I have been struggling to come up with something to write. It has been over a month since he passed but I have no words. As soon as he was gone, I missed him. He was one of my best friends and I hardly saw him more than 2 or 3 times a year. We…
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And then everything changed
JS is sick. He and his family are going to have to focus on that. The prospects for a normal future for them are mixed. MACE’s future is at best questionable. I have to look forward now, to see a life without MACE and all that it includes. No more convention gaming. No more March…
Surviving Cancellation Part 2: The Return – MACE 2021
MACE 2021 has come and gone. All the build up and anxiety built up and died down. My true friends showed up and those that I want nothing to do with faded away. Grumblings did pop up here and there, but overall it seemed to fade away as expected. I found that my anxiety as…
Alien RPG: Chariot of the Gods (MACE 2021)
Date: November 12, 2021 Full table of great players, this group was insanely fun. In the playtest, I connected my laptop up to a larger screen monitor and used it to display a youtube video I downloaded of ambient Alien ship noise. When the ship went into self destruct, I used the warning video found…
Project Tor 1: Asteroid of Terror (MACE 2021)
Date: November 13, 2021 Officially kicked off the new trilogy in this series at MACE 2021. I had five great players and all 5 had played in one session or another in this campaign before. It’s like I am starting a following. The game went very well, kind of dragged in the middle but they…
Moonglow (mini-mace 2020)
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e DATE: January 25, 2020 I wasn’t sure how this was going to go. I had not run this one before. Keeping it as realistic as possible, it really was difficult to make the players feel like they are supposed to die in this adventure. It’s real hard to survive on…
A Light in the Darkness (mini-mace 2020)
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e DATE: January 25, 2020 Ran this with a really good group at the small game day JustUs runs in Kernersville. This is a fun adventure and every time it ends differently.
Surviving Cancellation
2020 has been a disaster on all levels. COVID 19, racial unrest and protests, the election – just ugly. My life is no different. Between sporadic health issues (not COVID related) and the events behind this post, my life is probably changed forever. While my experience is not unique nor earth-shattering, it is an experience…
Fallen Angels 3: World of the Angel (MACE West 2020)
Date: February 29, 2020 I can safely say that this game went well, but in a very different direction from the previous session. I had four ladies in my game including my wife. While I worked hard to keep things appropriate, it definitely did not end that way. And again, as long as everyone had…
Fallen Angels 2: Fortress of the Angel (MACE West 2020)
Date: February 28, 2020 Re-running with hopes it would go a different direction – and in some ways it did. Of the two I ran, this was the more serious because of the players. And I don’t mind that. There are some serious elements in this game. Playing was Heath M, Dan S, Doyle H,…