Post by whipstache on Jul 21, 2015 13:30:23 GMT
Hi all,
My name is Ryan (aka whipstache). My wife, six-month-old daughter, and I just moved from Dallas to Baltimore, so I don't have a gaming group up here... yet.
While it seems like a lot of people's tabletop playing faded in college, that's when I got started. I really got into board games and CCGs. I was introduced to MTG by some peeps who frequented the coffee shop that I owned in, say, 2007, and it was all pretty much downhill from there.
My first full-fledged RPG campaign came in grad school playing GURPS. We ran a steampunk setting, and I was a sickly dwarf machinist who rode a big steam-powered mech. At that point, I was all in on TTRPGs. But, the DM of our group graduated, and no one jumped in to take his spot, so we kind of dissolved.
In grad school I earned a Storytelling certificate by taking a couple classes. I've always loved storytelling; I think it's one of the most important things we do as humans. Plus, I think I'm halfway decent at it. Now that I'm in a new place, looking for a new gaming group, I think I might try my hand at DMing. Hence my searching out and beginning to listen to this podcast. I'm trying to soak up as much information as I can, so I've started at the beginning. I think I'm through episode 12 or something now, but I'm picking up steam. I hope to clear the backlog in a month or so.
Thanks to DM Chris and DM Mitch for the podcast. It's already given me loads of ideas (I've started a notebook that's rapidly filling). Thanks to all who participate in this forum.
If anyone has an open spot in a gaming group in the Baltimore-Annapolis-D.C. area, let me know!
My name is Ryan (aka whipstache). My wife, six-month-old daughter, and I just moved from Dallas to Baltimore, so I don't have a gaming group up here... yet.
While it seems like a lot of people's tabletop playing faded in college, that's when I got started. I really got into board games and CCGs. I was introduced to MTG by some peeps who frequented the coffee shop that I owned in, say, 2007, and it was all pretty much downhill from there.
My first full-fledged RPG campaign came in grad school playing GURPS. We ran a steampunk setting, and I was a sickly dwarf machinist who rode a big steam-powered mech. At that point, I was all in on TTRPGs. But, the DM of our group graduated, and no one jumped in to take his spot, so we kind of dissolved.
In grad school I earned a Storytelling certificate by taking a couple classes. I've always loved storytelling; I think it's one of the most important things we do as humans. Plus, I think I'm halfway decent at it. Now that I'm in a new place, looking for a new gaming group, I think I might try my hand at DMing. Hence my searching out and beginning to listen to this podcast. I'm trying to soak up as much information as I can, so I've started at the beginning. I think I'm through episode 12 or something now, but I'm picking up steam. I hope to clear the backlog in a month or so.
Thanks to DM Chris and DM Mitch for the podcast. It's already given me loads of ideas (I've started a notebook that's rapidly filling). Thanks to all who participate in this forum.
If anyone has an open spot in a gaming group in the Baltimore-Annapolis-D.C. area, let me know!
I managed/owned/worked in coffee shops for a good 10 years of my life. I met my partner (and the mother of my wonderful children) at a coffee shop I managed...she was the owner. You better believe that dynamic has some influence on our relationship 
