My name is Chris Flipse, known in the community as "flip". I've lived in Northern Virginia for a couple of years now, originally from outside Philadelphia. I make my living as a software developer, lately working on web development with Ruby on Rails.
I've been a Dark Sun fan for a period of time that will make me feel disgustingly old. I doubt I'd be alone in that particular sentiment, we're all old codgers. I'm one of the original members of Athas.org, and am a member of the Overcouncil. I cooridnated and edited the latest release of our core rules (which is incidentally, currently under review in a way that has nothing to do with 4e)
I'm more or less solely responsible for the implementation of athas.org over the years. It's been written in Cold Fusion, PHP, and now Ruby on Rails. I'm busily working away at the backend, trying to implement some 4e specific functionality for the site -- equipment, races, new powers and feats, that sort of thing.
As you can see by my icon above, I'm a community assistant. That means that I have incredible survey making powers and some sticky glue. If they havn't broken all that in the latest PHPbb upgrade.
And I, for one, welcome our new MMO overlords.
Your turn.
I am Havard. I used to post alot on the Mystara forum, occasionally dropping by other worlds (Spelljammer, Dragonlance, Planescape and a few others).
I have moved most of my activity to the Piazza, but will stick around here and see what happens.
Havard
Been loving Dark Sun since the first day I saw the sand-colored box on the stands. Made me learn english (so did science-fiction!).
Currently removed from creation processes, mostly, and just helping out here and there. Did work on a DS item guide for 3.5E, about 80 pages long, years in the making (I sound like a TV ad...
).Currently looking forward at the possibilities 4E will bring for DS. Wizards, templars, pisonics. I would like to see a re-inventing of DS just like all other settings are going to be re-invented. The 2E DS setting is now quite dated and would need serious revamping. My opinion.
Oh, and I did my first 4E game days ago (first D&D game since I was about 14...14 years ago)!
These days I run a homebrew 3e game (just switched over to the excellent Pathfinder rules) on alternate Fridays and play/run in another group that meets every Tuesday, where we play all manner of stuff (Dark Sun, of course, but also Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Primetime Adventures and various other strangeness.)
I'm a full-time housefather for three young kids (I used to work at the war crimes tribunal in the Hague before that) who keep me busy 24/7 and whom I am indoctrinating into the wonders of gaming. My eldest boy plays a ranger called Aragorn, my daughter plays a silver dragon called Pink Strawberry, and my youngest boy doesn't play at all yet, being only 18 months old, but likes to roll the fluffy d20 around and fart a lot. A bit like his dad, really... ;)
With Dark Sun, I loved the idea. Our group, back in the day, never really pursued that campaign setting, but I bought the Dark Sun Monster Compendium. I did like the idea, but alas never got started.
I'm David, but my friends all call me Big Mac. I started playing D&D just as 2nd edition was coming out and loved the amazing range of D&D settings that came out.
D&D itself was good, but I felt it was a little lacking until I started reading the campaign setting sourcebooks. Dragonlance, Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms were all like real places to me. But above all of them my biggest love is reserved for Spelljammer.
Like all D&D settings, Spelljammer has its faults, but I loved the way that people could sail up into space on open decked ships. And I loved the way that SJ was also an excuse to go on a grand tour of all the other D&D campaign settings.
Sadly that aspect of SJ didn't get fully implemented and a few campaign settings were brought out that made it hard to create a SJ connection. Dark Sun was one setting I picked up after SJ. I thought it was really interesting and would loved to have linked it in to an epic SJ campaign. Luckily for me this is something the D&D fan communities have been slowly fixing. One day I will be able to take a PC from 1-20 and visit every D&D world along the way.
I'm incredibly frustrated that someone upstairs decided to dump all of the OOP settings into one forum, but don't blame that on the moderators or middle management.
However, the Gleemax modernisation of the previously fantastic Wizards COMmunity boards has made this forum less useful than it used to be. I now mostly hang around on the setting specific forums (mostly the Dragonlance Forum, but also the Canonfire and Candlekeep forums). I've not got written at the Planewalker forums, but I do think that Planescape is a cool setting (just don't write to me in that daft planwalker "clueless berk" speak and I'll enjoy talking about it).
If I haven't mentioned your favorite campaign setting that doesn't mean I "hate" it. I don't have to "hate" one D&D setting to love another one. (And, to be honest, I find people who trash individual D&D settings in an attempt to "big up" their own favorite setting totally boring.) If I haven't mentioned your setting, it just means I don't know it so well. But I do hope to know more about it. So do share your love of your favorite world.
My name is Louis, and I'm from Ohio.
Started playing DnD a long time ago w/ the basic edition and then kinda fell off from it for a while. Got back into it w/ Dark Sun in the 90s and my buddy's homebrew, and have pretty much been doing it nonstop since then.