Who is the 40-something gamemaster?

I’m a 40-something (duh) guy who runs (and occasionally) plays table-top role-playing games. My non-gaming life is full (wife, teenage kids, job, gym, etc.), but I’m still currently managing to run two campaigns for two overlapping groups of players. The first is a D&D 3.5 game where I’m running the Savage Tide adventure path from the final print run of Dungeon magazine. The second is a home-brewed World of Darkness game in which the players are members of a government agency that deals with supernatural threats and are currently sorting through a mess that involves changelings, otherworldly drugs, and the Chicago mob. I tend to run/play a lot of D&D 3.5 (what can I say, I love the character options), though I’ve also run/played WoD, Pathfinder, and Mutants & Masterminds.

I plan to use this blog as a place to discuss both the challenges and fun of running table-top games, as well as related topics. If you have an opinion, please chime in!