After the Acaeum dinner the other night I decided I really did need to change my forum name to something a little more appropriate so...

JimK is now ----> Boredflak

And I'll be posting a little more often.

Heh. Well I try to listen and read a lot more than I type. The internet is filled with people who type or speak without ever bothering to read or learn.

Welcome 8 Bit Elemental, it was fun chatting at the dinner with you and Jim.

Welcome to all the new members and the newly renamed member!

Hello.  Signed up for Acaeum after I learned about it at GenCon this year.  

I started playing D&D in the early 80's with the red box edition.  Moved on to AD&D from there and played both in high school.   While in college I learned and played many new systems - Shadowrun, V&V, Call of Cthulhu, and Gurps.  I'm still into gaming, but it's mostly miniatures (40K, Warmachine, FoW, etc) and some Shadowrun when I get together with friends.  

Now I'm 41 and enjoy collecting new and old RPG books and modules.  Like many collectors here, I'm looking for D&D and AD&D stuff from the 80s.  I'm mostly interested in replacing sets I used to have (sold many RPGs before going to grad school in the late 90s) and sets I wish I had back in the day.  I collect stuff I want and will enjoy reading, I'm not really interested in speculation and collecting for value.  

I live in the north Dallas metro area (Argyle) and am always on the lookout for an RPG group.  I've lived here for almost two years and haven't had much luck.  Always looking for suggestions on places to go and meet more gamers.  I tend to stay away from random groups in stores as they tend to be the under 21 crowd min/maxing Pathfinder characters.  Nothing wrong with that, just not my style of play   .

Thanks,
Brian

Welcome to all our new members - we always get a few after GenCon, don't we?  

I hope you all enjoy this site as much as we do.

~throwi

Welcome wjaehnig!  You've come to the right place.  

Welcome!  

Teague wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:New to this place, though I found it a while ago when doing research for an article I was writing.  Glad to finally be a member!

I'm Teague Bohlen, a writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Colorado Denver.  Wrote for Topless Robot a bunch (mostly geek-comedy lists), as well as a novel ("The Pull of the Earth") and a textbook ("The Snarktastic Guide to College Success") and am currently working on both a collection of flash fiction and a second novel.

I started gaming back in the early 1980s, when I was 12 or so.  A friend and I used to create characters to run through Keep on the Borderlands until they died.  I think the first long-term character I had we ran through Tegel Manor (Judges' Guild!). I wish I remembered those characters' names, but I remember the times very well, and fondly.  Started reading Dragon Magazine when it was numbered in the low-60s.  Collected all I could after that, on and off.  Still do, when I can.

I'm here because the book "Playing at the World" was an amazing experience, and one I didn't want to come to a close!  I'm fascinated by the history of the game, and heartened by the fact that there are clearly so many of us that are still slightly obsessed with it.  :)

Glad to meet y'all.

Greetings!

This place and collecting is addictive, great fun, but addictive.