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21
Jun/2008

Free RPG Day
So today is Free RPG Day, a promotional event not unlike Free Comic Book Day, where RPG publishers make quickstarts packs and sample adventures available for free through brick and mortar game stores. To find out if your Friendly Local Game Store is participating, visit the Free RPG Day website, as well as find out what companies are offering what.

At my local store, Quarterstaff Games in Burlington, VT, I got to play through a little of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition adventure. I liked the straightforwardness of what I saw. I only played part of it because I thought there was going to be a demo of Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire game, but unfortunately there weren't enough people. I went home with the ASOIAF quickstart, as well as an adventure for Hunter: the Vigil, about which I am decidedly enh. I had been looking forward to the packet for Trail of Cthulhu, but Quarterstaff didn't get any of those, unfortunately.

In the online gameosphere, I know the Hunter adventure is available for download for today only from RPGNow.com. Noble Knight Games will reportedly include freebies in orders made this coming Wednesday. I imagine other items will become available for download sooner or later, including those things being given away in stores today.

Has anyone else gotten to enjoy Free RPG Day?

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From: crazycongirl
06/23/2008 12:28:12
I knew about it and some various happenings around my area but sadly, no, ...graduation and 40th b-day parties kept me busy all day.  Next game day on my list is OGC at the end of July.  Almost a month to the day and counting down!!!


From: Carl_G
06/23/2008 08:27:11
I went to pandemonium in cambridge ma and cryed that the DND adventure
was already out, but whatever. I picked up hunter because it was the
best looking to my eyes, also looked playable, other things looked like
simple intros. I'm going to read the hunter book and hopefully give it
a try.

From: blinovitch
06/22/2008 22:52:25


Nine_Hands wrote:
I didn't hear anything about it at the Game Castle.  Bummer :(

Then be sure they're on board for next year. This is an on-going thing.



From: Nine_Hands
06/22/2008 20:32:19

I didn't hear anything about it at the Game Castle.  Bummer :(

 -Shafted in New Hampshire-



From: blinovitch
06/22/2008 12:47:03


Silverlion wrote:
What was the Song game like?

I haven't read it yet. I only know the Hunter game was enh because I'd read it beforehand to be prepared to run it for anyone earnest requesters.



From: Silverlion
06/22/2008 08:58:05

What was the Song game like?

 

From: Captain_Khel
06/22/2008 00:00:08
Nope. Didn't know such a thing existed. I wish you had mentioned it a few days ago so I could have planned . . .


From: TwoGunBob
06/21/2008 21:23:14
My wife got the Song of Ice and Fire and I got the Trail of Cthulhu. The Trail of Cthulhu wasn't that ace but the Song freebie was pretty damned nice.

From: unquietsoul
06/21/2008 16:26:30

Yes, and No. Yes our local store was involved this year and had stuff, but most of it was gone in the first hour after they opened. No Game Demos as they were hosting a Diplomacy Tournament that runs once a year and seems to always correspond with Free RPG Day.

 


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