An introduction

Well I'll be honest, I'm not entirely certain what I'm getting myself into here. I suppose it's a classic story, guy spends too much damned time on the internet and then *bam!* the internet gets its hooks into you. One minute you're reading a webcomic and the next minute you're blogging. What is the world coming to?

I created the Dice Bag blog (oh god, what e-folly that name is) so that I could have a place to ramble about gaming and other nerdly pursuits and so that I could be cool and a have a blog like all those cool people I read so much about on blogs.

So what sort of gaming am I going to be talking about? Chief on my mind these days is the upcoming D&D 4e, the teasers and leaked info of which have turned me into a drooling fanboy. Seriously, I've even started posting on the 4e forums (although only to make it clear that the apparent exclusion of the Bard from the PHB 1 is a good thing). I'm in one active table top game right now, an Iron Heroes game set in the Warhammer universe that my good friend Rick runs, which has been one of the most engaging and interesting games I've ever played in. I was in two other TT games that are currently on hiatus, one D&D game in a custom setting, the other an Eberron game.

I'm also a LARPer, no not a boffer LARPer, I'm a member (for good or ill) of the Camarilla, the White Wolf fanclub. I don't know that I'll discuss that much here, it's pretty specific and if you're not in the thick of it it's probably a remarkably dull read.

On occasion I indulge in video games as well, not much of a console player these days, but I am a pretty big fan of City of Heroes, even if my account is currently inactive (I'm really hoping that NCSoft gives us a free weekend with the launch of i11). Hopefully I'll be able to get back on CoH soon and will talk about that too.

So there, a proper introduction. Thanks for reading, glad to have you.