Interests & Hobbies

Twitch Streamers...yeah!
I've become addicted to twitch streamers. I watch twitch whenever a streamer I like shoots off a notice they're online. Well almost always. Not when I'm driving or sleeping. And I watch Music, Gaming (Fortnite and Sea of Thieves mostly), Just Chatting, and Writing streams mostly.

Favorite Movies

It's easier to list what I don't like:

• Gore Horror (with a few exceptions)
• Hallmark movies
• Serious Dramas
• True Crime
• Movies that insist on heavy handedly driving home a social message

Favorite TV Series

Again a category that would be easily answered with what I don't like:

• True Crime
• Hallmark
• Police Drama (Forensic Procedurals are okay)
• Shows heavily into gore (occasional gore when DRIVING the plot is okay)
• Military Drama (the occasional military action in NCIS and such is okay)
• Political Drama
• Law Procedurals

Favorite Books

I don't have any favorite novels. I stopped reading novels years ago and while I have a massive pile of titles I want to read, I haven't been able to force myself to schlog through it.
 
I read piles and piles of game content! I read video game guides (not for games I play, just for games that look interesting), I read ttrpg campaign settings, modules and adventures. I read manuals on coding, usually cause I need to for something I'm posting (thank the World Anvil Gods for the Codex). I read articles on archaeology, history, nature, biology, botany, and esoteric factual stuff. I read (for ideas) articles detailing conspiracy theories, alternate histories, aliens, cryptids, etc. I wouldn't say any of these things are favorites, they're just what I read.

If I have a favorite book, I'd say it's some of the AD&D 2nd Edition Ravenloft boxed sets or adventures, and all of the Sword & Sorcery (White Wolf) 3rd/3.5 edition Ravenloft materials. And before you ask, NO, I hate the 5e Ravenloft content, and I never even looked at the 4e content. That said, I LOVE the 5e format for the domains and adventure hooks. That was a smart layout.

Favorite Writers

• Edgar Allen Poe
• T. S. Eliot
• Robert Frost
• Wallace Stevens
• Stephen Crane
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Walt Whitman
• Nathaniel Hawthorn
• Washington Irving
• James Fennimore Cooper
• J. K. Rowling
• Laurell K. Hamilton
• Kim Harrison
• Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Lord Byron
• John Wick (7th Sea, Wield, TTRPG game writer)
• Howard Mackie, Joe Kubert, and Andy Kubert (all three writers/creators on Ghost Rider in the 90's)
• Jim Lee, Chris Claremont, Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Fabian Nicieza, and Joe Madureira (all writers/creators on X-Men comics in the 90's)
• Shel Silverstein
• Marion G. Harmon
• J. R. R. Tolkien

Favorite Games

All Time:
AD&D Ravenloft setting (TSR) and D&D 3rd/3.5 Edition Ravenloft (Sword & Sorcery, aka White Wolf under license with WotC)  
Currently:

• My own settings using the FATE System and Cortex System
• City of Heroes, Sea of Thieves, Fortnite, and Beatstar on PC/Mobile
• A friend is starting a Masks game I'm looking forward to.
• I would love to start or play in a game of City of Mists