Not sure what's happening over the pond, but here in upstate NY just recently there was a free
RPG giveaway going on, at least there was at our
FLGS. Don't know if they're connected somehow industry-wide.
Unfortunately, wife and I didn't know about it, and showed up a day late. The store people told us they sent cards out to all the regulars on the mailing list, but we never got one.
The good news is, the owners are really nice people, and they saved some leftovers for the also-rans. So we still ended up getting some bottom of the barrel swag, which consisted of a couple of Tunnels and Trolls introductory modules (They're still printing T&T? Who knew!) an interesting D&D 3rd Ed supplement published by the game store, and a couple of mods from some obscure D&D knockoff system I never heard of. All in all, not much to write home about.
But then, it probably helps to show up on the DAY OF THE GIVEAWAY!
