Here's What's Available For Free RPG Day

Free RPG Day is on July 25th. New organizer Gaming Days has revealed what free RPG products will be available to stores. Each store gets over 100 items to give away.

• 9th Level Games: Level One Anthology of Indie RPGs (15 copies)
• Cubicle 7: Warhammer 40K Wrath & Glory (7 copies)
• Dave Taylor Miniatures/Mantic Games/Army Painter: How to Paint a Library (7 copies)
• Fantasy Flight Games: Genesys Keyforge (11 copies)
• Gatekeeper Games: Dice (3 items)
• Goodman Games: Dungeon Crawl Classics (7 copies)
• Hit Point Press: Humblewood (3 copies)
• Magpie Games: Root RPG (7 copies)
• Oni Games: Junior Braves (7 copies)
• Paizo, Inc.: Pathfinder RPG (15 copies)
• Paizo, Inc.: Starfinder RPG (15 copies)
• Q-Workshop: Dice (3 items)
• Renegade Game Studios: Kids on Bikes (7 copies)
• Renegade Game Studios: Overlight (7 copies)
• Roll20: Subscription Promo (12)
• Wizkids: Warlock Tile exclusive item (1 item)

 

[Von Ether]

So I found a nearby store that's doing Free RPG day and called up to volunteer to run Dragonbane. Turns out they outsource their D&D nights to a professional DM group who will also run free RPG Day.

I could be wrong, but I don't have high hopes a group paid to run weekly D&D will be as excited to run other games. Especially when they could just run the 5e Free RPG stuff and remind people they run a weekly game.

I was given their email to reach out but haven't heard from them. It's very likely I'll have to go to the store and find out how they are organizing the event.

Well, I called it and got lucky.

The paid DMing group emailed me back. My contact said he'd had never heard of Dragonbane and in the spirit of an event that's about wider exposure to ttrpgs he would allow me to GM DB that day. I appreciate that part.

I could be reading too much into this, but that seems to imply there's been little communication or teamwork between the paid DMing team and the store that has the kit. Which has me assume the team will show up an hour before, or even just as the store opens, and sort through the kit to find things to demo.

This stacks the odds the GMs will pick what they know, 5e, and maybe even avoid non-5e games, which is not so much in the spirt of the event.

Overall, I'm just grateful the event is happening as for the past two years I tried to get a store much closer to me to do it. They tired to order the kit one year but was too late. As the weekends are already the big days of the week for them (Warhammer in various flavors and Magic/hottest CCG fad), I don't blame them, honestly.