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GMKib
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 Tue May 06, 2008 1:03 am     |
GMKib
Name: Keith Bailey (ni_kiwi)
Based: Northern Ireland
Found Redscape How & When:
While GMing an email game for university mates in 1998 I wondering if there was an automatic adjudicator. After searching the web I found a fledging site called Redscape that was running its first few games. Signed up and played a couple of games (Entrench, Blitz) and then decided to host a couple of variants (Alpine Passage and Forceback). Invited to be a Redscape GM in early 2000 and while enroute to the UK via Canada, collaboratively devised the concept of the Patriot Games Tournament somewhere between Kitchener ON (Norm), Rochester, NY (GMTom), Norm's fine whiskey collection and beers with Tom in Niagara. If Redscape sold real estate I'd have bought a long time ago. Home indeed!
Admin Duties: Replacement GMing; Dispute Settlement (JAG); Patriot Games
Tournament; New Game Forum creation; Moderator Add/Change/Deletes
Favorite Variant: Super 14 Rugby
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| posts: 911 | location: Northern Ireland | joined: 27 Oct 2000 |
GMPatrick
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Tue May 06, 2008 4:38 am |
GMPatrick
Name: Patrick (Roadkill315)
Based: Illinois, USA
Found Redscape: In October of 2002. While seriously bored on a never ending product information data project (I mean seriously bored), I set off to surfing the net looking to see if any new pbem opportunities were out there. Bingo!.. Redscape showed up on the 28th, maybe it was just the 26th, page of a yahoo diplomacy word search result. It was October so in no time I was thrown into this thing called PG3, took up the German cause in Serpentine and was stabbed brutally by bbauska. Wounded and distressed, somehow I soldiered on to survive. Though I have not played on a map with bbauska since, I have been a daily addict of Redscape since that initiation via a brand of stabbing I can only classify as boorishly philistine. It felt just like home and I have not played dip on another site since then.
Admin Duties: Replacement GMing; Dispute Settlement (JAG); and cutting my teeth on Redscape game-solo data keeper and medal presenter.
Favorite Variant: Explore!, Empire4, Scorched Earth
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| posts: 37 | location: Lake County, Illinois, USA | joined: 04 May 2008 |
GMChristine
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Tue May 06, 2008 8:09 am |
GMChristine
Name: Christine Stoy
Based: Illinois
Found Redscape: I heard about Redscape from some guys who were commenting on how great Redscape was and how it was going to impact some of already established site. Redscape was fairly new, but already known as a site that valued reliability. I was relatively new to Diplomacy and was looking for somewhere different. Redscape had a nice community feel to it and Chad made me feel at home immediately. I'd always wanted to host a game but was unsure, GMAndy agreed to mentor my first game, and I never looked back.
Admin Duties: Replacement GMing; Dispute Settlement (JAG); updating rank records and ranks: increase upload quota for GMs; help with user access issues; Tournament of Champions
Favorite Variant: Crystal Ball. I prefer to Host Variants more than playing them, my favorites to GM are Colonial and World.
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| posts: 2747 | location: Illinois, USA | joined: 26 Apr 2001 |
GMBobby
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Tue May 06, 2008 4:34 pm |
GMBobby
Name: Bobby Hinkle (orange)
Based: Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Found Redscape How & When:
Discovered & registered in May of 2002. I had played Diplomacy mostly on sites that were mainly dedicated to other hobbies. I didn't actually join a game on the site until later that year, if not into the next, when the quality on the other sites I frequented dropped substantially. That is to say, I realized that they consisted mainly of players who were not serious about the hobby. I quickly saw Redscape as the home of serious players with more organized games, better talent, and higher levels of commitment. Plus, an annual tournament and discussion boards! What fun! For the most part, I have not wasted my time on other dip sites since.
Admin Duties: Replacement GMing; Dispute Settlement (JAG)
Favorite Variant: Imperial, Explore! & like-minded Dip/Civ spin offs
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GMTom
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Fri May 09, 2008 6:51 pm |
GMTom
Name: Tom Reinecker (Tommahaha)
Based: Rochester, New York, USA
Found Redscape How & When:
I started playing Diplomacy in College. One of our classes wrapped up early and the professor told us we could go but if we wanted, he had this fun game he would teach us. I was out the door in no time!
A few yards down the hall I stopped in my tracks wondering where i was going to go? I had another class in about an hour, not enough time to really go anywhere or do anything, so a buddy and I turned back around to see what this goofy game was all about. I was hooked! We played the next class but that was all the time we had, the game never finished but I liked the game and wanted more. I went out and bought it and taught one of my brothers how to play (Bytor the Snowdog) but I never played more than a game or two (and we played with wrong rules that teacher taught us).
Fast forward about 18 years or so and I finally broke down and got a computer, internet and all (it was I think 1997 or 98) At that time there was far less on the web and porn got old real quick, I seriously thought the internet had a nice future but offered me nothing at that time and I was close to canceling it. Then I dug out of the memory banks that goofy little game and wondered if anyone played it online? WOW, I found a LOT of games. Unfortunately most of the games were on "The Judge" and I didn't understand the mechanics of the judge and got real disappointed but searched some more. I didn't yet find Redscape but did find a GM looking for players. It turned out he not only GM'ed but played in the same game. It got real suspicious when he read into some crazy moves and once again I was disappointed and searched some more. Then I found a French guy whose name I do not recall, I played a few games with him but he had no "site" and games took forever to fill and drop outs ran rampant but I got a better taste for the game and did some further searching when I stumbled upon Redscape.
WOW, an actual web site, with maps and all human adjudicated games, THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! (and it was several site versions ago when it was nowhere near as "pretty" as it is now) I played a game or two and decided to try my hand at GM'ing a game, my maps were crude but I taught myself how to work with the paint program and found it to be both fun and rewarding. After hosting a game, I felt a bit more a part of the family and got more vocal in the forums and even designed a few variants (WW4 was the first) I think that game kind of blew Chad away at the time, nobody had anything else like that game at the time, it was huge (even bigger now) and was quite well balanced and it was attracting people to Redscape and helped make us one of the best places to play variants of all sorts, we were pumping out unique games every few weeks at that point. (about 1999 or so?) I opened my email one day and I had this request from Chad to help run the site as a GM. Now this is going to sound really nerdy but I was so totally HONORED, it really shocked me to know people started to acknowledge and even respect me. I took this as a tremendous compliment and have ever since given the site my all. Itis my hobby and in many real ways, my home where I have found many friends. (in fact i have met a great many people here in real life now as well and look forward to meeting even more)
Admin Duties: New Game Openings; New Forum Creation; Dispute Settlement (JAG); Change/Add/Delete Moderators; Patriot Games TOC
Favorite Variant: Several of my own!
Explore! My newest and most well received game (by those who have played that is). The game combines Diplomacy with elements from the game Civilization. Players start with a tiny section of map and explore their unique world and along the way they meet others, name their spaces, build cities, train their armies and fleets to be stronger, grow their cities to be more powerful and so on. The game is tremendously popular with an overwhelming number of players who have "tasted" it to date. It's a LOT of work but well worth it!
WW4; a large (36 equal powers) whole world not so distant future world game. Great balance and wonderful interaction
NWO; another large (huge actually ...now at 49 powers) whole world game. This game takes part in the present (sort of) and is completely unbalanced and crazy. Some powers are huge, some are tiny, some have nuclear know-how, some do not, nukes destroy huge sections of the world each turn yet it all seems to come together and work in a most unique way.
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