Role-Playing Games (or Truckee Games?)

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As previously mentioned, I am a geek. I suppose if one looks for a reason why, let us believe three pivotal moments changed me from whatever was in store for me originally: 1) My father and mother took me to see Star Wars when it originally came out in theaters. 2) My father and mother sat me down in front of the TV to watch the original animated The Hobbit. 3) On a cross country trip from Michigan to California, my parents kept my occupied with a stack of comic books. All before I was 10 years old.

It should then come as no surprise that I became enthralled with Dungeons & Dragons when it first crossed paths with me, and from there, countless other role-playing games. It was fantastic mental exercise, helped get a shy boy out of his shell, and above all I credit it with making me smarter. Role-playing games (or RPGs) led me to research times, places, history, and science, far more than I probably would have otherwise at any given time. 

Yet, I let it become not just a hobby, but an obsession, and years have been wasted in fantastic, but utterly fictional worlds when, as mentioned, I should have been engaged in education and career. I credit RPGs for much of who I am, and thankfully so, but I fault myself for letting it lead me astray. At the moment I am retired from gaming as I try to take care of urgent family business as well as amend the defects in my life and rebuild into someone I can be proud of and worthy of my wife and children. At some point in the future, either on a lark, or with premeditation, I may return to writing for games, but I cannot say when.

That being said, I have in my time started an imprint called Truckee Games and produced various gaming worlds for play using a game called Risus: The Anything RPG by S. John Ross. I've also been tinkering with my own game system. As time progresses, I'll release each of these various settings rule system as separate posts.

-Brent

"This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'" - Jack White