Dragondaze Show Offers

Dragondaze in Newport is this Saturday. The Squarehex stand will have lots of Reaper Bones Minis, Mapping Pads & Books, Cthulhu & Random Dungeon Posters, OSR RPGs, Savage Worlds RPG Books, and a selection of board and card games.

Here's a few selected offers on popular games and a few hard-to-find items. Everything is limited stock (most items 1 or 2 only):

• X-Wing Core Set £22
• X-Wing Millenium Falcon £20
• X-Wing Slave I £20
• Colt Express £24
• Pandemic £24
• Love Letter £7
• Coup £10
• Dungeon Roll £12
• LotFP Carcosa £30
• LotFP Red and Pleasant Land £28
• Dwimmermount Package £50
• Warpstone Issue #30 £9
• Creature Compendium £6.90
• Petty Gods Softcover £12
• Scarlet Heroes Hardcover £20
• DCC Chained Coffin Boxed Set £24
• Castle of the Mad Archmage Package £30
• Classified Spy Retroclone £10
• Fight On! 1-4 Compendium £13.90
• Fight On! 5-8 Compendium £13.90
• Labyrinth Lord Hardcover £20
• Labyrinth Lord AEC Hardcover £20

All items are first-come, first-served. See you at the show!

Free RPG Day in the UK

There isn't a retailer close enough to where I live to be my regular FLGS (Friendly Local Gaming Store).  However, as it's Free RPG day I took a drive down to to Escape Games in Coventry.  Their store is somewhat hidden above a Health Food store which you have to walk through to get access.  That almost certainly means they get zero passing trade.  However, because they put down some money to take part in Free RPG Day I now know about them and how to find them.

If I lived locally I'd be very happy to spend long hours in there every other Saturday running games.  I'd be delighted if a similar shop opened in Leicester (if one exists please let me know), but given the difficulties that all retailers in the UK face I can't see it happening unless a local gamer has a very big lottery win.

Of the Free RPG goodies I got the LotFP, DCC and Swords and Wizardry adventures.  They all look great, but I think LotFP wins the day for giving away a book that probably has more content in it than all the other Free RPG day products put together.

UK Games Expo Round-up

We had a great weekend at the UK Games Expo.  Having attended the show as visitors for the the last two years, we decided to put together a stand for the 2013 show.  During the last two days, we have chatted to some of our Kickstarter backers, OSR fans and lots of other gamers which was both enjoyable and illuminating.  We also made a profit which was gratifying.  We will almost certainly be back next year.  Our best-selling items were our own PoGI pads, the Random Dungeon posters and the Labyrinth Lord books.

Our stand was next to Leisure Games, which was handy as they are one of the major retailers at the show.  On the other side of us were Grublin Games who are running a Kickstarter for a very cool boardgame - Cornish Smuggler - which we've backed.  LotFP had a stand just across from us, and Jim said he'd had a good show (his Pay-What-You-Like Pricing Policy was rewarded by honest Gamers offering decent payment).  Otherwise there wasn't much old school gaming, although Chronicle City did have print copies of Dungeonslayers on their stand.

Here below are the pictures we took:  A shot of our stand.  A photo of Grublin Games's Henry and Jeremy - two great lads of a team of three who were also excellent neighbours during the show.  And a photo of Jim and his wife at their LotFP stand.  All in all, a great weekend.