- [imager]http://www.enworld.org/images/splashpage/wiki.gif[/imager]Reminder: EN World 10 Year Anniversary Competition & Community Supporter Account Sale! Save money on the 10-year anniversary Community Supporter Account sale, or enter the anniversary logo competition!
- The Vault: New EN World Wiki Many of you will be familiar with the logout bug which made using the wiki difficult. After trying to fix the bug for months, I finally decided to install new wiki software which was designed to work specifically with this messageboard software. All of the pages on the old wiki have been imported to the new one. There may be some minor layout issues which page authors will need to address (particularly in templates where whitespace should be removed). But it's now working, and accessible to everyone!
- Advertising in the Newsletter? EN World sends out a newsletter to 80,000+ people eveyr week. If you'd like to advertise in the newsletter, please drop me an email. Only one ad will feature each week, and it is on a strictly first-come first-served basis.
- High Level D&D Seminar At GenCon 2009 Bruce Cordell and Stephen Schubert from Wizards of the Coast hosted a seminar about high level play, and here are Critical Hits' notes from the seminar.
- Does gaming make you fat, sad, and angry? It was only a matter of time before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took on gaming. And their assessment isn't good.
- Official ENnies Blog You can now follow the judges and staff of the ENnies as they blog about the process throughout the year.
- RPG Countdown The 26 August episode of RPG Countdown, the bi-weekly podcast featuring the hottest selling digital products from RPG Now and Drive Thru RPG.
- Tome Show Episode #113: Divine Power For over 99 minutes, Jeff is joined by Jeremiah McCoy (blogger/podcaster, The Basics of the Game) , Nick DiPetrillo (blogger/podcaster, Dungeon Mastering), and Ken Newquist ( blogger/podcaster, Nuketown) and they critique each chapter of Eberron Campaign Guide and Players Guide.
- 27,900 Gen Con attendees this year Gen Con Indy, the nation’s largest annual consumer fantasy, electronic, sci-fi and adventure game convention wraps up its 42nd year! This year, Gen Con Indy 2009 was attended by over 27,900 unique attendees, all of who converged on Indianapolis to make this year’s Gen Con a very successful event for gaming enthusiasts.
- Official D&D Updates:
- High Level Campaigns Adventuring in the upper reaches of the game? R&D’s Stephen Schubert and Bruce Cordell led this seminar, focusing on higher level D&D as well as paragon and epic tier campaigns.
- Save My Game Gen Con Seminars Need to know about getting your game running more smoothly? R&D’s Chris Sims and Greg Bilsland, plus freelancer Robin Laws (of Robin' Laws of Good Gamemastering) ran this seminar, a live Q&A version of the ongoing D&D Insider column: Save My Game.
- Success Along the Adventure Path: 9 Haven of Bitter GlassScales of War began back in Dungeon Magazine 156 with Rescue at Rivenroar. This adventure, Haven of Bitter Glass, is for 12th level PCs. This article helps you with preparation for this adventure by going over trouble spots and by considering the equipment you’ll need. Suggestions for Dungeons & Dragons miniature figures to use are included with descriptions of how to make the maps using Dungeon Tiles products.
- [imager]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9546/rpgq2.gif[/imager]Hobby Game Market Strong, RPGs Deeply Troubled:
- The hobby game market improved in Q2 2009, according to a report in the recently released ICv2 Insider’s Guide #68. Conservative ordering has kept inventories low at retail, but as a result, sell-throughs are good and restocks frequent, according to distributors and retailers interviewed for the report, leading to relatively healthy hobby game stores despite the ferociously bad economy.
- Board games continues to be the category with the most heat, with retailers and distributors across the board still reporting increased sales.
- Collectible Card Games as a category are bouncing off the bottom, with the top brands getting most of the benefit: Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! in the hobby, and Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! at mass.
- The Collectible Miniature Games category is still churning, with no replacement for HeroClix, the anchor brand, and Monsterpocalypse dropping off after its launch due to product configuration changes.
- Both of Games Workshop’s miniature lines are doing well in North America, with more friendly packaging and assortments making the line easier to handle at all levels.
- The roleplaying game category remains deeply troubled, with most brands down, and the gap between Dungeons and Dragons and the rest growing.
- This chart of the Top 5 Roleplaying Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Q2 2009. The charts are based on interviews with retailers, distributors, and manufacturers.
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