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This is my second post here I am trying to keep this initiative in the public and community eye.

For an update on my progress please check my blog

http://savevsstorm.blogspot.com/

And again please let me know if you are aware of any gamers in Queensland Australia who have been affected

Last week looked on in horror as many, many lives were impacted by the pure fury or mother nature. This is terrible and as I saw this happen I had to ask the question.

What about Gamers?

What about those people who lost everything in the floods and cyclone.

Rebuilding is not going to be easy.

It is going to take months or in some cases years and it will not be an easy task. So my goal is to get gaming material to those who have lost everything.

But I need to know who has been impacted by this terrible event.

This is a general call to all gamers and those who know of gamers who have been directly impacted by the events of the last few months.

I want to help. So what I am doing is contacting ALL game companies that I can think of and asking for them to contribute any CORE rule books that they are able to donate to this cause.

I am hoping to be able to at least get some stock to the people who need it the most.

At this time I have had some agreement from game to donate books it is hard to get stock to australia from other contries so this agreement is beyond generous.

I have contacted several companies and will be contacting others including Piazo but at this stage I really need the communities help.

I believe there are many gamers out there who have been deeply impacted by this and have lost all there books. I want to get gaming material to those who need it and i want to share this information with those companies that I have approached to give them some idea of the number of gamers who have lost all there gameing books.

Also any donations that members of this community is happy to contribute will be greatly appreciated.

I have started a blog here
http://savevsstorm.blogspot.com/

Please inform me of any gamers who have been impacted and how I can get gaming material to them

This is something that I am doing for no other reason that I really want to help so please contribute in anyway you can

Thank you

Karl

Ok so watched the Paizo future videos and also watched the general commentaries in the comic book industry about the aging fan base and how to get new blood in the industry.

I have a couple of ideas for getting new players.

1) Go to where the players potential players are. I am not talking about Paizo. I am talking about you the person who is reading this. You have to be proactive about this. I mean yes Paizo will do its own research and have its own initiatives. But we also have to do things.

Go play yugioh, Magic the gathering ect. Games that kids like to play. Join the community get to know the kids and then introduce them to RPGs. I know that most of us was at one time or another that kid that just wanted to be taken seriously by adults. Not only will you be adding new players but also you will be giving some kids a sense of value by having adults take them seriously. That is more valuable than gold.

This means yes playing games that you may look down your nose at, but remember that one of the reasons that RPGs exploded was that Wargamers looked down there noses at kids when they were interested in the hobby in the late 70s early 80s.

It is past time for us to go where the kids are that we want to get into the hobby.

Maybe carry a set of rules with you and have the rule books with your stuff when you are playing cards so when some players are waiting to play they can look through the rulebooks.

I would like to recognize those members of the paizo community who introduce people into the hobby in the last 12 months so if you reply to this please put at the bottom of the post a number and the ages of the players. EG. 4(15,17,22,27)

2) Direct people toward Paizo.com. I did a blog post http://www.itsallgeektome.net/elves/ where i directed people toward the website and the pathfinder RPG. If you have a blog use it to talk about RPGs and fly the flag a bit for your hobby and offer people a way to find the games. If you are on facebook mention when you are playing on your status and give people a place to find RPGs.

Lisa if you read this, I know how swamped you guys are but I would love to have a website or portal that was designed just for newbies. A site that I could link to and looked flashy and maybe had a video that a 12 year old kid could log into and was brought up to speed on the hobby and Paizo and why RPGs are cool.

The site is cool, but really it is just a shop with social aspects bolted on. The social aspects work well but still when you go to the home page it is just a store.

We all found RPGs once we knew that they existed and where to find them.

So they are just a couple of ideas that I had.

Oh and 3 (31, 33, 30) Yes they were all over 30 but I am still proud that I introduced more people to the hobby.

A point of order on Theris Nordo Ichka's review.

Gygax was not influenced by Tolkien he wasn't a fan. More Robert E Howard, Morecock ect.

Curious to see what these third party 4E adventures are like.

Anyone played or read one yet?