Extra Life

[rredmond]

Great story Scott. And congratulations! Sounds awesome all around!!

[Scott308]

Now that it is 2019, I was able to make my fundraising page for this year! We don't know exact details yet, but it'll be this summer.

https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Scott-Peterson

[Scott308]

Details have been announced! On July 20th, we shall once more descend into the Dungeon of the Mad Mage, picking up where we left off last year. I raised $1,111 for our last fundraiser and hope to surpass that total this year.

https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Scott-Peterson

[Rukellian]

Here is something to get the ball rolling. Hope you enjoy your time at the event again!

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[rredmond]

You are always super-generous Brandon!
Be well!
--Ron--

[OGRE MAGE]

DAAAAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!!!!!

That is totally awesome Ruk!!!

It warms my dark heart to see those who can help, doing so.

Very cool, man!!!

Looks like Scott should have no problem crushing his record from last year with that kind gesture, sir.

[dmw71]

Here is something to get the ball rolling. Hope you enjoy your time at the event again!

That is super awesome, man. Mine was a couple zeroes short of yours, but every little bit helps, right?

[dmw71]

P.S.

Already.

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[rredmond]

[ravenn4544]

that's awesome

[Scott308]

Thank you so much, everyone! I have surpassed my original goal, almost exclusively through the generosity of people here. As I told Ravenn, I am humbled by the support of people who I only know through playing games here. I am honored to be a member of the wonderful community that we have created here. And while I am certainly grateful to those in a position where they can help on a larger scale, all donations are important. There are so many worthy places people can send their money, I am always surprised and awed that anyone feels my cause is worth supporting.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Scott308]

One week from today! I have been given permission to accept in-game rewards for various donation levels, so please take a look. Thank you!

[Norjax]

One week from today! I have been given permission to accept in-game rewards for various donation levels, so please take a look. Thank you!

Great Idea!

[Scott308]

My game is tomorrow, so I won't be likely to hit the site until possibly Sunday night. If I don't post in any of the games I'm in, that's why.

[dmw71]

Good luck, man. Have fun!

[Scott308]

Three hours to go!

[Scott308]

Another marathon finished! I'm going on three hours of sleep right now, we'll see how well I function tomorrow. The game went great! My DM allowed me to assign money towards rewards as I needed them instead of going through and "buying" the rewards at the start. Because I was fortunate to raise so much money, at one point I donated a free resurrection to each table. I know that the table playing at the epic tier, level 21+, ended up using it when a Death Knight (which was added thanks to one of the players at our table donating to that DM) with a Nine-Lives Stealer sword hit the rogue with a crit. One failed save later, and her life force was ripped out of her, killing her instantly. I'm not sure how many others got used, but people were happy that they had a safety net. One guy gave me a hug when I told their table they were getting the free res. Otherwise, I generally tried to avoid using things until we got desperate. I used an auto-crit on both my attacks in the final battle to kill the demon we were facing. I used another auto-crit when we were facing a necromancer, skeletons, zombies, and skeletal hands (we were still first level at this point, mind you) and four of the seven characters, including my barbarian and the cleric, were incapacitated. My death save auto crit allowed me to regain 1 hit point and get back into the fight against the necromancer, which let the paladin lay hands on the cleric, who would have failed his third and final death save on his turn (he rolled just to see what would have happened). The paladin's method of laying on hands to unconscious characters was to kick them and say, "Hey, wake up!" as she gave them one hit point back. It really looked like we might have been TPK'd during that fight.

Overall, we had a lot of fun and raised a lot of money for a worthy charity. My total came in at $1,473, blowing away my original goal! Thank you so much to everyone here for supporting me, whether you donated or not. By just playing games here, it allows such a wonderful community to exist and enable me to raise money to help sick children. I'm looking forward to my next marathon, which will take place at Gamehole Con in Madison on November 1st. I registered during the marathon (in the middle of combat, of course) and it is being run by different people as part of the convention instead of a separate event like the marathon my organization runs each year, so we'll see how this one goes. It will be streamed, more info on that later.

Thank you.

[Rukellian]

Hey, I'm glad this year's charity event was just as fun! It's great being able to do something you love while also supporting a good cause and I will continue to support this event so long as I have a decent job. Kudos to you for signing up for the next event this year

I intend on donating again to your charity fund, but it may not be as much as the previous amount. Can't guarantee it will be 4 digits But I shall definitely set some money aside.

It's also awesome how you were able to help out those other groups as well! Feel good coolness right there.

[Scott308]

Thank you, Ruke! In the past the Adventurers League admins had given permission for magic items and leveling up based on donations, as well as rewarding everyone with a certificate for a free resurrection. This year, they did not, so I had money available. I figured that since people gave generously to me, I would spread some around to those who are not lucky enough to have such generous friends. It felt pretty good, especially when I heard someone ended up needing the help.

[Scott308]

If anyone is looking for an end of the year tax write-off, my Extra Life campaign is open through the rest of the year. Sometime on the 1st, I'll be putting together my page for 2020 if anyone is interested in starting the new year with a donation.

Thank you everyone for your generosity and support. I wouldn't have been able to help anywhere near as many sick children without the help I have received from this wonderful community.