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Well, put me in overshoes and call me a duck.

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I do not mean this as a criticism, although I wouldn’t blame James Wallis if he takes it as one: there was a part of me that was never actually expecting to see the Alas Vegas RPG adventure.  When it comes to Kickstarter fulfillments (to mangle Robert Anton Wilson), there are easy ones and hard ones and very hard ones and then there was that damned Alas Vegas Kickstarter.  Wallis had the absolute devil of a time getting this one to the publishers.  So much so that I lost any irritation that I might have had over the delay (I tend to be easygoing about that sort of thing anyway) and instead replaced it with a vast, terrible pity. Continue reading In the Mail: …Alas Vegas.

The Alas Vegas Kickstarter has been a thin slice of Hell for its creator. Remarkably so, in fact: I’m not a superstitious man, but I have to wonder whether the universe saw the description “an RPG of bad memories, bad luck & bad blood” and decided to take it as a challenge.  Anyway, the poor bastard running this has now discovered that his non-American hardcover books came back from the printer in clumps, so all of those had to be pulped; and the American softcovers (which is what I pledged for) all decided to go to Reno, and nobody knows why. Continue reading Quote of the Day, You Just Have To Laugh edition.