| I
was born in Albuquerque, NM in April of 1979. Before the age of
5, I'd lived in most states throughout the southwestern U.S. and
a couple outside of that region. Over the weekend of my 8th
birthday, I moved to Bakersfield, CA where my love of
roleplaying was to be born. I'd always been creative, and more
often than not, I was the person with all the ideas when I
played with my friends. I started with "imagination games",
which amounted to one-on-one freeform roleplaying games. When I
borrowed a copy of a Battletech Technical Readout, I used the
numbers in there to create my very first game, completely
unaware that the stats were actually from a game. Not
long after that, I met the friend who introduced me to the
roleplaying hobby officially, with Robotech and D&D Basic.
After that, I did not play
another published roleplaying game until I moved to Arizona and
started high school. Instead, I made several little
heartbreakers to tide myself over. High school introduced me to
White Wolf and Shadowrun, as well as a few other lesser popular
games. Those were my staples all the way through the majority of
my subsequent enlistment in the army, when I was finally
introduced to Star Wars D6 and reintroduced to D&D with 3rd Ed
during my last year on Active Duty. It was following my return
to civilian life that I was pointed toward the indie community,
and my aspirations of publishing Mage Blade really took off.
It's been about 8 years
since then. I've still not published any of my games, due in
part to spotty motivation, and an inability to get sufficient
playtesting done. My creative pursuits have blossomed over the
years, and I've taken up hobbies in graphic design, digital art,
and writing, as well as putting some serious and not-so-serious
efforts toward getting a degree in software engineering. I've
since rejoined the army, gotten married, had a child, and been
deployed to Iraq. Even though this isn't where I thought I'd be,
it's been a pretty good ride so far, and I can only look forward
to what the future holds. |
