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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 5939257" data-attributes="member: 11365">My gaming group was interested in trying this game. As in years past with so many RPGs, we went to the Gen Con event listings and found it was only running in a couple of slots, as events run by individual DMs. I'm really curious why so many games that have solid buzz have so few events (and none run/organized by the companies) at Gen Con. The few events that can be found for games like this tend to be filled in just a few minutes. And yet, every time I've tried a new game that was actually run by the company (for example, Eclipse Phase) I find that those of us at the table leave as converts and eagerly talk about that game online, with friends, etc.With Eclipse Phase, the game is run in a number of slots by the company or by DMs picked by the company. After previous games we've all gone back to our respective places of the world and run Eclipse Phase at smaller cons. We've mentioned it all over the place (EN World, RPGnet, Twitter, WotC forums, blogs, etc.). It seems like well worth doing for companies. And it shouldn't be hard to find good DMs willing to run a few slots, right? Last year we tried Mistborn. When Crafty Games put out a call for judges to run the game at a recent local con, I found more volunteers than there were slots. It should be possible for companies to get the game in front of fans at big cons and it should be effective for selling/promoting. What am I missing?</blockquote>

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