VITAL STATISTICS Date of Birth July 11, 1979 RPGamer Hire Date October 21, 2005 RPGamer Position Content Manager Location Twin Lake, Michigan Personal Homepage (none) Hobbies 1) Writing Novels 2) Create Tabletop RPGs 3) Wistfully dreaming about designing a PC RPG Favorite Tabletop RPGs 1) Star Wars RPG (d6, WEG version) 2) Advanced Dungeon & Dragons (2nd Ed.) 3) Star Trek RPG (Last Unicorn) 4) Generic Diceless Roleplaying Favorite Games (in no particular order) 1) Knights of the Old Republic 2) Final Fantasy X 3) Chrono Trigger 4) Anachronox 5) Metroid Prime

Ooh! Mysterious!

   Well, let's see, I'm a hopeful novelist, tabletop RPG designer, hopeful video game designer, computer-science graduate, part-time philosopher, a bagel panner, and was your guy for tabletop gaming coverage and interaction until I became a ghost in the machine. In the past, I was only webmaster of a relatively short-lived site called "RPG Theory," which was essentially a place for editorials and articles about designing all sorts of RPGs. That is now a memory, however, but some of you just might remember it. At any rate, doing all this, I've become less of a gamer than I used to be, sadly, but my interest in computer, console, and tabletop gaming has never subsided, as neither have my grandiose dreams. Hopefully, in a year or two, you might actually be able to see the fruits of my labors, but until then, you can just stay breathless in anticipation! Well, maybe, maybe not; I can have my fantasies, can't I?

   As for the more mundane portions of my life, well, I'm a third shifter and extremely nocturnal as a result. It's not terribly uncommon for me to go to sleep sometime after noon and wake up well after the sun has already set. So, don't worry if I don't understand words like "today," "tomorrow," "tonight," "morning," and the like; they just mean something entirely different to me. I'm currently in the process of designing two entire RPG realms (space sci-fi and sci-fi/fantasy, in case you're curious), along with multiple novels based in those realms. This consumes much of my time, unless my brain is being particularly flatulent that day, in which case I spend a great deal of time staring blankly at a flashing cursor. Yeah, it sounds boring, but actually, it's semi-relaxing, except when it's absolutely frustrating!

   You're probably wondering about my strange aliases. Nwash (pronounced "Naush") is just my first name spelled mostly backwards, but it is a nickname I have held for many years, so it has gained a certain sentimental value. At some point, I also became the emoticon o_O, but you don't have to call me the emoticon formerly known as Nwash.

   Last Updated: June 15, 2007