So, my name is Pedro, Lunaris is an alias that I have since I was... I don't know, 15 I guess. The moon is an important symbol to me, and that's where the self-inflicted nickname came from.
I've been playing RPG since I was 12 (I'm 30 now). I started with game books (not really RPG) and one day my mom or grandmom (I really don't recall) bought the
The Riddling Reaver to me by mistake. A huge mistake, considering that my mom tought a healthy teenagers would go out and practice sports and love the beach and I was kinda avoiding all of that to spend a great part of my teen nights with a bunch of nerds playing RPG. :] I had a great adolescence anyway, and went to a lot of great parties as well, but you know how moms can see us when they aren't secure about what the heck we are doing.
The first RPG (for real) I've played was GURPS. Here in Brazil we hadn't had access to a great deal of things, and GURPS was translated into portuguese. I was GMing since I started playing, but I never focused in just GMing or just playing, I always did both. My GURPS years were great, light roleplaying and full of experimenting diferent scenarios, like super-heroes, Battletech and Cadilacs & Dinosaurs (yeah!).
Then Vampire the Masquerade was released and everything changed. Everyone started wearing black and those that already did started to paint their nails. WoD made the mark of roleplaying, and that was a great achievement to me. We were still trying to get as many dots on our sheets as we could, mind you, but we were really imersed in our character's personalities and how to play them as well.
Soo enough (a couple of years) and WoD was too much. That was when we had the impression that finding a human in the world was really hard. By that time I was heavy into fantasy, for we were playing the greatest and longest regular campaign I ever played, six years around Dragonlance the Fifth Age using the Saga System. Such a great system! The GM was an outstanding storyteller (he actually is a fantasy writer) and we had two groups that got things done in different parts of the world. We got together three or four times during the entire campaign, and then re-divided to new formats.
I got into D&D with the 3.0 and kinda followed to 3.5, but I was already sick with a system that requires too much attention (IMO). I dropped it completely. It was 2004 or so, and then I discovered Warhammer 2nd. I didn't ever hear about the Warhammer world. And I fell in love with it, specially the scenario, but also the system.
I was as many very suspicious when WHRP 3e was announced, but I'm really glad I got into it. It is a "heavy system", in the aspect that it does require a lot of attention, but as it connects with the story everytime I find it becomes light and really inspires roleplaying and shared narration.
Other than that I've played and own Changeling The Dreaming, Castle Falkenstein and Legend of the Five Rings (the current edition). I love all of those! I have Song of Ice and Fire as well, since I love G R R Martin stories, but I didn't like the editing of the book and I simply hadn't read it yet. And I'm also into some hand picked FFG's board games, I have everything of BattleLore, some few things of A Game of Thrones LCG, and I recently acquired (but did not get my hands on yet) Dust Tactics. I'm thinking about buying Dreadfleet, since it seems so fun. Anyone has played it?
Cheers!
Pedro
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