Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
News about MACE from my end
WHERE: MACE 2016 (Charlotte, NC) WHEN: November 12, 2016 SYSTEM/SETTING: Call of Cthulhu 7e/ 1930 America, Arkham This adventure was completely different from Episode 1. It was far less railroading and more free formatted. I had to egg the characters on to get it going, though. I had 3 players from the previous session return plus…
WHERE: MACE 2016 (Charlotte, NC) WHEN: November 11, 2016 SYSTEM/SETTING: Call of Cthulhu 7e/ 1930 America, Vermont Never thought I would get involved in with anything Organized Play but when Call of Cthulhu did it, I was all in. They approach it differently from other OP (at least the way I understand it). They simply…
Finally got to run my Savage (Blood & Suns) at MACE 2016. All that preparation and terrain building paid off, mostly. This adventure has a cerebral element to it so running it after players have already played 8 hours worth of gaming was probably not a good idea. People were pretty warn out. I realized…
SYSTEM/SETTING: Fantasy Age/Titansgrave Ran it again at MACE 2016. Despite a few delays (reprint of one character), they all had fun. I have to say that I had the most amazing group for this one. They were people from all aspects of my life – Nick P and Steve C from new gaming friends, Chris…
MACE East has been in our minds since we started thinking about branching out. We first tried to branch out with a mini-mace South but it was a dismal failure with no one preregistering. Then we went all-in with a MACE West in Hickory, then moved it to Asheville, and that is now entering it’s 6th…
I write about MACE in multiple places but this is where I write about me and my feelings – a place to vent. Most people don’t want to read about how the sausage is made. They just want it cooked and served up. In the case of MACE, give the players “What, Where and When”…
Looking back, I realized that I wrote a short something about the first cruise I went on. This being my second, I thought I should. Because this cruise was also a “Club MACE” cruise, there was a gaming aspect to it, but I covered that part in my Gamer’s Codex review. The cruise was leaving from…
It takes a lot for me to sit down and write about MACE after it is over. I invest so much time, emotion, and work into it that when it is over, I really go through something like postpartum. But writing about it helps with that in some ways, and the sooner I do it the more I can recall. This year was tough – probably one of the hardest years – and my fatigue has lasted longer than ever before. But I am going to make an effort just to get it down before things are less fresh in my mind.
March 2014 meant not only that I turned 45, but also that MACE West moved to Asheville, NC, home of the Biltmore Estate! It was a new area for us and they seemed very welcoming to us on Facebook, but I wasn’t sure how accepting they would be about how we do things. We are a little more organized than what they may be used to, which I freely admit is sort of a double-edged sword. They could love the organization or they could think we are too “nazi” about the way we do things.