2020-2023
Boys & Girls Club 2023
(May 2023):
Syndicate member Bril is our local member to the Boys and Girls club chapter that we annually support. Often our donation is what funds the annual fundraising dinner where the remainder of the funds are raised to keep the center open for the year. One could say that without our donation, many of the other donations would never happen and thus the center would be in danger of closing. Chcek out the link for his thoughts and experiences at the dinner.
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Guiness World Record - 27 Years
(Feb 2023):
The Syndicate set the Guinness World Record for the "oldest, continuously operating online gaming guild" many years In early 2023, we updated that record over the years with many different game developers and hardware manufacturers acting as expert witnesses to our continued longevity. While we could technically claim all the way back to 1992 (prior to our name change to The Syndicate in 1996) we have focused (so far) on that aspect of our record setting longevity. In embracing diverse schools of thoughts, earning ones position in the community and in the value of getting out of the experience what you put into it, we created a very stable community of like minded individuals where drama and in-fighting are virtually non-existant and where the power of all of our experiences helps to guide our path forward.
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Guiness World Record - 25 Years
(Nov 2021):
The original records that The Syndicate held were all about "continuous" operation. An entity had to be able to objectively prove they were in existence for the entire time. They couldn't just claim it on their website. They couldn't have a break in service where they were not an active gaming community. They had to have 25+ years of continuous operation that was provable by objective, third party sources. The Syndicate has set the record for basically 25 years of continuous, uninterrupted (even for a day) of existence in the online gaming community space.
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Dungeons & Dragons - Season 1 & 2 Recap
(Sept 2021):
By late 2021, The Syndicate's DnD campaign had completed its second year-long season and was starting its third. This article is a recap of the first two seasons storyline. Dozens of Syndicate members were involved in the campaign, stretching over multiple parties. All were adventuring through the years in separate mini-campaigns that were part of the larger whole. Then, at SyndCon 2022 the finale for Season 2 played out with every party member coming together (physically and virtually) to round out the season and start the next.
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Leadership In A Virtual Setting
(June 2020):
Dragons was asked to help facilitate a leadership discussion for a state government by seeding the conversation with an article about a lesson learned in virtual leadership over the past 24 years. You can read that lesson via this link.
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Pirates of the Burning Seas Guest Blog
(May 2020):
PoTBS continues as a very fun, pirate adventure game in 2020. Dragons was asked to do a guest blog for the developer newsletter. An excerpt is:
It was August of 2008 in south Boston. A couple of hundred members of The Syndicate (www.LLTS.org) were gathered in a hotel for the 7th annual, five day, SyndCon gaming event. Game developers were invited to show off their content, obtain feedback and promote their games. A fledgling raffle, to raise money for charity, was starting up and a table was full of items for the raffle. That year there were two significant focuses of the SyndCon event. First, a highly sought after raffle prize... in the form of black T-Shirts with phrases such as "Getting Booty since 1720..." and "Support Piracy..." and second, the LAN gaming room that contained machines running Pirates of the Burning Sea.
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