I don’t know whether this is something we do here at all or, if we do, whether it happens in some ‘other place’, but I feel as if I ought to introduce myself. {Mods - if it’s not okay, please do the necessary - or if it’s right but just in the wrong place, please put it where it should be!}
Hello! I’m Phil, and I’m a role-player. (Why does this suddenly sound like an AA meeting?)
Who am I? That’s a difficult question, because I don’t really define myself, as many folk do, by my ‘role’. But let’s say, for now, that I’m a fifty-something, retired, academic physicist. When I was working, I specialised in vorticity in quantum fluids (just don’t ask, okay!)
I’ve been a gamer, both miniature wargaming and roleplaying, since the mid-‘70s. Cut my teeth, as virtually everybody did back then, on original D&D, followed by a bit of Traveller and some Runequest. And been playing almost constantly ever since, with just a short break while I got my first degree under my belt. I’ve played a lot of different RPGs, but have tended to play mostly fantasy over the years… Though I have dabbled in Spacemaster (in a group consisting mostly of physicists - boy did that get ‘heavy’), a couple of different versions of Star Wars, some Traveller and Traveller: The New Era - I’m sure there must have been others, but clearly they weren’t very memorable, because I can’t remember them!
I read Dune when I was an undergraduate - one of the guys in my flat was reading his way through them, and I borrowed them as he finished them. I don’t remember a huge amount about them now. I watched, and sort of enjoyed, the David Lynch film… But what’s really brought me here, now, is the new, Denis Villeneuve, film, which we saw a couple of nights ago. I thought it was wonderful, and am looking for an excuse to go again (and for someone to go with - my wife is sure seeing it once is more than enough!). I really fancy roleplaying in the ‘environment’ portrayed in the film and book.
I’m new to 2D20 games. Our group is used to quite ‘high crunch’ RPGs - don’t really have a great record with ‘low crunch’ games, so I think I (and we!) have got a lot to learn. I’m kind of new (or recycled?) where the setting is concerned - but eager to learn… I look forward to interacting with folk, learning lots, and hopefully making new friends.