A couple weeks ago, I finally catalogued my pen and paper game collection. I’ve been into RPGs for almost two decades, and I’ve worked in the industry for almost half that, so I’ve accumulated a fair amount of books. Nowhere near the collections some folks have, sure, but still a fair amount.
The problem is that my game schedule has been pathetic these past *grumble*mumble* years what with work and family and trying to coordinate with other people’s schedules and all the other stuff that marginalizes fun time. This has left almost all of them unplayed and most of them unread beyond a cursory skim.
I’d like to change all that.
While I highly doubt I’ll be able to play all the games on my shelf, I can make characters for them. Inspired by Matt McFarland’s efforts over at his LiveJournal, I’ve decided that I will go through my entire game collection and make a character for each game I can.
I will try to post one new character every week under the “character collection” tag. I don’t foresee an order to it. I’ll probably just pick a game that suits my fancy and go with it.
I’m doing this to scratch the itch that not playing has left. I’m also hoping to open up discussion about these games as a lot of them are older titles that maybe haven’t gotten much love as of late. For some, it might be interesting to see how these games have changed from an older edition to a newer one or simply be reminded of an old favorite.
I like having the excuse to crack open some of these books again.
Anyway, the first character will be up this week. I hope you enjoy it!
