From the GenCon newsletter:
Stop by the Wizards of the Coast Booth #1721 and demo the Character Builder on D&D® Insider™. Sign up for an account at the show and receive a D&D® Backpack and D&D Insider debut content. Does someone in your party need an introduction to D&D 4th Edition? Demos of 4E will be going on in the booth during the exhibit hall hours. In addition, Get your friends hooked on 4E!
Other D&D in booth promotions include: advanced sales of Adventurer’s Vault 2 and Dragon 2009 Annual. Sales of these two titles are limited to one per person. Only 100 copies will be sold each day, so make sure you get yours while supplies last.
Wizards of the Coast will also be celebrating the launch of Dungeons & Dragons Online®: Eberron Unlimited™ by giving away $5 DDO Store gift cards! DDO Unlimited is the premium free to play MMO where players can battle their way through the spectacular online world of Eberron and experience the exhilarating real-time combat and challenging game play powered by the legendary Dungeons & Dragons® ruleset. The $5 gift cards can be used to buy additional adventures or in-game items in the new in-game store. Authentic D&D® features include customizable characters; handcrafted dungeons filled with devious traps, classic monsters, a dungeon master, and an on-screen 20-sided die. DDO Unlimited introduces an innovative new pricing model that allows players to download and play for free, purchasing adventure packs, items, and account services a la carte from the new DDO Store, or to subscribe to get unlimited access to all of the game’s content. Play DDO Unlimited for free by visiting http://www.ddo.com. $5 DDO store gift cards are free with the purchase of any D&D product at the Wizards of the Coast booth.
The D&D Insider Compendium will be free from Thursday August 13, 2009 until Sunday August 16, 2009! That’s right, Wizards of the Coast is making the popular rules Compendium available for free to everyone world wide during Gen Con.
D&D will have plenty of authors and artists on site as well: William O’Connor, Dan Scott, Keith Baker, Wayne Reynolds, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Ed Greenwood, and James Wyatt.
Keith Baker & Wayne Reynolds will be doing a special Eberron™ signing on Saturday from 6:00 – 7:00 pm in the Sagamore Ballroom. The first 50 people in line will receive a free copy of the new 4E Eberron Player’s Guide. Come get it signed by the cover artist and the creator of this fantastic world!
2009 marks the 25th Anniversary of Dragonlance™. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman will be signing the latest release Dragons of the Hourglass Mage: The Lost Chronicles Vol. III on Thursday in Author’s Alley. Also, be sure to stop by the 25th Anniversary Party at the Hyatt Regency on Saturday night from 7:00 – 9:00 pm and help celebrate this classic D&D setting.
For a complete schedule for these and other signings, stop by the Wizards of the Coast booth or the Sagamore Ballroom.
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Umm, stupid question but anyone going to Gencon interested in picking up a PHB and sending it to me? ^_^
Finally found two players who are interested, but I can't afford the books to run. $5 dollars + shipping, ya I can handle that...
It would be $5 + Shipping + the cost of the other book you have to buy to get the $5 deal.
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I would think that mos people going to GenCon that wanted a copy would have it by now.
I wonder if they might be targeting people who come by the booth with friends, or who might have friends back home who haven't tried the game yet.
Not to mention that if you are there picking up another book, it is an excellent deal to add an additional PHB to your table for reference, either for those that do not own their copy or as a general one for the table.
Can't you get the 4e PHB for $5 on eBay and used on Amazon?
Well Amazon is easy to check - $12 is the cheapest.
I am stopping by the small booth adjacent to Goodmans that is offering 10 cents on the dollar for gently used 4e books. Reuse & recycle.
Um, Pax, if I remember the e-mail I received correctly, Goodman's is making that offer for 3e books, not 4e. Is it possible you're talking about something else?
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Smart idea. Most of their core audience already owns the book, and they're well past their initial sales period. This is going to get the PH in the hands of a lot of folks (including skeptics) who ordinarily wouldn't have touched it.
It'll be interesting to see how well this promotion does for them, but I think it's very clever.
Smart idea. Most of their core audience already owns the book, and they're well past their initial sales period. This is going to get the PH in the hands of a lot of folks (including skeptics) who ordinarily wouldn't have touched it.
It'll be interesting to see how well this promotion does for them, but I think it's very clever.
Especially, and please correct me if I'm wrong, they don't have a major 4E book to release at the Con?
This gives folks a reason to stop by.
Smart idea. Most of their core audience already owns the book, and they're well past their initial sales period. This is going to get the PH in the hands of a lot of folks (including skeptics) who ordinarily wouldn't have touched it.
It'll be interesting to see how well this promotion does for them, but I think it's very clever.
Especially, and please correct me if I'm wrong, they don't have a major 4E book to release at the Con?
This gives folks a reason to stop by.
They usually have about 2-3 4e books every month. I guess one could say that no major book like a Player's Handbook 2 or a campaign setting is releasing at Gen Con.
It sounds like they are going to sell a limited amount of 2 products before the official release: Adventurer's Vault 2 and Dragon Annual. I imagine these will be among some of their better selling items but I really have no idea.
Probably the most anticipated WotC book, though, is not for 4e but a Dragonlance novel that decribes Raistlin's story between the Chronicle books and the Legends books. That will probably have many people flocking to their booth, particularly if they have book signing.
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Smart idea. Most of their core audience already owns the book, and they're well past their initial sales period. This is going to get the PH in the hands of a lot of folks (including skeptics) who ordinarily wouldn't have touched it.
It'll be interesting to see how well this promotion does for them, but I think it's very clever.
Especially, and please correct me if I'm wrong, they don't have a major 4E book to release at the Con?
This gives folks a reason to stop by.
They usually have about 2-3 4e books every month. I guess one could say that no major book like a Player's Handbook 2 or a campaign setting is releasing at Gen Con.
It sounds like they are going to sell a limited amount of 2 products before the official release: Adventurer's Vault 2 and Dragon Annual. I imagine these will be among some of their better selling items but I really have no idea.
Probably the most anticipated WotC book, though, is not for 4e but a Dragonlance novel that decribes Raistlin's story between the Chronicle books and the Legends books. That will probably have many people flocking to their booth, particularly if they have book signing.
Yeah with Weis and Hickman on site they will surely be autographs. I wouldn't be surprised if they made an official announcement that Dragonlance is indeed their next campaign setting release for '10. They've been dancing around it for a while, but the clearly have the principles, and they are sneaking Draconians out in the Draconomicon. The writing is on the wall. (of course they are also coming out with psion's in PHB3... Darksun is an option.
But you are right they don't have a major core book out for gencon, the AV will be popular, but not a home run, and DMG 2 is next month.
i have always owned 3 or 4 PHBs, one for me to dm with, and some for the table at large. not all of my friends have had phbs.
i wish i was going, next year....next year.
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Umm, stupid question but anyone going to Gencon interested in picking up a PHB and sending it to me? ^_^
Finally found two players who are interested, but I can't afford the books to run. $5 dollars + shipping, ya I can handle that...
It would be $5 + Shipping + the cost of the other book you have to buy to get the $5 deal.
;-)
Well I'm sure a few people are going to stop by the WotC booth anyway to pick up a book or two. So while they're doing that they could genously pick me up a PHB ^_^