Just a few weeks ago my good friend passed away. He had been in a car accident several months ago, and gotten blood poisoning afterwards . He was never quite healthy again after that. He kept getting sick, and the doctors couldn't figure out why. He had so many tests and hospital visits, it was something to do with his blood? Then he passed away in the hospital about a month ago.

I remember how much he loved rpol. I'd call him while he was in the hospital and when we also talked outside of that and he'd often speak so fondly of this site. He'd tell me how the moderators were the kindest most helpful people (if we could get an applause here for them), how he was so excited about this game or that game he was running or playing in, how he met this wonderful co-GM or awesome player. Heck, I remember once he was reading posts to me from a player and saying how he wished he could write like that.

The two big games were a walking dead based one that apparently drifted pretty far from TWD, and a sci-fi game where he's designed a universe and lore based on it. He'd ask me all these questions about ideas and thoughts. Oh and he loved this pirate game he was in, used to tell me he would purposefully not post in It though until he made sure the game He was gming for the GM had an even post count to keep it fair. He really did like rpol.net. he would stress about not posting, and always feel guilty about being absent, especially if he didn't say he'd be absent.

This was all before I even joined. But after he died I got to thinking, and I decided to check out the site my friend loved. I'm not sure now if I enjoy being on here for memories of him, or just for the actual site. It's a blast. I think maybe it's both. Thanks guys for making two people's lives a little better, a little more fun, and generally happier :)

My condolences.

Do you recall his site name ? Would help those of us who may have known him here know why he just vanished.

Yea I do actually. I think its JacobVVV? Actually based my site name after him since I figured it fitting giving the only reason I joined was because of him. I don't know how to find the games he GMed though. :/

I'm sorry to tell you this, but we have no record of any user called JacobVVV, or anything close to that.

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 5):

Which is weird because that name sounds so familiar.

Oh...I must have gotten it wrong...let me try to find if I can get the right name. Maybe I have it somewhere in an old txt or screenshot.

There was a Jacob_VVV.  I still have an rmail from him in my... err... rmail.

He ran a Savage Worlds XCom game that I was involved with for a time.

I hate to hear he passed, though.

That is the one I am thinking of Swordchucks. He passed? I did not know him, but his posts in the forums made him sound like a decent person.

He has a number of games up.  I wonder if it is possible for a moderator to check into those games and inform the players as to why their gm is gone.

It would seem, with all the "mysterious disappears" and the discomfort that puts on players, this might be a considerate thing to do.

I remember he changed his screen name to Jacob Bowden at some point, assuming I spelled it right. I played with him, too. It's a shame to hear of his passing. My condolences.

Oh no. That's very sad news. I'm very sorry to hear that. Yes, recently there was some discussion on games between he and I. What a loss for our community here.

In a situation like this, what happens to his games?

If he has a co-GM they can continue to run the game.  If not, it eventually goes inactive, and will, in the end, be flagged for deletion.

It is, pretty literally, what we're here for.

I'm sorry he's gone.  I don't think I knew him at all, but... well.  Glad you found us, though.  RPoL is, indeed, freaking awesome.

I'm actually in one of his games. So sad to hear of his passing.

Sorry to hear of his passing; he was a player in a couple of my campaigns :(

Condolences.