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I started playing Guild Wars in June of 2007 after I saw the game at a friend's house. He'd gotten a 3-pack (Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall) of the Guild Wars campaigns for about $50 at a Sam's Club for his wife and himself. Later that day, I handed him $100 and asked him to go get me 2 packs. I loaded the game on an aging Dell laptop and started playing. However, the laptop wasn't quite up to the task so I didn't really get into it until I got a beefy new laptop courtesty of my employer in August 2007.
Aside from computer games like Guild Wars (and previously Diablo2, The Sims Online, The Sims2, other Sim games, the Myst series and a few others), I'm a huge board game fan. I have been playing board games since I was a kid and fairly regularly as an adult since 1995. I belong to a local board game group that has been meeting weekly for more than 4 years, and I attend board game conventions as much as I can. My current board game collection stands at about 110 games.
I'm an avid reader, reading mostly historical fiction along with some fantasy and science fiction. More recent favorites include Diana Gabaldon, Anne Rice (Mayfair Witch Chronicles), J.K. Rowling and Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth). I love movies and favorites include the Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Shipping News, and just about anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and John Waters, or nearly anything starring Johnny Depp, Kevin Spacey, Nicholas Cage or Tom Hanks. The more weird and offbeat, the better. I'm a big fan of some broadcast and cable TV series: LOST, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Weeds, The L Word, and more recently, True Blood, Dexter, Psych and Californication.
I'm also into genealogy and with the help of various cousins I've corresponded with in the last 4 decades, I have traced my paternal grandmother's line to the Mayflower, my paternal grandfather's line to 1640's Salem, MA, my maternal grandmother's line to mid-1800's Austro-Hungary and my maternal grandfather's line to mid-1600's Baden-Weurtemburg.
I live with three small dogs and two parrots. Parrots are great fun but they're a huge committment and I wouldn't recommend having them as pets to anyone. They just don't belong in your house. And as always, hindsight is 20/20.
Bartle test
The Socializer motto: "No friend undiscovered!" Description: It's not what you do, but who you know, how you are known and who loves you. People with high Socializer scores enjoy interacting with other people, forming bonds and finding cooperative solutions to the challenges within the virtual world.
I guess that's why I'm the leader of the Pillars of the Earth Guild.
The Guild Wars Universe and Me
I'm a mesmer and I love the class! Little did I know when I made my very first character that I would be choosing one of the most difficult characters in the game to play well. Mesmers require a lot of finesse and much of their skill sets are geared towards "subtle but deadly" party support. Aside from mages, I have always loved bow fighters - rangers/archers. I initially chose ranger as my secondary profession for my mesmer and had I not started with a mesmer I would have made a ranger. I love ranged weapons, bows really, and I think pets are awesome. While my own ranger hasn't gotten very far in the game, I've learned quite a bit about rangers from a few friends I've made and those who know me well will tell you that I have a "thing" for rangers. ;)
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