“The show wasn’t as good as it could have been, if they only had listened to me more.” "Kindred" was cancelled after eight episodes, however, following the death of its star Mark Frankel any attempts to revive it were abandoned. Rein-Hagen continued to work in Hollywood for four years total, but disillusioned and fed up trying to make it as a writer, he decided to leave it behind. “It was the goal of my life, but finally I just left”. He founded the company Atomaton, Inc. a few years later, which produced his game "Z-G" in 2001; Atomaton ceased operation in 2003. Rein-Hagen published Whimsy Cards, "Ars Magica", and major "Ars Magica" supplements through Lion Rampant with Jonathan Tweet. Tweet and Rein-Hagen worked with Stevens, John Nephew, and others who would become hobby game professionals. Rein-Hagen, along with Ray Winninger and Stewart Wieck, made major contributions to "D.O.A.", designed by Greg Gorden of Mayfair Games in conjunction with White Wolf, but the game was never published. It was based on a concept called "Inferno" that Rein-Hagen had worked on previously for many years at Lion Rampant, wherein players took on the roles of dead characters from old campaigns. Rein-Hagen sold his shares in White Wolf in 2007 and left the gaming field. As of mid-2008 he was living in Tbilisi, Georgia, with his wife and child during the Russo-Georgian War (2008 South Ossetia War). Rein-Hagen was evacuated with other US citizens living in Georgia and founded the site sosgeorgia.org (now defunct) to help the international media track what was happening there. He returned to Georgia after the war. In 2012 Rein-Hagen worked on a card game called "Democracy" for his company Make Believe Games. This game was successfully funded by Kickstarter in November 2012. As of December 3, 2014, over two years after funding, fulfillment is largely complete. On February 4, 2014 Rein-Hagen released a statement citing poor health as the reason for his lack of communication and promising that backers would get their game. Commentators were extremely unhappy with the tone of the message and complained that Rein-Hagen's ill health had not affected his ability to work on other crowd-funded projects. The game Democracy shipped on November 18, 2014.