About
Hi, I’m Martin Ralya, and welcome to 3d6.org!
I live in Utah, with my wonderful wife, Alysia, and our neurotic beagle, Charlie, in a house full of books. Alongside my day job, I’ve been a freelance writer for the RPG industry since 2004. (You can see a complete list of my published credits on Treasure Tables.)
3d6.org
3d6.org started out as the campaign website for the Selgaunt campaign, the last D&D game I ran in Michigan, and has been online since August 14, 2003. I moved to Utah in 2004 (and bought a digital camera), and added photo galleries as a way to stay connected with friends and family around the world.
That D&D game ended, as did the other games I supported on 3d6.org (Stargate SG-4 and the Airship Privateers campaign), and the photos became my favorite part of the site. When I revamped the site in March of 2006, I switched it over to WordPress (3d6.org was originally 100% hand-coded in Notepad, and was very cumbersome to update) and made it all about the photos, baby.
At the end of 2007, I got tired of the fussiness of updating my photo galleries here and moved all of them to Flickr. There are now many, many more photos there than I ever would have found the time to post here, and they’re a lot easier to browse.
These days I keep 3d6.org online mainly out of nostalgia, and to have a place to host gaming stuff that doesn’t really fit on either of my two GMing blogs: Gnome Stew (active) and Treasure Tables (inactive). I might wind up doing more with 3d6 in the future, too — you never know.
Why 3d6.org?
3d6 is a gaming term: Made famous by D&D (but common to many RPGs), it refers to rolling three six-sided dice to generate each of your character’s attributes. D&D is what got me into gaming (and rolling 3d6 is a little bit old school), so it seemed like a perfect choice for a gaming site — and since it reflects my interests, it still fits pretty well.
Martial Art Supplies Notary Income Tax?
Exactly. This is an actual business in downtown Salt Lake City, run out of the back of someone’s house. I snapped this on my first trip to SLC, shortly before I moved. I love it, and when I first redid 3d6.org it summed up this site’s themes in an entertaining way: photography and randomness.
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