Most of us have at least met Emanuele at conventions or chatted with him online at least once.
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Hi! Me, Iāve playtested with Emanuele Fabula before it was released in Italian. Heās a great guy and you can contact him on his Discord for any gaming-related question.
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I canāt really say that I āknow himā, but Iāve played with Emanuele in convention at Fabula Ultima. Really good experience.
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Yeah, Iām on the FabU discord, though not very active there. He seems awesome!
Hi! Which edition? I played a short campaign of Eberron with a GM who, before that, mastered games only for kids. I should write an Actual Play about that one, among the many other Actual Play posts I should write as wellā¦
Iām looking forward to play with you then, fellow Multi-Genre Enjoyer! 
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Finally, an international space to enjoy!
Hi everyone, my name is Chiara, Iām closing in on 30 (brrr) and Iāve been roleplaying ever since I ran around in my garden at 9 years old pretending I was a witch. 
Ever since then Iāve tried out a bunch of stuff, from chatrooms to play-by-posts to tabletop to larp.
Currently games are both a hobby and a job, as Iām a translator working with a few RPG publishers. I bring games to Italy from various corners of the world, mainly through the design and localization lab NessunDove, but Iāve also done my part to bring Italian games to the English-speaking community. Of these, the one that has the biggest place in my heart is the Crescendo Giocoso anthology of chamber larps, which you may have heard of because it won the Indie Groundbreaker game of the year award back in 2021 and I havenāt shut up about it since.
Self-promo aside, my experience with games has really been all over the place. I started āformallyā roleplaying on tabletop with D&D3.5, Pathfinder and various other D20 clones, then someone introduced me to PBTAs and from there I discovered there was a whole galaxy out there to explore. Nowadays I mostly gravitate towards āstory gamesā, which is a weird label but I donāt know how to better define it-- basically I want games that let me improv an interesting story with my friends, with little prep and not too much of a focus on tactics or fighting.
I found this place via @Froggy and the Locanda forums, where I mostly go to navel-gaze about game mechanics and try convince people that larps are real games guys, I swear.
A wall of TTRPGs I like/have been playing recently since everyone is doing it and I donāt wanna feel left out!
EDIT because I forgot to add that as an Old English nerd I love the forum name.
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Wonderful! Welcome, Chiara!
It sounds like youāre doing some really good and valuable things to bridge the RPG communities of the world. Thatās very exciting to hear!
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I have a lot of respect for Chiara as a player, and itās been obvious to me in our past discussions that she shares the Wynwerod valuesāwhich have been brewing in my head for many years, before I opened this forum.
Somehow the stars havenāt aligned for us to play togetherāpossibly because of her interest in LARP and our physical distance across Europe. I end up skipping ChamberCon each year because itās up in the mountains and takes a long time to get to. Hopefully we will find a chance!
I find a lot of LARP culture alien and sometimes unconstructively obsessed with 100% in-character play, but whatever is there that interests me, Chiara represents.
Welcome!
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Hi there,
I am Roberto, 39 years old from Italy and I am here because of my acquaintance with @Froggy and his Locanda forum.
I played informally since my early teenage years and my exposure with gamebooks, but I first played a ātrueā RPG only in my university years. Then a long hiatus until 2020: with the pandemic I rekindled my interest in roleplaying (especially in solo games) and I read a lot about what I missed while I was following other interests.
I mostly play very rules light games, I have a thing for tag-based frameworks and Freeform/Universal is what I like and play the most.
I have also an interest in old games, my favorite in this category are Original Dungeon & Dragons and most of all Traveller, since I am fixed with old science fiction and space opera.
In my spare time I hacked and translated some open licensed games, some of which with @LordPersi
edit: adding at last the matrix of my favorite games
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Hi folks!
My name is Christian (any pronouns), and I started RPing in 1989 at age 12 after picking up The Dark Eye 2E boxed set from a department store (TDE is as central to and prevalent in the hobby in Germany as D&D is in the US, or at least it was back then). Throughout high school I played (mostly ran) lots of games from Werewolf to KULT to Harnmaster to MechWarrior and more.
In late 1995, I joined CompuServe and fell deeply into the freeform chat-RP hole. Thatās where I met my then future wife, which is why I moved to Portland, Oregon, USA in 2000, where I went to grad school and where we still live. Though currently Iām visiting my family in Hamburg, Germany.
I played some AD&D 2E with coworkers after that, and did not enjoy it very much. In 2005 or so, I found the Forge, and thereafter started designing and publishing my own games (the biggest ones being Beast Hunters in 2007, Anima Prime in 2011, and Meridian in 2016).
From 2010 to 2015 I also did improv theater once or twice a week, which not only gave me some tools to deal with my natural shyness but also got me more interested in LARPs. Several parlor LARPs had a big impact on me after that, most noticeably Better Living Through Robotics and Athenaās Chosen. I havenāt yet done a weekend LARP but would love to do so (maybe next year).
I like a wide range of games, from action-focused ones to romantic two-player games, but mostly I play narrative-focused ones like Primetime Adventures, PbtA games, Archipelago, Fall of Magic, and so on.
In the rest of my spare time I like to make music, write fiction, and learn the basics of skills Iāll never apply to anything.
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Hi, Christian! What a fun surprise. Nice to see you here! (And I didnāt know you were also a music-making person. Seems thereās a few of us around!)
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OlĆ” from Portugal 
My name is Ricardo Tavares (he/him), I love tabletop games in general and RPGs in particular, so I guess Iāve come to the right place 
Some people may know me from the Story Games or Gauntlet forums. I also love to host the #RPGenesis game jams that @PaulCzege has mentioned. In my country, I also like to help organize regular RPG meet-ups, although the covids have sidelined me for a while.
I started playing around the 90s when hobby stores in my city were not yet completely taken over by Hasbro and we had a bunch of different RPGs getting played. The one that attracted me at the time was Vampire: the Masquerade and, beyond watching other people play, my first experience with RPGs was buying the V:tM book together with a few friends and having a lot of fun discovering the role of a storyteller. I accumulated a lot of experience with White Wolf games, I enjoyed Mage: the Ascension and Exalted, but grew tired of their formulaic approach. I also was fortunate enough to play other things like Call of Cthulhu, Legend of the Five Rings, several editions of D&D or Cyberpunk 2020. Our local scene at the time carried a lot of different RPGs.
With the help of the internet and discussions at the Forge, I also discovered other games like My Life with Master or Dogs in the Vineyard. I felt I had more fun with purposefully designed games that even tested the limits of what I thought an RPG was. I also got into designing games myself and learned a lot from that, this is why I started hosting #RPGenesis.
More recently, Iāve found a lot of value in ideas Iāve gathered from Apocalypse World and Blades in the Dark, I believe that moving from the fiction first has a lot of advantages. Iāve also become more divorced from the D&Ds since 4E and have generally moved away from traditional notions of ārunningā games for āmyā players and having to āhandleā stuff. I assume that the role of the GM is just another kind of player, I donāt like to sit at the head of the table or to have a screen in front of me. When I play a character, I like to keep my foot on the accelerator and drive towards story happening with the other players.
Hope to see this new community grow. Iāve been lurking at the Adept Play Discord and I enjoy Actual Play posts (not the performative play that has become so popular). I like talking about theory and game design, but Iāve found that often Actual Play topics lead to more productive discussions as they donāt get caught as much on semantics. Glad to have found this place! 
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Bemvindo Ricardo! Iām curious, how did you find this place?
I think I saw it linked on mastodon.
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Hi! Iām Lorenzo (he/him) but I mostly go as The Kernel in Yellow in RPG spaces because my name is really common and people mix me up with other people with the same name.
Iāve known @Froggy for a long time and weāve had our good share of disagreements on RPGs, but we started realizing the similarities of our play philosophies in recent years. Iām another user of the Locanda (as most of the Italian contingent here).
I started playing D&D when I found my fatherās old Basic (in the Italian edition) and totally misunderstood the rules. Itās been a fun experience of which Iād like to do some analysis now that I have more experience, but it was also nearly 20 years ago so I only remember a few moments. After that I moved to D&D 3.5 as it was being published in Italy. Then Iāve tried more games than I can remember, but Vampire: Dark Ages has always had a special place in my heart (it was also my longest campaign as a player, 9 whole years).
A little before the pandemic I fell in love with OSR games and their mix of weirdness and simple rules. Theyāre currently my most played games and I often bring them to conventions near me.
Iām also an admin of an OSR-oriented forum, the OSR Pit, and I sometimes translate open licensed stuff along with @zeruhur and @LordPersi. Iāve helped both of the already-mentioned Italian cons TPK and Froggycon.
As for my favorite games (Iām doing a list because doing the grid on mobile is hard):
- Maze Rats (which Iāve translated in Italian)
- Cairn
- Hell4Leather
- On Mighty Thews
- Vampire: The Dark Ages
- Changeling: The Lost
Recently, Iāve mostly played Cairn and Maze Rats.
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Hi everyone!
My name is Johann and I started playing in the late 80s with a buddyās homebrew system. It broke down pretty soon, but I was already hooked and have been into DIY ever since.
In the 90s, I played a ton of Germanyās RPG juggernaut, Das Schwarze Auge, as well as the usual suspects (Cyberpunk, MERP, Vampire: the Masquerade etc.) and a few evenings of (A)D&D, which I dismissed back then.
After several long campaigns with D&D 3e/4e, I was swept up in the OSR and radically and systematically changed the way my core group played ā via DCC and its wonderful character funnels (which helped me to stop pulling punches) & unpredictable spells (which helped with lingering tendencies to railroad). I blogged about my quest to become a āKiller DMā for a while.
I also like reflecting upon our hobby and improving my play and was active at rec.games.frp.advocacy, the Forge, Story-Games and the OSR blogosphere, though not always under the name of Johann. Iāve played quite a few smaller games (e.g. Primetime Adventures, Ten Candles, The Pool) but not nearly enough!
Iāve designed lots of stuff for myself and my friends, as when I unsuccessfully tried to make the Rolemaster critical hit tables usable for Shadowrun etc. or tailored a swashbuckling game for my best friendās (proudly nerdy) bachelor party.
Iām currently developing my first game for publication, In the Realm of the Nibelungs (or Im Reich der Nibelungen, as itās called in my native German). You can check it out here.
Due to various real life responsibilities, I suspect I will mostly be lurking, but I like what I am seeing here!
Thank you, @Froggy, for setting up and maintaining this space!
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Hi,
Iām Per, Danish oldtimer, expat since 2002, but was heavily involved in the Danish RPG scene in the 80s and 90s. I have written a bunch of convention scenarios, mostly for Fastaval. My early RPG history goes D&D, CoC, Shadowrun 1st, Ars Magica, Kult, etc. Tonnes of systems, lots of dissatisfaction.
Then I discovered The Forge via the game Sorcerer. I was very active there and later on Story-Games.
These days I mostly play solo or online due to lack of FTF options. I do have a group of noobs I run some games for, lately Legacy and Mothership (yes, Iām also trying to play around with that OSR thing).
I have a now more or less defunct blog (https://darkplaces.wordpress.com/) with some of my games, and recently started a substack writing about solo play (https://perfischer.substack.com/), feel free to peruse both.
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Welcome, @Johann and @perfischer!
Per, itās been many years since weāve played together (we met back in 200X and played Polaris as well as Land of Nodd, a game I was developing - I tried to find the online report about that, but I canāt Google it, it seems). If youād ever like to play a game again, perhaps we could something online - it would be a pleasure.
Johann, your Old School Trinity is one of my favourite series of posts about old-school play, and one of my first recommendations for people interested in that playstyle (along with my own guide to the Fellowship of the Bling, which I posted here on this forum recently).
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