Happy Birthday, Don!

[Evan van Eyk]

Sorry for being late, but nonetheless I wish you all the best for your birthday!

[D.S.McBride]

As with those others who have been...just a little bit late, I pass on all best wishes and hope that things are going nothing but excellent on your end, Don.

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Happy Birthday, Don. Hope you're allright out there

[mactavish]

Best wishes on your birthday, Don. Many happy returns.

mactavish out.

[Don Mappin]

Hi all! I received my annual "Happy Birthday" reminder from the site which is always something like having an old girlfriend that you've drifted away from dropping you a line. It' a bit...weird.

I didn't respond last year for whatever reason but I thought I'ld do so this time. Mostly just give everyone a quick shout out and say "HI!" and hope that you all--and the site--are doing great!

As for me. Well, I don't much like talking about me, which is why I recently recorded a 3 hour podcast interview. You can go off and listen to it here. The second version will go quite a bit into Trek and the licensed properties I've worked on over the years.

We spend a good amount of time talking about a free RPG that I've just released: Mass Effect Fate RPG. If you like Mass Effect you'll probably like it it. If you also like Fate then you'll probably love it. It's done in what I believe is a professional manner so for free it's a pretty sweet deal.

Other than that I spent my birthday at the Salt Lake Comic Con, which I missed last year. I don't like it as much as gaming conventions like Origins or Gen Con but it does have the benefit that I only take a single train downtown to visit!

Aside from that, you can read me semi-reguarlly at Gnome Stew where I am a contributor. We just won our...sixth (?) ENnie and picked up "Accessory of the Year" two years ago. So must be doing something right. I'm only a small part of the success of that wheel.

And that's about it. I don't actively solicit work so anything that I stumble into is kind of my metric for the now. Doubt that will change; life is hectic, but for the right project, who knows?

And I got to play in a year-long Star Trek campaign about two years ago, so was pretty thrilled to do that!

Don, signing off!

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Nice to see you drop by, Don.

You are and shall always be...welcome here