Breaking the Ice

[EldritchFire]

Hello, all!

My name is EldritchFire, I'm an Aquarius, I like long walks on the beach, and I have been sober for too long :p

Anyway, just wanted to break the ice and say hey!

I'm a gamer (duh) and I live in the Austin, TX area. I'm English-French bilingual, used to live in the Chicagoland area, and my mantra is "Your table, your rules." I like to get into friendly discussions online, but don't much care for "I'm righter than you are so there" conversations. I respect other people's opinions, even if I don't agree with them.

Doozou yuroshiku! Enchenté! Nice to meet you! Oh, and most of my posts are done on my iPad, so I apologize if some of my sentences don't make sense - autocorrect is a mixed blessing!

-EF

[Cam]

As you may know by now, I'm Cam Banks. I'm the Creative Director of MWP, which means I oversee the product lines we publish, bring the talented freelancers together to work on our games, establish all of the book outlines and direction, and in some cases jump in there and tackle lead design and development. It's my job to know everything there is about the games we make and help others to know everything they need to know in order to get those products out and to you. I also do a lot of social networking and marketing, write a lot of ad copy, help Christi with admin stuff, and drink a lot of coffee.

I've worked on, written, developed, or designed over fifty books and game products in the last ten years. I'm married and live in Saint Paul, Minnesota with two wonderful boys and a cat. I was actually born in New Zealand and lived there until my mid-twenties, which explains the funny accent.

I'm very glad we have forums again and hope you all feel free to start discussions and chat about your favorite MWP games. Pretty soon we'll bring on a handful of moderators so Christi and I don't have to be the only ones helping out! Be nice to them and we promise not to use the Ultimate Nullifier.

Cheers,
Cam

[jasonseas]

With this game it feels like my gaming life is kind of coming full circle. Because of my interest in comic books, TSR's Marvel Super Heroes was my entry point into role playing. Interestingly enough just a few months ago my parents found my box of those original books and boxes, so those are again in my possession.

Over the years I have dallied in other games, but I have spent the majority of my gaming life since high school playing Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun, and Battletech. I have been steadily playing D&D with a group of friends for over 2 years now and hope to introduce them to this Marvel game shortly as they have all shown some interest in learning it.

[pksullivan]

Hey All. I'm PK. Been playing RPGs for about fourteen years, though my first introduction to them was a Star Wars Adventure Journal that my uncle game me for Christmas about four years before that when I was 10.

Played D&D 3.x through high school and most of college with a bit of dabbling in other games during my university years. Had a gaming hiatus from '06 to '08 but then got back into them in a big way. Since then I've been buying and playing all sorts of games, even (half) writing my own. I'm a huge fan of the Cortex system and can't wait to play Leverage with some people. For some reason it's a hard sell with my group. Marvel Heroic really has me jazzed. I didn't really understand how Events worked so I decided to take a story I know very well (Mass Effect) and remake it using the Event structure. That led to making a hack of the MHR system for Mass Effect. It's all up on my site, so check it out. I'd love feedback.

[Unknown Blitz]

Hello all,

I am Blitz, and I am a huge comic book/gaming geek going back far too many years than I want to publicly state.

I have played or owned all the Marvel RPG versions, of which MHR is my favorite (not just saying that, it really is).

My current favorite titles can be seen in my sig, but I'm also following Winter Soldier, Uncanny X-Men, and am planning on starting to follow Wolverine and the X-Men and Daredevil. On the non-Marvel front I am a huge Green Lantern fan (Geoff John's writing). I buy all my new issues via my iphone comics app, then buy trades of everything I want to have long-term or if I missed something that is now collected I'll just buy the TPB. I have a closet full of long boxes from my time of buying hardcopy issues by the ton, and find my new way of reading so much more sanity saving and space efficient.

-Blitz

[N01H3r3]

I'm N01H3r3 (pronounced no-one here), but I just as easily go by Nathan (my real name). I'm a virtually life-long gamer (started wargaming at 7, started RPing about 10 years ago) who has had a long fascination with superheroes which manifested in recent years into a pile of money being funnelled into buying comics.

I have, however, found a way to help pay for my hobbies - [shameless self-endorsement]I've been a freelance RPG writer for the last two and a half years (almost), having contributed to numerous sourcebooks and rulebooks for Fantasy Flight Games' Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay games.[/shameless self-endorsement]

I'd never really looked into the Cortex system until Smallville was released, and upon hearing good reviews (I enjoy the show, but had been stung by poor licenced games before), picked it up... and then picked up Leverage (which led me to finding the show, which I fell in love with immediately). When Marvel Heroic Roleplay was announced, I was sold immediately, given that I've been playing in a regular Marvel Universe game for a few years already using Mutants & Masterminds. I've run a couple of intro sessions already, but we have our first session of the campaign with the MHRP system on Monday night.

Wow... that was longer than planned.

[MidnightBlue]

Chris here.

I live in the Kansas City, MO area with my wife, Dani, of almost 14 years and have been playing games since I got the red box D&D "Basic" set for X-mas in 5th grade. It wasn't long until I used hard earned allowance money to buy TSR's Marvel Superheroes, the first game that I ever purchased myself. I love almost all genres of roleplaying, but I've got a soft spot for supers games (having all versions of Marvel and DC RPGs and many other supers games).

I QUICKLY developed a serious case of Gaming ADD which the doctors have never found a cure for. I have bookcases FULL of RPG's and supplements, many that I've never had the time or audience to play. I just love reading new rule systems and seeing how those different systems handle new aspects of roleplay. Of the MANY game systems on my shelves, the games that have received the most play and have a special place in my heart include TSR Marvel Superheroes, West End Games Star Wars (the best version IMHO), White-Wolf's Aberrant, and a ton of Palladium Books games (Robetech, Beyond the Supernatural, Rifts, just to name a few). Surprisingly, the D&D system that got me started in roleplaying quickly became my least favorite system. However, the Third Edition, which released shortly after I graduated college, brought me back to the game. I've also been getting a lot of mileage out of 4th edition D&D.

I took a brief hiatus from buying RPG's when I discovered Heroclix on it's release day back in 2002. Suddenly all of my money was going into those awesome prepainted minis. (While I love tactical games, having to assemble and paint them myself had always kept me out of the hobby.) By the time of the Sinister expansion set, I was an Envoy for Wizkids and ran Heroclix, Horrorclix & Halo Actionclix tournaments at two game stores weekly for about three years before Wizkids closed and was looking for a buyer.

With the amount of money I'd freed up when Heroclix "took a break" I was able to start back into the RPG side of things and quickly discovered Arc Dream publishing (Godlike, Wild Talents, A Dirty World, Reign, and others), Brutal Games (Corporation RPG) and Margaret Weis Productions (Serenity, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Leverage, Smallville and now Marvel Heroic Roleplaying...I have them all).

While I like D&D's 4th Edition (your mileage may vary), I've noticed a sad trend at the gaming tables. Players seem to focus more on the tactical options of the game and forget about the roleplaying. This is probably why the Cortex games have floored me so much as I read through them. Everything about those games (most notably Smallville's Pathways system) screams "roleplay."

Most of my games these days are via PBP (Play By Post) since my friends are spread out over multiple states, we all have families and jobs and serious lack of coordinated time together. But PBP has opened up a new measure of roleplaying. Instead of having to come up with something cool to say in a split second, on the spot at the gaming table, you can read and reread posts and take the time to come up with the response you want your character to make. It's slow as all get out, but it offers up some unique opportunities for gaming.

Unfortunately, I spend more time reading RPG books than getting to use them in actual games, but I still find enjoyment in those books. I just recently went through Smallville's Pathways system by myself in an attempt to give my original Marvel TSR characters a chance to shine in a new day and with a new light. The process was involved, but simply amazing. I can NOT say enough good things about that system.

Well, that's more than enough out of me. I'm sure you'll be seeing me around the boards...

-Chris

[Chris McCarver]

Hey, all, name's (obviously) Chris McCarver, and I'm a 36-year-old game and comic enthusiast residing in Springfield, MO. For the past couple years, I've worked as a freelance writer and researcher on Marvel Comics' various reference works, particularly Volumes 2 (Avengers/Captain America/Thor) and 3 (Wolverine/Punisher/Ghost Rider) of the Official Index of the Marvel Universe. I actually wrote the Index entries for the Breakout arc of New Avengers and was consulted by one of the guys running an MHR launch party for insight into the story.

So, um, hi there!

[salsa]

Sorry I took so long to post on this thread.

Hello, my name is Marcos Bolton, but my friends call me by my childhood nickname, Salsa (don't ask... lol). I'm from Brazil and I live with my fiancée in Rio de Janeiro and I speak three languages (Portuguese, Spanish and English).

I grew fond of RPGs and I've been a gamer for the past 17 years. My initial experience was with adventures gamebooks by SJG back in 1994, I moved to GURPS (which was a bad call for a kid) and never got to play it back then; it was too rules heavy for me.

Thankfully, a couple of years later, I was introduced to Toon while reading a cartoon magazine for kids and bought the game at my first Con attendance. First sentence I read and I remember it till this very day: "Forget everything you know about RPGs". It was great since I knew next to nothing about them, hehe. The next year I'm introduced to TSR Marvel Super Heroes, needless to say it was still quite rules heavy for a teenager (I was 13).

In 1997, while living in Buenos Aires, I found courage to buy my first RPG fully in English (Men in Black by WEG). With nothing more than an initial help from my school teachers and the advent of Internet I slowly became a self-learner of the language. From that moment on, I have gathered an extensive collection of books and game systems. So now, besides being an avid gamer, I translate RPG books and teach English for a living.

I also love introducing the hobby to newcomers and presenting new options to my gaming group or to new players at conventions. I hope we all get along and please don't take the game too seriously!

[MidnightBlue]

...and I speak three languages (Portuguese, Spanish and English).

Dang...that's three more languages than I speak!

Wait a minute...



Always glad to "meet" new gamers!