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Tolkien Moot 2010 Guest Vocalist, Rehtaeh, on Middle-earth Talk Radio July 18, 2010 (Sunday)
MerpCon 2005 Speech
Hawke Robinson
Founder of MerpCon, Other Minds Magazine, Ea RPG, Middle-earth Radio, Suite GM Software, The Inland Northwest Spokane Tolkien Society Smial, and the RPG Research Project.
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| Hawke has been role playing since 1979 and a regular Game Master since 1984. He has role played with dozens of game systems in countless campaign worlds, but his favorite setting is in Middle-earth using various game systems since 1984. He has been an RPGA (Role Playing Gamers Association) member since 1984 and he created and ran two annual RPGA conventions in 1985 and 1986 in Utah when only 15 & 16 years old. He created a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) supporting role playing gaming, and Tolkien fans in 1994. Hawke took over what is now the merp@merp.com email list from Mario M. Butter (silent-tower.org) in the late 1990's. He founded Merp.com ( http://www.merp.com ) in the 1990's before handing it over to be run by the international volunteer community. He has created and continues to work on a series of role-playing rulebooks known as Eä RPG, adapting D&D 3.5 (Dungeons & Dragons) rules for play in Middle-earth, as well as working on a completely original version (non-d20). He founded the Numenor Project, a series of RPG adventures and sourcebooks set in, around, and about Numenor. He is the founder, funder, and organizer of MerpCon/TolkienMoot. He is founder and co-editor of the quarterly publication Other Minds Magazine, dedicated to role playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He has (self)published a few essays on J.R.R. Tolkien specifically, and on Role Playing Gaming in general. In the "real world" Hawke is a retired computer scientist, entrepreneur ( http://www.hawkenterprising.com), and information security specialist & analyst ( http://www.dev2devportal.com ). He also is active as a Radio DJ and, technology talk show host, and co-host on Middle-earth Radio, who is raising three boys, all of which role play regularly. He is also an open source software advocate and activist. Meanwhile he is volunteering & studying as a Recreation and Music Therapist working with special needs populations, especially children. He has been learning ASL (American Sign Language) since 2006, and has founded the Spokane ASL study group. He is attempting to organize the first Deaf Role Playing Gaming Group in the Inland Northwest (Washington/Idaho) Spokane area, and he is working on a 20+ year research project on "The Therapeutic Aspects of Role Playing Gaming" ( http://www.rpgresearch.com ). Below is a list of some projects slowly working towards publication including:
Hawke also created and develops with a team of other open source developers a computer application suite of software programs as an ongoing project to help GM's and players with their favorite game system, called the Suite GM.
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