Email: RolftheRuf@aol.com

I live in: Wilmington, DE (that's nearly Pennsylvania for the geographically challenged)

How I got started in this crazy hobby:

Okay, I doubt if anyone's heard of it, but we started playing this new kinda game called 'role-playing' in 7th grade. It was a game called Empire of the Petal Throne. This pre-dates D&D - and yes, I'm a charter member of the AA-RPG (read 'old fart'). By the time I hit high school, I started hearing, "Aren't you a little old to be playing make-believe?" Been hearin' it ever since-- only now I respond, "I'm not playin' make-believe, I'm playin' Cowboys-n-Indians!"

Good God! That's an extensive list... How about I just put down all the games I can think of and type in 60 seconds?

EPT
D&D
AD&D
Blitzkrieg
Third Reich
Wooden Shi-- (damn! Okay wait, I'm a slow typer- let's say 5 minutes)--ps and Iron Men
KingMaker
Boot Hill
Talisman
Kings and Things
Quest for the Grail
Warhammer
Mighty Empires
Britannia
Dracula
Magic the Gathering
Battletech
Twilight 2000
Illuminati
Shadowrun
CoC
Deadlands
Doomtown
(plus tons more I've overlooked, not to mention the numerous homespun games we continually generate)

Right now...Deadlands, by far. Also Doomtown

Still play Magic and Shadowrun and a few games of my own devising

Oh, you mean there are things to do besides spreading papers and dice all over a table top, making gratuitously vulgar noises and consuming large quantities of cheese puffs and beer?

Oh right! I like:
Hiking, Biking, Volleyball, Reading, Writing, Illustration, Movies, Studying history and the Bible, Posing as a former highly-skilled operative for an ultra-secret agency, now on the dodge from government agents who seek to silence me, while the tri-lateralists hunt me like a dog for the experimental chip grafted onto my temporal lobe (oops, sorry, lost my mind for a minute).

You already know too much, it looks like I'm going to have to kill you. But first-- I'll explain my entire heinous master plan so that when I underestimate your survival skills you'll know exactly how to destroy me after effecting your escape.

Actually, it's pretty simple: I have a crazy wife and five wonderful cats (I don't think that came out right?), all of whom are very good about putting up with my weird hobby and equally weird friends. The most awesome thing is that last week I finally got my wife (Jan)to create a DL character! Can't wait to run her first session!