RPG A Day 2020: Day 10--Want

 RPG A Day 2020: Day 10—Want

What I want is another three or four weeks off—what I’m getting is three or four weeks of orientation at my new school in Beijing in preparation for the new school year. It’s a big problem, but could be worse. In my case the old employer didn’t release the teachers until July 17th while my new employer released their teachers back on June 30th. I’ve enjoyed my three weeks off, but teachers usually expect a little more. One fact about being an international, expat teacher is that things are even crazier in some ways than they are for regular teachers and that summer break is a big part of getting one through the school year. Everything adds up, so I hope I don’t come up short in my abilities because I didn’t get enough downtime. 

As to RPG talk, today’s prompt ties in with another problem I come across as an expat. I want—in regard to Kickstarter projects and the like—almost everything that I see. I take PDFs here and there since I don’t have any choice in the matter, but I want hardcopies. I want the minis and the full backer packages. In China they aren’t easy to get. In my previous 9 years in the UAE I could get them, but often my shipping often cost more than the product. Alternatively, I have had my rewards sent  out to my U.S. address, but as of this writing, I’m on my third summer being unable to even visit the States—and I don’t get much time with my stuff when I do get to visit. I’m talking looking at it and unboxing it, not even a chance to play with the stuff. All of the material that I did have delivered to the UAE had to be shipped out in our first move out to China. It cost me an arm and a leg to bring the absolute cream of the crop. It was substantially less expensive to bring those items along on the current move to Beijing from Guangdong, but no less of a hassle. The rest of my precious treasure was literally packed into a treasure chest that I bought in the UAE and I sent it out to my wife’s childhood home in the Philippines. The things made it there, but that’s where it is staying for now sealed and unopened—several backed projects, Ravenloft board game, Dragonstrike Game, original Blood Bowl…I want all these things back, but for now I can’t have them.

I am making an attempt to buy something that I have wanted since the 1980’s and that would be Champions of the Galaxy over at:

https://filsingergames.com/champions-of-the-galaxy

It’s a wrestling game based in outer space. I’m working with the game’s creator who has been running the game and subsequent business since back in the 80’s in the hopes of getting the copy sent out to me in China. I’ll soon find what kind of headache it can be. I haven’t even successfully ordered the thing yet, and I have the feeling I may still be waiting for it when RPG a Day 2021 comes around.