{"id":45,"date":"2013-02-21T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:14:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Game Geekery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I LOVE<\/strong> games.\u00a0\"Crispy<\/a><\/p>\n

My favorites by far are Role-Playing Games<\/a> (RPGs), particularly GURPS<\/a> (my go-to system since about 1993), to which I devote an enormous chunk of my waking hours. I think my eulogy for Gary Gygax<\/a>\u00a0explains my love affair with RPGs best.<\/p>\n

I also love board games, card games, dice games<\/a>, and video games<\/a>…when I can fit them in.<\/p>\n

When I’m not playing an RPG, I’m often working on my next RPG, or reading blogs and forums about RPGs, or listening to podcasts about RPGs, or — well, you get the picture.<\/p>\n

This blog is here as a space for me to muse about things of interest to fellow gamers: reviews of products, convention recaps, rules discussion, interesting scenario ideas, tips for GM prep, and other assorted game geekery.<\/p>\n

Some of the older RPG resources here are still on the original site<\/a>, including the ever-popular examples of GURPS 4th Edition combat<\/a> and notes on some of my past campaigns<\/a> and convention one-shots<\/a>\u00a0(all of which is slowly being migrated into the current blog format).<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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About Mook and\u00a0TheMook.Net<\/em><\/h1>\n

\"mook\"<\/a>I am Mook. This is my website.<\/p>\n

I don’t always look like that, but I like this picture because I look really happy. Usually, I don’t have a beard, and about three years ago I finally cut my hair down to a buzzcut… after more than 17 years\u00a0<\/b>without a haircut.<\/p>\n

I love to write, but I don’t do it enough. I often write about wanting to write more.<\/p>\n

I love to play all kinds of games — video games, board games, card games, but especially tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). I started playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1983, then played every RPG I could get my hands on (a few favorites: Top Secret<\/em>, Villains & Vigilantes<\/em>, Star Frontiers<\/em>, Paranoia<\/em>).<\/p>\n

In 1993, I started running games with GURPS<\/a> and haven’t run anything else since then (though as a player I’ll try anything<\/i>).<\/p>\n

I also love books, movies, television, comics, and basically anything with characters and a story. My tastes are omnivorous. I can actually tell the good from the bad, I just don’t usually care.<\/p>\n

The unprecedented explosion of technology in my lifetime, especially the rise of computers and the internet, makes me squeal with endless delight.<\/p>\n

This website, TheMook.Net<\/b>, has been online without interruption since at least September, 1998. It is my own personal slice of the world wide web, a place to create whatever I want, whenever I feel like it. I like having a tiny virtual space all my own.<\/p>\n

When I first started this site I taught myself HTML. A few years later, I did the same with PHP — at least enough to know what to copy and paste, and how to tweak things to my liking. Nowadays I try to use WordPress<\/a> for everything, but occasionally I still code some things by hand, in Notepad++.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, TheMook.Net<\/b> has been hosted by EsoSoft<\/a> – they have been an absolute pleasure to work with, and their customer service is phenomenal. I cannot recommend them enough if you are looking for site hosting. The\u00a0blog<\/a> runs on\u00a0WordPress<\/a>, easily the best blogging platform I’ve ever used.<\/p>\n

I am incredibly easy to find online — should you want to get in touch, just check the\u00a0Contact<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

As a final note, one of my favorite parts of the site are the quotes I have assembled from far and wide that cycle randomly with every page load (under “Random Quote,” at the bottom of the right sidebar), provided for your edification and amusement.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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