Last updated: February 2008

Greetings. As you already knew clicking this link, I'm chevalier, your head news editor. I'm a lawyer by trade and currently enrolled in a doctoral programme with the University of Warsaw, Poland. I've done other things too, especially in the area of teaching and translation. I've even taught Latin at some point, although I can hold my own in IT and webdesign as well, so in a way I'm a jack of all trades and I like it this way.

My history with PCs and games is a plentiful one. I started on an XT without a hard drive and with the famous 640 KB RAM which was enough for everybody. While I didn't play the first RPGs to come out, I played a lot of logical, arcade and platform games. Hexxagon or Prince of Persia I, anyone? ;) It went on and on and I could go on for hours enumerating titles of games I played when everyone was kicking the ball or stealing his first kisses. At some point I also began to code, so I can say I have programmed XT or even Commodore (load "Vista", 8, 1 FTW!). Around that time, I began discovering the strategy genre and from that direction, after playing strategic games with involving worlds such as Azeroth or Arrakis, I moved on to playing my first roleplaying game relatively late, probably in 1999 or 2000. It was Fallout II, followed by Might & Magic VI. Either Baldur's Gate or Might & Magic VII came third and then I wanted to play every game built on the Infinity Engine. Consequently, while I'm definitely a veteran to PC gaming as a whole, I've never got to play the big oldschool titles which roleplaying veterans talk about - the Ultima series, Lands of Lore, Wizardry, Kyrandia, original Pool of Radiance or early Dungeons & Dragons games. I barely know what they look like. This is the reason you rarely hear me ranting about how RPGs were in the old time as opposed to now. ;) How they are now, however, is sometimes troubling even without much comparison to a distant past and I do wish they would finally drop the fascination with evil, death and the occult, which goes way beyond what's expedient or tasteful. Bring back good old dragonslaying, I say.

As of now, February 2008, I'm playing Mask of the Betrayer and looking forward to Dragon Age, maybe a Star Wars D20 title or two, hoping for the outpouring of worthwile Neverwinter Nights 2 modules of which the forerunners are already on the track. From outside the roleplaying genre, I play Medieval II and Warcraft III, the already dated sequel to my once favourite Warcraft II, which I jokingly used to call my first roleplaying game. As I already wrote in my first bio several years ago, it is my silent wish that they might one day make another game in the Dune universe, especially finally a Dune RPG, although this seems unlikely at the present time.

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