Bill

The Drow

Favorite Characters: The Nameless Drow, Silas of the Forest
Bavorite NPCs: Barron Barrabus (He was Co-Creator)
Most Hated: Ironshade, hands down!
Favorite Character type: The  watchful monk or the unpredictable nutcase
Fuck it Factor: 2 (the lowest)
Favorite align: True Neutral
Strengths: His fine grasp of the game usually puts him in the unwanted role of leader. His great roleplaying inspires others to do the same. As former DM everyone looks up to him and always want to game with him.  Cool as the other side of my pillow under pressure.
Flaws: Disagrees with many modern D&D techniques, and will argue the live-long day over them.
Greatest Moment: When his famous Drow escaped the spider-goddess' yoke by slaying her.
Biggest Fuck up: Probably letting Brian take over as DM.
Favorite Lines: "It's like you never had it."
Status: Remotely Active

Comments: You can expect some truly weirded-out shit when Bill plays or DMs. If he plays, expect his characters to have some kind of mental or physical oddity that borders on the handicapped. It's just this kind of strangeness that gives him a psychological edge over others. When he DMs, bizarre landscapes, psuedo-sexual oddities, and monsters to shame your most twisted nightmares are the order of the day. By placing characters in alien enviroments, and against creatures they've never heard or dreamed of, he recaptures the flavor of the old days before players memorized the monster manuals. He's good at disturbing  the players id, and keeps them guessing well after the game has ended..

Tribute

There are many kinds of Dungeon Masters, but most of them have one thing in common...they like to make character's suffer.  The vengeful god of his own universe, the DM strikes down the unfaithful, punishes the wicked, and produces impossibly complicated traps from thin air.

Bill DMed the Old Schoolers first, back when the worlds were without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  Much of what I know of DMing comes from him.  Though our styles are a far-cry from one another, I owe my philosophy of a sovereign DM to his example.  Things were simpler, but no less dangerous, back when he ruled with a twisted scepter; before I brought hell to breakfast.

Bill always enjoyed the actual playing part of the game more than I (I'm a DM first and foremost) and back in 1983 when I asked him if he'd like me to take over for awhile, he nodded and said, "If I had any robes to pass on to you I would."  Neither of us had any idea that my tenure as DM would last so long.  Since that day, he and I have worked together on several game-related projects and he's always been ready to lend a hand in planning a big-game or to do the number crunching.   I have yet to see a time when we did not work well together.

This website wouldn't be complete without a tribute to Bill, an exceptional DM and extraordinary friend.  This page is for you Slime.  Mind yer hair."
                                                                                                      -- Brian