Con goers -- speak of thy booty! (Briefly)

[Psion]

Anybody notice if the Wilderlands boxed set was released by Necromancer?

Yes, yes it was. Buttercup got it and is chatting it up in the "How I love you" thread. I chatted a bit with Clark & Bill and they said it was selling very good for them.

Which brings up another thing I missed: I really wanted to lay eyes on Dead Man's Chest but it was sold out.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Anybody notice if the Wilderlands boxed set was released by Necromancer?

Yep. Buttercup already posted in another thread about getting a copy.

EDIT: Crud. Psion beat me to it.

 

[Buttercup]

I spent rather more than I should have, since I filled some holes in my collection. For instance, I picked up Codex of Erde, since I didn't get my hands on it when it first came out. I won't mention all of the older stuff, since probably everyone else who wanted it already has it.

• The Wilderlands boxed set /me pirouettes around the room with it. I love this thing. Love it! As I said elsewhere, it's so evocative, it almost makes me cry. Clark and Bill are my gods for publishing this.
• Magical Society: Beast Builder I need to read this more carefully, because so far I have just skimmed it. But I really think this may be the be-all, end-all monster book. (Happy sigh.)
• Monster Geographica: Forest & accompanying Fiery Dragon Counters Nifty small, portable monster book, with matching counters done by the fabulous Claudio Pozas.
• Counter Collection Digital, volume 2 What would I do without Fiery Dragon Counters? It brings me great comfort that I'll never have to find out. The digital collections are the best thing since sliced bread. I bought the first one when it came out, so I'm happy glad they were offering a choice of getting the two volume set or just the second one as a stand alone package.
• Paranoia XP I walked right by this display on Thursday since I had no interest in it. Then I played in Crothian's Paranoia Orc & Pie game and nearly injured myself laughing. So next day, I bought the main book, Service Pack One, as well as a few of the supplemental books. I wanted the GM screen as well, but it had already sold out. I can't wait to run this at a party.
• T-Shirts Heh. I bought a few. Ok, I bought five! So sue me. One of them has become my new signature. Another isn't grandma friendly, but Psion mentions it in another thread (filtered version, that is), and then I got a few more. But hey, I haven't bought any t-shirts for a few years, so it was time.
• Dice I bought 4 sets, two for DH and two for me. I let him pick which two sets he wanted, and naturally he picked my two favorites. But don't tell him. He was a good sport about staying home while I ran off to GenCon, so I think I can live with the pain.

Edit: I also bought True20, Thieves' World and Temple Quarter from the fine folks at Green Ronin. They all rock.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Well, it's obviously already out in Portrugese. I just got a "sample copy" in English. I know they approached a publisher about publishing it for them here, but I don't think I am free to say who and it's quite possible they approached publishers that I don't know about.

Argh. This is an example of what I miss most about GenCon: the unique stuff you just don't find anywhere else (except, I guess, Portugal ) Now I'm really hoping a publisher does pick it up, just so I can look at it.

Also, I now want Mage so badly I can taste it.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Don't forget to list you SWAG!

 

[CarlZog]

One of my best buys for the week was a bundled package of all of Wizkids' now-defunct Crimson Skies collectible minis for $15. I've never played that game, but I want to run a campaign in the Crimson Skies universe, and now I've got a few dozen planes, heroes and mapboards to do the trick!

 

[GlassJaw]

I actually did pretty good overall. I spent more money on things that I couldn't really get outside of the con as opposed to books I can anywhere. Here are some highlights:

• Thieves' World - It's no surprise TW was on quite a few people's lists. I was really glad to play in the TW game run by Rob and then get my copy signed by Lynn and Rob.

• Warmachine Apotheosis - one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen, regardless of game or system. If you took the game rules out of it, you would simply have a book of artwork.

• Iron Kingdoms/Warmachine artwork - I bought about 6 prints from the Privateer booth and got Matt Wilson and Chippy to sign them.

• Discounted stuff - I picked up the Banewarrens and an SR3 book for 50% off. There were a lot of deals to be had in the hall.

• Original Shadowrun artwork - Klaus Scherwinski (artist for FanPro) was selling some prints of his art (which I bought) and he was gracious enough to do a quick sketch on the inside cover of my SR rulebook.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Did anyone see the Dark Legacies campaign setting? I wasn't there long enough to look over the whole con, but that was one item I was looking forward to seeing.

 

[Ghostwind]

It was at the Studio 2 booth, Joe.

 

[Crothian]

Did anyone see the Dark Legacies campaign setting? I wasn't there long enough to look over the whole con, but that was one item I was looking forward to seeing.

It looked really good, I didn't pick it up as I was hoping Wildwood would find its way to the con.