Here's what I don't get... Photus of the blinding light... But he's primarily a lunar god... His symbol is of Greyhawks two moons even... What's up with that?

Let's see... Where was I... Oh yeah. Me. As long as I can remember, we've always had a computer in the house. So I've been playing computer games pretty much all my life. But I've only been doing so in a dedicated manor for about five years. (About the time I got into the industry.) I've been playing more "traditional" RPGs for about... Wow, 11 years now. About as long as I've known my best friend, Bree, who introduced me to D&D not very long after we met. (Not surprising that a girl named after a town in "Fellowship of the Ring" played D&D.) We played in a Demo game run at the Del Amo Game Keeper back when it was cool. It was fun so I got an AD&D 2ed PHB (on sale for 20% off, I may be a geek, but I'm a GIRL geek thank you very much) and started looking for a regular group. My first day playing with a regular group was the same day as OJ's slow speed chase in the white Bronco. (I remember because the DM's brother was late due to being caught up in the resulting traffic. (I developed a crush on him right off the bat so it's a moment I recall clearly.) When I went off to University, I played a lot of AD&D, GURPS (which I loved), and entirely too much Mind’s Eye Theatre. That's right, I played White Wolf LARPS, I even helped write and run them at the "LAX Cons" that happen three times a year for a while. I was young, I didn't know any better. It goes without saying that I have a deep and abiding hatred for any and all things vampiric... Except for Spike. :) Games I have played: AD&D 2, 3, 3.5 editions. Mostly Forgotten Realms, some homebrew worlds, a little Greyhawk. (Mostly Greyhawk now. GURPS - Multiple genres White Wolf - Sit down and LARP, if it was part of the World of Darkness before 2001, I've prolly played it. Castle Falkenstine - I really liked this one. Fading Suns - Prolly why I liked Firefly so much. 7th Sea - Yarr! Deadlands - The BEST system EVER Shadowrun - I think it was... 4th edition? Earthdawn - Awesome world Call of Chthulhu - *gibber* ... Probably more that I can't remember right now. My point is, I've done all this gaming, I've run games before (though that was just a con LARP where I could make it up as I went along and nobody said "boo" because nobody was going to ever play these characters again.), but I've never run a rules intensive, ongoing, game for a small group of people. Which is what I'm about to do for my current D&D group. *gibber*

Interesting that they hose a journal here... I suppose I'll give it a try... I bet a lot of the journals start and end with a statement like that... :D Right off the bat, if anybody reads this, I'd like to apologise for my spelling... I'm almost 30 and I still have a huge problem with spelling, it's very embarrasing. But I do my best and nearly always remember to run my stuff through a spellchecker... Though that sometimes causes more trouble then it avoids. ("Dear sir... I'm sorry for any INCONTENENCE.") Let's see, a little about myself I guess... Besides the fact that I can't spell for crap. My name is Michelle, I was born June 13th, 1974 in Southern California. I've lived here all my life, except for about a year when I was quite young and we moved to Upper Saddle River, NJ and then back. I currently live in Orange, CA and work at a company that makes computer games. (No, I'm not going to say which one.) Hmmm, I'll have to finish this later...