My name is Michael Brewer and I live in Franklin, IN (a half an hour south of downtown Indy for the GenCon folk) with my lovely young wife and our beautiful two year old daughter. I am 29 and just received my Bachelor’s in Media Arts & Science from IU. I’ve been working as a .NET software developer longer than I have had a degree, but before I was a programmer I was a Marine. I spent four years in active service with the U.S. Marine Corps and another four in reserves. Half of my active service was with the infantry as a mortarman, but I began my service in the Security Forces, stationed in the middle east with an anti terrorism outfit. I ended my active service as a marksmanship instructor.

I stumbled across Critical Hits a while back, most likely through Google, though that is lost to the fog of memory. I loved reading the GenCon posts, because even though I was there, I could not manage to get out of the Sagamore Ballroom that hosted the RPGA.

I dig RPGs & Wargames: 3.x D&D, New and Old World of Darkness, Warmachine, and Warhammer. Beyond the table top, I like FPSs, single player RPG video games, animation (traditional as well as 3D), and programming.

I apologize for the comment book, but once I put fingers to keyboard, it is hard to slow down.

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Oh well. I am Donovan. I am located in Solano County, CA.

I stumbled upon critical hits through google, ironically, while trying to find more reasons to hate 4E. I’m better now.

I am a CADastral Mapping Technician (Journey grade), I hold 2 AA’s for Digital design and Liberal arts. Needless to say, with housing down, I have had a LOT of spare time on my hands.

I am currently happily married to a newbie gamer, and have two kids 2 and 7. My game of choice is Fantasy D&D, but I have a serious soft spot for Gamma world, and d20 future.

This community rocks!

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Thanks again everyone, and hopefully we’ll hear from some more people even though the inquisitions will move on.

Story: I’m a 32 year old full-time student entering my senior year at Univ Maryland, College Park – studying Computer Science with joshx0rfz (Josh). I’m married to a punjabi girl – needless to say, I’m way geekier than she is… I suppose I needed some balance in my life

Hobbies: I love to watch and follow MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). Video and Computer Games have been my passion – some of my earliest memories in fact.

I use to buy/read all of the D&D books (we are talking 1st edition), but I skipped 2nd and 3rd generation completely. I recently got into 4e a bit, but I think I’m definitely starting to get bored with it. Not because of some flaw in the game, but mostly because I think it might not be my cup of tea. My friends are all still hardcore into it, however.

I enjoy playing golf casually and frisbee.

Above all, I absolutely love designing videogames and coding (of any sort).

I’m president and founder of a game development group on campus. Josh has been there since the beginning (thank God) and we are currently hard at work on a videogame of our own.

If you are an artist, musician or web developer, we’d love to hear from you.

Intro To Critical-Hits: Josh lured me here and I absolutely love the community. I’ve had the opportunity of gaming with and meeting some of the guys behind the scenes and they are some of the coolest people I have ever met.

P.S.: I haven’t read a single comic in my life, but I’m just about to finish Watchmen. What an amazing piece of literature! I cannot believe the depth, creativity, and writing prowess of that guy.

Texas, Earth

- How did you find us?

You know, I don’t remember. All I know is I liked your site and put a link on my own blog and visit whenever the “Updated” appears next to the BlogRolling link

- Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do for a day job? Hobbies? Interests? Bizarre fetishes? …things you love to discuss on a daily basis. Please share anything you’re comfortable sharing with us!

Mild-mannered server admin and manager by day, super-semi-evil sith lord by night. I love computers and the internet and wish I could get assimilated by the Borg just so I could have 24-hour, high-speed access to the internet no matter where I was.

-What do you like to read about here?

Whatever is posted that day.

I’m from Ohio but I’ve spent the last 5 years in Biloxi, MS. I recently moved to South Carolina where I have spent a significant portion of my life.

I found you by some convoluted link following which included Chatty DM, Stupid Ranger, Gnome Stew and Enworld among others.

I’m currently in between jobs but I have a Master’s of Writing and Literature in an area with critical needs for English teachers, so that is a possibility through alternative route programs. Otherwise, I may just adjunct.

My parents divorced when I was young and one of my fondest memories of time with my father included playing arcade games at Dairy Mart and having ice cream. I love RPG, puzzle and simulation games best but I play other games as well. I’ve only recently started delving into D&D after many years of not knowing how to get something like that started – though I was always interested. I’m also in love with creative arts (drawing, painting, knitting, quilting, photography etc.) I collect books. I’m a mother and wife.

I read whatever strikes my fancy here. I’d like to see you update your book reviews section!

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I’m a soon-to-be 3rd year Game Art & Design student in Los Angeles, CA. Heavily into videogames since I watched my older siblings play the NES at age 2, and been designing them long before I knew what ‘game design’ actually meant. (Which isn’t so bad – a lot of my classmates still don’t know what it means, either…!)

I’ve been hanging around Critical Hits for, I think, nearing a year now and I vaguely remember finding this site via Raph Koster’s blog (which I found after reading his “A Theory of Fun”).

I come for the D&D talk, and stay for the overall nerd chitchat. I’ve been playing/DMing D&D on-and-off for only the past 4 years – the “off” part comes thanks to discovering how difficult it is to gather for hours at a time post-high school. I run a 4E campaign, but with only 1 session done all summer that’s kind of an understatement.

Hobbies? Graphic arts, filmmaking, and lots of design. Former WoW and Warhammer 40K player. Interests? Internets, anime, comics, robots. …Fetishes? Admittedly: glasses. Really cute glasses.

From: Austin TX

Found ya through a link from StupidRanger blog and now regularly through RPGBloggers and visiting regularly on my own.

I’m a Backup Admin for the TX Legislature as a day job. By nights & weekends, a committed D&D nut with a smattering of video gaming on the side.

I really enjoy your coverage/reviews/interviews of all things D&D and WotC. I loved how thoroughly you covered Gen Con with interviews/podcasts, hands on reviews of DDI and stuff. I’m reading everything you post as well, learning about new stuff.

I’m a software developer for the 2nd largest defense contractor in the States, writing top secret military software.

I was first introduced to RPGs way back in ‘77 as a wee lad of 7 when my older brothers started playing D&D. A couple years later my mom made them teach me to play, and soon afterwards she got permission from my friends’ parents to include them. I usually GM for my current group, and have done some 3.5 D&D, a couple M&M campaigns, Star Wars Saga, and introduced them to D&D 4E. However, right now I’m in player heaven with two other guys wanting to convert their 3.5 campaigns (Forgotten Realms and Iron Kingdoms) to 4E.

I was directed to this site from Chatty’s, and have enjoyed everything that I’ve read at both locations.

I’ve been playing D&D and videogames since shortly after I became aware of my own existence. I ran a BBS during college, and was part of the MOD music scene for awhile. I’ve also been known to see a large amount of movies. My fellow blogger Dante and I have also been in karate for 19 years, and have scar tissue on our shins from each time a Power Rangers movie came out during the 90’s.

I found Critical Hits right after we started Stupid Ranger last year. I don’t really remember how. I’m going to blame Yax.

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I am an occasional columnist, usually writing about board games or Warhammer 40k.

I play D&D, board games, and console games. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t actually play Warhammer any more (at least not regularly); I just like to talk about it like I am some type of expert on it. But in case you are up for a game, I play Space Marines and Bretonnians.

I’m also a big sports fan. I follow the Denver Broncos (football), the Baltimore Orioles (baseball), and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (football).

Thanks to my friends Dave and Danny for keeping this site up and running, and to all of the columnists and posters who keep this site up to date with new material. Hope to see more reviews and game design articles in the future!

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I’m a visual effects artist (compositor), and for hobbies I love videogames, playing airsoft ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft ), and in general having fun being a nerd. I’ve been pretty happy with the content on critical-hits.com (after all, how can you NOT like a website with that name? I own truecrit.net and use it for our groups game wiki)

How did you find us?
I don’t remember anymore. I added you the my live bookmarks shortly after we launched our own website last year.

Tell us a little about yourself.
Boring day job where I get to show off my cool geek abilities with computers. I read a lot. I’ve been playing D&D and video games since college (I was a little late embracing my true geek side).

What do you like to read about here?
Whatever is interesting at any given time.

I’m a computer science major at UMD and am hard at work developing my own video game. I look forward to making a really buggy product which game reviewers heartlessly tear apart with little or no regard for the people behind the product.

I’m mostly a videogame person. I do enjoy tabletop RPGs but I don’t have the level of commitment to be in more then one game at a time. I annoyed TheGame last time by flying and punching, now I’m annoying Bartoneus by teleporting and stabbing.

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I live near San Francisco, CA, as a software developer in the videogame industry by trade, pretending for the last couple years to be a hardware engineer.

You can call me a “re-lapsed” gamer. Played from ‘78-’86, and now am back. A friend who I play videogames and eurogames with snared me into playing 4e, and it is a blast.

I found this blog from another that had a “best rpg blogs” post, and was one of the few I read before the rpg bloggers network started up. I like all of the content here, and probably enjoy the interviews the most.

From there, it was all down hill. I devoured the books. I convinced my my buddies to give it a try. I re-visioned one of my older D&D campaigns, and started DMing again. Meanwhile, I subscribed to every blog, podcast and forum that I found that had any 4e discussion. I started up a campaign journal blog and have been wasting all too many lunch hours, reading, planning and writing.

The mass subscription to everything 4e has been cut back a bit. I don’t have time to read *everything* but critical-hits is still in my blog reader. I’m especially interested in anything 4e related. I’m also interested in general articles about better game mastering and playing.

By day, when I’m not goofing off reading forums and blogs and planning for my upcoming games, I work as a computer programmer in Montreal.

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