User:ShanG

The Player
My Bartle Quotient tests as EKAS, which I'm not sure about but I'm definitely an Explorer. I like to find out and figure out as much as possible, but I'm also very active and task-oriented. I like my characters to be doing things, and accomplishing things, and I'm frequently bored if all I'm doing is standing around and making in-character small talk. Back when I first started roleplaying I developed a strange fixation on the weather, and try (when I can) to bring the in-character environment part of my poses.

In addition to being heavily interested in gaming - not just RPG's (although I play all kinds and post on RPG.Net under this alias), but computer and video games, board games, and also game design theory and mechanics for all of the above - I have fairly eclectic tastes. I enjoy a good book, regardless of genre, I like Film and TV quite a bit as well, and I'm very fond of a lot of the classics. My musical tastes include Classical (especially Baroque music), Techno / Electro, and some Jazz or Blues.

I'm currently working nights, so for the most part my hours line up with those of fellow players from Australia and Europe, but I myself live in the central USA.

My Characters
Some people might accuse me of having a short attention span, it's more a case of having so many ideas that I can't possibly do them justice. I keep a portfolio of pre-generated characters for different games I play, and at any given time, can have three or more ideas that I want to play. As a result, I don't need to invest myself overly much in any one character.

I do follow a few general rules, though. I generally don't like playing humans or near-humans, and the more unusual the better. I almost never revisit a concept that I've done before. As a result, I think I'm a very flexible and well-rounded roleplayer.

Otherspace Classic
When I started on Otherspace, I made a Centauran Engineer who ended up, if I remember, being killed in a Nall invasion of Sanctuary. I made a Lunite Pilot who never actually flew a ship in his life but alternated between hanging around with Jeff Ryan and Ren Arnassis, basically being a sidekick to one or the other for most of his existence. After an Ungstiri character who never did anything interesting, I came back and created my current PC, a Color-Blind Orarite Fashion Designer which, yes, is every bit as fabulously amusing as it sounds.


 * Cricearn (Retired)
 * Zephyr "Zev" Zosimus (Retired)
 * Tiaga (Retired)
 * Frn'Zxk'Fkg

Reach of the Empire (Discontinued)
Out of all the Join-The-Saga MUSHes I've played I probably spent the most amount of time on the Star-Wars Themed RoE. I found out about it from an ad campaign offering to give new players their own ships, so I made a Mon Calamari Engineer and teamed up with another player to buy a nice one (it was promply stolen by 'RP Aides') and somehow went from smuggling to being Head of Security for his entire home planet. Shortly later on I decided to make a violent throw-away character who eventually turned into Snarl Varr, a Shistavanen Bounty Hunter which I continued to play for years and who eventually gained a lot of friends and even a few PC relatives. RoE may have been beset with problems, which resulted in it being closed twice, but boy did we ever have a blast along the way.


 * Seshal
 * Snarl Varr
 * Din'Me'Sheye
 * Ugstale
 * PK-666

Chiaroscuro
My first attempt at a Chia character is a Wildlander who was Raised by Wolves. No, not really. Figuratively.
 * Cuan Thornglade

Necromundus
My single Necro character to date was actually a blatant remake of Snarl Varr from RoE, which just goes to show you how much I enjoyed playing him. I made it to level 50 as a Rogue, decided to wait around for the OSM Beta, and got Idle-Purged. Did I ever have egg on my face.


 * Cerunnos (Dead. And Retired)

Otherspace Millennium
Because of the fact that my first FIVE racial choices on OSM (Almedae, B'Hiri, Kretonian Phyrrian, and Yoescu) have all been either temporarily or permanently closed to players, I started off by breaking my own rule and creating a Sivadian, the lazy, stubborn, drug-addicted, totally non-intellectual-property-infringing genius Dr. Alastair Hall