Well, I suppose the above is my fancy way of saying 'Hello, I just joined your forum!' The name is Hearthridge, not like that's obvious or anything. I am a migrant from an RP forum that, I feel, has died off in terms of its activity (either that or people just secretly don't like me).

So, here I am.

Referencing the 'Welcome to the Guild' thread, I will highlight upon the suggested topics since I really am terrible at making these kinds of introductory posts.

In regards to my [i]career[/i] with role-playing, I would have to say that I've been born and raised in it. My family has been one filled with gamers of all spectrums - from watching my father play Ultima Online and the first iterations of WoW, to sitting in the shadows and lurking in on my family's weekly D&D sessions. During those times, I'd often browse various Monster Manuals or skim through our Battletech Mecha book. I joined in the family games at the age of ten, starting in a short-lived game set in the Forgotten Realms - the Oriental Adventures, specifically. From there, I moved on to bigger and better things: creating (and failing at) my own game systems, participating in my first fully completed module (Ravenloft love), and running my own shows. That was thirteen years ago. Now, I sit here behind my monitor and ache for the capacity to RP in any medium - longing for pen and paper the most. 
	[color=ed1c24]Rulesets used[/color]: [color=f26522]Gamma World, Fallout Hell-A (World of Darkness custom), World of Darkness, Mage, Vampire: the Masquerade, Scion, 		
 	Shadowrun, Mutants and Masterminds, Dungeons and Dragons (3.5, 5.0, Forgotten Realms), Pathfinder (D&D preference), Star Wars 
	Saga Edition, Traveler (Holy tits so good), Elder Scrolls (World of Darkness custom [my own, functional system]), Call of Cthulhu, 
	Pokemon (World of Darkness custom [my own, since scrapped due to balance issues]).[/color]
	[color=ed1c24]Client-based[/color]: [color=f26522]Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert Online.[/color]

What, exactly, is a preference when one has such a diversified portfolio? I guess, if I were to [i]forcefully[/i] narrow my genres of interest; I would have to settle on the realm of Science Fiction. I love my fantasy genres, I really do; but, space is infinite. Space is beautiful. Space is [i]deadly.[/i] Sure, fantasy can have magic and elves and other cool neatos - but, in my heart of hearts, absolutely nothing will overpower my love for the Sci-Fi genre. You've got some amazingly beautiful space ships - or ghastly ones, depending on the technological prowess of the race, LITERALLY NO LIMIT TO RACIAL CREATION, the capacity to upend Newtonian Physics, [i]Mecha (drools)[/i], and oh-so-many other things I could rave about. Better yet, throw some psycho-babble-horror into it too and then I can live my life happily in some dystopian universe, trapped on a derelict ship that is ebbing ever-so-closely towards the event-horizon of a rogue magnetar that causes the fabric of reality to unravel [i]just[/i] enough to let Others slip through the veil and feed off the insanities of the mind.
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I have a new story idea to run with.

Hobbies? Well, outside of being the King of Papa John's, I do like to play me some vidya. Vidya and read books. It should come as no shocker that my favorite genre for literature is Sci-Fi - and coincidentally, my vidya games too. Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations, Masters of Orion, Empyrion, Destiny, etc. I grew up on playing Halo and Colony Wars (which, imo, is one of the best PS1 games out there; and Halo is easily the best franchise I'd ever played [sorry, Elder Scrolls]); and have since collected 95% of the Halo Franchise literature. I am missing only a couple of the actual books, and then the majority of the graphic novels. But, to date, the best sci-fi literature I've had the pleasure of letting my eyes pour over is the [color=00aeef][u]Linesman series by S.K. Dunstall[/u][/color]. Purchased by chance during Hastings' close-out sales, I'd devoured the first two books in a matter of days, and was dismayed to find that there was a third. However, the Divines smiled upon me and I only had to wait a month before the third and final book was released. Oh. So. Delicious.

Anyways. I guess all that ranting just about sums up me. If you really want to know anything more or else about me, drop me a line.