In from the cold.
Hey, look! A corner of the Writer-verse that I haven't seen before! And it's not even my birthday!
Greetings and salutations, folks. I'm Raker, and it is my distinct honor and pleasure to make your digital acquaintance. Seems like every passing year I seem to find fewer and fewer fun and funky people to scribble down a tale or twenty with. Stories are my drug of choice, you see. And...well, I'm getting ahead of myself.
So, with that in mind, I'm an old-hat DM from the days when Elf was a character class. I pen and paper as often as I can, because it keeps my crazy-stupid-marvelous writer brain limber...because characters that are actively working against you tend to make you pretty good at improvising. And that rather leads me to RP. I love collaborative story-telling, at the end of the day. And when I'm surrounded by a bunch of people who share that passion for telling a compelling story, I'm happy.
So...let's see. What else do you need to know to put this random name into its appropriate slot in the ol' memory? I was a nationally ranked fencer in my college days, a bartender to afford fencing classes (and a fencing instructor to afford alcohol...), a modestly successful local rock star there for a minute, a military aviator, and now a happily-married father of two trying to beat my sword into a ploughshare on a small, sustainable family farm.
I like the sound of old guitars, the taste of old whiskey, and the smell of old books.
"Well and good, but what are your tastes, man!?" I hear absolutely none of you screaming. Well, I'm glad you asked, completely fabricated straw-man type person. I tend toward the old Sword and Sorcery sorts of games first and foremost. I shepherd groups on Roll20 as often as I'm able. But for writing, I tend toward anything with an interesting premise. Free-form as a preference (I prefer roles to rolls), but if there are dice to be rolled, I can roll them. If you're looking for one more, keep me in mind.
I'll be trying to figure this place out.
That ought to get us started. Let's make some magic.