Club Information

Welcome to The Fellowship of the Black Spot Club Info page. Here you will find various information about our club - from our very beggining, to an on-line sign up form for joining our club.

Club Information Index:

Beginnings - the beginning of the Fellowship
Braggings - official club accomplishments
Constitution - club charter (Under Construction)
Member List - member listing - 07/19/2006
Meet the Circle - profiles on the people at the heart of the Black Spot
Sign-up Form - fill this out and get a free issue of the Ink Blot (On Hold)

The Fellowship of the Black Spot is a group of gamers who get together to have a good time and enjoy our favorite hobbies in the company of our peers. These hobbies range from board to role-playing games, video to computer games, and almost any type of gaming we can find!

The 'founding fathers' have decided on some goals for the club to work for. Note that all bolded items are goals that we have achieved so far.

Put out a Quarterly Newsletter
Build a membership of at least 50 members
Get members worldwide
Re-start a biyearly convention
Get tournament published
Continue to grow

Note: as of 8/06, the Black Spot is not currently accepting new members. This may change in the future, but for now we are in 'hibernation' mode!
Membership Rates - USA: (Note: Your membership lasts until your last Ink Blot issue)
$5.00 for six PDF (online) issues of the Ink Blot.
$5.00 for six PDF (online) issues of the Ink Blot for up to three family members (that's three memberships for $5 - families only)!

As a member you will get:
Four issues of the Ink Blot, our newsletter - in PDF form (Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 or better needed - version 6.x recommended)
Access to club run RPG campaigns (when there are openings).
Access to member run events, such as video game sessions, network computer games, and more.

Beginnings

The Fellowship of the Black Spot was started back in late 1988 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. We were not officially the Fellowship then, but that is where the founding members first met. After a couple of years gaming together, Dave Flemming, Todd Penwell, and Daniel Cunningham finally convinced the rest of the founding members (Tom Flemming, Erica Woollums and Jake Brunette) to form a gaming club. Finally in April of 1993, after a couple weeks of discussion about a name we all agreed on Fellowship of the Black Spot.

Why The Fellowship of the Black Spot? Well, that is an interesting story.

It all started in the late 1980s. (ok, I got a bad memory, so what!) There was this player whose character got into a bad trap. Being the nice guy that I am (only on odd Tuesdays), I tried to help out. Well, I ended up in the trap with the other person, and in trying to get out I almost lost my life and lost my familiar (poor little guy, he never hurt anyone). So what does the other person do, completely deserts my burnt husk of a body and loots the room that the trap emptied into (bastard!).

After escaping the trap, I got this crazy idea to pay that person back. The thought came from one of my favorite movies, "Treasure Island". I remembered the opening scene with the blind, peg-legged pirate giving an old sea dog a folded piece of crumpled parchment (aaarrrhhhh!). When the old pirate opened the parchment, he beheld a horrible black spot, which filled him with such dread that he fell dead on the spot (pardon the pun).

So, finding great humor in this, I decided that my character would slip the other person the 'Black Spot' as a kind of 'thanks a lot for helping me out, jerk!' Of course this was meant as a joke, never to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, this player took it way too seriously (much to enjoyment of everyone else).

Well, to make this story short, the players in our group never (and I mean never) let me forget about this to this very day. I don't mind either, cause it's added a lot of humor to the game at times.

-Ozyr

We were almost The Fellowship of the Flaming Halfling. We felt that this name could possibly cause a misunderstanding about who we are and what we stand for as a gaming club. (Mind you, we don't care, but image is everything in this mixed up, crazy world we live in.)

Braggings

	We took 2nd place in the RPGA Club Event at Winter Fantasy '95.
	The Ink Blot newsletter took First Place in the RPGA's 1995 club decathlon.
	We took 1st place in the RPGA Club Event at Winter Fantasy '96.
	The Ink Blot newsletter took First Place in the RPGA's 1996 club decathlon.
	The Ink Blot newsletter took First Place in the RPGA's 1997 club decathlon.
	Chris Tulach's 'Scorched One' took 2nd Place in the RPGA's 1999 club decathlon for Best New Monster!
	We got 1st place points from RPGA HQ for Club Event at Winter Fantasy '99.
	Chris Tulach won 1st place in the RPGA's 1999 club decathlon for Individual Play during Weekend in Ravensbluff, Portage Indiana.
	Our FBS web site took First Place in the RPGA's 1999 club decathlon.
	Chris Tulach took 2nd Place in the RPGA 1999 club decathlon for Best New Decathlon Event, for his 'Best New Faith' for the AD&D Game.
	FBS placed 2nd in the RPGA's 1999 club decathlon Most Service to the Network for May thru July, 1999.
	Erica Woollums received 1st place for Best Report on the Gen Con Game Fair in the RPGA's 1999 club decathlon.
	FBS took 3rd place in the RPGA 1999 Club Decathlon!

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