The TRPGs Have Landed

I now have the care package of Japanese RPGs and such that Andy picked up for me in Japan. It’s been a while since I got more TRPG action, and now I have a huge stack of books to go through. (I put all of the pictures up on Flickr). I’ll be posting extensively about this stuff as I read it, but here’s a quick lowdown of my initial impressions.

First, here’s a picture of the loot. Be impressed.

Maid RPG Update: First Interview

Things have been pretty quiet on the maid front lately. However, over at the Living Dice site, they’ve posted up an interview with yours truly about Maid RPG. Aside from the opportunity to get some insight on the release of Maid RPG, the site has a series of interviews with other game creators, and plenty of other articles on gaming.

In other maid-related news/linkage: Joe Wreschnig has posted up A Serious Analysis/Review of Maid RPG, and Persona did a comic called My Lovely Maid Meiko.

Novel Writing

I’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year (and I need to write another 1500 or so words tonight to keep on track…). I mention it here mainly because I’m trying to write a novel that takes place in the Slime Story setting. I hadn’t originally been planning to participate, but unlike every previous year since I first heard about it, I found I have both an idea for a story and enough free time to actually write stuff. (Seriously; while I’ve been a college student NaNoWriMo, Game Chef, and so on have always come at the worst possible time for me). Anyway, my NaNoWriMo username is “neko ewen”.

Anyone remember the Monty Python novel writing sketch? It was from the Matching Tie and Handkerchief album. I am such a nerd. Also, someone put it on YouTube.

Ook.
At the Alternative Press Expo (or “APE”) I came across a comic called North World (which is also a webcomic). Its premise very superficially resembles Slime Story. It’s very different, but also very good so far. I may have to investigate webcomics more.

Okaeri
Also, Andy is back from Japan, and I’m very much looking forward to the Japanese RPG goodness he was kind enough to pick up for me, including Tsugihagi’s doujins, Savage Science, Sukupani, Satasupe Remix+, Sword World 2.0, the new Yuuyake Koyake supplement, and a few other random things. Rest assured, I will post extensively about this stuff later.