New Nyambe PDF now Available

[2WS-Steve]

Retailers might be feeling the cash crunch at paying for all the July/August releases. I don't know the numbers but it certainly looks like we've got a lot more d20 releases this summer than last summer.

Anyway, looking forward ot the book. At least I know it'll be carried at GenCon

 

[CWD]

If you are interested in this book -- which I really believe a lot of gamers will be, if they get the chance to see it, regardless of what the naysayers may argue -- I urge you to bug your local game store and make sure they'll be stocking it. August is a big month for releases, thanks to Gen Con, and I'd hate for something really different and innovative in the D20 scene to be missed because of the crush of new titles. (Not that we don't need a half dozen new books on each character race out there, of course... )

In happier news, it looks like we may have some books rushed to San Diego this weekend after all, if in fact they are delivered to us today as expected.

I hate to say this John, but I had to bug MY local game store to stock it! And I'm still not sure if he ordered any...

 

[Word]

Local game, sure. Retailer, sometimes.

I never did get my FLGS to stock freakin' Backdrops, which I hear sold great. Then the manager complains about dipping d20 sales. Gah.

Everything I've seen about Nyambe makes me think it'll be a terrific read, which always translates into a valuable game supplement in one way or another. How much of Oriental Adventures have people been using in their otherwise-European campaigns? Nyambe will work just the same way, I imagine. Think Iberia, think Persian bazaar (with exotic wares), hell, think Gladiator.

It's a good thing there'll be a lot of retailers at GenCon. It's easy to doubt books out of a catalog. Harder to turn down Mr. Dolunt's informed writing and full-color artwork.

word,
Will Hindmarch

(I seldom run big packaged adventures, but Nyambe and Necropolis do seem a good fit, don't they?)

Edit: forgot to sign my name, for cryin' out loud.

 

[mythusmage]

I'm thinking a DM could use Nyambe,should the party actually get through Necropolis,to run the adventure aftermath. A sequal of sorts.

As an alternative, a DM could use the Nyambebook to run an adventure that brings the party to the village of Aartuat in the land of Khemit, and the start of the Necropolisadventure.

Alan

 

[JohnNephew]

Re: Local game, sure. Retailer, sometimes.

I never did get my FLGS to stock freakin' Backdrops, which I hear sold great. Then the manager complains about dipping d20 sales. Gah.

As the bunny says, "What a maroon!" I'm at home, without actual data in front of me, but I'd guess that Backdrops is the #2 seller this year in the Penumbra line (after Occult Lore). And it's probably the strongest on re-orders -- meaning those sales were selling through, or people wouldn't be restocking. It's hard for me to think that a competent game store manager would see Backdrops (if you showed him a copy), and not realize that it's an easy tack-on seller. Every retailer I've talked to about the book has sold through and reordered.

Then again, there are still game stores that don't bother to stock Lunch Money, Once Upon A Time, or the Cheapass line. What can you do?

Their loss is Amazon's (or another online retailer's) gain, I suppose.

 

[mythusmage]

Comicon starts tomorrow, with a "preview" tonight. I'll be picking up a copy of Nyambe during the con and doing a "first impressions" review for the ENWorld message boards.

If nothing else, I'll be stea... taking stuff from it to use in my own modern day setting.

 

[CWD]

There's also a Nyambe mini-adventure - "When Giraffes Attack!" appearing in the new issue of Game Trade Magazine.

If you've read the "Real Africa" stuff on my website, you'll hopefully recognize it as a fantasy version of Keith Nelson's amusing hyenas, cattle and Maasai anecdote.