I have been role-playing since I was 8 (1980), and oddly, started with Chivalry & Sorcery, in a game run by my father for my older brother (3 years older) and his school friends.

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I recall it well, as given I was the snotty little brother, I was picked on mercilessly by the older boys. Until eventually one of my brother friends, Alex, decided he had had enough of my grumpy axe-wielding dwarf (I was only eight), and he tried to assassinate me in a bar, showing he was not that bright himself, attacking my character in public, in full view of an entire tavern.

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Sadly it did not end well for Alex, as his first (and only) strike failed dismally, and my dwarf, Thorin (...again, I was only eight!...), span on his heel, whipping out his double-handed battle axe, and struck the unfortunate rogue with not one, but two critical strikes, one after the other.

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No one gave my Thorin any trouble after that!

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Since then, role-playing has been an important part of my life, and I have GM'd way more games than I have played in. For some reason I have a reputataion of stitching my players up. I have no idea way.

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​I run mainly fantasy games, having GM'd almost all the incarnations of Dungeons & Dragons, MERP, Rolemaster, and my favourite, Chivalry & Sorcery. Plus, my players and I have ventured into sci-fi, mainly in the Traveller universe, but also in the universes of Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica, and the strange reality of Roger Zelazny's Amber, which is just awesome! And I have a great desire to run a game in the universe of The Expanse.

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​There have been many others, some of which I have enjoyed quite a bit, like The World of Darkness systems, and others, not so much, i.e.: Call of Cthulhu and Paranoia.