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RPG Geek Hall of Fame Profile (total entries, stories, areas of interest, etc)
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Contributions
(last updated
2 May 2012)
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Steve Dubya
United States
Capital-region
New York
Land of the Free, Home of the Slack
Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
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#15 as of Sep. 28, 2010. I had zero experience in uploading anything prior to seeing Stelio's thread here at the very end of August; after some halting starts I got the hang of it enough to branch out into uploading Items.
If pressed, I would have to say the successful recipe for accomplishing a Total of over 500 in less than a month is to be mildly obsessive and have a job with lots of unsupervised down time.I became the 60th RPG Geek of the Week on February 27th, 2011.
I was made an RPGGeek Admin on February 15th, 2012, mostly I suspect to give me something to do on the site other than just be entering data of my own.
Having hit a Contribution Total of 5K, I made a self-indulgent GeekList that I'll be updating when I feel like it.
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5221
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Lowell Francis
United States
South Bend
Indiana
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By the Wavemotion formula of contributions, I'm at 2188. When I hit 2000, I'm done. Probably.
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2188
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Sebastian Dietz
Germany
Lübeck
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Don't have time for chit-chat, must enter more items! Need to close the gap to edige23.
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1618
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Young & Lawful Good
United Kingdom
Redhill
Surrey
Support comes in many forms: community involvement, forum posts, submitting data, word-of-mouth advertising, financial donations... All of these are vital to this site, and you have my sincere thanks for participating in any of them.
Currently: banned as per http://rpggeek.com/article/9104203#9104203
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I started entering data only after RPG Geek had gone live due to my collection being in storage at the time. Instead I concentrating on adding entries for freely downloadable RPGs available on-line. There are still plenty of these not yet in the database, so please do ask me for pointers if you'd like to increase your own contribution score.
I have also led the campaign to get representative images for entries in the database. I have personally uploaded images for more than 40% of all [RPG Series] and around a third of all [RPG Settings]. I maintain GeekLists like the following to track which objects are missing images; have a look through and see where you can help:
Earn GeekGold! Missing images for RPGs
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1177
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Charles Picard
United States
Washington
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I'm lucky member #13 of this little club. Did not enter anything during beta... Posted a bunch of Hero items after the site went live, with a healthy does of Post-Apocalyptic titles along the way. For some reason I find myself drawn to semi-obscure & out of print systems. I probably would have done more for RPGG if it weren't for my BGG contributions. On that side of things I've contributed 2000+ images, and recently got a Silver Game Submitter microbadge. I've recently jumped into the fray with the Great Article Push of 2011.
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1048
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Steffan O'Sullivan
United States
Plymouth
NH
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx
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I became an RPG-level specialist early in the development of rpg.geekdo.com because in those days of getting so much into the system, the queues were very backed up. (They're much quicker now!) But if it took a couple of days to process the RPG level, it could be frustrating to have an item in your hand and not be able to enter all the designer, publisher, size, etc., data right then and there. (You can't enter Item data until there's a valid RPG-level entry in place.) So my early goal was to expedite that for folks who wanted to enter Item-level data.
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996
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Emile de Maat
Netherlands
Hengelo
Overijssel
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I've started out in the closed beta, adding my own collection (several books from AD&D 2nd edition and Vampire: The Dark Ages, as well as core books from several other systems) and more recent White Wolf material. Soon after, I was asked to become an RPGG admin. At that point, only Dave and I were working on the new submissions, and I spent my time checking other people's submissions rather then adding my own. When the initial flow of new material slowed down, I picked up the threads again, adding several PDFs, mostly from smaller publishers.
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989
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Thom Denholm
United States
Seattle
Washington
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A word from the Article Librarian
I joined RPG Geek during the last stage of the beta, but made my hall-of-fame push during 18 months of unemployment. My RPG collection is notable more for its obscure entries than its depth in any one game system, with the exception of AD&D 1st and 2nd editions. I also have a lot of magazines, paper and PDF - the latter downloaded years ago and now gone from the web. I'd love to get these originally free issues up on the geek someday, but until then I'll just add info and articles for them. Did you know I've added 17.8% of all the articles on this site?
Some geeklists - Read the Entire Run, D20 Magazine Rack, and Lost Game Safari
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957
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Eric M. Aldrich I
United States
California
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Entered significant portions of: Arduin Grimoire, GURPS 1st to 3rd edition, Different Worlds, Dragon, Space Gamer, Fantasy Gamer, White Dwarf, Adventure Gaming, Roleplayer, Pyramid, Kobolds Ate My Baby and a host of odds and ends. Also responsible for some of the most infamous RPGs of all time being entered into the system (Spawn of Fashan, SenZar, The World of Synnibarr, etc). All this stuff was what I had on the shelves.
Have cut back lately due to my first child being born and subsequently reducing my free time and sleep.
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864
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Kris Vanhoyland
Belgium
Genk
Limburg
@RetakeME3 - We deserve a better ending!
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I was the 25th person to be added to the Hall of Fame on December 1st, 2011, my first submission to the database being a deck of condition cards for the Pathfinder Roleplaying game back in February 8th, so it took me almost 10 months to reach this point. Most of my submissions are from Pathfinder 3rd party publishers, most notably a great deal of products from Super Genius Games.
I have only been active on RPG Geek since late 2010, after I got interested in running a tabletop RPG for the first time. My choice fell on Pathfinder, as the old 2E and 3E D&D rules was the only thing I was somewhat familiar with from games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights and some books I had laying around. But I'm branching out, and am eagerly awaiting a chance to run things like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, Serenity, and Apocalypse World.
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829
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Chris Brua
United States
Allen Park
Michigan
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/28
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I started at the tail end of the beta period when most of the RPG's had already been entered and the database structure was 95% final. I started out thinking I would just put in an entry or two for some of the more obscure items I still own from the 70's & 80's.But once I dusted off the storage boxes and started looking through all my old RPG books, I really enjoyed browsing through them and adding them to the database. Now they're all here!
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802
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Rod Batten
Canada
St. John's
Newfoundland
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. --R.E.Howard
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I find myself in some very odd corners of the internet (not *those* corners! Well, not all the time) and I find all sorts of material for older and obscure games. I really enjoy digging around and just seeing what's out there. My focus tends to be on material for older games, but my wandering eye drags me into all sorts of things I wasn't looking for when I started.
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782
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Warren Sistrom
Australia
Sydney
NSW
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Got a good start in the beta period entering lots of my old collection from the 80's - D&D, Traveller, FASA Dr Who, gamebooks and a few other from that era. Then searching the web for free RPG's let me add a lot more items and find many interesting games. Finally the Gamers Helping Haiti RPGNow/Drivethru RPG Bundle ($20 for 120+ items) pushed me over the edge with piles more modern games to enter.
It all worked out at a time when with very small kids that could not move themselves yet meant I had lots of "free" time as long as that time was in my house. I could sit them nearby and they were amused simply watching me do things, now they walk around I could never do that again as they demand much more attention.
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773
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White Dragon Enterprises
United States
Seminole
Florida
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We are a FVGS (Friendly Virtual Game Shop) and from time to time, we have down time. So I add data to the database on what we sell when this happens. This site has a great database and the more information added, the more it helps our business. So, I try to give back. Oh well, back to work...
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664
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Chad Bowser
United States
Kernersville
North Carolina
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There's nothing like some quality data entry to define a good time! When I first signed up during the open beta, the very first item I wanted to add to my collection wasn't in the database so I entered it. Incorrectly. Since then, I've learned a lot about the data structure here at the geek and have found the data entry to be a nice way to relax. Who knows when I'll stop. Just when I think I've entered everything there is to be entered, I find more...
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612
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paz AKA Matt Lewis
United Kingdom
Great Sutton
Cheshire
All hail Lord Fudge!
[PFRPG PBF Games] GMing: Crypt of the Everflame, 2x We Be Goblins! · Playing: Vestige's Margreve 'Hollow', Bearpaw's Pathfinder Society
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In July 2010 I became the twelfth person to make it on to this page. I discovered RPG Geek on 14 August 2009 (after the beta period), added my first item the next day, then (rather inconveniently) my second child was born a week later. I've been adding items in fits and starts since then. My main areas of activity have been Pathfinder (including Pathfinder RPG, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Modules and Pathfinder Player Companion), Dragon Magazine (66 issues entered), Jeepform games and the Midnight campaign setting.
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601
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Ingo Immer
Germany
Saterland
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Number   added to the Hall of Fame Feb 7, 2012
I collect dice, like to play boardgames and kill for good roleplay sessions. I start roleplay 1996 with Das Schwarze Auge (DSA) (3rd Edition) a year later we try AD&D and our still existing chaosg or Wednesday group formed. We have a DSA round with actual rules, but our AD&D round never changed the system (tried 3.0 and 3.5- disliked them). With roleplay I found my love for dice, specialy the symbol dice - so I start collecting Dragon Dice and others, some of the dice accessory entries on RPGG are from me, well some roleplay related dice were my first entries, here. Later I added some german free RPGs and many periodicals back out of time while roleplay was a great hipe in germany. - The mission is not finished.... DSA for example had over 20 magazines/fanzines published but only some of them are still in print.
Thanks to the admins, special to  stargate for the help. Also thanks to MattCas for beeing a good friend and a long time gaming buddy.
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597
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Ant Brooks
South Africa
Madibeng
North West
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Little did I know when I first stumbled across RPG Geek all those months ago that I'd eventually make it on this page. My RPG collection consists primarily of D&D products and I started off entering a few missing Ravenloft items. And then a few missing Forgotten Realms items. And then some gaps in the Polyhedron series. And then... well, you know how it goes. At one point, I was pretty sure there weren't enough D&D items still missing from the database for me to ever get to this point, but there have been a lot of D&D products printed over the years, and so I finally made it. And as a bonus, I've ended up with a better organized collection along the way. Now I need to replace my defunct scanner and start filling in some missing representative images... Curse these OCD tendencies :)
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581
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RUSH May 28th 2013
England
York
North Yorkshire
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I was generously invited onto the closed beta and after entering the meagre items from my collection, I embarked on a long exercise of trawling the internet, asking around and a lot of re-writing to start as many RPGs and items as possible. At the early stage, getting the foundations right was useful for showing the correct path for when rpg.geekdo went public. I am most pleased of getting System as an item in the structure, as this was subsumed at the time. I also pushed for language to be identified, with an aim to getting foreign RPGs listed, and Andrea Angiollina sent me a lot of material by email to use. Sadly, my resources are directed elsewhere, but I would like to get back to cutnpasteneditcutnpastenedit.
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579
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Art Gorski
United States
Prescott
Arizona
Get my Mac software for Classic Traveller at http://naasirka.weebly.com/
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I started off by helping build the RPGG database with all the RPG items and magazine issues that I owned. Lots of pictures, too, which don't count here. As I acquired new items for my collection, I added the ones that weren't already in the database. Once Versions got added to the system, I added them to everything in my collection, getting me some more points. Compared to everyone here ahead of me, it seems I did it the hard way, mostly getting 1/4 point at a time, with not that many full point items in any category. Whew! I finally made it over the top by adding the final items that I didn't actually own from info found on the 'net.
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571
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Tyler Hudak
United States
Akron
Ohio
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I don't get to play RPGs often, so RPGGeek is how I get my fix. A few months ago I decided that I was going to try and get the Golden RPG Uploader badge, then Platinum, then Herculean and before I knew it I was here. Thanks RPGGeek (and the admins) for making this site and having it so easy for the members to help make it better. Now if you'll excuse me, I have more games to enter!
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570
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T. R.
United States
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H.G. Wells
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle
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I would like to take this chance to thank some of the people who helped me reach this goal. Demian (demiankatz) for his assistance and generosity. Stelio (Stelio) for pointing me in the direction of the Fighting Fantasy Amateur Adventures,and the work he has done keeping my entries straight. Dave (wavemotion) for all his help, encouragement and guidance. (Chris (sikeospi) for all the work he has done keeping the people from being duplicated. Bob (stargate) for all his help and patience not only in teaching me data entry, but also in the realm of submitting images on vgg. And last but not least, my wife who has had to tolerate me being on "that damn computer" more often then she should have.
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534
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peter pan
Poland
Warsaw
mazowieckie
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added to the Hall of Fame Nov 14, 2011
There are so many games!...
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526
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Ben Steinhauser
United States
San Antonio
TX
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This user has not yet edited their Hall of Fame profile.
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521
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Emmanuel Aquin
Canada
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Quebec
And D-Day Dice, too!
I'm an "A"vatar.
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I hadn't roleplayed for many years, but had kept all my RPGs, even though I sometimes wondered why I didn't resell some of them. When RPGG came by, everything became clear: I had kept all this stuff so I could enter them into the database! And of course, entering my RPGs made me buy some more (I'm stupid like that). So this whole thing cost me a few hundred bucks' worth of RPGs, a lot of valuable work time and a scanner (mine broke after a couple of hundred scans)... but that was a small price to pay to be inducted into the RPG Geek Hall of Fame!
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515
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James Welke
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
At your service!
For Taringai!
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Strangely enough, I don't have much of a history with RPGs. In fact, I've only ever partaken in a few role playing sessions (though, I WAS able to lead a few sessions - quite an experience!). So, yes, despite my inexperience, I've always been intrigued with RPGs: the intricate game systems, the possibility of story depth, and the general malleability of the game fascinate me. This is what drew me in to the RPG oriented side of the BGG. Here, I ran into a great community dedicated to this great hobby.
After lurking about and being entertained, I figured I might as well delve in to some of the topics and be of some help; the call for RPG Heroes gave me a direction and goals. Also, I'll confess that a number of my early contributions were prompted by the lure of GeekGold (which I intended for use in the monthly lotteries). As a sidenote, if you're looking for a source of gold, this is the way and the place!
Contributing to RPGG has been both fun and rewarding; how else would I have learned about the strange universe of Tekumel or the LOTR eZine, Other Hands? There are some wonderfully creative people out there, many of whom have produced worlds and game systems for free, public use. This is where the majority of my contributions have come from; feel free to read and rate them!
Many thanks to Evil Bob, who ended up moderating the majority of my entries, and everyone else who helped correct, improve, and encourage entries!
Long live RPG Geek!
~Hall of Famer since 11/22/11~
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502
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