who am I and what is this ?

Hello there!

Let's answer the first question first. Who am I ?

My name's Alex, I am a french canadian, sales team leader for an ISP and forever GM. As you can figure out, my main language is not english but I believe I can hold myself quite well. Before working in telecomunications I had the chance to manage a Local Game Shop for 5 years, where I learned a lot about card games, board games and TRPGs.

I have learned about D&D maybe 13 or 14 years ago and pretty much instantly became a forever GM. I sometime join games as a player with some old friends who exclusively plays Pathfinder but I always end up going back to GMing because I am a creative person and I always feel like being a player is restrictive and doesn't let me express myself the way I wan't.

Through the years, I've had the chance to GM multiple different games with a lot of different people of all kind. Some players were nice, others not so much. I ran a handful of different games from combat heavy D&D to more Roleplay centric one-shots and I consider myself quite versatile.

What is this ?

I've been pondering for a while about making a blog where I could just put in notes, talk about my running games and just express myself. As I wrote up there, I am someone who's creative, I enjoy writing, I paint my own figurines, I just picked drawing as I feel it's a skill I lack and I love partaking in collaborative storytelling.

The blog idea came from the Ryuutama subreddit some months ago where I asked if people would be interested into some sort of rundown or posts about my current game. As life some times act more as a roadblock than a highway, I never got the time to get onto it and postponed it over and over.

So yeah, my goal here is to try to write as many posts I can about my current games, what's going on in them, what I am trying out, who my players are and what my goal is with them. We will see how far I can get this to and hope I'll be able to routinely write on it. Luckily for me, my players are keeping track of our Ryuutama games by writing an in-character diary in the book rigt under this blurb of text.