Greetings from Florida, and thank you for having me. My name is Geordie.
I am a gaming enthusiast whose roots lie in video games and CCG's. Several years ago I "rediscovered" board games with everybody's favorite gateway game: Settlers of Catan. Since then, my friends and I have slowly grown our personal collections, and we now play a variety of different board and card games. We have even designed a few "in-house" games, in addition to re-writing rules and creating "expansions" to existing games to enhance our overall experiences.
I enjoy the social aspect of gaming, be-it online video gaming with my friends who have moved away as a method of staying in touch, game-night at my house with pizza, alcohol, and good friends, or meeting new people via Friday Night Magic and the like. I also enjoy competition, and gaming tends to satisfy both my social and cerebral needs quite nicely in those regards.
I am here to hopefully contribute to WIP's and the general discussion, as well as to learn from the designers here. It is my ultimate goal to design and publish a game, but I am in no rush. I look forward to meeting you all in the worlds we create together.
Cheers,
Geordie
I've always felt like M:tG was missing something that board games offered, and board games were missing something that M:tG offered. Apparently the developer Codex, David Sirlin, felt the same way. It's like he was a fly on the wall during our in-house variants of Magic. Very cool to see someone besides Fantasy Flight taking a new approach to competitive card games.
Thank you for the warm welcome, everyone.