“I
was blessed to have been able to work with Clint, and increasingly so, over the
past several years. I am both honored and very sad to be here today and am
also present on behalf of his friends Brenda Cass, Amanda
Kahl, William T. Thrasher, and Ford Fitch, all of whom would have
been here themselves if they could have.
Suffice
it to say that Clint was one of my closest friends, and one of the most
profound indicators of that is not so much that in 2017 we decided to drive
more than 1,500 miles together from San Antonio to Winnipeg, but that the
following year we were eager to make that long journey together again. We had
other trips planned, including a drive along the length of the Mississippi and
a mission to a Medieval church in Spain, and would have never run out of places
to go or things to do.
It
is a tribute to how important Clint was to me and my associates, how much we
valued his good counsel, that anytime we started a new project we automatically
considered what his role in it would be. He was integral to everything we were
doing with our Skirmisher Publishing LLC on literally a daily basis
and as of just last week we had shifted most of our efforts over to supporting
his "Ragnarok: The Great Winter" roleplaying game, probably the
biggest and most ambitious game development project I have ever been involved
with.
Clint
was also served as a board member of the Gnosis Project, a charitable
organization dedicated to helping spread knowledge that we recently founded and
for which his love of history was invaluable.
My
friends and I called Clint our Paladin, because in so many ways he was the best
and most dependable of all of us. We will fight on without him in body knowing
that he is still with us in spirit and that even from beyond this world he has
played his part in our victories.”
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