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The Second Age of My Gaming History
Hi all, my name is Mike (aka kaeosdad) and I have been a gamer since a kid but have only recently begun running and playing in tabletop role playing games. I started a blog back in March 09 after discovering the rpgblogger network in the fall of 08 to share my ideas and opinions on gaming, but it's pretty much become more of a personal journal and dumping ground for when my mind just needs to speak out loud.
As a kid I mostly played video games but I was introduced to Dnd at an early age. Long story short I was unable to game and by the time I hit high school I stopped thinking about gaming altogether. I spent most of my time since then as a starving musician and a bum. I met my wife during that time, got married and had a kid over the last few years and after digging through my old stuff while moving I came across my gaming stuff. Playing role playing games was something gaming related that my wife and I could do together. She wasn't big on most of the video games I played and she knew some people that played DnD and so with my wife I got back into gaming.
Recently my wife and I have had our second child and she has gone back to college. We don't get together so much with our gaming group due to our priorities being focused on our family and raising our kids. However we rarely watch tv and so our hobbies have always been pursuing some sort of activity related to creativity and art. So while she does homework and the kids are asleep I'm usually sketching out notes and such while checking out gaming stuff online.
Coming up I'm starting up a play by post game over on the myth weavers forums. It's been in planning since early September and will be my first attempt at play by post gaming. I've neither run nor played in one before so hopefully it goes well.
For this social networking site I'll likely be using this blog feature to talk about my current games and thoughts on gaming as they come to me. I'm liking this site and the features a lot. Here's hoping that this site is a success and everyone uses it more often. There's a lot of potential to be found in this network.
As a kid I mostly played video games but I was introduced to Dnd at an early age. Long story short I was unable to game and by the time I hit high school I stopped thinking about gaming altogether. I spent most of my time since then as a starving musician and a bum. I met my wife during that time, got married and had a kid over the last few years and after digging through my old stuff while moving I came across my gaming stuff. Playing role playing games was something gaming related that my wife and I could do together. She wasn't big on most of the video games I played and she knew some people that played DnD and so with my wife I got back into gaming.
Recently my wife and I have had our second child and she has gone back to college. We don't get together so much with our gaming group due to our priorities being focused on our family and raising our kids. However we rarely watch tv and so our hobbies have always been pursuing some sort of activity related to creativity and art. So while she does homework and the kids are asleep I'm usually sketching out notes and such while checking out gaming stuff online.
Coming up I'm starting up a play by post game over on the myth weavers forums. It's been in planning since early September and will be my first attempt at play by post gaming. I've neither run nor played in one before so hopefully it goes well.
For this social networking site I'll likely be using this blog feature to talk about my current games and thoughts on gaming as they come to me. I'm liking this site and the features a lot. Here's hoping that this site is a success and everyone uses it more often. There's a lot of potential to be found in this network.
6 Comments
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Comment by R. E. Davis on October 25, 2009 at 3:35am - Is there still a spot open by chance? After this weekend I'll be back in the unemployment line with my seasonal work coming to an end, and my move will be mostly finished.
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Comment by Mike on October 25, 2009 at 3:45am - Maybe? Some of my local friends were interested in playing the game but I wanted to get this one launched first. Not completely sure if I can handle running two games right now but I have a lot of material prepped already. Here's the link to check it out. I'll add you on as a reader after I post this comment so you can check out the hidden content on the site too.
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Comment by Mike on October 25, 2009 at 3:56am
- Just thought of a better idea, let's just figure out a way to work your character into the story instead of starting a second group. I'm sure a sixth player will be fine in this group.
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Comment by R. E. Davis on October 25, 2009 at 4:18am
- Heh if it's a headache don't worry about it too much ;P Although once you get that Google Wave invite, I so wanna try to run something if nothing else "for science".
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Comment by Kristian Serrano on October 25, 2009 at 9:25am - Mike, not trying to plug my own blog or anything, but your situation is exactly the type of situation we try to address on The Dice of Life. Check it out and feel free to jump into our Group on this network.
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Comment by Mike on October 26, 2009 at 2:54am
- Pretty cool site, checked it out a bit. Neat ideas on using different webtools for running online games. Right now I'm using mythweavers and google docs. Can't wait to try out google wave.
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