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"Clean"? Is that kinda like the reverse of dirtyfrank then?

I like turtles!

My name is John, though I go by several nicknames (most of them are the names of fictional characters who my friends said reminded them of me).  I'm thirty, and I live in Michigan.  I'm currently working on my business degree and using the humanities requirement as an excuse to learn Japanese (if you've guessed that I love anime & manga, you get a :cookie.  I'm not terribly outgoing or in very good shape, but I am working on both of those.  I am a fencer, a writer, teaching myself to draw, and trying to create my own martial art.  I live with my elderly father and don't plan to move out (he'll probably just need me to move back in with him in a few years anyway).

I've been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 11, an older neighbor introduced me to AD&D 2e at the time.  I eventually switched to Palladium's Games (IMO, a better alternative than AD&D 2e), and played Robotech, Rifts, Nightbane, and heroes unlimited for about a decade.  I decided to get back into D&D once I heard of 3e, and eventually found D20 Modern, BESM d20, and SWSE.  During the 3e/D20Modern/3.5 era, I experimented with other systems: Cinematic Unisystem (the BtVS, Angel, and Army of Darkness RPGs), and the Battletech RPG.

I've also played miniatures games and card games (mostly Heroclix, Mechwarrior Dark Age and MtG).  I've since learned that collectible games are such that only the wealthy or unnaturally lucky get the best pieces/cards, so I abandoned them in favor of non-collectible games like Classic Battletech.  I also enjoy video games, but I decided not to buy a new game console after my original x-box died.  The new consoles cost so much, I might as well just buy a new computer and play computer games instead.  This is a growing likelihood for me, since some of the games I see advertised are also available on PC.  I used to play World of Warcraft for about two years.  I liked it as a video game, but felt the rp potential was too limited.  Once I got to the endgame content, I quickly got sick of grinding for gear, rep, and materials to make gear.  In the end, I decided to cancel my subscription after realizing I hadn't played in a whole month.

I briefly tried the LARPing thing for a few months.  I liked it.  Of course, I don't have the cash or sewing/makeup skills for a really good costume.  I also got sick of how too much of the combat was dependent on real-world ability.  A few of us had combat sports or military training, and it's insane to see a wizard beat a warrior with melee weapons because the wizard's player has been fencing or learned to use a staff at their local martial arts dojo.  I'm also pretty out of shape, so all the walking and running was really hard on my knees.  Plus I hate bugs, and the smell of insect repellent makes me queasy.

As far as roleplaying goes.  I like to challenge myself.  I used to just play humans, but I quickly got bored with the same-old same-old.  It got so bad that I would create a lot of characters just for the fun of making the backstory, then never play them because I knew I'd tire of them.  So I stated playing other races, genders, sexualities, etc.  I still do elaborate flavor text for my characters (my last wizard had three hand-written pages covering appearance of herself and her gear, her personality/motivations, and her history), but I don't get bored of them anymore.  I usually like adult themes in my rpgs; not just stuff like sexuality, but also thought-provoking stuff like you find in good sci-fi.