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MaxKaladin
Seeker
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 Posted - 19 Jan 2007 : 20:57:05
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It seems traditional to introduce yourself on these boards, so here goes.
I've been playing since I was 13. That was back in the days of the "Basic/Expert/Companion/Master/Immortal" D&D boxed sets. I moved on to 1e, 2e and now 3e as well as playing a number of other systems. I've gamed in a number of settings, both homebrew and published.
I'm an old hand at the Realms. I read a number of the articles in Dragon back in the early-mid 80s and began collecting Realms products with the old gray box set (technically, the first Moonshae novel, which I'm fairly sure was published slightly before the Gray Box). I ran Realms games in high school, all through college and beyond. I collected all the products and was an active poster on the REALMS-L list. After that, well, life happens and I drifted away from the Realms back in the late 90s about the time 3rd edition came out.
I've continued gaming. My group talked me into running a game to try out the new 3rd edition rules and I started something in a homebrew based on ancient Rome that ended up running several years. That game is over now and I'm thinking of using the Realms for my next game, but the changes that have happened in 3rd edition are just mind-boggling. It's rather overwhelming.
Back in the 90s, I remember reading and participating in many threads on REALMS-L about what eventually came to be called "RSEs" (and I remember the thread where that term was coined). Having seen the amount of change that's occurred in 3e, I suddenly have a lot more sympathy for the people who were screaming "enough with the RSEs already!"
My username, incidentally, is the name of a Paladin I played in a 2e Realms game back in the mid 90s. "Max Kaladin, Paladin of Torm, member of the Order of the Golden Lion. He started near Anauroch, spent most of the campaign in Waterdeep and the North and was retired after journeying to Tantras. He has recently been reborn as a 3e paladin for a series of one-shot adventures by another GM who wanted us to create 20th level characters to face various "iconic" challenges.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 19 Jan 2007 : 21:23:12
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Welcome to Candlekeep! 
Feel free to ask any questions you may have... A lot of us have been Realms fans for years, and we know a thing or three about the setting. Plus, we've got some of the authors and creators here! 
As for the rest of us, we are friendly, mostly harmless, and occasionally strange... Enjoy your stay!  |
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jan 2007 : 23:32:01
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Cheers and well met, mate
Don't spill beer over the scrolls, Alaundo hates that (I found that out only by painful example 
Enjoy your stay...and don't mind the loonies, they tend to fly very low here |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2007 : 07:54:23
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| Welcome aboard Max Kaladin, hope you will enjoy your stay. As for low-flying loonies, I am slightly worried over the one located right over my head just now. |
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Grimbolt Hammerhand
Acolyte
Germany
15 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2007 : 12:13:32
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| Hail and well met, Max Kaladin. |
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Aglaranna
Learned Scribe
166 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2007 : 16:31:45
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| Wooly, why is it always 'Mostly harmless'? |
"You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose the path that's clear
I will choose freewill." -'Freewill' by Rush |
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Delzounblood
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
578 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2007 : 16:45:01
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Welcome & Wellmet
I look forward to seeing you on the boards
Delz
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I'm Back! |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2007 : 10:40:32
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| Welcome in Candlekeep. I saw you played a Paladin of Torm. Once upon a time I played a paladin of Tyr |
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Zimme
Learned Scribe
Denmark
209 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2007 : 12:36:11
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Greetings MaxKaladin
And welcome to the forum, looking forward to see your posts. |
Sometimes I feel like Beshaba is sitting on my back, devoting her entire attention to me!
Rannek.
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Introducing MaxKaladin
