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Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.
Welcome to the Pub. :thumbsup:
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.

Welcome to The Pub Ecliptic Gate Ecliptic Gate !
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.

Glad to have you here!

You are also welcome at my friendly TTRPG Discord chatroom, Randomworlds (see link in my signature)! Enjoy!
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.
Welcome to the Pub!

...Fun fact, we're around the same age, yet you started RPGs 10 years earlier than me:grin:!
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.
Welcome to the crazy train! :grin:
 
Hi all!

Been lurking for a bit and thought I should say hello. I’m from the UK and have recently stumbled dumbfounded into my 40s. I started gaming around ’89 with Traveller, Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and Paranoia. Ran a lot of different games in the 90s. Ran mostly D&D in the 00s.

I’m currently playing Call of Cthulhu, running Castles & Crusades Scarred Lands, and soloing Cities Without Number.
Welcome!
You're in the right place mate :thumbsup:
 
Admittedly the memories of gaming in my early teens are all starting to blur into one jumbled, hazy mess!
Still count for determining your Circle/Level/Essence:grin:!

Ah well, earlier simply wasn't possible in Bulgaria at the time. Products of birth and circumstances, we all are:shade:!

/Philosophical mood:thumbsup:
 
I must admit the reason why I joined now, after some lurking, is that I want to promote a project I have been working on (see my sig). I'll try to be good, though, and eventually post about other things, too. I love the moderation policy, btw, and the general vibe here.
Word of advice, one up-and-comer to another? Lead with the other things, then start talking about your project. Give people reasons to care about you before asking them to care about your product.

You're in the right place, though. Welcome!
 
Word of advice, one up-and-comer to another? Lead with the other things, then start talking about your project. Give people reasons to care about you before asking them to care about your product.

You're in the right place, though. Welcome!
That is good advice in general, not just here:thumbsup:!
 
I'm just a guy who likes to play games. I just want a forum where I can make a thread about Legend of the Five Rings without some self-righteous jackass who doesn't even play the game dropping in to give me a lecture about Orientalism and tell me I am a bad person for playing it. When an off-topic forum for political stuff is opened, people will always say that the political stuff will be confined to it but that never happens. It always bleeds out all over everything. If I wanted to talk about that stuff, I would go to a political forum. I don't need a lecture about how "problematic" I am because I don't want to buy Thirsty Sword Lesbians because I must be a homophobe who hates women because I don't want that game. No, I just don't like PbtA games and, no, I am not going to be browbeaten into saying I do or buying a game I don't want. Anyway, I am just a guy who likes game and is tired of all the other stuff.
 
Obnoxious? Look closer...

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Teeth man, they have fuckin' teeth. Spawn of the devil.

Nasty sharp pointy teeth!

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Personally, I arrived here because of the geese hatred. It was a happy coincidence that the Pub also, occasionally, tangentially, discusses roleplaying games.

Edited to add: in all seriousness, this place is a nice, laid-back spot to discuss roleplaying games.
 
Personally, I arrived here because of the geese hatred. It was a happy coincidence that the Pub also, occasionally, tangentially, discusses roleplaying games.

Edited to add: in all seriousness, this place is a nice, laid-back spot to discuss roleplaying games.
I see a bright future for you.
 
Here now, a redundant introduction, covering points already made elsewhere:

I'm a truck driver. I drive my bedroom around the country for a living. You've heard of people who work from home? I home from work. My commute to work is about 36 inches. That's how far it is from my bunk to the driver's seat.

If you've ever had any questions about long-haul trucking, feel free to ask.

Always remember: Truck drivers aren't paid to make the truck go forward. Anybody can make the truck go forward. Truck drivers are paid to make the truck go backwards.

I am GenX, but I'm old GenX. Born in the '60s, childhood in the '70s, teen years in the '80s. My daughter likes to tease me by saying that, according to Wikipedia, I woulda been a Boomer if I'd been born a year earlier. (I reply that both of my parents were born in 1945, making them most definitely Boomers, so I can't be a Boomer since I'm the next generation along.)

I have a long, rich gaming history that involves owning a lot of gaming sourcebooks and not nearly as much playing as I'd like. My peak years were as a teenager, and then a resurgence in the early 2000s and another in the early 2010s. The rest of the time I was working jobs that prevented me from having a regular schedule. So gaming during those times was sporadic. But any time I've had a job with a regular schedule consonant with the schedules of other humans, I've usually found my way into a gaming group. I still run the occasional game of D&D5e for my teenaged kids.
 
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I am GenX, but I'm old GenX. Born in the '60s, childhood in the '70s, teen years in the '80s. My daughter likes to tease me by saying that, according to Wikipedia, I woulda been a Boomer if I'd been born a year earlier. (I reply that both of my parents were born in 1945, making them most definitely Boomers, so I can't be a Boomer since I'm the next generation along.)
Boomers started in 1946 - they're the post-war generation. 1945- means 'Silent Generation' (the same as my parents). [/pedant]
 
There's no universally agreed date when one generation starts and ends. There's rough guideposts for a country maybe.
That's what I tried to tell my Canadian-born cousin. Around here (northern europe) the generation that bred the grandparents of my cousin and I, boomed those babies around like wildfire!
 
There's no universally agreed date when one generation starts and ends. There's rough guideposts for a country maybe.
Yeah I thought it was always meant to be broad, something like this over this last century:
  • The Builders (Originals - Centurians / The Greatest Generation) - born in the 1900s and 1910s
  • The Builders (Second Wave - The Silent Generation) - born in the 1920s & 1930s
  • The Baby Boomers - born in the 1940s & 1950s
  • The Generation Xers - born in the 1960s & 1970s
  • The Millennials (originally called Gen Y) - born in the 1980s and 1990s
  • The Zoomers - born in the 2000's and 2010s
  • ? Gen Alpha, ? PostPans - born in the 2020s
 
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The boomers have always been viewed as starting post-1945 - they're the post-war baby boom that happened in the western world after WWII when all the soldiers came home and everyone went back to their lives, and there was a huge boom in birthrates and in the economy. Good times, while they lasted, for many in the western world. The beginning of the Boomer generation is one of the few points that is fairly solidly fixed when talking about generations, unlike the cross-over dates for any others.

There is occasionally some debate as to whether 'war babies' count more as boomers than as silent generation. I'm inclined to count them as 'silent', due to their small numbers (which better fits the silent generation) and that they'll have more memory of 'doing without' than later children will, again something more in common with the silent generation as a whole. This will apply more to some countries than others, of course.
 
I dont like dealing with trailers anymore. I used to have a 44' boat on a trailer that sat in a yard with a boatramp. I owned a partial share in a home made/converted tractor that was used to put the boat in and out of the ramp. One day coming back from a trip I hooked up the trailer to the tractor and went to go pull my boat out. Well this home made tractor was balls. First its the kind of tractor where you face the object you're towing and drive essentially in reverse most of the time. That's mostly useful since the tricky parts are putting it next to the dock and putting it between two other boats on trailers so facing where its going at that point is beneficial. Sucks while you're moving it around though. The home made tractor had an ignition switch located such that you couldn't turn the tractor on or off while you're seated and towing. This become very relevant when you start towing and the throttle gets stuck on full throttle while you're pulling the empty trailer to retrieve my boat. So there I am going full speed in reverse with an empty trailer and no way to shut the engine off. Fun. I figure I will put it in neutral and try to get around to the ignition. That almost works except instead of neutral it decides maybe full speed the other direction would be more fun! Since there is no seatbelt I quickly make an involuntary exit from the vehicle and get to watch a runaway tractor push a 50' trailer back in the direction of maybe 30 large expensive parked boats. Lucky for me it decides to go wind its way back towards where my empty stall is that luckily has empty parked trailers on both sides of it. It smashes into both of them pushing them into a third trailer with a boat on it. No damage to that boat but their trailer gets scuffed up a bit.

Moral of the story. Tractors should not be home built. Safety features exist for a reason. I have amazing luck.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about having my credentials as the most working class member of the forum attacked like this tbh.
What exactly constitutes the working class? I work as a logistics employee/warehouse worker, a job that requires only the most basic in education. Is that working class or does a job have to require actual skill to be considered working class? :clown:
 
Gen X - born 1965 to 1985
Boomers - born before Gen X
Millennials - born after Gen X
the generation after Millennials - not named yet
the generations before Boomers - dead
My parents, members of the generation before the boomers, "I'm not dead yet!!!"

The world, "You're not fooling anyone!"
 
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