At the moment, I am running a weekly RQ Campaign in Pavis/Prax, having played in a HeroQuest campaign set in Far Point. It's been going since 2006 and things seem to be going OK.
As a commited GM, I have tried writing various things for the campaign, and have even had some published - HeroQuesting in Tales of the Reaching Moon, Shadowmages and various others in Pavic Tales, a few things in Tradetalk, some things for Mythic Russia: The Birchbark Chronicles and Merrie Englad: Age of Eleanor for Alephtar Games. The WWW gives me an opportunity to spread my views of Glorantha far and wide.
RQ-wise, I come from the "Blood and Guts" style of role-playing, preferring to play berserkers and kill-crazy nutters. As a GM, I prefer globe-spanning Heroic Campaigns, where the PCs can actually change things - in our Dorastor/Balazar campaign, they have killed Ralzakark and Argrath, imprisoned Harrek in a Lunar Hell, Deafened (and subsequently healed) Xiola Umbar and all her Mistress Race Troll Priests, and reunited Balazar, but have resisted all of my attempts to start the Hero Wars by killing key NPCs, making treaties and performing HeroQuests, just because they are not yet ready. What they fail to realise is that anyone strong enough to delay the Hero Wars is already a part of them.
I am also a Gloranthaphile and believe that the world should coexist with the RQ set, but be independent. So Glorantha history, culture and religions should be able to stand on their own, but should relate to RQ rules where necessary. I am always on the look out for new Gloranthan material - the main reason why I have gone online.
In real life, I am a Computer Programmer and currently work for HomeServe in sunny Walsall.
I've worked on an archaeological dig, as part of the Raunds Project, and various casual jobs, including warehouseman, gardener data entry clerk and barman. When I first told my wife about what I used to do for a living, she wasn't particularly impressed, then I heard her on the phone telling her friend "... and Simon was a Barman!".
Over the last few years, I have been a Programmer for Ogihara in Telford, an IT Manager for a Flude Hosiery, a hosiery company which means I spent my day surrounded by pictures of scantily-clad women - our Trade journals consisted of pictures of lingerie-clad models (but I only read them for the articles), a Programmer at Walsh Western in Ireland and ATMS in Birmingham as a Senior Software Engineer (Programmer with knobs on) - simply because that's the job I drifted into - and have lived in such exotic places as Coventry, Crewe, Naas, Dublin, Clondalkin, Moscow and Birmingham. I spent seven months in Moscow, enjoying every minute of it, and came back with a lovely wife.
I studied Maths at University and would have got a better grade but for the fact that the RQ3 rules came out at the start of my third year second term - did I (a) study for my finals or [b] learn the new rules inside out and make extensive comparisons with RQ2? Make your choices now.
A few years ago, I became a Mormon, so I know all about gifts, geases, rituals and cult secrets.