[Gamer's Bag] GenCon Products List Updated
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Michelle Lyons
Explorer
Do bring some with the KODT characters on them to GenCon. I have a feeling they would sell very well. You might even be able to put an example at the Kenzer table with directions to your booth, right next to the HackMaster stuff (or the cash register).
In general, I'd suggest may finding a way to anchor some samples to the table via cord or something, so people can pick up, look, and open them (especially if you leave a bag at someone else's table as an example). You'll be at your table the whole time, but someone else might not want to commit themselves to making sure no one walked off with it. It'd be much easier if walking off with it wasn't an option.
In general, I'd suggest may finding a way to anchor some samples to the table via cord or something, so people can pick up, look, and open them (especially if you leave a bag at someone else's table as an example). You'll be at your table the whole time, but someone else might not want to commit themselves to making sure no one walked off with it. It'd be much easier if walking off with it wasn't an option.
seankreynolds
Adventurer
Paladin said:
I'd talk to the folks at Chessex and Koplow (dice companies) ... maybe you can get a cross-promotion going ... buy a bag, get X% off dice ... buy Z worth of dice, get Y% off a bag.
Consider the player base there: D&D, Vampire, Gurps, and Werewolf. Make sure you have bags suitable for those groups (black and red would probably be very popular with the Vampire players).
Maybe talk to White Wolf about using some of their Vampire or Werewolf clan logos/names on your bags? I'd suggest the same thing with WotC for holding tokens but they probably wouldn't go for it ... but there's no reason you couldn't embroider a generic flame, tree, skull, water drop, and sun on red, green, black, blue, and white bags....
As for other things to put on the bags: class names (include a few prestige classes), race names, "Monsters," "lucky dice," "guaranteed to crit," "candy" (for those who want their candy in a different bag and don't want to risk accidentally eating dice).
It might be cool if the bag-within-a-bag was big enough to hold a miniature, too. For people who play the same character several times at a show (like the RPGA Living campaigns) that would be handy.
Ask the RPGA if you can put "RPGA" on some of them and sell them at the show.
Definetely talk to Chris Pramas of Green Ronin. I did give him one of those bags at the show last year like you asked me to.
Talk to WizKids and see if they want to cross-promote a fig-in-a-bag.
If you do KODT bags, make sure your ass is covered legally with Kenzer. They're all a bunch of bloodsucking lawyers.
(That's a mangled quote from The Money Pit, before anyone gets huffy.)The sew-in label should be fine for the d20 logo issue ... you'd be fully compliant with the requirements of the licence. Then again, IANAL.
For decorating the booth, ask what sort of walls you'll have. You might want to bring a sectional bulletin board and display a bunch of bags on that in the back of the booth, high up so it's visible from across the aisle. Or if it's just draping, bring a lot of safety pins and pin up the bags all over it.
Definitely bring business cards with web addresses.
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mistergone
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What about some sort of card case like contraption? A long time ago, a friend of mine sewed me a case for some tarot cards out of cloth. It was pretty neat. I'd imagine you could just take a deck box and figure out how much material you'd need to cover it.. oh there's an idea... make a "deck box cover"... that would be swell.
'Cause you know, gard game players are >cringe< gamers too. They need cool stuff.
Oh yeah, and see if AEG would let you put the clan mons on bags or deck cases... that would be huge.. I know they let some counter company make "honor counters" with the clan symbols on them. I don't know how hard a deal like that is to make, but I bet it would be lucrative.
'Cause you know, gard game players are >cringe< gamers too. They need cool stuff.
Oh yeah, and see if AEG would let you put the clan mons on bags or deck cases... that would be huge.. I know they let some counter company make "honor counters" with the clan symbols on them. I don't know how hard a deal like that is to make, but I bet it would be lucrative.
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Paladin
Explorer
WOW!
You all have a lot of things going on in those heads of yours, don't you!
Okay, here's the deal...we are going to be getting in touch with everyone we can think of ( and everyone you all can think of, too) to get permission to do as many monograms of different logos and symbols and such as we can, however (you knew this was coming) we are a "custom dice bag" company. To us that means made to order, that's the best part, and while we will have thousands of our fineries at GenCon to take home with you, we anticipate most people will custom order. You pick your own fabric or leather or silk or bring your own material to us or whatever, then pick your grommet color and cord color, not to mention chainmail, spikes and of course custom embroidery of your choice. With more than 100 fabrics and leathers and options for silks and solid colors, and 10's of millions of embroidery choices, we can't even begin to guess what everyones needs are. Most monogramming will be custom order at the con so that you get exactly what you want on exactly what materials you want. Bring a gif or a picture or even a replica drawing of what you need with you if you want. As for card gamers, don't worry, you've not been forgotten, in fact our current medium sized bag is size specific for tarot card users, and we are working on two or three magic and other card game ideas to premier at the con along with a very cool new 'suprise bag' and of course the new autograpgh bag! I hope this makes sense to everyone. We will have several monogramed bags available like " lil' gamer" and 'gamer kid' and probably some KoDT stuff, etc. But we want to leave some custom options out there so everyone has a truely unique bag to call their own!
You all have a lot of things going on in those heads of yours, don't you!
Okay, here's the deal...we are going to be getting in touch with everyone we can think of ( and everyone you all can think of, too) to get permission to do as many monograms of different logos and symbols and such as we can, however (you knew this was coming) we are a "custom dice bag" company. To us that means made to order, that's the best part, and while we will have thousands of our fineries at GenCon to take home with you, we anticipate most people will custom order. You pick your own fabric or leather or silk or bring your own material to us or whatever, then pick your grommet color and cord color, not to mention chainmail, spikes and of course custom embroidery of your choice. With more than 100 fabrics and leathers and options for silks and solid colors, and 10's of millions of embroidery choices, we can't even begin to guess what everyones needs are. Most monogramming will be custom order at the con so that you get exactly what you want on exactly what materials you want. Bring a gif or a picture or even a replica drawing of what you need with you if you want. As for card gamers, don't worry, you've not been forgotten, in fact our current medium sized bag is size specific for tarot card users, and we are working on two or three magic and other card game ideas to premier at the con along with a very cool new 'suprise bag' and of course the new autograpgh bag! I hope this makes sense to everyone. We will have several monogramed bags available like " lil' gamer" and 'gamer kid' and probably some KoDT stuff, etc. But we want to leave some custom options out there so everyone has a truely unique bag to call their own!
mistergone
First Post
If you did get permission to use various game symbols (clan mons, tribe symbols, etc...) it would be swell to have a catalog of them all so that people could see then and choose from them. Like tattoo artists have books for samples of their work.
Paladin said:
It would be fine to have a d20 bag with the OGL printed on paper and put inside the dice bag. Your just responsible that the OGL is distributed w/ your product, not that it stays permanently w/ you product. As far as 5% OGC goes, the OGL counts towards that 5% and should do just fine.
But remember to register w/ WOTC as a d20 company.
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