About

I live in Ankara and work remotely. I trained as a physicist at METU, where I wrote a thesis on neural networks for solar irradiation and taught first-year undergraduates for a while.

I have run tabletop role-playing games for over twenty years. Mage: the Ascension is the system I keep coming back to.Which explains a lot about D20 Companion. Twenty years of prep notes is a large, messy dataset, and I finally wanted the tooling I always wished I had. On a screen I play action roguelikes (Hades, both of them), Slay the Spire, Monster Train, and the XCOM games. At the table with other people: Eldritch Horror, Pandemic, Wingspan.

Reading, fiction: the Dresden Files, Iain M. Banks's Culture novels, The Wheel of Time, the Ender books. Non-fiction: Stoic philosophy and Jungian psychology. I have recently taken up painting and am not yet good at it.

Turkish is my first language. English has been my working language for more than six years. If you write to me in either, I will answer in kind.

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