Remember me? No?! Yeah, I don't blame ya...

Man, six weeks without a post, I'm not keeping up with this too well like I planned. Well, guess I should start talking.

For those of you who don't know, about a year and a half ago I was introduced to a table-top system that I fell in love with; the Lucid Gaming System covered everything that I disliked about D&D and the d20 system and did it in a way that made sense and that I liked.

A few months ago PtME, the super small company that created the system, went dark and I heard next to nothing from them. Yeah, I had a friend who was connected to them and filled me in on some of the details, but overall I didn't know how much was absolute truth or what he speculated about; Wesley is great and all, but I got the feeling that even he wasn't entirely in the loop, just how things go.

Anyways, on Monday I went to check out their online forums. It had been a while and I had a question or two I thought would be good. When I first got there it didn't click--I thought I had input the web address wrong--but after another try I read what the webpage said; the PtME site had expired. So I made a trek over to their Facebook page (something I had no idea existed -.-) and posted a comment about it, asking what was going on. I knew that two of the three original people had left because they felt it was their time but I had heard that the project had continued one way or another. Today I got their response:

"Hey Caleb, right now the project is on hold. No one is working on it or doing anything for it. I am not sure when the project will continue."

I can't say I was happy when I read the response, but I'd been hearing things and rumors and so I wasn't too surprised. I wished them luck and thanked them for responding, ending with telling them to stay safe and awesome. I've met and talked with pretty much every main person involved and can say that I am on good terms with them. They are all great people and appreciated me voicing my opinion and giving my view as someone not part of the company; seeing as everyone that I know that has played the system has helped the company and considered interning for them, they don't have many people who aren't part of the company in some way--they're kind of awesome in that way :)

I don't really know why I've made this post, it's just something I care about; LGS is a source of many good memories and friends and I hope they come back to the project. Until then, the phrase "no one is working it" is kind of a lie. I know people who are working on it right now trying to perfect the system and expand on somethings that aren't complete. While PtME itself may not be working on the project that doesn't mean it won't go forward, the fan-base loves it too much to let it stay stagnant.

I guess the reason I wrote this is to inform more people about the table-top game that I love, to help persuade the company to come back and work on something I know they love and that has plenty of fans trying to spread their knowledge and get LGS the fan-base it deserves. D&D is great and all, but it doesn't have the personality that LGS does.

Anyways, thanks for reading (or not reading, how many people actually even know this exists?)

Working on my next level in Nerd,
Caleb James Nelson