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I was born in 1969, been married since 1991, have 3 kids (11, 10, 6), and played D&D through the 80s and early 90s (how I met my wife). I was always the DM (aka GM) and never got to play as much as I wanted to. Spent 8 years in the Army (1988 to 1996). In 1996, I bought an IBM and got hooked up through AOL. Used to lay around in the AD&D chat rooms and was playing Neverwinter Nights, when I stumbled upon Gemstone 3 around June of 1996. In August 1996, I decided to try DragonRealms because I liked the name.
I started out as an elf paladin named Angelleaf, MALE character (all my characters back then had goofy names...I didn't really put much stock in it at the time, but after a year of being confused for a female..). I played until 1997 and at that point I had a procession of different characters (no Traders) who I played, deleted, quit, returned, played...etc. In October 2000, after a disappointing run on Everquest, I decided to come back to DR and made Gidske.
I have veered off in my almost 2 years with Gidske with other characters, but now have been playing Gidske exclusively for the past year, and don't have a desire to play any other race or class again. I have tried them all and have found the Trader Guild to be the most enjoyable and it has the most mature crowd out there.
I expect I will not be in DR "forever" either, though after 6 years now, it feels that way. I just haven't found anything that "does" it for me like DR has.
Trader Gidske
I work as a shipping supervisor, a job I got last May after I had moved out to NC (I'd quit DR for a few months while going through this transition - irony is I became a trader guru in a RL sense). It is a good paying job, and I enjoy it. I also enjoy being a Drill, better though.
I'd spent 8 years in active Army prior to this, some years before. And I suppose I had my eye on doig something with those years at some point. At some point I did, and enlisted with a Drill Serjeant unit here.
I had a choice over the past two months of going to train basic trainees in Ft. Jackson for a year, or going to Iraq in 2006 to train Iraqi soldiers. I chose Ft. Jackson. I've been to Iraq before, not as a Drill though. For a change, the choice is mine though.
There we go. So if anyone is headed to basic training over the next year, drop me a line. I'll see about coming by to 'smoke' you. ::grin:: And say hi afterwards.
That's about it. Lord knows a year in DR is an eternity and I look forward to seeing all the changes that that has brought when I return. Sort of like going to sleep in a time capsule.
Gidske
I'd spent 8 years in active Army prior to this, some years before. And I suppose I had my eye on doig something with those years at some point. At some point I did, and enlisted with a Drill Serjeant unit here.
I had a choice over the past two months of going to train basic trainees in Ft. Jackson for a year, or going to Iraq in 2006 to train Iraqi soldiers. I chose Ft. Jackson. I've been to Iraq before, not as a Drill though. For a change, the choice is mine though.
There we go. So if anyone is headed to basic training over the next year, drop me a line. I'll see about coming by to 'smoke' you. ::grin:: And say hi afterwards.
That's about it. Lord knows a year in DR is an eternity and I look forward to seeing all the changes that that has brought when I return. Sort of like going to sleep in a time capsule.
Gidske
Gidske, good luck with it! Hope you enjoy, and you know we'll all be back here when you return. The tough part is I can't lose any tagos until next year!
Jalika
You hear a female voice whisper, "Easily used when offered, probably is like other men. Always speaking with their muscles, and not the one that rests between their ears."
Jalika
You hear a female voice whisper, "Easily used when offered, probably is like other men. Always speaking with their muscles, and not the one that rests between their ears."
lol true true. Either way, youll be singin cadence to all the new joe's and dealin with all the whining pansies, 9 weeks at a time...I think youll have another drinkign problem on your hands :P
Hey hey, captain jack, meet me down by the railroad track, with that bottle in your hand, im gonna be a drinkin man...
Hey hey, captain jack, meet me down by the railroad track, with that bottle in your hand, im gonna be a drinkin man...
