I met Chris Perrin at this year’s Gen Con Media Meet & Greet event. Alas the location was far to dark and too loud for my tastes. I felt tired and exhausted and the location didn’t really improve things. So there I was chatting to some bloggers and podcasters when Chris came in. And of course I didn’t even recognize him, even though we have been in contact over the internet for some time. Eventually we had a short chat, but as I mentioned before, the location was not really the perfect place for long conversations.
So when I returned home from Gen Con I apologized and asked him for an interview. Since he’s a very nice guy, he didn’t use his creepy looking kitchen knives on me, but agreed to answer a few questions for me.
Stargazer Thanks for answering a few questions for us. Can you please start by telling a bit about yourself? What do you do for a living? How long are you part of the RPG industry? What has been the first roleplaying game you ever played?
Chris
Of course! Let’s see for a living, I am a Solutions Architect for a Marketing Database company. I design and implement technology to run marketing campaigns and I work a lot with databases: Oracle, SQL Server, etc. I am also a food writer with several credits to my name. It’s hard for me to say when I became part of the industry, because that can mean different things to different people. I tend to say I started in the industry when I made my podcasting debut on the Diana Jones Award nominated podcast, The Canon Puncture Show that was basically four years ago. The first RPG I ever played was, I think, Marvel Superheroes when I was in the third grade. If it was Marvel, it was Palladium Book’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Basically, there were four games that I played all about the same time, Marvel, TMNT, Robotech and BattleTech, but I think Marvel came first.
For quite some time the crew of RPG Circus and me tried to figure out how to get me on their show. Alas because of the different time zones this has been more problematic than we anticipated. But when I decided to attend Gen Con this year, we planned to record something in Indianapolis.
So on one of the “Four Best Days In Gaming”, Mark, Jeff and I (Zach was running a game at this time) sat down at the Champions restaurant in the Marriott hotel, had some great food and talked a bit about Gen Con.
This little talk made it into the latest episode of RPG Circus, which is finally available! I also want to use the opportunity to thank Jeff, Mark and Zachary for having me on the show. They are the nicest people and I can’t wait to meet them at Gen Con 2011 again!
Ray Nolan and Phil Morris of AntiPaladin Games recently released a drastically revised and expanded version of their Open d6-based microlite, Mini Six. This new "Bare Bones Edition" comes in a beautiful, easy-to-use 38 page PDF that weighs in at only 6.95 megabytes. Not only does the document include the Mini Six rules, it also offers variant rules for playing Mini Six closer to "base" Open d6 (as presented in the now-free d6 Adventure, Fantasy and Space books) and includes multiple setting seeds, all of which include background and crunchy bits tailored to the settings.
Phil and Ray graciously accepted my request to interview them about this fantastic new edition. As with my previous interview with them, both men took the time to respond to my questions. You can read the full interview on Polyhedral Dreams, my personal games blog.
On the first day of Gen Con, Tristan Zimmerman from the Dragonlance Canticle interviewed me about Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Please check out the interview here.
Thanks again to Tristan for having me on the show. It was an honor and a pleasure!
I finally had some time to edit the video interview I did with the nice guys from Crafty Games. If you are even remotely interested in Spycraft or Fantasy Craft, you have to check this out. Please excuse the background noise, but there was nothing I could do to avoid it. That’s Gen Con for you. And next time I’ll remember to pack a tripod!
Thanks again to Patrick and Alex for that awesome interview!
When you’ve been following Stargazer’s World for a while you probably read a couple of the guest posts written by Corvus aka Andrew Modro. But what you probably don’t know is that he created a couple of games including a Microlite20 conversion of the popular D&D setting Dark Sun, which will be soon released for D&D 4th Edition. I recently asked him, if he was willing to answer a couple of questions for us, and he agreed. Without further ado, here’s the result of our interview session.
I met Chris Perrin at this year’s Gen Con Media Meet & Greet event. Alas the location was far to dark and too loud for my tastes. I felt tired and exhausted and the location didn’t really improve things. So there I was chatting to some bloggers and podcasters when Chris came in. And of course I didn’t even recognize him, even though we have been in contact over the internet for some time. Eventually we had a short chat, but as I mentioned before, the location was not really the perfect place for long conversations.
For quite some time the crew of 
Ray Nolan and Phil Morris of 
And next time I’ll remember to pack a tripod!
