H;i;, I'm Richard, and this is my page.

I work in the internet industry, and this site is the product of a couple of week's work from myself and Gustav.

I grew up in South Africa, and started role-playing in 1997, when I moved to Cape Town to study at UCT. I did realise when I learned about role-playing that the "game" I had been developing for years was in fact an RPG. CLAWs (the Cape Legion of Adventurers and Wargamers) became my home for the next couple of years (thanks guys!), and I played everything from White Wolf to Cthulhu, from Role Master to Necromunda. I've played one DnD Campaign, and although the campaign was great (thanks Rob), it's still my least favourite system.

I am still quite anti-D20, as I think each game works better when the system lends itself to the atmosphere of the game. But there have been some fantastic things written for D20, which probably wouldn't have seen print otherwise, so I can't complain too much.

I am developing my own system, which we've playtested a little here, and hope to get final and possibly even published in the future :). I have also playtested a fair number of RPGs and other games published by RPG publishers, mostly SteveJacksonGames, my favourite by far (mostly thanks to Munchkin).

I'm a great fan of systems that I don't trust myself to run, and can't usually find anyone else to either. They include Ars Magica, Amber, Shadow Run (thanks Daniel), Hunter: The Reckoning (and most White Wolf games), and a host of smaller games (Fear Itself, Asylum, Kult, this is following a pattern I didn't intend, but can't break...)

I run the What Is Truth Worth campaign.

I play

• Angus McKenna in Edinburgh Alternates
• Estelle Blakely in The Pennywell Hangmen
• Gong Li in Lost In Space
• Brock Fabkasten in The Enemy Within
• Self in Noble Deeds
• Wheels in Shadows In The Foreground

Cheers, Richard