I started reading one of his ages ago, The Blade Itself, but I just couldn't get into. I might revisit it once I'm finished my current books. Currently reading Mark Lawrence's, Red Sister, it's not as action packed, and a quite a bit slower, than his Broken Empire trilogy but still an enjoyable read.

Not really, as I rarely host now, apart from on Roll20. When we get together F2F we generally play at one of the other player's house as it's a bit more central - our group is spread over a 30-40km or thereabouts radius. She does however like to interrupt Rose or I when we're doing something other than paying her attention. For example, when I was working from home during lockdown, I had my work laptop setup on the games table and she would often lie between me and the keyboard and want to play at the most inopportune times. The chap whose house we normally play at has 2 cats and one of them likes to join in occasionally.

You will love it. It is a beautiful country when its not on fire or in flood...it is very much a land of extremes despite being mostly temperate in climate.

@Monsen just for you.

Hi All,

I'm Jim Abbott and have one major online alias, Damon Jynx that I use for most of the RPG forums I visit and my Facebook name is my old Cub Scout Leader name (the only reason I used Facebook at all, until now). I've been actively role playing with more or less the same bunch of guys since about 2000, sharing GM'ing duties with two others. Kind of like Lorelei, Damon Jynx, though not my first PC, is the name of my favourite PC, a multi-class Fighter/Rogue/Spymaster that I never seemed to manage to get beyond 13th level. Perhaps I'll re-work him to Pathfinder 1E seeing as how apart from the D100 games I run, that's what we're playing now.

I'm 57 and live in Penrith, a small-ish city west of Sydney at the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW Australia with my partner Rose and our fostered cat Bella, a Russian Blue that is an indoors only cat. I have a stepson, Wayne who is 36 years old and with his wife Sam, they've blessed us with 2 adorable grandsons, Mason who just turned 4 and Cooper who is turning 1 at the end of October. Bella was Wayne and Sam's cat but when Mason came along she started misbehaving, so came to live with Nan and Pop.

My family emigrated to Australia from Scotland in 1964 and I would live nowhere else now. I'm the youngest of 7 and was adopted by my grandparents (an unwed mother just wasn't the done thing back in the early sixties, there are a few skeletons in that closet let me tell you but I'll save you the boring details).

I left school midway through Year 11 (1979) as I landed my first full-time job as a clerk in one the major banks of Australia, however that didn't work out due to a poor relationship with my probationary supervisor; he didn't particularly like me and I liked him even less. I got a job as a storeman in an electrical wholesalers (predominately trade only) and have been in the industry ever since; working my way up to management, being a part owner of an independent wholesaler, to finally now being in my 'retirement' job as a Purchasing Officer for a mid-sized electrical contracting firm in the commercial construction sector.

I like, reading, obviously fantasy is my fave, I've been getting into a bit of the "grimdark' sub genre lately though. I'm also a metalhead; Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Helloween and so on are some of my fave bands and I like camping and being in the outdoors - got to love that nature!

I've always had a thing for the maps in the games we play and I've had an adventure published by the Design Mechanism, as well as doing cartography commissions for them (all done in Ps); and delved into the world of publishing (laying out an adventure for a friend). I tried CC years ago, I think I downloaded a free demo version but that was in the early days of the WWW so there was nowhere near the amount of online tutorials there are these days and I found the program a real struggle. But here we are in 2020 and things are much different and I'm really enjoying the program, though running it on a Mac has some challenges...

I could use a couple of those myself, if you find one please share!

I won't be doing anymore mapping this weekend as the wife and I are having a weekend away, a much needed sanity break. A 4-5 hour drive tomorrow morning, dump the camper-trailer (a box trailer with a tent on top) at the caravan park, have a bit of an exploration of Junee, in particular the chocolate-licorice factory, get some vittles then back to the park to set the trailer up, relax and get ready for the return trip on Sunday with a stop off to visit Rose's rleatives that live in Cootamundra.