First things first

My first blog post. I always thought I'd never do something like this, and I'll most likely forget to update this in a week,but as my girlfriend made hers, I guess I can give this a shot.

However, as her's is a ranting blog, mine shall mostly be based on my general experiences as a tabletop gamer, with random thoughts and such added in. Mainly, my way to elaborate and build my thoughts in coherent manner. So I suppose you could think of this as a journal, mostly. So! On with the show, shall we?

My name is Chris, I go to HSU, I practice fencing, I'm over 21, and that's about all the personal information I'm giving out. Friends will be able to find me, and if you can't figure out who I am by now, well you're not my friend. My apologies for the brusque manner, but I'd rather not have stalkers or the like, especially given the topics of discussion. I enjoy gaming, but it's not my life.

Speaking of gaming, I play plenty of video games, most recently I've enjoyed Guitar Hero, Team Fortress 2, and Borderlands. I'm not amazing at gaming on consoles or PC's, unless I can play strategy games. This is what got me into tabletop games in the first place.

I had a couple friends who enjoyed the Lord of the Rings series, and they introduced me to the Fellowship of the Ring game, by Games Workshop. I followed the game, never making purchases, until the Return of the King, when I bought a Ringwraith on Fell beast. The model was built and painted in an atrocious fashion, with plenty of primary colors, but I digress. I continued building an army of darkness, until I discovered the wonders of the soldiers of Gondor. My first army died, and I've played a Free Peoples army ever since.

I've also branched into 40k (My primary game, Tau and Guard, and the game I managed to convince my girlfriend to play, Eldar) and Fantasy (Small bands of Chaos Warriors and Brettonian Knights). I've tried playing both Battlefleet Gothic as well as Flames of War, but currently lack funding to get into either game. I've also begun recently playing rpgs, after starting with Vampire the Requiem, as well as the Fantasy Flight Games 40k RPG series. I'd love to play more, but in my experience the people who can get me in are arrogant arses, and the people who aren't can't afford to play.

I have a distinct hatred of assholes who look down on gamers due to percieved flaws, such as lack of enjoyment of American sports. I also intensely hate so-called 'emos' because the VAST majority of them have no idea what it means to have a hard life. Try being unemployed and broke with no familial support for once, see how you like it. Anyways, this should be enough for my first post, I'll be back later to update more.

G'nite all!