Hello!

["karlvonl.geo" <karlvonl.geo@...>]

I just joined this group and wanted to post a hello and a small 
introduction.

My name is Karl and I just received my Piecepack in the mail on 
Monday. 

I first heard about the Piecepack through www.wunderland.com, where 
www.piecepack.org was picked as Tirade's choice for the week of Nov. 
22 2001. (You've probably seen the badge for this which now appears 
on www.piecepack.org) Unfortunately, this was after Unity Games III 
had taken place, where I later found out there had been a Piecepack 
on the prize table, which I would have taken if I knew what the heck 
a Piecepack was then.

I later told a friend of mine that I wanted a Piecepack for 
Christmas, and she attempted to make one herself, along with a really 
nice silk drawstring bag to carry it around in. The bag came out 
great, but the Piecepack itself didn't, and she didn't manage to 
finish it in time anyway, so I asked her if she wouldn't be to 
offended if I kept the bag as her gift to me but ordered a 
professionally made Piecepack. She said it was fine, so I did. And as 
I said, it arrived two days ago.

I've never designed games before, but somehow this thing is rather 
inspiring. I've come up with 3 games so far just off the top of my 
head while sitting at work. I've playtested two of them alone Monday 
and Tuesday nights, and one of them shows a lot of promise, so I hope 
to post the rules here soon; I just want to playtest it with a few 
other people first. It was going to be called "Scavenge", but I 
noticed today that Kenneth Leyhe beat me to that name, so a quick 
trip to the thesaurus produced a new name, Forage :-)

So that's my story. Happy gaming!