What's the point?

 Hi,

      Chekmx here.  What's the point of this blog?   As a place to put my ramblings about TTRPGs because there aren't enough of those right?

    My older brother and his friend introduced me to TTRPG in the early 80s playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and Traveller which I continued with a group of friends as a teen-ager.  When Games workshop released a affordable version of  Runequest, stripped of its mighty Gloranthan setting we were immediately captured by its complex simulationist mechanics.   Along the way a variety of games were explored many not much beyond character creation a none exhaust list being Traveller, Paranoia, Gamma world, Traveller 2300AD and Call of Cthulhu.

    Then life happened,  college, work, family and my RPG days slipped to the back of my mind as a fond memory.

    Skip forward 20 years or so and in around 2014 one of my oldest friends mentioned that the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons was being released.   Happy memories flashed into my mind but living now living in  Switzerland I doubted that I would find locals to play with (I was very wrong about that).  I can't remember how but at more or less the same time I stumbled across Roll20.  After many false starts, rejected request and campaigns that lasted one session I finally found a group of reliable players that wanted to play the same sort of games as me and we continue to play on a regular basis to this day.

    Since wetting my teeth in this hobby once more with many sessions of 5th edition I began to spread my wings once more try numerous game mechanics both mainstream and indie, crunchy and rules lite.  At the moment my current favourite are the Year Zero Engine games that seem to offer a lite flexible system that still provide enough pleasing mechanical crunch without descending into a 3 hour dice fest. 

    My current games include

    Playing in a semi regular game of Troika game.

    Playing in a bi weekly mini campaign of GURPS set in a post-apocalyptic Tenerife as a psycho feminist nun

     Playing a number of games with my afore mentioned  best friend (Cthulhu (Dark, Hack, Trail of), Dee Sanction, Coriolis ..... The list goes on as he seems to buy every kick starter ever release)

    Running a long term call of Cthulhu Pulp Campaign of the 2 head serpent

    Running the Forbidden lands Campaign books (Raven Purge,  Bitter reach and coming soon Blood March) mashed together with various other sources as an Open Table/West Marches campaign.

    So that's me and I imagine that will influence what I write about.