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I'm Trollsmyth, aka Brian. I'm into old school and rules-light gaming. Right now I'm running weekly Moldvay/Cook era D&D and an irregularly meeting Numenera game.   Very much looking forward to seeing what sort of play Simple System encourages and kit-bashing some setting material for it.

I blot at trollsmyth.blogspot.com/

Hello, I'm Alan aka Paul Ooshun, one of the content creators featured by Roll20.net

I've been roleplaying since I was a small kid, and doodling just as long. It's nice to find the two things have finally come together.
I'm hoping to deliver some digital art and content for Simple System via the Roll20 marketplace. I have a couple of ideas brewing nicely in the back of my mind but I'm keen to see how this develops and help it along the road where I can.

Hello all,

I'm Arcanet, AKA Ville S on Kickstarter and Roll20, and I'm the unrelenting Banhammer_, Demolisher of Spam friendly neighbourhood Global Moderator around here.

I've been playing and mostly GM:ing various PnP RPGs over the last 15 years, mostly DnD 3, 3.5, and 4. Simple System struck me as a perfect way to get my small and now sadly slightly spread group back into some roleplaying, and as a very good platform for a setting I've been mulling about for a while. I'll be sharing more about it later, but it'll take a while as it has already grown bigger than I thought.

Back in the ancient days of the late 70s and high school, I was introduced to a strange and wonderfully imaginative game known as D&D. The DM heavily modified the game with more storytelling than “role” playing, and didn't let the rules bog down the game play. I never looked back!

Life, as it can, interrupted that early lifestyle. After college, more college, work, even more college, love, marriage, and a child later I have rediscovered my inner geek. My daughter and I (and sometimes my wife!) attend comic conventions, renaissance festivals, and, when possible, dress the part as well!

In amongst all of this activity, I have also rediscovered my interest in how a game plays. I have thought about starting tabletop gaming again (I guess I’m just too old to get any inspiration from online games) and have gone so far as to support the recent OGRE redesign from Steve Jackson Games. I’ve looked into various systems, FATE being the most interesting to date, but haven’t found something that fits just right. In the end, it boils down to game mechanics, which far too often gets in the way of storytelling, slowing down the imagination and the spirit of what I believe gaming should be about.

Simple System seems a dream come true. It allows for flexibility without sacrificing the game mechanic altogether, and yet it doesn’t get in the way of the story. I have already started thinking about how to incorporate different races and magic/psionic abilities into the system.

Hello, I'm a backer for this project. Not really knowledgeable on Tabletop RPG's, but looking at this project got me interested in trying them.

Hiya, I'm an Australian librarian
I was a dark ages reenactor in the Ancient Arts Fellowship but now I do foam in the combat LARP The Hundred Swords.
I'm a Farscape and Doctor Who fan especially of Faction Paradox.
In my spare time (before I became a new father) I made print and play games (I'm on boardgamegeek) and various orher things.
I dabble in PHP, Photoshop and my favourite computer games are Thief and Half Life.
I like making play aids and variants for published games (e.g. Battlestations) and thought it'd be fun to back this system as I'm also a fan of indie and rules lite RPGs

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My name on Kickstarter is Paul S. but generally speaking my usernames tend to have some reference to the Egyptian god Anubis. I was big into card games a few years back (MtG, various incarnations of the DBz card game, Yugioh, Pokemon, Fullmetal Alchemist, probably a few other obscure things I had wasted money on that I can't remember off hand like Shaolin Showdown), but keeping up with ban lists and set rotations got to be expensive and tedious these days I just play pathfinder with a shrinking group of friends (during a game I ran there were 9 players at the table, man that was crazy, now we get a more standard 4-5 depending on life that week), and occasionally I also do some roll20 stuff with 2 of my other friends who don't mind doing things over the internet (specifically I ran a Pokemon Tabletop United game, which was fun but tedious, now roll20 has all these nice status tokens, characters sheets, search functions that I would have loved while running that a few years back). I'm not even sure my main group will even be interested in this, but I ordered the full set anyway (I'm a sucker for cards). The main diversion right now in my life is video games I mostly play strategy games, with Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings 2 being the main games I tend to chuck away 4-6 hours in a sitting, but occasionally some RPGs and MMOs (though MMOs lose their appeal quickly these days). Another few years back hobby when I had money was collecting old school rare games like Chrono Trigger and Supper Mario RPG, still haven't gotten around to beating Chrono Trigger.


My main interest with simple system is the Scifi setting, as I'm pretty sure Pathfinder is gonna be my defacto if I want to do something in a fantasy setting system just by virtue of the money my friends and I have sent Paizo's way. I love SciFi and have tried a couple systems to try and run a scifi game, but they all tend to have really overly complicated rules with Starships and space combat that end up killing the game, so really hoping Simple System can solve that. The other thing I like is that if I'm bored and don't feel like putting too much thought into a character I can just shuffle the skill, flaw, classes, and races (separately of course) and draw a random character up. It would be interesting to just deal out random characters like that to the table, it'd probably be about the only way to get some people (including myself) at my table to try something different.