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Mars
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:00 pm

I'm just wondering who actually organized Free RPG Day i.e. who collects all the items and ships them out?

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:06 am

Hi,

in the US its someone called Aldo Ghozzi. Don't know who he works for.

In the UK its our main games distributor, Esdevium Games.
they are charging £50 ($75) for the kits.

Cheers,
Malc

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:31 am

lawrenson wrote:Hiin the US its someone called Aldo Ghozzi. Don't know who he works for.

He has a company that I think does distribution as well. I remember noting that he also does a Game Retailer newsletter. But the name escapes me at the moment.

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:12 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:Question is....are you going to travel back to the DFW area that weekend and drive to every game store in the metroplex to see if you can get a box full of stuff?

If the closest real gamestores are in Texas . . .

I haven't checked the Free RPG Day list of stores because I was living in the metroplex a month ago. Kansas City or St. Louis, each is quite a drive . . . but . . . must get free stuff . . .

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:30 pm

I'm just wondering if I could get away with buying a box from the Free RPG Day website or not. It seems like they will happily take my money anyway. I could then set up a lemonade stand outside and give them away.

"Planet Mars - lemonade from out of this world"

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:43 pm

Mars wrote:I'm just wondering if I could get away with buying a box from the Free RPG Day website or not. It seems like they will happily take my money anyway. I could then set up a lemonade stand outside and give them away.

"Planet Mars - lemonade from out of this world"

It does say it will not ship to a PO Box or residential address. But how do they know it is not a residential address if it is a street address? Or could I - errr.... could someone have this shipped to their workplace, even if it is not RPG or bookstore related?

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:00 pm

But how do they know it is not a residential address if it is a street address?

There are ways to find out if an address is within a residential or business zone -- the problem comes when a residence is a business.

Those who can, don't. Those who should not, do.

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:44 pm

Aldo Ghiozzi runs Impressions Advertising, which used to publish GameBuyer, but he sold that to GTS Distribution earlier this year IIRC. His web site is http://impressionsadv.com/

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:47 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:If the closest real gamestores are in Texas . . .

I haven't checked the Free RPG Day list of stores because I was living in the metroplex a month ago. Kansas City or St. Louis, each is quite a drive . . . but . . . must get free stuff . . .

You are covered.....via Gen X (remember?) Although I don't know how many copies of anything we are getting.

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:34 am

My job is sending me to Oklahoma City on Free RPG Day, but I should have time to hit a store. Apparently, my choices are "New World Comics & Games" or "Game Headquarters." Anybody in that area got an opinion about which is the better store to visit?

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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:00 am

Hiya,

my kit arrived this morning.

Nice dice!

Anyone know if the Q-Workshop dice are unique to this, or on general sale please?

Now to have a proper dig thru ...

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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:48 am

I've got the neighbor kids lined up for a raid first thing Saturday.

Hey little kid, want some candy? :twisted:

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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:43 pm

lawrenson wrote:Anyone know if the Q-Workshop dice are unique to this, or on general sale please?

Last year's Q-Workshop dice were not sold anywhere until earlier this year, so that's 9 or 10 months of exclusivity. The color and design scheme for last year were black Elvish runes on orange dice.

I can't read Polish, but I can recognize colors. Wow! Those are definitely not part of their existing catalog:

Free RPG Day 2009:
. . . http://forum.q-workshop.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1707

Q-Workshop English:
. . . http://q-workshop.com/main.php?lang=EN&sell_type=DETAL

(BTW, I still want one or two of the black-on-orange d8 from last year. I will trade two to four d12 for them. I've already bought one set to get the lone d8 that I have, and I'd rather not buy two more sets.)

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:38 am

I can drive west, northwest or east to get to stores.

To the West are one or two vendors known to me.
To the East are five or more stores mostly of the type known as "chain".
But to the Northwest are scattered three distinct stores in separate cities. This path also is the longest but leads to other sites like Half-Price Books.

To the Northwest!

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:55 am

JohnGaunt wrote:I can drive west, northwest or east to get to stores.

To the West are one or two vendors known to me.
To the East are five or more stores mostly of the type known as "chain".
But to the Northwest are scattered three distinct stores in separate cities. This path also is the longest but leads to other sites like Half-Price Books.

To the Northwest!

Good luck on your search sir! I'm stuck prepping for inventory at work(stoopid necessities!). I'm hoping one of the other players I told about today will pick up the TLG stuff for me *crosses fingers*.

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:46 pm

Yes, the # of stores are down this year. Last year, we had nearly 400 stores and this year it is nearly 300. So many stores told us that it was the economy for lack of RPG sales as to their decision not to spend the $65 to participate.

Best,
Aldo Ghiozzi
Owner
Impressions

Mars wrote:Does it seem like the number of gamestores offering Free RPG Day are down this year?

It doesn't look like either of the two who participated last year in my area are doing so this year.

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:47 pm

My company, Impressions, handles the event. We do a lot of work in the industry for game companies and are the ones that gather the publisher commitments and try to get the retailers to sign up.

Best,
Aldo

Mars wrote:I'm just wondering who actually organized Free RPG Day i.e. who collects all the items and ships them out?

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:49 pm

Actually, worldwide it is Impressions, but we use our distributor partners in foreign countries to organize the retailers outside the U.S.

Best,
Aldo <---- the guy who owns Impressions.

lawrenson wrote:Hi,

in the US its someone called Aldo Ghozzi. Don't know who he works for.

In the UK its our main games distributor, Esdevium Games.
they are charging £50 ($75) for the kits.

Cheers,
Malc

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