It is not a secret to everybody; I have spent a great many hours at the gaming table. And by that I do not primarily mean at poker or something similar, although I have done some of that. I meant rather that I have spent a lot of time playing role-playing games, such as were and are execrated by people like Patricia Pulling and Jack Chick. I tell people, and with no small measure of truth, that role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Earthdawn, Waste World, and Legend of the Five Rings got me into graduate school. Since grad school has given me most of the things in my life that I love most, I hold in high esteem that which gave me grad school. And it is fun to roll dice and tell lies.
Some information that I still have about the various games I have run and played in, as well as what I am running and playing in, appears below. I am sure I can dig up some other things, as well.