Scott Ruggels

Funny you should mention that...my attention was drawn to the Hero System "Lucky 7th Ed" thread this morning, and we had a lot of discussion about "easy entry" games "powered by Hero". Much of which is the same as we come to here.

I should probably go look at that.. This on top of starting a new thread? Wow, it's going to be a busy week. XD

The numbers I have seen suggest that the player base is actually quite a bit larger than in the 80's and 90's the problem is that we are divided up into a bajillion systems(Mostly D&D Clones) so the pool of gamers for other systems seems small.

 

 

I think it's also true. And with mention sin Hollywood of a few actors that have played, and still play tabletop, plus a couple of twitch and youtube games, things look a bit more "accepted" than they did back in the 80's

the book would be useful for ideas and advice. It was why I would buy GURPS supplements, even though I would never be running GURPS, they often had good ideas and good advice.

I think you have a lot of good points there, and my small experience on roll20 impressed me greatly.

 

If I might, perhaps the group working on this, before going longer on a thread with a broader topic, might want to make a thread dedicated to the project to lessen that amount of side chatter and make one storage place for all the notes?

Well I put it out as a suggestion. 1.) to illustrate how and where something like the Primer would be very useful 2.)where and alternate source of newbies were.  Sure, this can be split off on it's own topic if you would like. So a new thread for a project to Colonize Roll20.net?

we had a lot of bricks in our old campaigns, and we used this a lot, because 1.) at the time you got half damage for the maneuver, but (and I may be remembering incorrectly), you got double knockback?  it's the only maneuver you could get after the to hit and damage was rolled, but it also took your next action.

 

 

I've arbitrarily broken the stats up into two categories.  This is just simple presentation: tell someone Hero has 17 stats with no other context and they'll boggle.  Make clear a bunch of it is pretty much for combat only and they'll have an easier time (just like no one considers HP and AC as D&D "stats").  Don't have any movement info there yet, though, and I'll be including a brief note about selling back stats as well.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/357573/Fantasy%20Hero%20Primer%201-2.pdf

 

(Also, I had a bunch of characteristics costs in the earlier pdf wrong due to copying and pasting: those are fixed).

This is a lot of what some of us have been talking about for awhile.

 

There is a thought that came from it of games 'powered by Hero', essentially using the Hero system to design games that would then draw more players into the full system.

 

So, instead of focusing on complex build mechanics, provide lists of premade powers, skillsets, etc, whose mechanics are put in English instead of Hero build accounting, but whose actual builds would be readily available online in pdf format, this sort of thing.

 

The play itself is not as complex, and would be shown fully.

 

Since fantasy is a large share of the market, this is an avenue that would work well for it.

 

Now, one thing I tend to think is that, as much as possible, lots of modifiers should be avoided for these builds, as modifiers that can play into combat are fairly numerous in Hero. For example, Combat Skill Levels can add a lot of complexity to play in combat, so builds where they are not readily shuffled, but are tied to OCV, DCV, or DC specifically, in order to simplify game play, would make it simpler for the new players, even if later, availability of CSLs that can be shuffled are added in.

 

In essence, such games would be entirely compatible with any other Hero game in genre, while GMs who, as you say, later are going to want more complexity and the ability to add elements without breaking balance will be drawn to the full Hero system.

Then again, you have split the  Possible product into two directions. (again).   What is the aim?  Are you trying to present a to the new players, a game world based on Hero mechanics? Are you trying to present an introduction of the game mechanics with a world wrapped around it?  Powered by Hero, presents a problem of selling a background, and just presenting the mechanics.  I think the aim for long term survival is the opposite approach is  necessary. use the background to sell the system, or induce curiosity about the system.

In terms of the presentation, many modifiers, special combat rules, and power frameworks should be avoided. What stats do, How stats work in combat, what skills do, what spells do, That should be the basic.

Artwork costs money no matter what IP you use. Unless it's an IP your already own and artwork you already have the rights to. Which I believe is the case with CMN. Most Licences don't come with artwork. You are supposed to generate your own. Now this might vary between Licences (ie PS238 was allowed to use Comic art but I am sure that was negotiated in the contract). Greyhawk really only means something to gamer grognards (ie people over 40) the last time it appeared in a publication was with D&D 3.0 which was over 15 years ago at least. Glorantha really has the same problem. You aren't going to attract new players with either. You might get some converts who played Champions back in the day, but the OSG folk are already playing their RQ and D&D Clones.

 

 

Speaking as a working artist.  This is true. Every appearance of the artwork is (or must be) compensated to the artist, and each "new" appearance must be re-negotiated. This is why, unless an art contract specifies ongoing use, or exclusive rights, every new edition usually has new art.  In a couple of cases R. Talsorian, and "Old" Hero Games, since i was friends with the publishers, i was cool with the re-use of the artwork in new editions. 

As for the pre-gen, here's the funny part: I sat down with his 11-year-old daughter when I was back home for Thanksgiving and we built a character in half an hour! I just asked her what she wanted to play, and she just started rattling off stuff (a young woman raises by wolves but taught druidry by an old woman who found her in the wilderness, she can talk to animals, control the weather, she lacks social skills, frightens people easily, and defends nature with ferocity). She really got into the spirit and the whole world was open to her. She even came up with her own Complications through the process. I think this is what we're really supposed to be doing when we build characters!

 

I tried the same thing with my buddy, and his decades of experience with D&D and Pathfinder made him really unsure of what he could or should pick, how the different parts related to each other, what templates were more useful, etc. etc. He was crippled by his gaming expertise, stuck trying to figure out if spells or swords were "better," which skills were "better," and things like this. I gave him the "Hero in 2 Pages" to read, and he looked at the combat example document I found somewhere, but it just seemed to confuse him more because now he got derailed in wanting to know all the minutiae of the characteristics in combat, and he spun off into more questions than he could handle. Meanwhile, his little girl just jumped in with both feet and had a blast because I was there to translate everything for her.

 

 

That is part of what, I think, Hero has to always fight against. Its lack of familiarity is "hard" for experienced gamers, and its complexity is too much for new gamers. In all honesty, when I grabbed the GURPS Lite document that someone mentioned last week, I read and understood it in an hour, enough so that I felt like I could maybe make a character with some people and play a little bit in one evening. We need something like this. Something more than 2 pages, but less than, say, 700, or even the 266 pages of Fantasy Hero Complete.

That's a beautiful story with your daughter. especially how solidly she had the character Concept down.  Even into the disads.

Your friend, however, does bring up a different problem.

What are you aiming this product at?  A blank slate player new to the hobby? An experience Gamer, just unfamiliar with Hero?  I think that is going to change the focus, quite a bit perhaps.

I can see that for a blank Slate player, like your daughter, you would want  something like the old "Package Deals" plus a skill  list and spell list to  allow for some customization, and also ease of use.  something liek a mix and match of: [Racial Package Deal], [ cultural package deal], [ Professional package deal], Then pick additional skills and talents and Complications (is that what they are calling Disads these days?)

where as, your friend might need the standard reference archetypes as pregenerateds, so he has context for the game and the power levels? Also in his case he will need simple spell lists with no, or hidden mechanics, until later.

 

We have real world evidence that Multipowers are a barrier to entry.  I didn't even try to work with them until I'd been playing Champions for a while, and I was a 15 year old high school geek at the time.  So, why not hold it off until the new folks have been playing for a while?  

 

Once you know OCV and DCV and roll 3d6 to hit and for Skills, and know where to look on your sheet for STR damage and Hit Locations and your armor values... have gotten used to the procedures of play, but also have an idea of what all the advanced terminology means, maybe have an idea for a character that you want to try to build on your own... then bring out the Multipowers.  

 

Multipowers are the deep end of the pool -- no, scratch that, they're the diving well and a 10 meter diving board.  We're still trying to get people comfy getting their feet wet in the shallow end of the pool.  You gotta learn to dog-paddle before you can learn to dive.

I second this.  I never used any power frameworks, and always bought them straight, or with a oiF or OAF focus, though if i needed a multipower built i would ask someone else to do it for me, after i had fleshed out the rest of the character, and had a block of points left to spend.

Multipower is the easiest mechanic to hide. Just don't get complicated with it. Don't have a 60 point pool with 4 multi slots, 3 60 point ultras, 3 20 point ultras, etc.

 

Do it like this instead:

 

Multipower, 60 points

Fireball -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Radius +1

Lightning bolt -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Line +1

Cone of Cold -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Cone +1

 

Magic spell pool

This ability allows you to use any attack spell known up to the level of the magic pool, one at a time. Because the caster must maintain control over the magic, an attack that continues to inflict damage phase after phase will stop if the caster begins to cast a different spell.

 

Easy.

Too much for a beginner.  and the presentation is the inverse of what would be attractive or instructive to the new player.

Magic spell pool

This ability allows you to use any attack spell known up to the level of the magic pool, one at a time. Because the caster must maintain control over the magic, an attack that continues to inflict damage phase after phase will stop if the caster begins to cast a different spell. This example  provides three spells for attack, all of which do 2D6 of Ranged Killing attack against energy defenses, and targeted in an area, so that one can hit multiple foes with one spell. the caster chooses one of the following spells: Throckmorton's Conflagration, a spell that drops an explosion of flames [ describing the casting, targeting and effect of the spell; Zeus' Wrath, a spell that will produce lightining in a line of hezes [ect. ect.]; Polar Blast, a spell that produced a conic area of intense cold that will deliver 2d6 of Killing damage against energy defenses [Yadda yadda]

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Multipower, 60 points Throckmorton's Conflagration: Fireball -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Radius +1. Zeus' Wrath: Lightning bolt -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Line +1, Arctic blast: Cone of Cold -- 2D6 RKA Area Effect Cone +1.

The problem is not that a multipower can be listed simply, is that the standard notation gives the entirely wrong and intimidating information to new players as to what the context of the spell is.

 

Pikt's Bolt of Lightning

By invoking the spirit of a storm elemental through arcane words and gestures, this spell allows the caster to strike their foes with lightning from their fingertips.

When casting this spell, select a point within the caster's reach, and make an attack roll against every target within an area 2m wide and 30m long beginning from that point. Those struck by the spell suffer 2d6 points of Killing Damage versus Energy Defense; the caster cannot choose to reduce the damage of this spell, and when striking walls and other obstacles this spell does not blow open large holes in them. Casting this spell requires gestures, incantations, and the expenditure of 4 END; as such it cannot be cast while the caster is bound (including being Grabbed or Entangled) or gagged (including being Silenced by magic), and casting will fail if the caster is struck while casting.

Game Elements:  RKA 2d6 (vs. ED), Area of Effect (30m Line, Nonselective; +1/4) (37 APs); Beam (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), No Range (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2). Total Cost:  13 points.

 

 

I think  this version is probably the best presentation, and p[robably should follow something similar to expose the mechanics and acronyms to the new players, but without being obtrusive. I would probably format it more like

Pikt's Bolt of Lightning

By invoking the spirit of a storm elemental through arcane words and gestures, this spell allows the caster to strike their foes with lightning from their fingertips.

When casting this spell, select a point within the caster's reach, and make an attack roll against every target within an area 2m wide and 30m long beginning from that point. Those struck by the spell suffer 2d6 points of Killing Damage versus Energy Defense; the caster cannot choose to reduce the damage of this spell, and when striking walls and other obstacles this spell does not blow open large holes in them. Casting this spell requires gestures, incantations, and the expenditure of 4 END; as such it cannot be cast while the caster is bound (including being Grabbed or Entangled) or gagged (including being Silenced by magic), and casting will fail if the caster is struck while casting.

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Game Elements:  RKA 2d6 (vs. ED), Area of Effect (30m Line, Nonselective; +1/4) (37 APs); Beam (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), No Range (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2). Total Cost:  13 points.

Keep the Game elements there, but drop them into fine print, and have a notationabout the fine print and how to build spells elsewhere.on the book.

Thoughts?

To Eisenmann, Christopher Taylor, and Cantriped: I love your ideas! For the time being, let's leave production costs and logistics out of consideration. Brainstorm without constraint!

 

 

 

Eisenmann, I really like your idea of using little beads or whatever, or Cantriped's tokens, to track different stats. This is visually intuitive. The only possible problem I can see is that players need to keep track of specific numbers of STUN, for example, to determine whether their characters are stunned (compared to their CON). Perhaps this may be one of those rules that could be eliminated for basic play, but it's pretty basic to the game. Do you use a card for the aquarium stones to show what the pool is, and what is used? It's possible to indicate "if x number of STUN is moved from your pool, you are stunned for one phase," or something like that. What do you do?

 

place the stones in a grid, with the horizontal number of  collumn squares equal to their CON, and enough vertical lines to allow all their Stun stones to be placed. if the player removesa number of stones to clear a line, or equal to that number, they are then stunned.

 if their grid is empty, they are unconscious?

 

 

This should be a product that players can pick up, flip through, and then start playing the game.  Make a character in 5 minutes.  After a few sessions, they should have a pretty good handle on the system.  Then when they look at the Fantasy Hero Complete book, everything will start to make sense.  They'll have a frame of reference for it.  The intro book would cover what 90% of new players want.  It's not intimidating, it's not scary, it's clearly labeled and has a familiar layout.  You could hand this to a 10 year old, they'd be able to read through it and understand it.

Bravo! This is exactly what I was thinking about in the above, quoted post.

 What I'm interested in is if there's a way to "dumb it down" enough so that players can learn even without an experienced GM. A few people in this thread have talked about starting from scratch, which would scare the hell out of me, but some people are game for that. Is there a way to help them out without an experienced GM to pre-generate 12 characters to choose from, etc., as you describe?

 

This is all simply to edify my curiosity: how much can we trim away for the sake of simplicity, yet still maintain what makes Hero unique?

Unfortunately, I think it would be unlikely for a group of newbies to pick up the system entirely from scratch.  The problem from picking it up from scratch is two fold.

 The first is the "Hidden GM Knowledge" problem, which was adroitly addressed by the Player's Handbook / DM's Guide structure of AD&D. the players are going to want, as stated above, context, for their builds, equipment and a list of spells.  The GM however is going to have to need more of the "Toolkit Approach" of the regular rulebooks.  give the players too much to read and they succumb to MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over), and lose interest. Conversely a beginning GM for Hero, may see what is presented as rather limited after the first few months, and then he comes to the decision point whether to invest in new rulebooks or find something different.

The Second problem is current taste. What do the new faces around the table look like?  Are they people who came back to the gaming table after years away from it, with previous gaming experience? Are they new young people with no experience, but an interest due to the exposure of Tabletop gaming by Will Wheaton, or other people on YouTube and Twitch (or even curious about games after seeing it on "Stranger Things", even? What does the market look like now?

I still think that the best way to learn the system (as I have said on another thread), is to have an experienced GM run the game for new players. Now that may falter, but the system really shines in play, rather than on the page (as it has been so far presented). I am not sure what the correct course is.  If the booklet can be written in such a way as to guide new players to the system and guide them into future purchases of the full rules set, I think that would be optimal, but I have no idea how that would be done.  Nut having a small short book, you can pass out for free that would allow for a basic game to be played, would help spread it (especially in PDF form, as well as a inexpensively printed pamphlet with a full color cover similar to the original  SGJ Melee/ Wizard booklets.)  having someting to take home from a con would be a good freebie to generate interest?

well now.  That is unfortunate news.

 

If you are not careful you will set me off on my hobby horse of the character sheet being the game's GUI for players.

 

Doc

as an aside, this is pretty much how character sheets work on Roll20.net, printable interfaces, that change real time due to button and value change inputs. Since using the old (OLD!) Heromaker that came out on the 3.5 in. floppies, I have been a lot more comfortable using the computer to make characters and character sheets than pencil and paper.

I am most familiar with 3rd, and 4th ed.  I have a copy of 5th ed in storage, but all this talk is making me scared.

Obviously you haven't seen my drawing skills.

My bad, drawing is about all I can do well.  On the other hand I know people made a lot of use with those clear plastic 18in. and 24 in, rulers though.

After playing Hero any other system feels either like a straitjacket or like make-believe with no rules.  I've played the occasional Shadowrun or Pathfinder game; Shadowrun is such a messed up game system that you just have to roll with it for comedic value, and I really have to work hard to ignore the annoyances of Pathfinder.

I am in two Pathfinder games, right now, and the only way the system works is that I am doing it online and the buffs and slights are handled by check boxes on Real Time update Spreadsheets. In that situation, the games works fairly smoothly, but stalls when there needs to be a rules clarification then we have to stop and wait for someon to find the specific rule (usually online) and then inform the group of the rule, then a slight discussion with the GM, and then the game starts up again after the issue is resolved.  It generally works, it's just got bumps in it.

Shadowrun i never liked, as I was a Genre purist, and worked for R. Talsorian Games (Cyberpunk 2020).

We have periodic discussions on here about what should be done to get more people playing Hero, but I don't recall anyone talking about why anyone would want to play Hero instead of any of the other RPGs.

 

What do you see as the compelling reason(s) people should play Hero instead of something else?

 

Keep in mind it can't be, "You can make any kind of character you want!" because you can do that in a lot of other RPGs.

To me, the attractiveness of Hero, was the flexibility of the system. You could make anything. because of this, and the proximity of the original hero games Employees, and at the time, the plethora of game shops, and conventions, the system spread widely. By their example, other people picked it up and played it, and it spread.

There were so many Fantasy Hero Campaigns locally in the 80's and 90's. Champions could be had at any gamer con within 400 miles. There were even hero specific fanzines, like  Rogue's Gallery, and such. People would try, small, one off Science fiction campaigns of limited duration.  From the conventions, champions seeme to have grown from it's origins ( get it) and spread, with the conventions, so that you got  geographical bright spots of Chapions in the SF Bay Area, where it began, to Los Angeles, The upper Midwest,  Central Texas,  And the Middle of the Atlantic Coast. Hero flourished then it was played. At least until the implosion of the table top hobby with the introduction of CCGs in the Mid 90's. (IMO Magic The gathering, sucked most disposable gamer Income into collecting cards and building decks).

If you want  The Hero System to Flourish, it has to be played, rather than talked about. When I first sat down to play a session at the con it was introduced at, I was handed a basic Flying energy blaster character, complete with the comic book artwork in that first Edition  character sheet.  The play was fairly quick at the time, as I had come from Various FGU systems, and  D&D (without the "A"). At the end of the session, I was hooked, and the group of us from the same High School bought copies of that first edition with the mark Williams cover. I was hooked, and Played until the last campaign ended when the GM moved to japan to teach engineering, in the mid 1990's.

If you want more people to play, there have to be more examples out there to play with.  The Company itself needs to have more of a presence at game cons and  run official, introductory events.  Each of the genre's might be represented, BUT with the prevalence of superhero movies now, both Marvel and DC, (Though with DC, the Animated fare has better game fodder) it would be stupid NOt to emphasize Champions. Recent background books have gotten a bit esoteric, much as comic books themselves have of late, But the current Marvel movies have the same sort of energy and ferment  that Marvel Comics had in the 80's during the classic X-Men, and John Byrne's run on Fantastic Four.  For a good convention run, all you really need is a mat, some counters, pre-prepared Character sheets, prepared villains, and a Look up sheet with the attack formula and speed clock printed out, so people know what phases they act on, per turn. To get people to play will take work, though to inspire people to want to come back, or buy the game and run it themselves.  On paper, Hero is a hard sell, compared to the minimalist systems of FATe, and such, and  the ubiquity, and publication beauty of Pathfinder, or D&D 5e, but when in play, the transparency of Hero, and the fact that all the mechanics are available on the sheet. makes play a lot more understandable at the table, without the delay of looking up rules, like you do in pathfinder, or the tyranny of the "rule of Cool" in FATE.

Another option is Roll20.net, but that would take more work, but has the potential of more rewards. I joined Roll20.net a couple of years ago at the request of an associate from Hannover, Germany. After a rather unsatisfying experience with FATE, we switched to Pathfinder, which to me,comes across as d7D with the serial numbers filed off, but even still, the experience has been enjoyable.  Finding players was fairly easy, as the playerbase on Roll20.net was world wide> even though the gm was German, the game was held in English, and that gave us a mix of Canadians and Americans, as well.  So, even though I never bought anything in the way of Pathfinder or D&D 5E stuff, after a couple of years i became somewhat conversant in both systems, though still prefer Hero.  I might suggest taking a look at what Roll20.net offers, as it is a fairly reasonable Tabletop Simulator, with decent GM's tools, tools that get better if you buy their premium service.  Also if you get the premium Service as a GM, you get access to Roll20.net's scripting language back end, and this is how the spreadsheet style character sheets work. This is where the hard work of being a Hero GM on Roll20 would apply. Currently there is no support for Hero, and as such it would take a fiar amount of effort to write the character sheet scripts. On the other hand, the dice rollers that come native with Roll20, will hardly get a work out. The Help files needed would be simple, and unlike pathfinder, would not need the massive PDFs or what have you that exist under the help tab. The simplest solution would be a sheet explaining turn order, a sheet explaining how to calculate "to Hit", and a sheet on character creation, and maybe a list of basic powers and objects.  More information would not be unwelcome, but getting enough out there to support new players, who join with an experienced GM would not be and insurmountable amount of work.

One difficulty i see with further evangelizing has been monetary.  Pathfinder and FATE are the most common  games run on Roll20.net, and i believe that it is because the systems are freely available. Most of pathfinder can be found online.  I do not think there is a freely available version of hero available as a free PDF, even a stripped down version, that could be used by online players wishing to play or run a Hero based campaign on Roll20,net.  On the other hand, a GM might make something available to his players privately. who knows.

In short, I don't think a high concept slogan about Hero is going to be as attractive to new players as much as an opportunity to play, and the resultant word of mouth  would be to increase the fortunes of the Hero System.

--Scott

2m/hex is really only meant to be used with earlier editions of the system where movement is rated in terms of "inches", not meters. Each "inch" is assumed to be equal to a single battlemat hexagon (roughly 1" across) representing 2m of space (i.e., the amount of space a single human-sized character fills). So in editions prior to 6e, your character had 15" of movement, not 15m of movement. Nobody moved an odd number of meters as a full move back then.

 

However, a similar issue still came up when characters with an odd number of inches of movement performed a Half Move. In such (very common) cases, the standard convention was to allow the character to round up the number of hexes moved.

this is exactly how it used to be done.  Champions was a miniatures game based on 25mm miniatures on 25mm or in In hex mats. I have not made the move to 6e, and don't know if i will, because I prefer mats and minis.

I've been playing Hero system (Yes, Champions) since pacificon 1981, and i still will graph out a character in other media in Hero system. what io have seen in the past, was when Magic The Gathering came out,  within a year, much of the gamer's disposable income got sucked into CCG's and acquiring cards. I think that lead to a sip on Table top gaming, and when the CCG interest settled, computer games  became capable enough to ensnare people's interest. I continued to play tabletop games, mostly Hero System, until the late 90's when my friends acquired too many family and professional responsibilities to continue gaming. So for a while i stopped.

Recently, an associate who lives in Hannover, Germany, convinced me to start gaming again, using Roll20.net. First we tried FATE, and, well, I hated it. As attractive as low mechanic, dramatist systems are for younger players, they held no attraction for me, due to the fact that my background was wargaming, and I "put my trust in the dice" rather than my acting ability or ability to BS the GM. I am not a writer or storyteller( I am a CG artist, currently).  After some discussion with the players, we switched systems to Pathfinder.  My impression of pathfinder is that it's a D&D variant, however it's a bit more "Monty Haul-ish' in comparison to D&D and int only works well in Roll20,net due to the extensive support that website gives to Pathfinder, with the MULTI -PAGE character sheets, operating like a spreadsheets, displaying real time change due to current Buffs and problems.  Now, I am enjoying the game, but if I were to run again, I would rather run Hero, but there is currently no Roll.20 support for it.

Roll20 is expanding. Looking for group requests are increasing each month, and it allows for the table top experience over one's desktop ( or better than average laptop). It has several tools for GMs, to manage maps, handouts, music, and "premium" tools for lighting effects and managing Line of sight. The audience is world wide, and there are games in most time zones.

I would think that it would expand the player base if there was an effort to have the Hero System supported on Roll20.net. The hard part would be "coding" the character sheets on the back end (coding is something i cannot do), so that for the players, building a character would be similar to how the various 5th ed, and 6th ed Excel spreadsheets work. I think that the best advertising for Hero is other players, and word of mouth.

• How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?

Mom gave it to me.

• What was the first tabletop RPG you played?

Three Book Dungeons & dragons in 1976

• What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?

Dungeons & Dragons

• What are you currently playing/GMing?

Playing Pathfinder, Interested in possibly GM'ming Fantasy Hero (Home brew World).

I was one of the original "Doug's Thugs" for the Fantasy Hero playtest,  Also was one of the early Hero Games artist, back in the pre-5th edition days. Inow the system fairly well and would like to get back into it.