Time to Start Posting

OK… So I’ve had this Blog for like two years now, and I finally decided that it was time I started posting to it. Best laid plans and all that jazz. I guess since this is my first post I should introduce myself. I know… I know you really don’t care. And I know I’m sitting here typing this for that one crazy, lonely person who has stumbled across my blog on accident and now has become obsessed with me (YAY! I have a fan).

Well to start with I work as a Tax Analyst. What’s that? Well I sit in a cubical and comb over instructions, forms, and tax research and then turn that newfound knowledge into a program that becomes part of a bigger program that accountants buy to prepare their tax returns on. Sounds boring I know, but what can I say taxes have always interested me. Our government would not function without money and a major way they get that money is through taxes. Taxes can even be used to encourage people to take a particular course of action, influence business decisions, and encourage people and businesses to move to an area. There is a lot of power to be wield there and it can be wielded relatively peacefully.

What else… I’m a gamer at heart. Board games, video games, card games, and roleplaying games… I play them all. I’m really enjoying the game my cousin, Marc, is running right now. It’s The Fast and The Furious meets a werewolf horror flick. We’ve been playing it for a few sessions now, and it’s been engaging and a real hoot to play. I’m also getting ready to play in a new D&D mini campaign that my friend Tom will be running. I’m going back to my first D&D class… and really the class that I always felt defined me as a person, the bard. Wizards has posted a preview to the 4E bard and I just had to play it.

I’m working on a couple campaigns of my own. I told Marc that I’d be willing to run a superhero campaign. That was about 6 months ago, so of course I’m just now getting really into it. I’ve got some ideas and a basic progression for a plot point, but I really need to put more work into. I also have been really jazzed about Promethean: The Created again. I’ve talked to my brother, Kyle, and asked him if I could pretty please run him through a game of that. I had originally asked him to play and D&D campaign, but I just couldn’t get the world details to work in my head. He sounds interested and suggested an carnival/circus that his character had attached himself to. I came back with the idea for a campaign set in the 1930s starting in a traveling carnival. I hope to post more on that as I develop it more.

I have to say I’m amazed you made it this far. I’ll leave it at this for now. After all I have to save some mysteries about myself for future blog posts… if I remember to do them. Until then!

Darren