Date of Birth: 7th of May 1980

Top 10 RPG’s:

1 ) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
The first RPG I ever owned and in my opinion still the best. The Warhammer World is something I know a lot about from my war gaming roots and this RPG adds another level to my tabletop games. An all round fantastic game. The second edition is also a really great book and they have done enough work, but also left enough alone to let me keep it firmly welded to the number one spot. Excellent.

2) Star Wars (D20)
The highest new entry to my top 10. I have always tried to play a mix of fantasy and sci-fi games in our sessions and what is more sci-fi than Star Wars? I'm not a huge fan of the D20 license and I don't think I ever will be. I kind of like the idea of 'one-system-under-god' (god being WoTC) - but just not D20. However they have done a great job with Star Wars and I'm not sure anyone else could have produced such spanking gorgeous books. For that I give them their dues, well done chaps.

3 ) SLA Industries
The grim corporate future in SLA is probably my favourite setting of all time. Adventures are really easy to come up with and as you rise through the ranks of SLA it just gets better and better.

4) Deadlands: The Weird West
It was about time we had a really good Wild West game and the added ‘weird’ twist Pinnacle have given to Deadlands makes it a winner. I've never run this game but it has accounted for a lot of my playing time over the years.

5) Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu and Dungeons & Dragons are in my opinion the two really big RPG’s - and of the two I have always been a Cthulhu kind of guy. I like the mystery/clue/ancient-text style of play and in dark of the night, with the lights turned down low this game really comes into its own.

6) Vampire: The Masquerade
Probably the White Wolf game I have played the most, and hey… you get to be a Vampire! I think in time Vampire: The Requiem may replace this though as I have been reading the new books and it looks ok so far.

7) Feng Shui
I have the original of this game and I have loved it right from the start. I love the no holds barred action it provides and the more stereotypical hero-types the game tends to lean towards.

8) Noir - the roleplaying game of film noir
A very original game and above all else a realistic change too many of the other games. This is gradually being replaced by the new .pdf game by Deep 7 - Mafia

9) Mutant Chronicles
This is one of the best sci-fi settings / backgrounds of all time. The constant inner fighting between the corporations combined with the ever present threat of Dark Legion incursions has led to some epic struggles and great games.

10) Legend of The Five Rings
I religiously bought everything that came out for this, until the 2nd Edition was released, which I found disappointing. The chance to play a samurai and try out the code of Bushido was too good to miss and with the Clan's and Shadlowlands it was a bit like a medieval version of Mutant Chronicles.

Other Games of Note:
I felt I should also mention a few other games which I would like to have included or will probably be added at some point in the future after a few more games. Star Trek is the first and foremost game that springs to mind. Decipher have done a really good job of keeping it suitably in touch with the TV series and I look forward to spending many nights boldly exploring... All Flesh Must Be Eaten spent a while under consideration as well. With so many great films (Evil Dead, 28 Days Later) to use as inspiration it was a tough choice not to put it in somewhere. I have a feeling that this will be the year of Judge Dredd for me. I have had the rule book for a while and the first games will be run over the coming months. It looks good and I'm sure Mongoose can do great things with such a strong license.

Roleplay Profile:

My first steps into gaming were with a game called Space Crusade, from this I went onto Games Workshops Warhammer 40,000 (in its first edition back then). War gaming led me to a good friend named Gareth Sumnall who introduced me to Rifts and it all went from there. The first RPG I ever owned was Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. I still have this original book, though I have invested in a new copy as the old one is actually going a bit mouldy in places due to a spillage many years ago (which makes it look a bit like an ancient ledger but also makes touching it a risky affair, it is now truly a book of Nurgle).

This love of roleplaying has led to many late nights and early mornings, but most of all fun, lots of fun with many good friends. I have amassed a huge library of gaming books over the years, ranging from older books like Mutant Chronicles and Reich Star to a treasured Miskatonic University copy of Call of Cthulhu (175 of 300).

Other Stuff:

The other loves of my life are films, war gaming, reading and photography. Films have always been one of my major weaknesses and many hours of hard earned cash have gone towards my new DVD collection. War gaming has always meant Games Workshop to me really, but I’ve recently been sampling games like Void and I’ve even had a few Napoleonic battles (Sharpe’s fault).

Photography is my most recent interest expansion, but also my first (if that makes any sense at all???). You know when you’re a kid, and everyone wants to be something when they grow up? (I still do…) Well, I wanted to be a soldier or a photographer, perhaps a war correspondent would have been a good way to kill two orks with one slash, but I was about 5 at the time and didn’t know what one was. But alas I grew up and I’m neither a soldier or a photographer, though both professions still hold a lot of interest to me. So I’ve got myself a decent camera and begun to learn the ropes (or perhaps lenses), as for the soldiering bit, maybe I’ll become a mercenary later in life (Wild Geese style).

Favourite Films:

Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia, The Matrix, Shrek, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Muppet Treasure Island (don’t ask), Army of Darkness, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, The Fifth Element, Seven Samurai, Full Metal Jacket, The 13th Warrior, Dog Soldiers, Pirates of The Caribbean, Equilibrium and Last Man Standing.

Favourite Books:

All the Raymond E. Feist novels (Magician and so on). Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. All of Terry Pratchett's Work – particularly Pyramids, Interesting Times and The Fifth Elephant. More recently the Bruce Cambell autobiography - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a "B" Movie Actor.