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About Ansalander

Pathfinder - looking for gamers / group in Spokane: Send e-mail!: ansalander@yahoo.com

Mid-thirties gamer with broad experience in RPGs and wargames new to the area looking for gamers. I've played just about everything at one time or another. Emphasis on DnD through 3.5 (not 4.0), Warhammer FRP, GURPS, d20, Cyberpunk, Star Wars d20, various long-forgotten old-school games.
I like suspension-of-disbelief tension in the game and "bad guys" who are BAD - not just ugly guys with horns on their head. I'm not so much into gamers speaking in the first person when they're role-playing (though that's OK too) as I am characters having character and acting believably for their personality. I like low-magic settings with lots of grit and dire circumstances to be faced. There's a lot more to stragtegy and combat than initiative, to-hit rolls, and when to use your flying-backflip-kick attack. Also, I don't care for save-the-world scenarios. I prefer players that can say what motivates their character, what makes them get up off the bar stool and DO something. Greed? Attitude Problem? Sense of Justice? Curiosity? Those are all human motivators. "To gain knowledge" and "To test himself" are just lame synonyms for "leveling up." That makes for a boring game. Ask yourself this: When would my character do something contrary to his/her self-interest? Normal people do things like that all the time, so why not characters?

I actually use the rules, but don't mind house rules.

** Enough said, e-mail me if you want to game.