GRRM wank! I don't know why I find it so easily!
Maybe because I hang out on RPG boards, and RPG boards call wank. (Note to self: Suggest that as jurisimprudence law)

Background: Guardians of Order get rights to turn George R. R. Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire series into an RPG> They planned to put out a Special Limited Edition in Spring 2005 and the regular editions in Summer 2005. The Limited Edition would be signed by GRRM himself, and have all sorts of nice features (A GM screen, pull out map, nicer bindings, and the contents of two books in one). It also was to cost $100 plus shipping.

So, anyway, GoO has financial problems (mostly having to do with the fact expensises are in Canadian dollars and income is mostly coming in as US dollars -- the weakened US dollar is bad here). They announce that the book will come out in early summer 2005, with the regular edition coming out maybe a month or two later.

Meet Ecliptic. You may remember him from the last GRRM wank I posted last fall, in which he angsted about how the fact that GRRM was an OMGEvolLiberal! would color his view on the series. Apparently it wasn't that serious, as he put down money for the Limited Edition. And the delays have him upset -- he speaks about canceling his order in several of the boards' threads.

He does it yet again here. And a few posters get sick of it, and tell him to fish or cut bait -- either cancel his order and or shut up. People come down on either side of the issue, economics is discussed, entitlement 'We should get something more for waiting for months' posts are made and the actual company members are remarkably sane and patient.