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jjkolb

jjkolb
« on: March 14, 2007, 11:21:56 am »
WHO I AM:
Jeff Kolb.  Male, 5' 10", approximately 175 lbs, light brown hair, no tattoos.  Born in 1968 in Jackson, Michigan.  BA in Finance from Michigan State University.  I am 38 years old and married to the best wife a man could have.  We have three children (all boys) ages 4, 4, and 3.  Favorite band: KISS.  Favorite superhero: Batman.  Favorite sports team: Green Bay Packers.  Favorite TV character: Arthur Fonzarelli (the "Fonz").

HOW I GOT HERE:
I started playing AD&D 1.0 back in the early eighties with friends from the neighborhood.  We used miniatures made of lead and dice that had to have the numbers colored in with crayon.  Modules like Keep on the Borderlands, Ravenloft, Horror on the Hill, and Against the Giants were some of my favorites.  You tried to get the lowest AC possible and -10 was the best you could do.  THAC0-good times, good times.  

Along came the Commodore 64, the greatest gaming machine, ever.  Video games replaced PnP among my group of friends.  All of the CRPG were single player, however.  My favorites were The Bard's Tale, Ultimas I, II, and III, Questron I and II, Phantasie, and Legacy of the Ancients.

Then I went to college and gave up on CRPGs for a while-until Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.  Those got me hooked again.  I kept looking at NWN but my system at the time was not able to run it.  Finally I was able to buy the gold version and started playing the OC.  It was cool but I still longed to play with other people.  

I started to look into these things called Persistent Worlds.  The first one I found was Layonara Online.  It sounded interesting so I wrote up a character submission and met the dragon.  That was more than two years ago.  I have made a few good friends here, sadly some have left.  My NWN time is limited but enjoy the interaction every time I am on.  

My one and only character's name, Klaugraquene Dragonbane (Klaug), is from my old PnP days.  We had trouble coming up with names for our characters so I designed a random name generator, hence the odd name.  Klaug is in the mold of Sturm Brightblade, the knight from the Dragonlance novels.

Thanks to Leanthar and the team for creating and maintaining a tremendous world for us to play in.
 
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Shadowblade225

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2007, 09:45:55 pm »
heh, oddly enough I pictured you as having a giant mustache.  Always a pleasure to RP with Klaug.
 

Pseudonym

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2007, 10:46:59 pm »
G'day Jeff,

Reading through your intro, I have decided we could have travelled through each others lives almost interchangeably.

It's weird, from the C64 to the finance degree to the ages and number of kids to the reverance held for the Fonz!

Only differences as far as I can determine, I live in Australia, you in the States, I am taller and my wife (who is NOT the best wife a man could have) just told me you are better looking. *shakes fist at wife*

Cheers,
Pseudonym
 

jjkolb

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2007, 08:17:06 am »
Quote from: Shadowblade225
heh, oddly enough I pictured you as having a giant mustache.  Always a pleasure to RP with Klaug.


Giant moustaches don't work too well in the corporate world.
"Yeaaahhhh.  I'm going to need you to go ahead and shave off that moustache...mmm-kay?"
 

jjkolb

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2007, 08:31:19 am »
Quote from: Pseudonym
G'day Jeff,

Reading through your intro, I have decided we could have travelled through each others lives almost interchangeably.

It's weird, from the C64 to the finance degree to the ages and number of kids to the reverance held for the Fonz!

Only differences as far as I can determine, I live in Australia, you in the States, I am taller and my wife (who is NOT the best wife a man could have) just told me you are better looking. *shakes fist at wife*

Cheers,
Pseudonym


That does sound weird.  You know, one of the things I want to do before I die is to cage dive in great white shark infested waters.  So when I'm about to head for the Great Barrier Reef, I'll send you a PM.  Maybe we can swap C64 games.  My system and disks still work!
 

Gulnyr

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2007, 02:36:54 pm »
Quote from: jjkolb
My system and disks still work!


Both mine broke, way back.  I still have a lot of the disks, though, for some reason.

Since we're talking about C64s, a guy two years ahead of me back in high school connected one to some sort of laser in one of the labs. The beam was split into multiple beams firing at multiple sensors.  If you broke a laser line, the C64 would play a tone.  There was a different tone for every laser/sensor combo.  It was a laser harp, and it was twice as cool as it would have been simply because it was built on a C64.

Anyway, hello again.  *waves*
 

Stephen_Zuckerman

Re: jjkolb
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2007, 06:37:42 am »
THAC0 = EVIL.

Laser harps are cool, though, and... Yeeeaah... I really have to say... Mustaches just aren't professional.

They can get caught in the copier.