#1021; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 1)

Comic Transcripts

[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Otto: I can’t wait to be an EXPERT.
Otto: You know? Really MASTER my field.
Otto: Identify my NICHE and EXCEL at it.

Otto: Get so good that I know lots of superficial stuff about it.
Otto: Have a handful of anecdotal experiences that give me the authority to generalize.

Otto: Develop a talk for corporate events. Write a HOW-TO BOOK using a larger-than-average font and lots of space taken up by inspirational quotes.
Otto: Photo of me on the cover in a suit, all SMILING like the reader and I are PALS in on a PRIVATE JOKE…
Otto: Teaching classes! Holding seminars! OOH! OOH! Holding WEBINARS!!
Otto: THOSE you can do from a hotel room in the Caymans!

[[Darren seems skeptical.]]
Darren: “Make way for Otto! World-renowned…”
Darren: World-renowned what?
Otto: I dunno. Horse racer?
Otto: That bit doesn’t really matter

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{{alt-text: follow your dreams. chase your hallucinations. run after your made-up head stuff. seek a life where every absurd capricious delusion is realized without heed. pursue the things that you know to be false.}}

#1021; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 1) transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.