Arpeegy Hobbies & Games

Welcome to Arpeegy Hobbies & Games! Arpeegy began in August of 1996 as an on-line hobby shop with the name "The Elder Beholder E-Mail Hobby Shop" that I ran in my spare time. The shop was small and mainly catered to the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons crowd.

In 1997 I changed the store name due to a request from TSR Games Inc, now Wizards of the Coast (those darn intellectual property disputes...how was I to know a Beholder was TSR's creation and not a monster from mythology). It seems the request was a blessing because I had been toying with the idea of changing the store name for some time. You would have to live in Utah to fully appreciate this irony but it appears that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) refer to their missionaries as elders. Since my shop was based in Utah, I was always bombarded with well meaning customers looking for church sanctioned hobbies to mail to their loved ones serving LDS missions. Although this was great for public relations it was not so good for selling Role Playing Games. So I went back to the drawing board and created a new word, complete with character and meaning, to serve as my store name, trademark, and mascot: Arpeegy. In short, it means Role Playing Game (Role Playing Game = RPG = Arpeegy). For those of you who know me you will also know I use this as my online moniker.

Arpeegy Hobbies & Games grew substantially over the next four years and soon had thousands of customers, from around the world, and we supported numerous game systems and products. My 30-minute a day hobby had turned into an over 8-hour a day job. This presented me with numerous problems, the biggest one was where do I get the time to do everything I needed to accomplish. Between family, my career, and Arpeegy Hobbies & Games I was fairly well boxed into a life of all work and no play.

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks I reevaluated my life and decided I needed to spend more time with the family and less time with Arpeegy Hobbies & Games. After all, my family is my most valued treasure.

I decided to liquidate Arpeegy's extensive inventory and close down the hobby shop on December 31, 2001. I did this in lieu of selling the store because I wanted to keep the Arpeegy name, and my intellectual property rights to it, which I had created and worked so hard to give an excellent reputation.

That brings us to the present. I have decided to us the Arpeegy name as the icon of a game system I have developed over many years of extensive role playing. The Arpeegy Role Playing Game (ARPG) system is one of my own creation and I will endeavor to bring it to the community free of charge for your enjoyment. This could take many weeks, months, and years because I have never bothered to compile my game system until now. It is currently a mass of notes and essays I have written over the years and it may take a bit to get it all sorted and put into words. I ask you all to be patient with me as I continue my task of bringing you what I believe is the best role playing system ever created...but then I am biased. Have fun, send me your comments and suggestions, and enjoy!

Oh yea, and this small store in association with Amazon.com. Since maintaining a website is not free I have reserved this space to continue to sell quality products to my once loyal customers and friends. Your purchases through this portal will help to generate referral fees, which in turn, will help to keep this website running. Thanks!