empire Star Wars. Still wish I had more time to run and play in other games, high on my list is Pendragon, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Mutant Year Zero, Tales from the Loop and Coriolis. Thanks for your support,
Saulster
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Post by stork on Sept 18, 2017 19:29:08 GMT -8
Loved Space Opera! Welcome the the asylum.
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Post by uncommonman on Sept 18, 2017 23:06:28 GMT -8
Ohh I didn't know you were supposed to introduce yourself on the forum. Hi I'm Saul, (the forum say's "Hi Saul") I just turned 50 in August and I been gaming since I was 11 years old, started in 1978, when my older brother talked about this new game he had played in High School. After about 3 months he finally got copies of the 3 little books and he made a 20 sided die out of wax. Yes WAX!!! My brother was a nerd (pretty freaking smart too)and he somehow made a pattern out of paper, numbered and cut it out, got a large ball of wax flattened the sides and used the paper pattern to cover up the ball of wax and viola, we had a 20 sided die. I was by no means perfect and we would get excited in a big fight but we couldn't hold on to the 20 since it would get soft in our hot little hands. Still we had the bestest of times. Finally when they opened up book store that sold dice in our area, we had real polyhedral dice that you had to color in the numbers with a crayon, that was a step up. Well other than a brief stint when I went to college, Chico State, in 1988-90, I been gaming the whole time. I played all kinds of games and I own quite a library of RPG's. My favorite was Space Opera which I ran for 20 years from 1984 to 2004, with my college hiatus. I am currently running 5th edition D&D with family and friends, The One Ring with old friends from H.S., Star Trek Adventures with the wife,son and 2 Trekkie friends. Online I play with distant friends from H.S., where we rotate GMing and games. So far I have run Deadland Reloaded, Numenera, Dresden Files using Fate Core, Game of Thrones and Edge of the Empire Star Wars. Still wish I had more time to run and play in other games, high on my list is Pendragon, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Mutant Year Zero, Tales from the Loop and Coriolis. Thanks for your support, Saulster Mutant Chronicles was great, I used to play that too.
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Post by leatherneck on Sept 22, 2017 11:11:27 GMT -8
Hi, I’m Leatherneck (Jim). I was first introduced to gaming with the three little brown D&D books. Couple of years later worked for a games distruster at a few cons in the late 70s selling whatever he had exclusive rights to that year. I went on to fail in collage and joined the Marine Crops. Thus my handle. I gamed off and on during my service. Post military life, I went home and tried the collage thing again, with much better success. I still game with the guys from my earliest days of gaming. However, due to life and commitments are schedule has become erratic.
I prefer GMing over playing and both like to try new systems/settings as well as run campaigns that last years.
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Charas
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 2
Preferred Game Systems: Vampire the Masquerade
Favorite Species of Monkey: the one from Korn
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Post by Charas on Sept 23, 2017 3:05:27 GMT -8
Hello everyone, Charas here. A long time listener to the glory of the Jacks that are Happy. I've been on and off to RPG's for almost two decades now, mainly with World of Darkness and Savage Worlds, with a brush of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1ed. and Earthdown. In also an avid 40k nerd on a bit of a hiatus from the gaming table. After a long time I finally decided to immerse myself more into the HJRP community.
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HazelnutMudslide
Supporter
Posts: 129
Preferred Game Systems: L5R, 7th Sea, TriStat, WoD, D&D5e
Currently Playing: Nothing (LFG)
Currently Running: Nothing (LFG)
Favorite Species of Monkey: grease, never know when you'll need one to fix things.
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Post by HazelnutMudslide on Sept 24, 2017 10:56:01 GMT -8
I'm not very important, so I'll spare you all an introduction. #eeyore
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Post by whizzard on Sept 27, 2017 12:49:02 GMT -8
Well I may as well say hello! I found the podcast more than a year ago and have stalled constantly on joining the forum. I have been going through the back log, I did a few episodes before and I have gone through a few seasons in the last couple weeks, (currently finishing out Season 6) so eventually I may catch up!
I have been playing RPGs for about 7 years now (Not counting like 2 sessions of D&D when I was in I believe the fourth grade) Hopefully I can get to talking with people about on the forum between needing to keep my mind on my Schooling!
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bobcatt
Apprentice Douchebag
Patron
An infinite number of monkeys can't be wrong...
Posts: 81
Preferred Game Systems: AD&D 1e, 2e, 5e, Top Secret/S.I., Classic Traveller
Currently Playing: nothing at all :-(
Currently Running: completely stalled doing 5e via Roll20
Favorite Species of Monkey: Barrel of
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Post by bobcatt on Oct 4, 2017 15:34:23 GMT -8
Whoops, I should've posted an intro here before I dived head-first into questions in the GM section. My bad.
I'm "Chris in Canada", usually going by "bobcatt" on the 'net (it's an acronym). I'm now 50, and gamed steadily from 1980-1995, stopped for no good reason, and re-started in 2015. The guy who got me into RPGs in 1980 was the same guy who dragged me back in 35 years later; go figure.
I started with Holmes D&D and rapidly moved into AD&D 1st ed. The initial group also regularly played GDW Traveller and dabbled in games like Champions, Gamma World, MERP, Hârn, and Thieves' Guild. A later cadre explored AD&D 2nd ed., Twilight 2000, Top Secret/S.I., Boot Hill, and other titles. I could not get the latter interested in superhero themed games at all, so I'm a bit starved for that genre.
Back in the day, I was the GM more often than not. Not very sophisticated, but fairly reliable. Sandbox campaigns with a regular crew were the norm; I only ever attended a handful of local cons, plus one Origins in '84 or '85. I've already posted about my con-game prep hurdles.
I found Happy Jacks through a few mentions on Fear the Boot, which I found through iTunes. Just before I started playing again, I wanted to see what the hobby had become during my absence. To say I was shocked at how much it had grown rather than becoming less relevant would be an understatement. Listening to the various RPG podcasts has been very informative and entertaining, and they keep me sane during my daily commute.
Chris in Canada
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jedidroid
Initiate Douchebag
I feel a Glitch in the Force
Posts: 32
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Post by jedidroid on May 11, 2018 6:41:27 GMT -8
As seems to be the habit, I jumped straight into talking with everyone BEFORE finding this thread and introducing myself. So, here I am, saying Gday to the wonderful bunch of misfits and ne’er-do-wells that are happy jacks fandom and hosts.
I’m JediDroid or JediDroid081 here and on the tweets. The nickname has been with me for quite a while, I picked it up on an Australian message board system not long out of high school. I’ve been a star wars nerd since I was knee high to a grasshopper, and that lead me to begin my role player in grade 8, just starting my teenage years, with the old West End Games d6 system of Star Wars. There was an chess and war game group run by a science teacher in my high school. I’m originally from Bundaberg in regional Queensland, Australia near the distillery of rum. I heard someone, I think it was Tappy, disparage Bundaberg Rum, and mostly I agree, but some of the alternatives they make are passable. Back to the war games club, it did have some board games, but really, it was for role playing. D&D 2.5, Traveller, some GURPS (never run well) got me as a player through two years, but WEG was my favourite system. No one else would run it, so I took on that mantle, and the comedic adventures of my friends knocking about the rebellion got me to university, where I entered the realms of the Workd of Darkness.
Since then I’ve dabbled in other systems, I enjoyed D&D 3 for a while, but it got bloated and progression was never balanced then became Pathfinder and the bloat became a feature. I really liked 4E, the progression and synergy were nice, in my opinion. I love L5R in both ccg and RPG forms from 1st. In fact, that’s what lead me to the podcast. I found the actual play of the beta that FFG released, watched stork Cadave and Kimi blaze through Rokugan as the Inukai under Stu’s watchful gaze and love the game despite the system. I watched more and more, and got hooked, loving the PbtA games, the podcast and the characters of the diverse hosts. I’ve opened up to savage worlds. But I’m between organised gaming groups at the moment, the last game I gmed reached it’s season finale, and I was hoping to find something else to launch.
I’ve worked for phone companies as Customer And technical support for landline, mobile and internet, then got a motorbike license and used that to deliver mail for the postal network. Paid to ride, that was nice work. Now I’m indoors, sorting mail instead of delivering it, and my finish time looks like it works out for joining the live stream.
You guys have rekindled the love for the story side, especially the collaboration aspects, and sold me on pbta. I just need to find the right people locally to dive into that’s sort of play with.
Oh, and my real names Nathan. But I’ll answer to JD in a pinch.
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Post by uncommonman on May 11, 2018 7:29:28 GMT -8
As seems to be the habit, I jumped straight into talking with everyone BEFORE finding this thread and introducing myself. So, here I am, saying Gday to the wonderful bunch of misfits and ne’er-do-wells that are happy jacks fandom and hosts. I’m JediDroid or JediDroid081 here and on the tweets. The nickname has been with me for quite a while, I picked it up on an Australian message board system not long out of high school. I’ve been a star wars nerd since I was knee high to a grasshopper, and that lead me to begin my role player in grade 8, just starting my teenage years, with the old West End Games d6 system of Star Wars. There was an chess and war game group run by a science teacher in my high school. I’m originally from Bundaberg in regional Queensland, Australia near the distillery of rum. I heard someone, I think it was Tappy, disparage Bundaberg Rum, and mostly I agree, but some of the alternatives they make are passable. Back to the war games club, it did have some board games, but really, it was for role playing. D&D 2.5, Traveller, some GURPS (never run well) got me as a player through two years, but WEG was my favourite system. No one else would run it, so I took on that mantle, and the comedic adventures of my friends knocking about the rebellion got me to university, where I entered the realms of the Workd of Darkness. Since then I’ve dabbled in other systems, I enjoyed D&D 3 for a while, but it got bloated and progression was never balanced then became Pathfinder and the bloat became a feature. I really liked 4E, the progression and synergy were nice, in my opinion. I love L5R in both ccg and RPG forms from 1st. In fact, that’s what lead me to the podcast. I found the actual play of the beta that FFG released, watched stork Cadave and Kimi blaze through Rokugan as the Inukai under Stu’s watchful gaze and love the game despite the system. I watched more and more, and got hooked, loving the PbtA games, the podcast and the characters of the diverse hosts. I’ve opened up to savage worlds. But I’m between organised gaming groups at the moment, the last game I gmed reached it’s season finale, and I was hoping to find something else to launch. I’ve worked for phone companies as Customer And technical support for landline, mobile and internet, then got a motorbike license and used that to deliver mail for the postal network. Paid to ride, that was nice work. Now I’m indoors, sorting mail instead of delivering it, and my finish time looks like it works out for joining the live stream. You guys have rekindled the love for the story side, especially the collaboration aspects, and sold me on pbta. I just need to find the right people locally to dive into that’s sort of play with. Oh, and my real names Nathan. But I’ll answer to JD in a pinch. Postal workers unite! I'm working in Sweden (sorting and delivering) and podcasts are great for our kind of work.
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Provinto
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 11
Preferred Game Systems: GURPS
Currently Playing: PFRPG, WoD
Currently Running: GURPS
Favorite Species of Monkey: Black Irish Setter
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Post by Provinto on Jul 1, 2018 4:01:08 GMT -8
Overdue introduction: Hey folks, I'm Ian S/Provinto. I play RPGs, am a massive fan of Happy Jacks, and thrive on the stress of GMing. It's almost like organizing, but without the real world consequences when I fuck it up (not saying that those horror stories don't have real-world consequences *shudder*). I discovered GURPS thanks to Stu and haven't turned back (despite the occasional pains of letting myself get bogged down in its crunch). I've been in the hobby for a few years, I guess, but I still feel like a newbie. I'm very excited to join the Happy Jacks community (officially with this introduction post).
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derkg
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 1
Currently Playing: Burning Wheel, Pathfinder
Currently Running: Burning Wheel
Favorite Species of Monkey: Powdermonkey
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Post by derkg on Nov 1, 2018 4:23:36 GMT -8
Hi there, Derk here from the Netherlands. I stumbled across your excellent podcasts and got hooked on the LO5R campaign series. What a farewell to the characters at the end of the first season, quite an emotional one! I really enjoy the style of your podcasts and
About me: * Born 1972 * Discovered RPGs in the mid-eighties, got into D&D (red box), AD&D and then in the nineties discovered Shadowrun, GURPS, Runequest etc. In parallel also a miniature wargames enthusiast. In the nineties I got bored with the RPGs of the time and got involved with historical re-enactment. * After aan RPG dry spell filled with discovering what this work thing was all about, historical (cavalry) re-enactment and medieval jousting, I re-discovered my enthusiasm for RPGs with the introduction to the indy RPGs that have emerged over the past 15 years or so. * The past few years I have been getting a steady diet of various Power By the Apocalypse (GM), Burning Wheel (GM/Player), as well as an old school Pendragon campaign (GM) and Pathfinder (player). * Just received the L5R 5th edition and looking to start a campaign in 2019
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