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Stewart Wieck - Passed Away

Started by TrippyHippy, June 23, 2017, 11:41:31 PM

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TrippyHippy

June 23, 2017, 11:41:31 PM
I'm slightly shocked to say this, but reports are that Stewart Wieck, one of the founders of White Wolf games, creator of Mage: The Ascension and current owner of Nocturnal Media (publishers of Pendragon RPG among others) has died suddenly at the age of 49.

Sorry, I can't report anything more about it. Regardless, it is a major loss.
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crkrueger

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June 24, 2017, 12:33:36 AM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;971075I'm slightly shocked to say this, but reports are that Stewart Wieck, one of the founders of White Wolf games, creator of Mage: The Ascension and current owner of Nocturnal Media (publishers of Pendragon RPG among others) has died suddenly at the age of 49.

Sorry, I can't report anything more about it. Regardless, it is a major loss.

Jesus, just keels over after a fencing workout.  Sounds like a defect blew, aneurysm or something.  His brother better get himself checked.  Still, you die with a sword in your hand, you get to party with Odin for all eternity. Them's the rules.
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AsenRG

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June 24, 2017, 02:46:01 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971079Jesus, just keels over after a fencing workout.  Sounds like a defect blew, aneurysm or something.  His brother better get himself checked.  Still, you die with a sword in your hand, you get to party with Odin for all eternity. Them's the rules.

Never knew the man, but I hope he either rests in peace, or is able to pull some Vampire politics in Valhalla!
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June 26, 2017, 05:00:32 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971079Still, you die with a sword in your hand, you get to party with Odin for all eternity. Them's the rules.

As an earnest student of the Eddas, I can confirm this. :cool:

Stewart Wieck died Thursday. I spent all Thursday night, from eight until three in the morning, playing the final session in an epic game of Mage: The Ascension that started last October, the finale of which involved my Verbena killing a rampaging angel with his bare hands. It seems almost a fitting enough tribute.

Goodbye, Mr. Wieck. Your work was enjoyed and mightily influential, and people will still be playing Mage twenty and even thirty years from now (if I have anything to say about it).
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June 26, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
OMG, so young... (which conversely reveals my proximity to such age.) My condolences to his loved ones.
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June 26, 2017, 03:36:15 PM
That's a shame...I didn't recognize his name offhand but after Googling him I realized I own and enjoyed "The Secret in the Swamp" module he did for Villains & Vigilantes way back when. Too young.

Larsdangly

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June 26, 2017, 10:11:51 PM
Does anyone know what got him? I'm 49 and fence so CRK's comment above caught my attention...

K Peterson

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June 26, 2017, 10:13:54 PM
Heart attack.

Larsdangly

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June 26, 2017, 10:37:58 PM
That is really young for a generally fit, active person to die of a heart attack.

Voros

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June 26, 2017, 11:22:17 PM
R.I.P. been digging Nocturnal's releases too.

Blusponge

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June 27, 2017, 07:20:01 AM
Quote from: Larsdangly;971728That is really young for a generally fit, active person to die of a heart attack.

Statistics show most people do not survive their first heart attack. :(
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crkrueger

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June 27, 2017, 08:16:03 AM
Quote from: Blusponge;971772Statistics show most people do not survive their first heart attack. :(

Still, to just drop dead at 49 is kinda rare for an active person without some genetic thing going on, some weird imbalance, or a crazy amount of stress.

Maybe The Butcher can weigh in.
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Bedrockbrendan

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June 27, 2017, 09:35:03 AM
Quote from: Blusponge;971772Statistics show most people do not survive their first heart attack. :(

I am no expert but are you sure you are not thinking of cardiac arrest and not myocardial infarction (heart attack) because I believe the survival rate for that is not so bad (whereas the former is very, very low).

Bedrockbrendan

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June 27, 2017, 09:41:18 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971775Still, to just drop dead at 49 is kinda rare for an active person without some genetic thing going on, some weird imbalance, or a crazy amount of stress.

Maybe The Butcher can weigh in.

Wouldn't mind getting Butcher's thoughts either.

I think shortly after exercise the chance of a heart attack increases. In health class I was always told 80% of this we can control with diet and exercise but 20% is genetics (who knows where that number comes from though). But being active on its own isn't full immunity. You can be thin, fit and eat in a manner that isn't good for your heart. I know people who are in great physical shape but regularly eat greasy food and roast beef sandwiches. From what I've heard, though, he lived a healthy lifestyle in general.
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