To Con, Perchance to Gen
Did you go to GenCon? Woo! Us too! Did you stop by our booth?
Those of you who did saw a butt tonne of our new product and maybe gave our new game, Orphans & Ashes, a try. Most of the debuting products aren’t available yet, but expect them to start showing up in the store soon. All except Orphans & Ashes.
The bad news: Due to a production mishap (put so politely) we got the games without the 104 pawns that were supposed to be included in each box. Luckily, our friends at Meeple Source supplied us with some replacement parts so we could sell a pre-release version of the game. And we sold out of those pre-releases. But we had much bigger plans for this GenCon.
The good news: People seemed to dig the game. And not just LFG fans. Fans of orphan burning in general. My favourite quote from the convention was “I have to get this for my friend, he’s an orphan.”
More bad news: We need to restart production from scratch, meaning it will be months before anyone else gets the game.
But more good news: Feedback during our demos revealed areas of the rules that needed clarifying. So when the full game eventually sees release, it will be even better than before!
Orphans & Ashes issues aside, we had a great time at GenCon with 61 423 of our closest friends. If you’ve never been, don’t think of it like a comic convention. Comic conventions are great, but until you’ve been wrangled into a party game at 2:00am in a hallway on your way to your hotel room, you don’t understand the GenCon experience. If you are looking to play a game at literally any time during GenCon, you can find one. And I’m a pedant, I only use literally literally. If you like fun and you’ve never been, we hope to see you at the next GenCon.
While we were off having GenCon fun, you all were busy posting your comments. Here are the top comments for July 17th to July 30th.
NPC part 15, page 18
Jakk Frost
I used to be an adventurer, but then I took a ground to the spine.
LaughingTarget
Damn you various Gods who may be listening! Where was my hay cart?
DVS BSTrD
So I threw it on the GROUND!
LFG 897
Discord-Drocsid
“heres a thought
what if the Wee king ends up being the dragon elder all along?!?!? but gets time traveled back in time to become said elder”
DVS BSTrD
I bet those really are Richard’s Bear Arms, they just got better.
Kevin Roberts
Is it just me, or does the bear look an awful lot like the Charmin bears from the commercial. You know the ones that are WAY too intense about each others ass?
NPC part 15, page 19
Roborat
Ah, nice, members of the famed “Deus Ex Machina” regiment has made their appearance.
(Honourable mention to LifeWulf’s “Too wordy. Let’s call them “DEM” for short. Pronounced “dem” in conversation.” And Davis Sun’s “I like this. “Look out! it’s dem soldiers!”” for taking Roborat’s joke across the finish line)
LaughingTarget
“Come, Sayl, away.
Set an open course, for a murder spree.
For I’ve got to be free,
Free to face the life that’s ahead of me.
Out here I’m the captain, so kill those Mud’ye
We’ll search for survivors, in every hall.
And I’ll try, oh Lord I’ll try, to kill them all.”
Speedy Marsh
Temmet might not be showing any signs of a back injury now, but years in the future, his stiff back will prevent him from dodging a hail of arrows fired by an overzealous elf.
TDA 75
Minando
“He has one of those talking plastic-fish things on his living room wall.
Oh my.
I did not realise he is THAT evil.”
LFG 898
Josh Cassell
Sometimes I wish I could go back to when I first found this site so I could spend hours at a time reading them instead of anxiously awaiting the next weekday.
Lily Kusatsu
We’re going to Chacha Mountain, Bennyyyyyyyyyyy
Garioki
I always thought the cowl was the cause of his poor peripheral vision… Glaucoma usually comes from being overweight and diabetes, which he is in a low chance group for, a very low chance, lol
NPC part 15, page 20
Flavourius
“Come think about it, that Aelloon lived for so long as a douche. I don’t get it why Benny was upset after Cale killed him.
Every time he writes “”KILL ME”” on his face when he’s grinning.”
LFG 899
Infamous Nefarious
Pleasepleasepleaseplease let him steal the moon scepter and do a hilarious magical girl transformation……
twillight2
“Uhm, all my clothes has an enchantment to keep it clean from dirt…
Especially my underpants.
And my weapons are all self-grinding. Does that count?
Not to mention I have these legs/peacemaker/whatnot made by the gnomes. I have no idea if they are magical or technological, but I need them to stay alive…”
NPC part 15, page 21
safyrejet
Sayl, you totally let your scheming, manipulative, psychopathic, overconfident, smug, jerk of a friend down.
Da’Zlein
I showed him this amazing dodge move, he’ll probably win without a scratch as long as he doesn’t forget to duck while he does it
darkmage0707077
“So in a very very VERY roundabout manner, Cale managed to avenge Benny’s previous lover’s unjust death by killing the person who was ultimately responsible for the duel.
Huh. Strange how fate works. Of course, she’ll never know the truth of it…but maybe that’s not such a bad thing considering what would likely happen to the good General if she found out he’d known and done nothing about it.”
TDA 76
Geoffrey Knox
In a debate situation, this would be Dick’s …. (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■) Trump Card
Johnny Wright
At least Richard admits to being a soulless villain.
LFG 900
safyrejet
So Bunny literally was the Archmage. He’s the mage on all the arches.
Aitsuki
I just want Richard to run into the town square shouting “I KILLED YOUR GOD!!!”
Until we get to sit down for a game of Orphans & Ashes (pawns and all) at GenCon 2016, be excellent to each other!
-Costello