A brief introduction may be in order. I am Carl, a 48 year old from the South of England.
I have a huge fondness for RPGs as well as most other type of analogue games. My game playing is limited to a very small amount of Monopoly with my daughter - simply put I do not have the time or the freedom to play and enjoy games so I have restricted myself to enjoying them in a kind of sideways fashion by listening to podcasts, watching Youtube videos and reading a load of RPG books, as I once again expand my collection of game books.
I buy and sell a bit on Ebay in order to get this stuff, that way it doesn't impact the household finances. This also means that I get to look over loads of books that I most definitely won't be keeping for one reason or another. I am trying to be quite strict on what I keep as there is most certainly the risk of collection "creep". Over the years my collection has literally come and gone; my original stuff went many years ago, and I built up a reasonable amount up until about 4 or 5 years ago when I sold everything off. Whether or not this will be the last time is yet to be seen. (More on what I am collecting in a later entry).
So just a couple of other small points for this entry, as an idea of my interests and the type of thing I like.
Media I follow - again, I'll post more of my reasoning behind these at a later date.
The Grognard Files - podcast.
The Secret Cabal - podcast & Youtube Channel
Game Classy - podcast.
Shut Up & Sit Down - Podcast.
Real Lifes a B****er - blog
The Acaeum Forums - Website.
Lead Adventure Forums - Website
Watch it Played - Youtube Channel
And finally - this is the first RPG book I ever bought (not the actual copy - that's long gone).
From memory I got this in a beach shop in West Wittering(which seems odd even now) in around 1980. It's actually a fine book but I took a bit of stick back then because it wasn't the latest iteration of the daddy of all RPGs.
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