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3 years ago ::
Oct 28, 2010 - 2:20PM
#31
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I just took a pair of scissors to mine and cut off a bit off the top and the bottom so it will fit in the gamma world box. I guess I won't be eBaying it!
I wrote all over mine, then spilled all over it. Not that I was planning to sell it... but the ebay value didn't suprise me. The cloth Dark-Sun maps (that I declined after running games at PAX... won't do that again) went for close to that amount. Even the free ship tiles and such (that everyone could get for free merely by signing up) have been going for a pretty penny.
I actually like seeing such silly things generate interest in my hobby (like what happened to MtG). It doesn't mean I have to participate in it. Maybe the craze will catch on to the cards... maybe WotC even bid against themselves on ebay (I doubt it... but it'd be a good move).
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2010 - 5:58PM
#32
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Still waiting for the maps, anyone find them (or the whole thing with the maps)?
Blackbyrnepublishing.com
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3 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2010 - 3:05AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 19, 2005
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I think it depends on your gaming store...
At our gaming store, the owner gave us two DMs the Gamma World Game Day kits a week in advance. The other DM and I sat down at my place and read through the adventure together and figured it out at least four days before the event.
It worked out pretty well.
Part of it is that we have a good relationship with our game store owner and he knows we help bring in players and help increase sales. The other DM runs many Magic tournaments and D&D Encounters for him. I've run many Star Wars RPGs and Star Wars and D&D Minis tournaments for him.
Luckily, our game store owner is pretty honest and I've never seen him price gouge on anything in 10+ years. He sells things at the price he bought them at. If the price goes up, he keeps the price marked as to what retail was when he bought the product. If retail drops (like it did on Axis & Allies minis), he lowers the price on his existing product.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2010 - 10:22AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 11, 2010
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I think it depends on your gaming store...
At our gaming store, the owner gave us two DMs the Gamma World Game Day kits a week in advance. The other DM and I sat down at my place and read through the adventure together and figured it out at least four days before the event.
It worked out pretty well.
Part of it is that we have a good relationship with our game store owner and he knows we help bring in players and help increase sales. The other DM runs many Magic tournaments and D&D Encounters for him. I've run many Star Wars RPGs and Star Wars and D&D Minis tournaments for him.
Luckily, our game store owner is pretty honest and I've never seen him price gouge on anything in 10+ years. He sells things at the price he bought them at. If the price goes up, he keeps the price marked as to what retail was when he bought the product. If retail drops (like it did on Axis & Allies minis), he lowers the price on his existing product.
same here. it's free, and meant to be played, not sold. i gave my extra copy to a friend who showed interest in running a game. and give 2 of the promos away to people who show now on sundays(when we play now) who could not make it to game day.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2010 - 10:50PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 31, 2009
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I think it depends on your gaming store...
At our gaming store, the owner gave us two DMs the Gamma World Game Day kits a week in advance.
I wouldn't let WotC know this or where the store is ... they have taken stores off their list to get promo / Game Day / advance release material for releasing something early.
I'm on good standing with my local store own aswell, running Encounter material every Wednesday night, aswell as being the ONLY person running the Gamma World Game Day and he flatly refused to release it early. Although it made it VERY HARD to run on a moments notice (even though he assured me it wouldn't and was surprised to see it was), I respect his decision to follow WotC's rules.
Mind you, I hope he allows me to peek at the next Game Day material (in store) before the day to allow me to plan what the hell I'll be doing on the day.
GMT +10 (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ....)
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3 years ago ::
Nov 02, 2010 - 8:12AM
#36
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Date Joined:
Mar 11, 2010
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I think it depends on your gaming store...
At our gaming store, the owner gave us two DMs the Gamma World Game Day kits a week in advance.
I wouldn't let WotC know this or where the store is ... they have taken stores off their list to get promo / Game Day / advance release material for releasing something early.
I'm on good standing with my local store own aswell, running Encounter material every Wednesday night, aswell as being the ONLY person running the Gamma World Game Day and he flatly refused to release it early. Although it made it VERY HARD to run on a moments notice (even though he assured me it wouldn't and was surprised to see it was), I respect his decision to follow WotC's rules.
Mind you, I hope he allows me to peek at the next Game Day material (in store) before the day to allow me to plan what the hell I'll be doing on the day.
are you at the one store that handed the kit out the day of? no wonder you had no idea what was going on. it's an adventure. we have to get it early to run it. sounds like your store is a bit stingy. like i'm going to leak out what happens in the adventure ahead of time.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 02, 2010 - 8:17AM
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Feb 23, 2009
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are you at the one store that handed the kit out the day of? no wonder you had no idea what was going on. it's an adventure. we have to get it early to run it. sounds like your store is a bit stingy. like i'm going to leak out what happens in the adventure ahead of time.
Is it seriously WotC's policy to have the DMs and GMs who run their games day do so with no pre-reading or preparation whatsoever? When I ran the D&D Game Days for the PHB, MM and DMGs for the last few years, I always got it before the actual day.
"Here you go, brand new game! Go!"
That seems really ridiculous to me.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 02, 2010 - 5:57PM
#38
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Date Joined:
Jun 13, 2010
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I just want the adventure. FFS. WOTC, can we get a PDF, pleeease?
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3 years ago ::
Nov 02, 2010 - 6:26PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 16, 2006
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I just want the adventure. FFS. WOTC, can we get a PDF, pleeease?
Seriously, is there something we can do to lobby WOTC for this? Would a petition even be worth it?
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3 years ago ::
Nov 03, 2010 - 12:30AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 31, 2010
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I think it depends on your gaming store...
At our gaming store, the owner gave us two DMs the Gamma World Game Day kits a week in advance.
I wouldn't let WotC know this or where the store is ... they have taken stores off their list to get promo / Game Day / advance release material for releasing something early.
That is not an "early release"
For something to be released, it has to be SOLD. This is not.
You're SUPPOSED to get game day/encounters material in advance so you can prepare. This is proper.
And vastly different from a store SELLING something like the base Gamma World set weeks in advance.
AlexandraErin: If last season was any indication, I think Encounters is pretty much the elemental opposite of "organized" play!
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