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Who
am I? Well
there is a philosophical question... Who are any of us? Just
kidding. Lets
see.... My
name is Jeff and I was born in Canada on June 19th, 1975. I still
live in Canada (Ontario) and love it. Like every country there are
problems, but for the most part I think it is the greatest place
in the world to live. But I am bias. I
got into RPG games when I was 11 or 12 when a friend of mine from
school convinced me to play a quick round of AD&D. Well I
wasn't a sword and shield kind of guy, I am a techno-junkie so I didn't
really play that much. Shortly after that I moved and the local
comic book shop carried Palladium Books Rifts series. I purchased
the core book and found it had a nice balance between the arcane
and the technological. However there were no players in my area,
so I began to write. And I have been writing ever since. Well
my first work of Palladium fiction was really cool at the time, I
now realize how bad it really was. That was Rifts: Antarctica.
After Antarctica I wrote Rifts: Heaven and Hell. It was and is my favorite
work of fiction I have ever written. I understand why Palladium
distances themselves from that kind of work, but I still think it
would have made a really amazing book. Well from there I did a few
short works, nothing major. then came Exo-Wars. All
I can say is when I think big, it usually means several hundred
and sometimes thousand pages of text. Antarctica at last count was
over five hundred and fifty (550) pages. Heaven and Hell is much
smaller, by intention, at between one hundred and fifty to two
hundred pages. Exo-Wars is shaping up to be three hundred-ish for
the core, with each supplement to come in at a hundred and a half
or so. My
interests are Palladium (obviously), technology, yes Star Trek,
computers, art, writing (duh) and programming. I am employed as a
Wine Advocate for the L.C.B.O. (Liquor Control Board of Ontario)
which takes up a lot of my time, but hey I get paid to tour
wineries and promote wines and spirits, there are worse things to
do. I have meet some great people in my time with the public,
which is where I get a lot of character ideas. I also get a lot of
my ideas from the media. Current affairs are a great place to
start a campaign, after all reality can be stranger then fiction. Well
that is it for now. Thanks for reading my ramble. And please enjoy
the rest of your stay at Exo-Wars. Peace. |
