I come from a background of using the old Chainmail rules and migrating to the famed 1e and 2e rules. I was a prolific DM back in the day as most of my friends simply didn't have the inclination, patience and dedication to craft good dungeon scenarios or build a world from scratch. I suppose being a creative artist had something to do with that...
What brought me here was a friend and member of a guild I belong to in DDO. I believe he uses the same name here as he does in the other forum we troll read and post in. We even participated in a PbP campaign there before it kind of died off. Sadly, as I rather enjoyed that kind of playing style and brought back many an old memories of dungeon spelunking.
Of late and many times in the past, I get it in my head that I will make my own tools for DMing and players to help facilitate the flow of the game. I have read with great interest some of the messages here on these forums by DMs and players alike. Well, DMs more than players as they are the ones to must create, keep track of, provide the substance of their game worlds to the players.
I had played around with various dice rollers and programmed several of my own for my own use, and that lead me to follow a link from my friend (I'll let him reveal himself if he so desires
) to here. I have been over the years programming various game rules, many of them based on systems I devised on my own, or pulled from various rule sets (ODnD, 1e, 2e, 3.5e). My only problem is I am one man, and too many conflicting ideas in my head to focus on developing a SINGLE rule set to use. 
I am an artist by trade, but have a sound understanding of coding in nearly any programming language on a computer, and develop dynamic websites as well. HTML, PHP, Java, MySQL are all tools I use to develop my gaming tools. Lack of focus and direction has not kept me on track though, and I really have not decided completely on what rule set I want to use, or what to keep and pull from others.
Any how I tend to get long winded and this is well past a simple introduction, so I will end here by saying, "Hello!" again.
However, I do have a good start, but it is still in its infancy. When I get more comfortable with a particular rule set, or at least stop CHANGING my mind on how to go about it, I think I can make great strides in creating the DM tools for online play (PbP, or otherwise).
