What Products I liked at Gen Con- A Publishers Perspective

[JTyranny]

I thought I would start a thread for us publishers to talk about the products that we saw at Gen Con that we were impressed by (besides our own of course).

{Disclosure: Tyranny Games publishes The End (d20) and its line as well as the tabletop game Sack Armies.}


My favorites-

The Mystic Eye/TG booth. They continue to improve each time. Wild Spellcraft impressed me and the The Witch of Loch Durnan looked excellent.

Bastion Press- Oathbound looked beautiful! Great production value. Nice capstone setting.

Green Ronin- The Book of Righteous Might was very fat and the presentation was excellent.

Privateer press- Monsternonimican was very stylish!

Paradigm- The Spell Decks were impressive and dense! Looks like a great accessory.

Sword & Sorcery- Monte's Banewarrens looked pretty cool.

Decipher- I am not sold on the system, but the LOTR RPG was beautiful

AEG- Farscape looked pretty cool as well and the Swashbuckling adventures is very entertaining stuff.

Misguided- Beautiful book, beautiful.

I am sure more will occur to me, but those are my impressions.

 

[Psion]

Misguided- Beautiful book, beautiful.

Are you talking about "Children of the Sun?"

 

[JTyranny]

Yes, I am talking about Children of the Sun. Sorry short circuited there. It is a very interesting world. It is good to see quality produced non-d20 out there.

 

[MEG Hal]

I picked up Boston Massacre from you guys and again another well done item.

Agreed on Oathbound, it was great and GR's Book of Righteous was huge and beautiful.

More than I can think besides what you stated:

Lord of the Rings RPG--beautiful book.
I also am sure more will come.

PS-thanks for the nice comments on our stuff J.T, it was great meeting you guys!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I thought FFG's booth was just beautiful, but I didn't have the time (or money!) to look at all the hardbacks they had for show. In the end I settled on the (puzzlingly under-hyped) Nocturnum, a modern-day campaign-length Cthulhu module. Close to 300 pages! With handouts... Very nice.

I also saw Book of the Righteous, it looked fantastic. I happened to wander up as the writer (Aaron?) was talking about some of his design philosophy on it. I was very impressed. I will definitely be picking this one up as well.

I stopped by to see my old friend Petey Whitman at Larry Elmore's booth and snagged a free swag copy of the clip art collection. This is a great gift to players-- though I can tell I am turning a corner from player to publisher since the OGL was the first thing I looked at.

I had to blast my way through the hall this year, I don't even want to think about the cool stuff I didn't see...


Wulf

 

[JTyranny]

Hal, it was great meeting you guys as well. I am very much looking forward to Libram Equitis II.

 

[Twin Rose]

I definately liked Oathbound, in fact, I secured an extra copy for my database entry person who was unable to make it due to a new member of the family.

Urban Blight was excellently well drawn out from what I could see (Mystic Eye Games)

Librum Equitis, though not "new" was certainly a nice piece to work with for Campaign Suite...

Also from Ambient... The colouring book... Oh wow, what a great idea! Ambient, two thumbs up.

Campaign Suite, of course, was a favorite of mine ... Along with the Librum Equitis expansion for it! (What fun it was working with those guys on that!) But while I'm biased towards CS, since I wrote it I didn't really have all that much to do with the Librum Equitis expansion and the Con was really the first chance I had had even myself to really delve into it. Thanks Jason Parent and Veandercult for this one!

Traveller D20 I had a chance to look through, and I even ended up with a preview copy to work with for CS. WOW! 480 pages of rules, and it's 44 bucks. Just crunch after crunch, all rules, almost no setting elements (I think those will come later). Definately going to be an amazing hit, and Hunter and crew are excellent.

Am not really sure what else, I've got so much to really look through yet, but I've really cut into Oathbound and going to, in fact, start my player characters on their journey's through the Forge this weekend.

 

[Ashy]

Chris, very glad you like it - let me know if there is anything that I can aid you with in regards to the setting (or the adventure!)...

 

[Twin Rose]

Chris, very glad you like it - let me know if there is anything that I can aid you with in regards to the setting (or the adventure!)...

Oh, you can be sure that I will if I find anything I need help with. Been really hard for me to put down, too bad I have to do things like... Work

It'll really be nice for me to throw some new stuff at this group, they've gotten stagnant lately in that they seem to think they can predict everything that will happen (even when they are wrong!) and so the Forge I think is a perfect place for them.

I haven't yet decided if I'm going to run the adventure, or work one up myself, or not. I've been thinking of starting them on another quest, and THEN midway through get pulled in .. Leaving them with that nagging efeling of having left something undone

 

[Ashy]

Sounds great either way.... Enjoy!