So I've done this before, possibly multiple times, but that was all a loooong time ago, and things have indeed changed, so I felt like doing this all over again. Aloha for anyone that I have yet to meet in my absence, and meh to anyone I already know. Just, meh.
Anywho, I'm 18, male, living a life of intense boredom that usually involves spending five days a week in the house in various stages of wasting my life. Only nowadays, some of it is turning mildly profitable. I've been keeping up a site going (hosted through blogspot) on Magic: The Gathering strategy, which has reached a surprising amount of traffic over the last six months, to the point where ad support is actually kinda sorta almost compensating me for my time, and by that I mean not at all but honestly better than I expected. I'm getting a little recognition now, which is better than most.
The rest of my life is split between mah girl Cassie (one of the few reasons I actually have for leaving the house) and non-tangible gaming, most often in the form of Team Fortress 2. I'm still an administrator for the Mass Insanity Clan servers, although the current owners are a little strapped for cash right now so we may be running into problems soon. In any case, in terms of games, I'll play pretty much anything. If you hook me up on Steam (dndfreak) and want to play something, TF2, Borderlands, Killing Floor, Greed Corp, DotP, whatever it may be, long as I'm not busy I'll probably take you up on it, and even if I am busy I'll use the invite as an excuse to not be nine times out of ten. I also try to stay on top of the MMO market, and although I never play a p2p game past release, I try to get in on every beta that I can. There's a few games that I return to now and then, most notably Dungeon Fighter Online, but I have characters on most everything.
Occasionally, if you post something in the Personal Problems thread, you'll get a message from me as opposed to an actual reply on the boards. I have an outstanding history of 'playing psychologist', if you will. It's a habit, some call it good, some call it bad, but I tend to feel a need to get involved whenever I see a cry for help, so to speak. All so far have appreciated it, so I see no need to stop, but be forewarned that I may act like a total dick but there actually is a soul underneath it all. I'm a writer by trade, and that mostly came about because of my constant observation of human emotion. I may not have formal training, so take what I say with a grain of salt if you will, but as I said, all who I connected with in the past have nothing bad to say about it, so I feel no need to stop.
Lastly, I want to touch upon my username, dndfreak. It's a pretty damn big misnomer. It just kinda stuck. My knowledge of DnD is very basic knowledge of the 3.5 ruleset, which I've used in the past when constructing stories. I find that giving set statistics to characters helps me stay consistent, and at the same time actually doing out at least the minor rolls helps me stay on my toes. Sometimes, things will happen that the reader will never expect simply because I never expected it either. Other than that and my love/hate relationship with Neverwinter Nights, absolutely nothing about me has any relation with Dungeons and Dragons. You may expect me to frequent the RP boards, but I won't. You may expect me to know crap about 4th edition, but I won't. You may expect me to know the difference between a Greatsword and a Bastard sword, but I won't. Simple as that.
So... yeah. Good to be here.
