Before I begin, I wanted to thank @Phanjam for introducing me to this site and somehow trying to introduce me too with the community, although I failed to get the hints early on, so for that I'm sorry. Sadly I just lack the skills to be social in general.

I also want to point out that this is my first time seeing this portion of the forums, I'm kind of unfocused when it comes to these things.

At first, I was anxious to post anything here at Torchmodders' forums, seeing all the known names of TL2 modders is a bit overwhelming. But the longer I browse here, the better I'm recognizing familiar names at RGF, like @gytfunke for one, looking back to my RGF's posts I happened to interact with him for his query. I wouldn't have guessed that he'll become an epic dev/modder for TL2! It's an exciting feeling but at the same time makes me feel ancient.

It's kind of true though, I was able to play TL2 back in 2012, few weeks of its release because I'm a big fan of TL1. What I didn't know back then that modding TL2, was going to be the game for me. Best thing happened too because till now, mods are still unbounded and I'm still able to contribute some.

I did a few mods back then too and I was supposed to share them at Runic's official forum but making an account there prohibits me on my intentions. That's why I made RGF my home instead. Now, I got Steam Workshop and this collaborative group of unique individuals, the Torchmodders. I couldn't be more grateful.

So yeah, I'm Doudley and hello everyone!

Haha! Here's a commemorative "Welcome!" to the forums as well doudley! ;P

But really, welcome! It's an honor to have you here and I hope you find this place fun for your modding adventures!

P.S. I doubt that anyone is more ancient than me in terms of physical age around here!

Thank you Phanjam, I'm sure it will!

I hope that I speak for everyone in saying that your invigorating spirit what drives us to participate and be more productive on our works.

Modding is fun indeed, encouragement can go a long mile when it comes to creation, making your ideas into something that can be shared to everyone and be well received is so much rewarding but there are some sadness too involved into putting your work in public. I for one don't mind that my works be explored or be used on other mods but knowing that someone else is tackling the same concept that you already published is a little disheartening.

Modding is a game in itself and one I have spent over 1500 hours (probably more) modding for TL2... it can be very rewarding indeed.

I know right! TL2 became creatives playground and the game is very inviting for it.

Glad you are on board, I like what you have done so far, so keep it up.

You do?! That means a lot! I mean I'm just another modder for TL2, didn't make the big leagues just like you guys! Making reimagination of the game's mechanics and stuff! I don't even have to see your works to know that they are brilliant, just by looking at your logo

and it is what the main title say!

Me, I tackle on trivial things...small unnoticeable stuff. When I first browse through TL2 game's data, I see lots of engineer skills that are unknown to public and I made the Added Skills for Engineer mod, published December 2012. I also found out that there are unused spells, that's why I made the Unlock All Spells (former Unlocked Spells) mod published June 2013, bringing 10 more spells for players to play around with!
(It's not really all spells, I didn't worked on Charm Ball spell)

And what I'm most proud of are my character to pet modifications, seeing most modders work on custom classes and enhancement skills/equipment, it feels like pets are being undermined that's why I focused on them and made my two Brother-in-Arms (former Humans as Pets) mod.

Choices are good to have.

You're right, thank you for mentioning it and very thank you for welcoming me, I'm not sure what I can contribute along with you guys but I sure feel lucky just being here

yo. i made that logo for RNF a looooong time ago XD

That's amazing! Very clever and playful design, you are now my idol! Thank you for welcoming me!

oh and i see that you like pets, i created an entire class dedicated to them lol check it out
i loaded it with lots of tricky and complex mechanics, if you can extract the mod file and peek inside i think you will learn lots.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=299563814

Yup! I think pet/companion system is the very asset that is unique with Torchlight games and should be given focused to. Thank you for the offer, I'll sure try to learn from it!
Also, if you ever finalized that class maybe I can build a warbound version of it?
*Warbound is the term I use for companions (other than the starting pet) that are equippable

Because by the looks of it and LAO's logo, you are obviously an artist and I assume your justification regards the game's standard has been implemented to your works.

P.S. I can't help smiling every time I read your name, reminds me of Toph calling at Aang (Nickelodeon's Avatar)

Thanks again @TwinkleToes !

Wow Phanjam, that's a very nice sentiment and stating your age just makes it more profound. Thank you so much!

I agree with you completely. So far, I haven't much looked around the forums yet, hopefully there's something that might catch my pique. I'm on board to contribute, looking forward to make my time worthwhile for others and at the same time I could learn from everyone a thing or two about collaborations.

All in all, it goes to say:

Either way, the whole community wins 

Can't thank you enough for giving us more than a little of your time.

 just by looking at your logo

and it is what the main title say!

This logo of awesomeness is waaaaaaaaaay beyond my art skills.  @TwinkleToes as he mentioned, was the creator for the logo.  He created it a few years back when I developed LAO 2.0.