Visitors to Eclectic Games may have seen a poster similar to this one on display:
It’s a pretty simple deal – check in here by September 10th (just leave a comment on this entry), then show up at the store (directions here) for D&D “Red Box” Game Day this Saturday, September 11th. Say hi, and I’ll give you a little bundle of loot, including exclusive items you can’t get from the site store! Free stuff! Easy as that! 
I’ll also be taking character sketch commissions, and you’ll be able to try out the new D&D Essentials line with demo games run by local DMs.
See you there!
Does Dark Places fill you with uncertainty and doubt? Do you lie awake at night, endlessly mulling over some tiny detail of the comic which you fear no one else even notices? Do you wonder where all this business with the eldritch horrors and Fair Folk and gnolls and kobolds and knights and castles is going? Yeah, me too.
Fortunately for you guys the answers may be closer than you think! I now have a Formspring page set up for the comic, I’d like you to ask me… well, whatever you like. Within reason. Mainly about the comic, for preference, since that’s something I know things about. Oh, such things. Such beautiful, terrible things…
Ahem. Yes. If there’s some point of plot that’s unclear, some detail of the setting that intrigues you, or some technical aspect of the comic-creating process that you’d like to know more about, this is your chance to find out. There’s a box, you type questions in it, I answer them. It’s pretty straightforward stuff. I’ll probably even add the especially popular questions to an FAQ on the About page, to stand as a shining beacon of enlightenment for all.
Click link, receive answers.
This Saturday August 21st I’ll be artist-in-residence for the D&D Dark Sun Game Day at Eclectic Games, my super-friendly super-local FLGS. Come along and check out the return of the Athas D&D setting, and get a character portrait drawn while you play! Or wait, or check out the store’s enormous range of games, or whatever. It’s all good.
Free RPG Day 2010 and Grand Reopening of Eclectic Games went quite swimmingly, by all accounts, with local and not-so-local gamers visiting to play introductory games of Dungeons & Dragons, Deathwatch and Exalted, or just passers-by dropping in to see what this new shop has to offer. Good atmosphere and lots of fun. And delicious cake.
Huge thanks to Eclectic Games for inviting me and to everyone who commissioned a character sketch from me. Excellent to meet you all and draw your dudes.
The overwhelmingly positive interest shown today means that I will be opening up for character sketch commissions in the very near future so watch this space. There’ll be an announcement when I’ve got everything sorted out and ready. 
Photo courtesy of John Breakwell.
Meanwhile I must say again that the new shop is really nice, stocked with a gazillion games of all varieties and run by people who know and love games and will happily help you find the ideal game for you. Well worth visiting if you’re at all in the area.
Yes indeedy, this Saturday is Free RPG Day, when you can head down to your FLGS and try out a new roleplaying game or two, with quickstart modules and material available for a range of titles for free, that’s eff-arr-ee-ee as in FREE, as in you pay nothing. Pretty awesome.
It so happens that my FLGS, Eclectic Games, are combining Free RPG Day with their Grand Reopening at the new premises (map here). I’ll be there doing character sketches (an example of which can be seen as this week’s interlude content), so if you’re in the area then please do stop by – it’s a short walk from the train station, and they have an unbelievably huge selection of board games, card games, roleplaying games and traditional games.
In comic-related news, I’m pretty much done with the illustration gig and the conclusion to The Silver Chain should resume next Wednesday. Thank you again for your patience.
