Well it’s almost 3am PST (so to me it feels like around 2) and I’m chilling out in a very decent hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, one of the nicer ones I’ve stayed in. I passed through Illinois, listening to the Sword of Truth Book 2: Stone of Tears on audio, virtually without incident and into Indianapolis, IN, which was pretty much a wash, folks. In retrospect of what I’ve heard now I should have just moved onto Dayton or come directly to Columbus. I had a Saturday setup with what was supposed to be a major store out in Indy and had given a fair amount of advanced notice, only to get into town a night early and stop by, then finding out that the store had told no one, the workers had little to no idea who I was and had done nothing to advertise the demo. I could deal with that to a certain degree – there have been many stores that vary in their advertising or putting up the fliers I send – but this store actually only carried about 2 gaming books on the shelf. No, I’m not going to mention the name of the store, I don’t try to attack folks on the blog, but it seems to me that if you don’t really carry RPGs, it’s probably not the best idea to schedule a demo on a Saturday night with a guy who runs an RPG company, especially when you plan to just ignore him but schedule anyway. I mean folks, I’m a nice guy, those of you who know me know this, and I’m not going to get into anyone’s face about this deal, but I’ve already driven a few thousand miles and, well, that’s gotta count for something.
But instead of give it up, whine about it or waste time I cancelled the demo (the person I left the message with didn’t even know who I was) and headed onto the Guardtower here in Columbus Ohio a day early. Now, this place is an awesome gaming store. Miniatures, cards, games, you want it they’ve likely got it. I would venture to say thus far I have yet to see any game store that has the selection of stuff these guys have. All this and Mike, the guy working the counter, is a hell of a nice fellow who knows his stuff. I stuck around, talked a bit and watched a game of Confrontation, which was quite cool. I’ve never really had the urge to get into tabletop battle gaming, but this game has me wanting to bigtime. It’s a very cool system with top-notch miniature design and a nice premise. All this and probably the best core book I’ve ever seen for any game as far as art and design goes. It comes from France, translated to English, but I won’t hold that against it.
At any rate, I’ll be here in Columbus through tomorrow at Guardtower to do my actual scheduled demo/presentation, but also because I’m a fan of the area, the people and the store. After that, it’s onto Pennsylvania where hopefully I’ll be able to hook up with Shaun and Alex, responsible for many of the outstanding illustrations of CoE. Until next time…
- Ashe
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