A Chtulhu hat just arrived! As did Leverage RPG and the last remaining boxes of Kyuden Tonbo. But you’ll have to wait another week for the Shogun expansion.
Last year 7th Dimension Games sold 409 unique titles of board games (I’m counting an expansion as its own game for simplicity). 234 of those titles, over half of them, sold 1 copy. In fact, over 55% of profits from board games came from titles that sold 3 or fewer copies.
Monday, I was at ToyFair. It didn’t take me long to see a pattern. Companies like Rio Grande, Mayfair or other companies that make gamer’s games tend to use a distributor. The distributor works with hundreds of companies and has a warehouse where they open big crates to break them into individual units. That way I can buy a single copy of a different game every week.
Companies that sell squirt guns, yo-yos, etc either sell direct (or use an agent) and expect you to buy a case of product x. So when they try to sell me a party game they ask how many dozens they can sell me. When I said one single game they looked incredibly confused.
So, ToyFair wasn’t a waste of time, but most of the companies there weren’t selling to me.
The news is a a little late this week. I was at Toyfair and didn’t get it out as usual.
Magic players, we have two new promo cards, Master’s Call and Plague Myr. The only way to get them is to play a casual game anytime on Tuesday or Wednesday night on the off week for the draft. If you play Archenemy, you’ll also get the Archenemy promo card.
A reminder, we recently had two people towed from VFW lot during a large event. Since we don’t own that space, you may park there at your own risk.
Jim Ruh has started a homebrewed campaign for D&D 3.5 called Emerald Isles at 1:00 on Sundays. He currently has 3 players. If you are interested in joining, drop me a note.
All the Munchkin expansions that are not full-color have been marked down 20%
The Future
On February 26th Bob Fanelli will be running a miniatures game. Details will be forthcoming.
This week
- Tuesday: 6:00 open board games.
- Wednesday: the figure painters will be working. Open play for magic.
- Thursday: Legend of the 5 Rings CCG
- Friday: 6:30 Friday Night Magic – Type II Standard
- Saturday: Warhammer 40k in the morning; WoW TCG (Core Constructed) at 1. L5R at 3. Open board games in the evening. This is also Shadowfist Saturday.
- Sunday: Warmachine
After Sunday’s battles, the new standings are:
- Butch 34
- Chris 33
- Colin 31
- Rich 31
- Gary 30
- Pete S 26
- Pete D 26
- Bob 14
- Tom 8
- Steve 7
- Karl 6
- Joe 4
Let me know if you think there is an error
Why trade a rock card for a sheep card when you can use a rock plushie instead?
The Sunday D&D game won’t be held this week due to a GM commitment.
A local student interviewed me. For someone that once did college radio, you would think I’d have less verbalized pauses.
Pete and a friend are going to start a game of Twilight Imperium around 6 on Saturday. They have space for a couple extra players.