About Me
Hello, and welcome. My name is Payden. I'm an IT Engineer situated in Texas, USA.
TTRPGs
I play TTRPGs very often. I find the collaborative roleplay & storytelling to be my favorite part. Though I do love mastering systems and understanding how they work, so the other elements like puzzles, combat, and so on are also fun for me.
I've played in well over 1,400 sessions since starting in August 2018 with D&D 5e's Adventurer League.
I am dabbling in GMing Pathfinder 2e currently. I've ran 4 sessions so far.
Other Hobbies
I have a garden, though it's in the "building" stages. I use sacks for potatoes and just hang those up on hooks currently. I participate in charitable programs, like park cleanups, food kitchens, and so on.
I try to cook for myself. I love trying out new recipes. I am focusing on fixing my diet as I am a bit of a sugar fiend. My most recent discovery were butter toffee cookies, so that isn't going according to plan.
I enjoy various types of media, like books, comics, short stories, music, movies, TV, and anime.
From here, I will list some of my favorite pieces of media for each type.
If you have any questions, DM me on Discord at tpaliciusv.
Books
- Chris Wooding's Storm Thief
- D. J. MacHale's Pendragon Series
- Monica Hughes' Invitation to the Game
- Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Series
- Brandon Peterson's Stormlight Archives
- Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
- Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
- Homer's The Odyssey
- Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
- James Pattersons' Jester
- R. A. Salvatore's Homeland (Drizzt)
- Lois Lowry's The Giver
- Ben McGrath's Riverman
Comics
- Kill 6 Billion Demons (Web)
- Beach WZRD (Web)
- The Last Question (Web)
- Tower of God (Web)
- Watchmen (Paper)
- A Tale of Two Rulers (Web)
Short Stories
- Andy Weir's The Egg
- Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder
- Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron
- ChaosTheory0's The Blinding
- Prufrock451's Ancient Marines
- not_necessarily's The Afterlife is Not What You Think It's Like
Music
- Jorge Rivera-Herrans' EPIC: The Musical Album
- Tree's Splitting Branches Album
- CLANN's Seelie Album
- camiidae's music for bugs Album
- Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia Album
- Ólafur Arnalds' Living Room Songs Album
- Berlinist's GRIS Game OST Album
Movies
- Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-verse
- Oldboy (Original)
- Nimona
- In Bruges
- Joker
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- K-Pop Demon Hunters
- Logan
- Shawshank Redemption
- Thunder Road
- WALL-E
- Fight Club
- Pulp Fiction
- Onward
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- V for Vendetta
- Good Will Hunting
- Bo Burnham: Inside
- The Incredibles
- Icarus
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Mars Express
- Nightcrawler
- Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier
- Collateral
- Kingsman
- The Nice Guys
- Godzilla Minus One
- Justice League: Gods and Monsters
- Seven Pounds
- Warm Bodies
- Synecdoche, New York
- Cloud Atlas
TV Shows
- Barry
- The Good Place
- Arcane
- Ted Lasso
- The Last of Us (Season 1)
- Breaking Bad
- Better Call Saul
- Chernobyl
- Invincible
- Scavengers Reign
- Game of Thrones
- The Boys
- Severance
- The Penguin
- Firefly
- Reacher
- Your Honor
- Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law
- The Sandman
- Secret Level
- KAOS
- Stick
- Utopia (AU)
- Journey Quest
- Twilight of the Gods
- Rick & Morty
- Shogun
- One Piece
- Hazbin Hotel
- Helluva Boss
Anime
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
- Kaiba
- The Dragon Dentist (2017)
- A Silent Voice
- Penguindrum
- Baccano
- Castlevania
- One-Punch Man
- Perfect Blue
- Now and Then; Here and There
- Ghost in the Shell (original movie)
- Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
- Read or Die The TV
- Arakawa Under the Bridge
- Sword of the Stranger
- Read or Die (Movie)
- Metropolis
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- Erased
- Future Diary
- Jormungand
- Level E
- Redline
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Shiki
- Fullmetal Alchemist (both)
- Gurren Lagann
- Kill la Kill
- Trigun
- Cowboy Bebop
- Hellsing (both)
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Dan Da Dan
- Birdy the Mighty
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Soul Eater