Vadim Gaming

Let The Games Begin!

I really enjoy all kinds of gaming. The character on the right, Tanshan Salir, businesswoman extraordinaire, was a character I played in one of my favorite role-playing games. I like a variety of games:

For Role-Playing games, I prefer hero system rules (D&D-ish) and system-less to reality-based ones (GURPS). After all, the term is ROLE-playing, not ROLL-playing.

I participate from time to time in the Stafnord Role-Playing Club on the Stanford campus. I am also currently in a geeky cool AD&D campaign.

I am the organizer of the Peninsula Gaming Club gamers@cs.stanford.edu for board games - to get on the list, send e-mail to gamers-request@cs.stanford.edu. Unfortunately, that group is for the most part defunct due to losing our Stanford sponsorship. Now I try to engage in less organized gaming.

I love all kinds of games, not just RPGs, though the ability to find play time is something I seem to have lost. Let me name the types of games I like:

Card Games (from Poker to Pinochle to Uno)
Strategy Games (used to play Chess, still try Backgammon, Go, ...)
Family Games (Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, ...)
Word Games (Scrabble, Boggle, ...)
Board Games (Monopoly, Risk, ...)
War Games (Supremacy, Ultimatum, ...)
Computer Games
Video Games (arcade, home - Atari, Playstation, etc.)
Role-Playing Games (more AD&D than others, but any system or system-less as long as there is good character development and interaction)
Live-Action Games (from hide & seek to live RPG's and medieval warfare reenactments)

Have I missed any? Probably. I'm not much into gambling and don't like one-on-one games as much as team, cooperative games. But other than that, I'm game!