Casting Resurrection PT 2 : Tripping and Falling

Tripping and falling.

We were still writing and producing material somewhat consistently but between 2021 and 2022 I ended up moving jobs twice. I had to learn two new, vastly different languages in a short period of time and found myself working extra time to make up.

During the same time period, our play test groups splintered a couple of times and we also found ourselves without a regular gaming group.

Then there was COVID.

Conventions began requiring masking of all attendees, but worse requiring vaccinations and proof of status. It would be hard enough to socialize with a number of players at a noisy convention table, but I couldn’t take the vaccine.

We were able to find one convention that year that would accommodate us remotely running a game and the game went incredibly well despite that. Sadly, it would be our last convention.

Then there was a wave of ideologies and present day politics injected into everything gaming.

Publishers and distributors were all promoting these political trends and fundraisers. I was concerned about where the money for fundraising might be going as well. Often times products were promoted based on this social alignment rather than merit.

This also made participation hard.

Gaming was supposed to be about bringing people together and we didn’t want to lose sight of that.