invincibleoverlord wrote:For my first GenCon, I couldn't have been more lucky. Being there as an exhibitor, I was introduced to many industry insiders. And the auctioneer staff coulden't have made Acaeum members feel more welcome.
invincibleoverlord wrote:And being able to sit and talk with Tim Kask, early TSR alumni, for hours about the early days at the company were quite informative. His memory puts some interesting twists on current OD&D printing order...Like... they reordered a second run of "first print" supplments (another 1000 each) from GPoLG and filled orders with them past January of 75... The "second print run" was printed later that year and post-dated back to January. They originally weren't sure of how popular the game was becoming, and thought that a second batch would fill the remaning demand for the game. Eventually, becoming obvious that multiple printings would be needed as orders swelled.
invincibleoverlord wrote:And...OD&D boxes were often filled with whatever stock was avalable from a qoute: "not very well organized stock room". After a continued long discussion we concluded that about 20% of all original boxes except the collectors set are ligitimate "mongrels" made with diffrent printings according to Tim... On more than one occasion in his memory earlier printing runs would arrive after a new run had been printed and been already delivered. It was owed books from GPoLG that came up short in earlier runs that needed to be partially or completely reprinted. These were just sifted into the the current stock runs. Tim's own 4th white box confirms this thinking as he filled it from the stock room himself, along with orders that day, and it has three diffrent printings inside as well as the earlist GK sheets... Hmmmm... Thoughts?
tacojohn4547 wrote:I'm new to the Acaeum site, but I wanted to tell you the truth of what went down at the Goodman Games booth at GenCon last Thursday.
Xaxaxe wrote:August 16-19, 2007August 14-17, 2008August 13-16, 2009August 12-15, 2010(Sounds like a long-term contract was signed with the Indiana Convention Center)
Deadlord39 wrote:I'm sure the PM's went out, but I think a lot of people here owe Shane a huge "thanks" for picking up the Goodman stuff for those of us who couldn't go. That is above and beyond.
Badmike wrote: I actually think it would have been funny if Shane had picked up all 60 copies. Let's see Goodman hem and haw their way out of that one. Shane, you might have become the most important figure in RPG gaming for a few weeks or so!!! PS, if I had gone to Gencon and learned only 60 copies were made, I would have thought long and hard about doing this very thing if they accepted credit cards at their booth.....Mike B.
killjoy32 wrote:nice one X !duly noted. will go look to see how far in advance i can bok a flight over now and then nag BC to death to do a road-trip Al