The Roman Forum was created as a place to distribute many game supplements and accessories I have created over the past several years as well as promote my self-published book Tables of Organization of WWII. Just as popular are the constantly upgraded versions of Steel Panthers I OB files. Wargaming, model building, miniature painting and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons have been very popular hobbies with me since the mid '80s, and after constantly creating various game aids just for personal use, the Internet comes along as an excellent place for me to share many of these excellent items. I hope you enjoy them as well!
At birth I was delivered by my grandfather in a "quaint" town (of then 50,000 people) called Escondido - about 30 miles north of San Diego and inland. My junior high and most of high school years were spent in Kalispell, MT which is in the northwest corner of the state about 100 miles north of Missoula and 50 miles from the Canadian border - right near Glacier National Park. This was the beginning of my wargaming and role-playing days. I moved back in with my dad in Escondido to begin my senior year of high school. I graduated in '86 and lived all around San Diego county attending junior colleges off and on for several years. After finding my destiny in geology I began at San Diego State until recently, in August of '96, I moved to Phoenix. Nine months later, I'm here in Tucson to start in the Fall of '97 at U of A to finish my B.S. in Geosciences in the fall of '98. Geology is one of my passions and I plan to continue with graduate school.
My interests besides AD&D, wargaming, World War II
and science include camping and road trips, traveling, world affairs,
history, astronomy and meteor showers. My travel experiences
include Florida, New York, all of the western states in or west
of the Rockies and a two month backpacking trip to England, France,
Germany, Italy and Greece. My favorite things are Star
Trek (except DS9), The X-Files, Millennium, BBQ sauce, amber beers,
cats (domestic and wild), cabernet sauvignons, desert thunderstorms,
professionalism and my computer which some say I spend way to
much time on. My pet peeves are food manufacturers (that
some how discovered that processed sugar makes a great filler),
moody, people, individuals who learn neither from their own experiences
nor from those of others, and poor social skills. My beliefs
are in the prime directive, self-improvement over material gain,
complete responsibility for ones own actions and that solar power
is the only practical energy source. My philosophy is that
we are in a unique time in all human history in that there is
no more vast, empty, unexplored areas on the planet in which we
can escape, conquer, exploit or fight over. We, as a world, must
re-evaluate the perception of ourselves and our countries and
how we are going to interact. Many of our old philosophies and
ideas need to be seriously re-considered if not just thrown out.
My observations are that we are too hung up on UFO and
conspiracy theories, we could stop the drug problem if
we really wanted to if it wasn't such a political nightmare, and
the government build up of the '80s and the spending it involved
was a deliberate plan to economically break the Soviet Union and
end the Cold War. My concerns are of an expanding world
population, the selfish reasons people have for their actions
and the hypocrisy and judgmental attitude of today's religions.
My hope is that the information age is going to challenge
us to be a more skeptical (and healthier) free thinking society.
My prophecy is that ideas based solely on faith are forever
diminishing. My 2 cents is that there are two types of
possible governments - one that allows all innocent people to
get through "the prosecution net" and one that allows
all guilty people to get caught. They both have a price - the
former allows a few guilty people to get away while the latter
allows a lot of innocent people to be incarcerated. Fortunately,
our system is the one that allows most innocent people to get
away. It isn't a perfect system, but it is the best one around.
My biggest question to the world - if we are the only species
that has the ability to reason over and control our emotions
and natural instincts - why don't we?
© Copyright 1997, 1998 by Scott Grasse.