Since the 1980's, board games and roleplaying games have been a big interest of mine. Some of my favorite board games include: Axis & Allies, Talisman, Conquest of the Empire, Acquire, Shadows Over Camelot, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Supremacy, and my own creation, Smugglers of the Galaxy. Roleplaying games I have most enjoyed playing and/or game-mastering include: Dungeons & Dragons, Star Trek (FASA), Star Wars (D6), Star Wars (D20), World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, and GURPS. 

I have also enjoyed playing a few online games, such as Star Wars Galaxies and especially Ultima Online, which I played many years. In that game, I had a character named Tiberius, who was a philosopher spreading books on virtue. My wife and I also ran two 6-month campaigns called "Epic Lands, which involved 6 guilds and hundreds of players in a war over territory inside Ultima Online. This was a 'game within a game' which I designed.

In 2003, my old friend Nathan Abrashoff, his wife Shelly, my wife Julie, and myself formed the Playus Maximus game company. We produced the board game 'Smugglers of the Galaxy', which was distributed by major game distributors in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK. Our second product was to be a roleplaying game called Rocket League, but many life events caused a long delay on production. It's still possible I may independently publish Rocket League in the future.

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