Hey everyone! Great to be here!
Actually, as you can see, I've been posting for a bit already, but I realized I had never introduced myself.
(My name's actually Jeff, but 'Jeff of all games' just didn't sound right.)
I'm in Rockford, IL. Certainly not the Mecca of gaming to be sure, but we get by.
It's a rather blah post-industrial town (We used to be known as the screw capital of the world. I kid you not) but gaming is coming back to Mudville, so to speak, thanks in part to a new
GW store that arrived in December.
Anyhoo, I started gaming back in my mid-teens with D&D and Battletech. Moving on later to Warhammer
40K back in Rogue Trader days, and then on to Warhammer Fantasy, which is still my primary game. I have so many other games that I am either in the process of getting into, or want to. These include; Warmachine/Hordes, Uncharted Seas, Flames of War, AE-WWII, Infinity, amongst others. And that's only the miniature stuff!
I also love board games, card games, you name it. If it involves good friends around a table trying to beat each other into submission while talking and having fun, I'm all over it.
I actually worked in the game industry for a very short while as a buyer for a local game distributor company. It was a very cool job and I met some wonderful people, but unfortunately, the job was way too much stress and it took away all the time for the games that had gotten me into the industry in the first place. Sadly, as of December of last year they had closed up shop, so it's probably best I had moved on before that anyways.
I did have one moment of pure gamer geek-outness during my tenure there. I had to go to Seattle for a WotC seminar about the next year's releases (including 4th ed D&D). I had some extra time on my trip so I had contacted Privateer Press, in nearby Bellevue, to see if they would like me to stop by for a visit. I was given the go ahead and so I went.
You couldn't meet a nicer bunch of people! Sherry Yeary herself (company president) led me on a nearly full-access tour of the entire building. Everything from the mold-making room, to casting, to where they paint and photograph the studio minis, to the the collection of terrain that's been in No Quarter, through the warehouse and everything in-between. Everyone greeted me like I was an old friend. I had goosebumps nearly the entire time.
I was told there was only one thing they couldn't show me. The big secret project. Later found out it was Monsterpocalypse. Good thing they kept it locked away too. I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut about that one.
Hmm.. what else?
I started a blog as a New Year's Resolution. It's supposed to keep me on track with my projects that I start and to help me from getting board with them and moving on.
http://jack-of-all-games.blogspot.com/
It has helped some, and thanks to it I'm nearly done with my Uncharted Seas fleet, even though I haven't posted about it recently.
Well that's it, I guess. Though I'd like to give credit to Russ Wakelin and the guys at the
D6G for bringing me here. They'd mention Dakka all the time in their podcast so I thought it was time to check it out.
Thanks for reading!
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