Origins Game Fair: Day One

Friday, June 27, 2008

Thursday was the first day of the Origins Game Fair and the first day of any con is generally the slowest. Despite the reputation, Paizo's booth was filled with many gamers asking about the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the next Pathfinder Adventure Path, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and Yetisburg, Paizo's new release under the Titanic Games line.

Yetisburg left the crowd laughing and certainly saw a nice crowd of folks eager to demo the civil war comedy card game, but every once in a while someone from the historical miniatures part of Origins would walk by, hat and jacket resplendent with civil war flag pins, stare at the Yetisburg banner, sigh, shake his head, and move on. As the co-designer of Yetisburg I have to say that reaction rests warm in my heart.

Since the yetis of Yetisburg come from Canada, it was only fitting that Canada's finest team of demoers, the Shackleton Brothers, would travel down from the frigid north to teach Americans how the yetis did their deeds in Pennsylvania all those years ago.

And now, pictures:

Nick Logue sets up the Yetisburg demo table in the Paizo booth before the hall opens.

Paizo's Planet Stories line looking robust as it fills the shelves on the booth wall.

Two of the Shackleton Brothers lead a crew of brave heroes through the trenches of Yetisburg.

Joshua J. Frost
Director of Sales & Marketing