User:PalominoMule
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AIM: PalominoMule MSN: PalominoMule@hotmail.com ICQ: 340635252
E-mail: PalominoMule at either hotmail or gmail.com.
Greetings, for I am Julia, an obsessive fan of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. I first got into it around the year 2000, just in time to buy a copy of the old second edition corebook and then have to buy the revised one. My life would never be the same - no one subject has so captured my interest so thoroughly, for so long, and in such a financially demanding way as has W:TA.
My knowledge of WTA has been described as encyclopedic, which may indeed be appropriate. Much of my actual *understanding* of the line, rather than just knowledge of what's in the books, came from the years I spent on the (now defunct) official WTA forum. I owe so, so much to those forumites. As to my knowledge, in part this has to do with a huge number of books at my disposal - my book case is absolutely filled with all books related to W:TA, although my collection is not quite so complete as I would like. I currently lack Under a Blood Red Moon, Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentex, and Freak Legion: A Players Guide to Fomori. The first edition tribebooks for the Fianna, Get of Fenris and Glass Walkers are also missing from my library *physically*, although I do have PDF versions. I have next to none of the fiction associated with the line, unfortunately.
However, my focus on W:tA is also my weakness; that is, I lack context from the other gamelines in the original World of Darkness. At the moment I write this, for instance, the Spirit (oWOD) article is waiting to be written but I cannot touch it as my knowledge of spirits is entirely from the WTA perspective and so quite skewed. If someone with a more comprehensive understanding of the gamelines were to write it, I could add to it with extremely detailed information concerning WTA's views.
My modern-day stomping grounds consist mostly of Shadownessence, where I am a Praefectus (that is, a moderator). I have a number of on-again-off-again projects I work on for WTA, but my biggest one is a comprehensive index for the entire line, currently at 436 pages with only 16 books completed. Why yes, yes I *am* disturbed.
