Good morning, evening, or afternoon wherever you are. My name is Tristan "TK Nyarlathotep" Jusola-Sanders, and I live in Springdale, Arkansas. I'm a gamer of over eight years (which makes me feel woefully inadequate in some circles), a game designer for under one year, and a genre fiction enthusiast since I was old enough to read words with my eyes (somewhere around just under a year, making me some kind of Wilbur Whateley-esque freak of nature). I'm also a classically trained actor (I once screwed up a Shakespeare monologue and corrected it, still in Iambic Pentameter, without my director, or anyone else, noticing.), a fiction writer (I'll probably put some stuff on here one day), and some kind of hideous ape-man (oogah boogah).
This has been a good year for me, making some grand strides into the world of RPG-related journalism, publication, and design. I've met a lot of good people, written a lot of good things, and am working on my first system and setting. Hopefully more on that later in the year.
Some of my chief gaming inspirations that are not games include H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Douglas Adams, Harlan Ellison, J.R.R. Tolkein (even if I won't admit it), Clive Barker, and likely some other names I forgot to drop. I'm a huge cinephile, so various movies influence my way of GMing, such as The Thing (1982), Falling Down, any given Wuxia or Samurai film, Conan the Barbarian (also 1982), and The Last Hunter.
My favorite RPG settings are Call of Cthulhu, Unknown Armies, Exalted, Eberron, Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k, and Warhammer Fantasy. My favorite systems are Cortex Plus (Formerly Marvel) Heroic Roleplaying, Unknown Armies, Call of Cthulhu, Black Crusade, and the upcoming ZWEIHÄNDER, which I am a happy playtester for.
It's an honor and a privilege to be part of this website, and I can't wait to submit more goodness in the coming months!
Ïa Las Vegas,
TK Nyarlathotep
