Extra Life 2022, Team Standing Stone Games, and You!

Extra Life, Team Standing Stone Games, and You!

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Once again Standing Stone Games, players from throughout the LOTRO community, and associated friends and family are raising money for Extra Life! Our fundraising through Team Standing Stone Games will help the local Boston Children's Hospital, which provides life-saving treatment and care to children from all over the world. Read more here!

We hope to raise $20,000 for the Boston Children's Hospital this year! Team Standing Stone Games includes both Dungeons & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online players, developers, and friends. Last year we were the top fundraiser for the Boston Children's Hospital, and we'd love to do that again.

Why Extra Life?

Extra Life is a charitable organization that unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised more than $70 million for sick and injured kids. Click here to read more about the organization.

How can I help?

Donate and/or join our team! In the coming weeks the Standing Stone Games Extra Life Team will be fundraising together, and we have some fun activities and giveaways planned to support the cause.


To donate to the Team: http://extra-life.org/team/standingstonegames
To find my donation page: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/JerrySnook
To sign up for Extra Life, if you want to raise money yourself:http://www.extra-life.org/

What should I do after I donate?

It is important that I receive additional information from you in order to be able to get you your incentives. I have set up a survey in SurveyMonkey this year to capture this information and more easily distribute your incentives to you.

ONCE YOU DONATE, PLEASE FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING SURVEY HERE IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE INCENTIVES!

If you donate at least $10, you will be entered into the various giveaways that will take place after November 30th. If you donate to the team, me, or another Team member, it counts!

Group Incentives:

$5000 - A 500 LOTRO Point code and a pick from the Community Loot List will be randomly distributed to twenty people who donate at least $10 to the fundraising effort through a random-number-generated giveaway. Only one entry per person regardless of donation amount.
$10000 - Ten more 500 LOTRO Point codes and ten more picks from the Community Loot List will be randomly distributed to folks who donate at least $10.
$15000 - Ten more 500 LOTRO Point codes and ten Anniversary Corgi pet codes will be randomly distributed to folks who donate at least $10+.
$20000 - We have met our goal! We will give away an Ultimate Fan Edition of Before the Shadow to one person who has donated at least $10!

All group incentive giveaways will take place after November 30th, and winners will be notified through the contact information provided to me in the SurveyMonkey survey.

Individual incentives:

$5 - Forum Title of your choice, within the community guidelines. PM me with your desired choice. If you already have a custom title, I can add another!
$10 - One pick from the Community Loot List, and an entry into every giveaway.
$20 - Two additional picks from the Community Loot List.
$30 - Two additional picks from the Community Loot List
$50 - Four additional picks from the Community Loot List in addition to an Anniversary Celebration Corgi pet!

All incentives are cumulative, so if you donate $50, you also get the benefits of the lower tiers, meaning a $50 donation would get 9 total picks from the Community Loot List. These will be distributed to you through codes that are entered through Redeem Code in the LOTRO Store inside of the game. You are free to distribute these codes to friends or family as you wish.

Here is the Community Loot List:

IN GAME TITLE: Artist(Prefix)
IN GAME TITLE: Artist(Suffix)
IN GAME TITLE: Art Lover
IN GAME TITLE: Audience Member
IN GAME TITLE: Concert Attendee
IN GAME TITLE: Event Organizer
IN GAME TITLE: Event Winner
IN GAME TITLE: Hero of the Small Folk
IN GAME TITLE: Musician(Prefix)
IN GAME TITLE: Musician(Suffix)
IN GAME TITLE: Performer of Note
IN GAME TITLE: Provider of Event Information
IN GAME TITLE: Speaker for the Musicians
IN GAME TITLE: Speaker of Words
IN GAME TITLE: Spectator
IN GAME TITLE: Striving for Victory
IN GAME TITLE: Viewer of Events
IN GAME TITLE: The Well Met
HOUSING ITEM: Best House in the Neighborhood Trophy
HOUSING ITEM: Sleeping Grey Cat
PET: Anniversary Celebration Corgi
PET: Lively Slug
PET: Tundra Cub
PET: Spirit Bear
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Bardic Fiddle
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Lonely Mountain Fiddle
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Sprightly Fiddle
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Traveler's Trusty Fiddle
MOUNT: Cremello Steed
MOUNT: Perlino Steed
MOUNT: Steed of the Red Dawn
MOUNT: Steed of the White City

Thank you for your donation, however large or small it may be. There is never a time that children will not need life-saving help, but especially this year, the work that is being done is more critical than ever.

Sincerely,
Jerry Snook and Team Standing Stone Games
Community Manager, Lord of the Rings Online

A great charity and some great incentives. Happy to donate and be part of the team again this year!

Let's help get those sick children the treatment they need.

-Bel

I will donate also this year.
Just for interests and nothing to do with my will to help... are there any new items in the community loot list?

How Long Do The Codes Last If You Receive Them? These Make Exceptional Kin Rewards., But If They Expire At All Then Kinda Not Worth Donating That Paycheck.., Get Back To Me

Glad extra life is here again. In the past if we donated for several accounts, we could time stamp the donations and let you know. Will we be able to do the same with the survey?

Fun! Thanks :) Happy to donate again this year.

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How Long Do The Codes Last If You Receive Them? These Make Exceptional Kin Rewards., But If They Expire At All Then Kinda Not Worth Donating That Paycheck.., Get Back To Me

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The codes should last essentially forever, I don't have an expiration date on them. If you ever did try to redeem and it didn't work I could get you a replacement, though.

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Originally Posted by Arantha

I will donate also this year.
Just for interests and nothing to do with my will to help... are there any new items in the community loot list?

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The Anniversary Celebration Corgi is the new item added to the list this year.

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Glad extra life is here again. In the past if we donated for several accounts, we could time stamp the donations and let you know. Will we be able to do the same with the survey?

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Yeah, just put it in the space for comments. Ultimately I'm going to go through the list one by one and get you your codes, and can contact you if there are any questions.

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How Long Do The Codes Last If You Receive Them? These Make Exceptional Kin Rewards., But If They Expire At All Then Kinda Not Worth Donating That Paycheck.., Get Back To Me

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They don't expire. I wouldn't say never, because old pre-2011 codemaster codes no longer work, so if they change their code system in 5 years or so the current codes may no longer work, but other than that possibility, the codes do not have an expiration date.

I gave away my lively slug code last year in a kinnie raffle, maybe about 6 or 7 weeks after the extra life codes were distributed, and it still worked.

So, when are the codes distributed? Just wondering b/c I want to donate, but I want to know when they're supposed to arrive so I know if something goes wrong lol.

Great initiative! Donated :-)

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So, when are the codes distributed? Just wondering b/c I want to donate, but I want to know when they're supposed to arrive so I know if something goes wrong lol.

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Formally I have said that everything will wait until after the formal drive ends at the end of November, but if possible I intend to start distributing things early.

Thank you everyone for your kind donations this weekend! It was a big weekend for fundraising, much appreciated. Just a note that we are looking at Friday, November 4th from a big LOTRO marathon on LOTROstream with me and the other streamers there. Something like morning through Midnight.

Is the Sleeping Grey Cat the same thing as the Sleeping Cat that's sold in the LOTRO store? I can't seem to find pictures anywhere, and the store one is kinda grey.

We did want to thank Daybreak Games for making a $5,000 donation to Team Standing Stone Games!

Donated again this year. Always happy to support such a noble cause.
And the incentives are a nice perk.

Looking forward to the fundraising streams!

It's the second time I donated. Thank you SSG!

Extra Life time again!

The incentive form has a single checkbox for each item, but I plan to ask for duplicates of items to give codes to my daughter. I assume this is just something I PM you with, Cord?

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Extra Life time again!

The incentive form has a single checkbox for each item, but I plan to ask for duplicates of items to give codes to my daughter. I assume this is just something I PM you with, Cord?

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There is a comment box in the survey to take care of anything else, so just mark that you want X amount of whatever item there. You can, however, also PM me if you wish.

Does it matter if we make a donation to you or to the team? I followed one of the links and made a donation but now I believe it was to your personal donation page.

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Originally Posted by caramsith

Does it matter if we make a donation to you or to the team? I followed one of the links and made a donation but now I believe it was to your personal donation page.

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It does not matter who you donate to, really, just make sure to let me know about your donation through the survey link in the OP.

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Does it matter if we make a donation to you or to the team? I followed one of the links and made a donation but now I believe it was to your personal donation page.

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Ok, I did after I made the donation.

Thank you!

https://www.twitch.tv/lotrostream

The LOTROstream team will raise funds to help sick kids on Twitch.tv/LOTROstream from 8:00am-Midnight Eastern (-4 GMT) on Friday, November 4th! We've got giveaways – join us in chat!

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8:00 AM ET / 12:00 PM GMT	Wynnie
9:00 AM / 1:00 PM	Wynnie
10:00 AM / 2:00 PM	LilRedhead
11:00 AM / 3:00 PM	LilRedhead
12:00 PM /4:00 PM	Cordovan
1:00 PM / 5:00 PM	Cordovan
2:00 PM / 6:00 PM	Druidsfire
3:00 PM / 7:00 PM	Druidsfire
4:00 PM / 8:00 PM	Redberen
5:00 PM / 9:00 PM	Eldalleth
6:00 PM / 10:00 PM	Sans_Arret
7:00 PM / 11:00 PM	MVP
8:00 PM / 12:00 AM	MVP
9:00 PM / 1:00 AM	Elgaladwen
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11:00 PM / 3:00 AM	Bigedmustafa

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I'll be on stream from Noon until 2pm Eastern! From about Noon to one we'll do a light preview and celebration of Before the Shadow, and from 1-2 we'll have someone visit from Extra Life, do some giveaways, and hang out and have fun!

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! Team Standing Stone Games has raised more than 23,000 so far for Extra Life, and that is due to your sacrifice and generosity. We're continuing to take donations through the end of November!

Is the Anniversary Celebration Corgi account wide or per character?

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Is the Anniversary Celebration Corgi account wide or per character?

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Per character, but for this one item I am doing something different this year with it and letting the coupon code be redeemable six times per account, for just this one code, so you can get it on multiple characters.

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Per character, but for this one item I am doing something different this year with it and letting the coupon code be redeemable six times per account, for just this one code, so you can get it on multiple characters.

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This sounds great, thanks Cord! I was just wondering which version of the anniversary corgi the code is for? I picked up a couple mithril coin fireworks corgis after missing out on one when you visited my server. Will they be the blonde ones that you were dropping, or the same as the ones available for mithril coins?

Thank you Jerry so much for keeping up this yearly tradition for a good cause. Jerry you're the best.
Donated today as I do every year.
Greetings from Europe

I donated and filled in the form, when do the codes get sent to us?

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I donated and filled in the form, when do the codes get sent to us?

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https://forums.lotro.com/forums/show...ife-fundraiser!

Hi Cord, any updated ETA on our code arrival? Not in a rush, just curious. Thanks!

All right, I'm happy to report that I was able to get in touch with most people who won one of the group incentives tonight! There are still about six of you to get to, most likely because I need to do a bit more work to track down your forum name, or in one case because email isn't delivering.

In the coming days I will be turning my attention to all of your individual incentives as well, so if you've sent me a message, I will be responding to you as soon as I can. There are more than 450 people to get back to this year, so it will take a bit of time, but the process is pretty quick once I get going on it, so expect to hear from me within the next week.

More than 450 people? That is a wonderful response.

Wow. I didn't know that many people played the game....

This is split between both games and even a few folks who don't really play but have friends that do. It's why I have to make it a process rather than respond to everyone's private messages during this time frame, it'd just be too hard to track it all otherwise.

How do I find out what information i gave when i made my donation?
I got the message from extralife, but it oesn show that form i filled in.

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How do I find out what information i gave when i made my donation?
I got the message from extralife, but it oesn show that form i filled in.

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I don't think you really can after you fill it out, although I'll see it and get back to you, and anything remaining can be sorted then. If you haven't yet filled it out, though, here's the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GY5SJ8C

Is that spotted corgi also up as a reward? It’s listed as a community event award in game.

I sent out my survey (I hadn’t noticed we had to), and also sent Cordy a couple of private message a few weeks ago. Just waiting for him to get around to itZ

I haven’t thought of all rewards I want yet, or forum title since I already have most rewards available already will need to think about it some more. Maybe add some stuff to my alternate account.

just wait patiently ;) as I do (didn't receive my rewards, but it takes time)

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just wait patiently ;) as I do (didn't receive my rewards, but it takes time)

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I await with baited breath :D

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Is that spotted corgi also up as a reward? It’s listed as a community event award in game.

I sent out my survey (I hadn’t noticed we had to), and also sent Cordy a couple of private message a few weeks ago. Just waiting for him to get around to itZ

I haven’t thought of all rewards I want yet, or forum title since I already have most rewards available already will need to think about it some more. Maybe add some stuff to my alternate account.

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The Spotted Corgi will get added to the list for next year. Pretty sure I got back to you yesterday, but after the time stamp of your post.

I have had the same trouble. I remember specifying my forum name as "C.B." or "C. B.", I'm not quite sure; the e-mail I included was different from the one I have my game account associated with. No way to double check what I have put in. Hopefully this doesn't cause Cord any confusion; I'll do better next year.

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I have had the same trouble. I remember specifying my forum name as "C.B." or "C. B.", I'm not quite sure; the e-mail I included was different from the one I have my game account associated with. No way to double check what I have put in. Hopefully this doesn't cause Cord any confusion; I'll do better next year.

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As long as I can find you in the list I'll be in touch in the coming days. If not, I'll follow up in PM to get your info and incentives.

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just wait patiently ;) as I do (didn't receive my rewards, but it takes time)

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/patient doesn't seem to be working... :)

Some people are apparently WAY more creative with forum titles than I am!! Nice!

I'm sure if You write to Cordovan a PM he will very kind answer You.

Gah! I hadn't checked emails properly until now, only to find now I did get one on Thursday (was a crazy week tbh) letting me know a PM had come from Cord. I had logged into here on Fri/Sat to see if there was any PMs and the notification here didn't look like there was (when there was).

So thank you Cord for getting out the codes, appreciate it and well done on another successful year - here's to many more!

Thank you for the goodies @Cord, happy Yule to you and yours!

Thanks! I got through a bunch this weekend, somewhere in the range of fewer than 150 folks left to get to, which I expect to do this week. Should have at least the first pass done before the end of the week.

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Thanks! I got through a bunch this weekend, somewhere in the range of fewer than 150 folks left to get to, which I expect to do this week. Should have at least the first pass done before the end of the week.

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I hope that I'm one of those 150, then...

Just checked my mail. Nothing yet, not even in the spam folder(s)...

Regards
Ereglam

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I hope that I'm one of those 150, then...

Just checked my mail. Nothing yet, not even in the spam folder(s)...

Regards
Ereglam

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Just a thought to say I'm not sure if you checked your Private Messages here on these forums? I don't recall or see a spam folder in the Private Message section of our forums.

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Just a thought to say I'm not sure if you checked your Private Messages here on these forums? I don't recall or see a spam folder in the Private Message section of our forums.

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Ahh So Logon., Then Once You’ve Logged Select: Forums., After Coming To The Forums Page., Just Underneath The LOTRO Logo There’s Another Set Of Tabs., And Below Those Are Yet Another Set Of Tabs.., “Private Messages” Will Be Amongst Em

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Just a thought to say I'm not sure if you checked your Private Messages here on these forums? I don't recall or see a spam folder in the Private Message section of our forums.

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a valid question. Yes, I had checked my private messages: 0/250 :D

Codes received. Cheers Cord and thanks for your efforts! Any news on the final tally of money raised?

Happy to say that I've now sent out incentives to just about everyone who donated to this year's Extra Life and filled out a survey! Check your forum Private Messages inbox, email, twitter handle, or whatever you gave me for your contact information. If you DON'T have something from me, please get in touch by sending me a Private Message here and I'll look into it!

I currently have 15 people on the LOTRO side that I have been unable to contact due to various reasons. Most of the cases appear to be folks who gave me their game account user name rather than forum name, so I can do some work in the coming days to try to associate the accounts with your forum account and send you a private message. I have a handful of others I can't contact, in one case because I got a Twitch name that is not accepting whispers, a game account user name that does not have a forum account associated, and one case where I don't know what they gave me, there's no forum name, game account, or Twitter handle with the name I could find. Character name without the server perhaps?

So, if you haven't heard from me, get in touch! Thankfully, more than 380 of you now have your stuff. :)

Congratulations everyone for a great year!

I got my stuff, thank you Jerry and SSG! Love the slug pet!

Thank you very much Cord!

Just a quick question: are the codes account-bound or can I send them to other people? Especially for the corgi: can I use it six times on different accounts or does it have to be on the same account?

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Thank you very much Cord!

Just a quick question: are the codes account-bound or can I send them to other people? Especially for the corgi: can I use it six times on different accounts or does it have to be on the same account?

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The Corgi code has to be on the same account once it is redeemed the first time on that account. In general you can pass the codes to whoever you'd like. Most items are account bound, but there are a few exceptions like the Best House Trophy, which is a single item, and the Anniversary Celebration Corgi, which by default would deliver one Corgi to one character, which is why I set it to 6/account for this year. However, unused Corgi codes can be sent to whoever.

I should also mention that I got through to almost everyone left in my list last night, so there's just a few of you out there I am aware of and I am hoping you contact me first. If you haven't heard from me yet, please do get in touch.