Name: David Tomczyk

Email Address: davidtomczyk@yahoo.com

Dice: I like swirly-colored ones. My favorites right now are my dark blue and my fire red swirled dice.

My Drink: Water with Zip-Fizz in it. It's like a sports drink/energy drink, but it's all-natural. Or not really artificial. I'm not sure which.

Pizza Preferences: I like pineapple on my pizzas. (And in general, but this is asking about pizzas.) Beyond that, no black olives, and I'm good!

Game Days: Due to my overly-filled schedule because I just want to do everything, I don't have much time to game. But I hold Saturdays sacred for gaming. Very few things get in the way of a Saturday!

Special Qualifications: I have no idea. I'm pretty good with numbers, and I seem to be able to adapt pretty well to most groups. And I love to change things on the fly. I've been known to be struck by crazy ideas and then try to implement them without the full approval of my group.

My D&D Specialties: I'm pretty good with the rules, I can look at most situations and find one or more solutions, and I can usually add numbers pretty fast. And I mouth off at bad guys all the time, causing them to target me and not my colleagues. Which is not really an optimal strategy when you're playing a sorcerer with few protections...

Skills: Mad? Oh, wait. That's "skillz" with a "z."

D&D Bio: I started in D&D when I was in elementary school. I never played it, but I had the Players Cyclopedia (not quite sure where the "en" went...), and read that book cover to cover I don't know how many times. I also acquired the 2e books in late middle school/early high school, and I played Curse of the Azure Bonds on our Apple IIe I don't know how many times. (I can still reconstruct many of the maps and combats in that game by memory!) I played a few one-offs of the White Wolf games (Changeling, Vampire: the Masquerade) in high school, but never D&D. In college, 3e came out, and suddenly everything clicked. WotC had solved the problem that had bothered me ever since I had read my first D&D book - flexibility. I disliked that humans were the only race capable of being rangers or paladins, or that demi-humans couldn't go beyond a certain level, neither of which made sense to me. The THAC0 tables were gone as were the five arbitrary groupings of saves that eventually made spells (and monster abilities) with saves almost automatically half-effective. I actually DM'd 3e during my junior and senior years in college. It was a free-form game - I just made up everything on the fly, pulling monsters from the Monster Manual as needed. There were no minis or one-inch squares - all things were represented by conversation and dice approximations. On the last day of the end of the campaign, the characters all achieved level 20, became minor dieties, and then took over a kingdom. I thought that would be the end of my D&D life, especially when during my Master's program I found that Miami of Ohio's gaming group was not friendly to people looking for new groups. But, 4 years later, I saw an add for TerpCon on the shuttle bus from the College Park Metro to University of Maryland. I signed up for only one event. The day of the con, I arrived at the bus pick up station and happened to meet a guy with a bunch of D&D stuff - maps, books, minis, etc. He and I struck up a conversation, and I found out he was my DM. And, after playing the one event with him, he convinced me to stay for the second part. (It wasn't a hard sell - he was a great DM!) And thus, Nick (the DM) and I met. A few months later, he asked if I'd like to join a campaign he was running, and the rest is (very recent) history! ...Wow, that was more rambling than I had anticipated...

Gaia's Dream branches (3e/3.5/OGL) 2001-20?? -

Azarr Kul's Ambition 2007-200?

Campaigns completed or in progress (as player):

ReLiving Geoff (DM: Jose Ortiz)

My Gaia's Dream Character(s): Altaer Fangmaw