Modest Medusa 221

Jake Richmond on Aug. 21, 2012

-Oh man. Another late strip.This should have been up early this morning, but I fell asleep at the desk while lettering it, and didnt wake up until just now! Really. I managed to sleep all night (and into the afternoon) at my desk. I guess Im still tired from Gen Con.
-Gen Conwas a pretty mixed bag. It was a lot of fun to see people and play games, andthecon itself is huge, sprawling and distracting. Hanging out there for a week with Nick and Ben was really great. On the other hand, Gen Con has never really been receptive to the role playing games that Nick and I make, and for every really enthusiastic player or fan we met there were 5 or 6 who looked at us like we were trying to sell them crack and said stuff like Ewww, that looks like anime. So yeah. We get much, much better responses at shows like Sakuracon and Kumoricon, and Ive come to realize that gaming conventions are really just a waste of time for us. Our target audience just isnt there.
Forget that though. The best part of Gen Con (besides meeting so many of you guys and running games of Panty Explosion, The Magical Land of Yeld and G x B for people who were actually excited for them) was buying stuff! Holy crap! There was a booth that sold dead CCGs, and between Nick and I we must have spent $50 there. I know that doesnt sound like much, but they were offering decks of7th Sea,Warlordand.Hack/Enemyfor $2 each! Were going to be playing soooooo much 7th Sea over the next few months! I also got to pick up the newSuper Dungeon Exploreset (as well as a set ofHirst Artsmolds to make some custom SDE boards), a fewInfinityfigures, a couple of old Confrontationmodels, some new anime (which Ill post about later), somePalladium Robotechbooks and a cool board game with pirates and ninja and cowboys and stuff. Im blanking on the name, but Ill tell you all about it after I play it. It looks great!
- Conventions!Ill be at PAX in Seattle on the first of Sept doing a panel. Ill post more info on that soon. Ill also be at Kumoricon in Vancouver on the 2nd and 3rd sharing a booth with Ben Hsu. We have a panel on Sunday, and well be in the artist alley all weekend selling Modest Medusa and Dubious Company stuff. ill be doing free sketches all weekend too, so come get one!
- Have you heard ofTenra Bansho Zero? Its a huge Japanese trpg thats being published in English by a friend of mine. Ive never got to play (because its previously only been available in Japanese, and I dont speak the language), but my friend Kaz recently gave me copies of the original books, and theyre full of really cool art and neat design work. The English language version is in the middle of a successfulKickstarterright now. The reason you should contribute, besides getting the game, is that one of the stretch goals (which has already been met) includes an illustrated replay by me! A replay is an illustrated transcript of a game session thats meant to show what its like to play the game. Ill be doing a bunch of comic pages and illustrations for this project, and it should be really cool!