Free RPG Day is fast approaching, is your FLGS participating?

[Beckett]

My local didn't participate, but it's good to know the item I wanted the most (the Paizo module) is not only pretty cool, but will be available as a free download come Monday.

 

[goodmangames]

For those of you who missed the Goodman Games titles at Free RPG Day, we'll be releasing them later as $2 modules. You can find the plan here:

http://www.goodman-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2005

 

[DonTadow]

Strangely, here in the Detroit area, none of the stores that stock a lot of roleplaying games participated, but RIW Hobbies, which barely stocks roleplaying games did participate. So I finally went to RIW Hobbies, a store I'd never had a good reason to visit before now.

They underwhelmed me. Apparently they didn't see Free RPG day as any sort of opportunity to encourage new customers. I bought a bottle of Zap-A-Gap and Gale Force Nine "Wall of Fire," picked up the free Dungeon Crawl Classic, and that was it. They didn't even have a sign in the window. (They were actually hanging signs up for a Magic tournament while I was there!) The 2 employees spent most of their time discussing some dude's tournament rankings.

Contrast them with my friendly local comic books store during Free Comic Book Day: They had local comic creators set up with tables, they were giving extra comics for joining the store mailing list, and even got the record store upstairs to give away stuff. That's a store that gets new customers from Free Comic Day. (In fact, they got me because of Free Comic Book Day last year.) I had to park a mall down the block because the comic book store's lot was full!

So, "hooray!" for Free RPG Day, "meh" for my stereotypically-mediocre FLGS.

Yeah this was wierd. I ended up going to RIW and got some good stuff, but since they didn't have an item I wanted i took the five mile trip further up the road to Pandemonium. I was really befuddled that they didn't participate in it. They normally always do.
I asked the guy (the skinnier guy there) and he was just as befuddled as me why they didn't participate. He said the owner knew about it, they pushed for it, but they didn't do anything with it.

 

[Festivus]

I got back after picking up DCC 50.5 and the Piazo module and Changeling the Lost demo. These are some high quality free stuff and they had a lot more that I was not all that interested in!! I was impressed.

The Changeling demo was a surprise to me. It looks like it would be rather fun to run. I would never have looked at something like that without the free RPG game day stuff.

The store I went to was about an hour away from us, my brother came with me and we were permitted to select any 3 of the items available each, so we each got different things and ended up with six. It's too bad, there was other stuff I would have been interested in seeing but at the time I didn't know that Goodman was going to sell thier stuff online so that was what I selected. My brother grabbed the Changling, the C&C starter rules and the Herolab Demo CD (he thought it was a game).

 

[Glyfair]

The store I went to was about an hour away from us, my brother came with me and we were permitted to select any 3 of the items available each, so we each got different things and ended up with six..

The two stores in the area had dramatically different experiences. The first one had plenty left at 5:00 when I left for the second (they close at 6:00). The other had 1 item of 5 different items left when I got there just before closing.

Clearly the first could have allowed more than one choice (and did), the other did well by limiting it to one person each.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

For those of you who missed the Goodman Games titles at Free RPG Day, we'll be releasing them later as $2 modules. You can find the plan here:

http://www.goodman-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2005

Awesome news Joe!