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Other Court
The trials and tribulations of a game designer.
Created on 2006-08-12 21:14:07 (#10898100), last updated 2009-11-07
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Basic Info| Name: | othercourt |
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| Location: | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Website: | http://www.othercourt.com |
BioI'm a 32 year old guy who is working on several projects. The primary one is this, the tabletop Role Playing game called Factions, under the "company" name of Other Court Games. I'm also a vocalist and bassist in a music project named Dreams for Desire.
I've been into Role Playing games since about the 4th grade. A grade school chum of mine had heard about this thing called Dungeons and Dragons, and we thought it would be fun to try out. But we lived in a small town with no access to a gaming or hobby store. So we made up our own. Lots. It wasn't until age 14 or so that we were able to get our hands on "real" games. We went through Beyond the Supernatural (Pallidium), Cyberpunk 2020, and White Wolf games (among many others) through High School. At first I was just a player, but then I got into running.
The Other Court system has been in progress for about 5 years now. It's been through several base mechanic versions, about 5 combat systems, 3 ritual magic systems, and 2 special ability systems. It is finally approaching completion.
For work, I sell luggage in a shop, and bartend at Ground Zero, where I was a bouncer for several years. I've done a decent amount of phone jockey (customer service) work in companies large and small, including doing national security dispatch for an alarm monitoring company. I worked at the Minnesota Ren Fest for 5 years, and miss it.
I went to school as an English Major, Creative Writing Minor (was a Journalism Minor for awhile). I'd be about a semester-and-a-half from graduating, if I ever decided to go back.
I'm spoken for, but not married.
I've been into Role Playing games since about the 4th grade. A grade school chum of mine had heard about this thing called Dungeons and Dragons, and we thought it would be fun to try out. But we lived in a small town with no access to a gaming or hobby store. So we made up our own. Lots. It wasn't until age 14 or so that we were able to get our hands on "real" games. We went through Beyond the Supernatural (Pallidium), Cyberpunk 2020, and White Wolf games (among many others) through High School. At first I was just a player, but then I got into running.
The Other Court system has been in progress for about 5 years now. It's been through several base mechanic versions, about 5 combat systems, 3 ritual magic systems, and 2 special ability systems. It is finally approaching completion.
For work, I sell luggage in a shop, and bartend at Ground Zero, where I was a bouncer for several years. I've done a decent amount of phone jockey (customer service) work in companies large and small, including doing national security dispatch for an alarm monitoring company. I worked at the Minnesota Ren Fest for 5 years, and miss it.
I went to school as an English Major, Creative Writing Minor (was a Journalism Minor for awhile). I'd be about a semester-and-a-half from graduating, if I ever decided to go back.
I'm spoken for, but not married.
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4gw, antiwar, art, bartending, black rebel motorcycle club., bruce sterling, caffeine, civil liberties, clubbing, conspiracies, cyberpunk, fantasy, fiction, film noir, futurism, gaiman, geopolitics, gibson, government secrets, love and rockets, magic, motorcycles, music, nin, paradigm warfare, poetry, post modernism, role playing games, sandman, self defense, survivalism, technology, transhumanism, writing
External Services:
 | othercourt@livejournal.com | |
 | othercourt |
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