Thirty days, Day 2
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gridloreDay 02- The meaning behind your LJ name
My name comes from a Traveller character I rolled up long ago, one Arameth Gridlore. The first name was the generic Celtic/Tolkien kind of name common to RPG characters of the time. The last name was born because I happened to be watching Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell described someone as a "veritable storehouse of gridiron folklore." Bingo!
The campaign Gridlore was rolled up for was very successful and long running. Along the way I had the chance to design members of his extended family and create a fairly complex family tree. He stuck in my mind. Years later, the Traveller Mailing List started up a ship design contest for the game's fourth edition known as the THUDDD (Traveller Highly Unofficial Democratic Design Derby). Requests for design proposals were put out given required performance parameters, and us gearheads would submit designs for voting. Part of the game was those taking part created in-universe shipyards and did promotional write-ups for their ships. I ret-conned Arameth Gridlore to be a captain of industry, and Gridlore Technologies was born. I actually won one of the competitions.
Soon after that, I was granted the contract for GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces and made sure that Gridlore Technologies was mentioned again. GridTech also appears in the BITS publication 101 Corporations.
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kshandra created a LJ account for me, and not being very good at names, I used the first thing that came to mind. gridlore
My name comes from a Traveller character I rolled up long ago, one Arameth Gridlore. The first name was the generic Celtic/Tolkien kind of name common to RPG characters of the time. The last name was born because I happened to be watching Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell described someone as a "veritable storehouse of gridiron folklore." Bingo!
The campaign Gridlore was rolled up for was very successful and long running. Along the way I had the chance to design members of his extended family and create a fairly complex family tree. He stuck in my mind. Years later, the Traveller Mailing List started up a ship design contest for the game's fourth edition known as the THUDDD (Traveller Highly Unofficial Democratic Design Derby). Requests for design proposals were put out given required performance parameters, and us gearheads would submit designs for voting. Part of the game was those taking part created in-universe shipyards and did promotional write-ups for their ships. I ret-conned Arameth Gridlore to be a captain of industry, and Gridlore Technologies was born. I actually won one of the competitions.
Soon after that, I was granted the contract for GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces and made sure that Gridlore Technologies was mentioned again. GridTech also appears in the BITS publication 101 Corporations.
It was during this time that
kshandra created a LJ account for me, and not being very good at names, I used the first thing that came to mind. gridlore
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