Who is JorrJorr?
Where did he come from?

No, JorrJorr is not a Gungan name. I've used this name for a number of years, well before Episode I came out. JorrJorr is the slurring and concatination of the name George Orr. George Orr is the principle character of one of my favorite Sci-fi stories "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. LeGuin.

For those who might not be familiar, "The Lathe of Heaven" is about a young man whose dreams have the ability to alter reality and conform reality to his dreams. Because George is aware of his ability he tries to suppress his dreams through drugs causing an overdose. This causes him to seek voluntary psychiatric help in the form of Dr. William Haber. Haber, using hypnosis initially tries to help George by giving him simple dreams via suggestion. Haber discovers that George's dreams do alter reality and then subtly uses George to have "effective" dreams for what may be altruistic purposes but usually result in some terrible side effect. To cut to the quick, one of George's effective dreams brings aliens into our reality and when they communicate with him it's always as the name JorrJorr.

Much of the book is about George's struggle to come to grips with his ability and Haber's covert and eventually overt abuse of George's ability. There have been two made for TV movies based on the book. The first, a PBS movie back in the late 70's is what brought my attention to the book. The second and recently produced by Arts & Entertainment around 2002. The first is finally available on DVD but suffers from some quality loss due to being duplicated from a second hand source, but is still my favorite and truer to the book. The A&E production was certainly more snazzy and well produced, but I thought the emphasis of certain elements (the love story with Heather) lost it's meaning when they completely cut George's effective dream solving the world's problem with conlflict (you'll have to see the original PBS version or read the book to find out).

Who am I really?

My name is Mike Fontana and I've been gaming since 1976 (role playing in '78). My first game was a wargame, SPI's Starforce. My second game, and the beginning of a long term hobby, was of course Dungeons and Dragons. My height of role playing was certainly in high school, but have continued to role play as time permits. I'm hoping OpenRPG will give me the outlet I need to continue playing until I can find face to face gamers where I live locally.

Over the years I've either run or played most RPGs but my favorites are usually D&D (various incarnations including 3e), RuneQuest, DragonQuest, Traveller, Gamma World, Palladium's TMNT and Heroes Unlimited, Tri-Stat (BESM and Silver Age Sentinals), Hero System (Champions, Fantasy Hero, etc), Shadowrun, Earth Dawn, Alternity, and Cthulhu.

Although I've never been a big White Wolf fan, my current guilty pleasure is Exalted. Once I get Gamma World underway, I'll probably work on this as my next campaign.