MR. GAMES^* & C^o

IACTA ALEA ESTO!

Who are we?

Mr. Games & C^o. is a sophisticated and discriminating roleplaying group. It consists of college-educated professionals, mid-20s to late-30s.

Chris runs Delta Green (powered by GURPS), Pagan Publishing's modern Call of Cthulhu campaign. He's also run Pendragon.

Brian runs GURP Traveller, Star Wars (d6), Heavy Gear, Ars Magica, and TORG. We try hard to keep him focused.

Oliver (now that he's allowed on American soil, if only by marriage) has run Legend of the Five Rings, Call of Cthulhu and GURPS IOU. He also runs THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE NAMED in odd corners of time and space...

Luke is a small but vicious dog who runs a FUDGE fantasy game.

Henrik is an extra large with cheese who runs Earthdawn.
Jack is new... who knows what he's capable of...

Mr. Games himself (Tom, our member emeritus) runs the Arms and Influence blog. ("So, if you're not Mr. Games, who are you?")

And then, of course, there's Mr. Tippy (AKA "that damned monkey"), our trans-genre/dimensional mascot and fourth member (along with you, Gary Gygax, and Steve Jackson) of the Tribunal.

Where will he show up next?

What do we play?

Where & when do we play?

We meet weekly Sundays ~3-8PM, in San Francisco or Oakland. We GM in rotation, usually 2-4 months at a stretch.

Do we have any openings?

We are not currently (10JUL06) looking for any players. If you're interested in getting on our waiting list, however, please contact us.

Whom do we want?

We look for mature roleplayers with good character- and plot-development skills, who will add to our stories and everyone's enjoyment, rather than power-gamers, rules-lawyers, combat monsters, munchkins, or gloomcookies. (You know who you are, and if that's how you like to play, that's great, but you won't like our games.)

Ideally, you should have decent social skills and be able talk about something other than gaming and general geekery. Yes, we're geeks and proud of it, but we also have lives. Four of us are married or cohabitate, and all of us have other, diverse non-gaming interests and friends.

How do you join?

To make sure our gaming styles and expectations are compatible, we like prospective players to have at least one face-to-face meeting with some of us, and to go through a trial game before joining the game "officially." If you're the kind of people we're interested in, you'll probably want us to prove ourselves as well.

If you are interested in us (and we haven't scared you off), drop us an email, and briefly describe:

Your favorite experience as a GM

Your favorite experience as a PC

Your favorite character

The one thing you've truly blown as a GM

We look forward to hearing from you!

How do you contact us?

If you're in	Contact	email	phone
San Francisco or the Peninsula north of San Mateo	Chris	aikibrewer (at) covad.net	415.337.2665
The north East Bay (Richmond to Oakland)	Brian	brick_71 (at) yahoo.com	510.928.1986

If I'm not Mr. Games, who am I? (AKA "The Vanity and Superfluous Links Section")

I'm Chris, same one listed above. I've been gaming for over 20 years, yet despite that I'm married, bathe regularly, and am within a reasonable margin of my target weight. Somehow I got playtest credits on GURPS Arabian Nights. During the week, I'm an international-award-winning technical writer for a financial software company. I hold a BA in Classical Languages from UC Irvine , and an MA in Latin from the University of Georgia (thesis: Vindex Libertatis: Civil Liberties at the End of the Roman Republic). In my other spare time I practice aikido and iaido, ski, scuba dive, rant about libertarianism, and make beer, cider, and mead. I'm also an ordained minster of the Universal Life Church and the Beer Church. But I can't sing worth a damn.