I didn't see a thread about this yet (well, other than the one with a complaint) so I thought I'd start one.
I flipped through the Dungeon Crawl Classics book and, wow! is it old-school. Just looking at the old-style black and white drawings and maps was nostalgic. If I hadn't wanted We Be Goblins! and been limited to one item, I would totally have picked it up.
I called the nearest game store (Game Daze at Paradise Valley Mall [AZ]) like two months ago to ask if they were participating. They told me they would get back to me regarding it and they never did. I wish I had an FLGS that did participate. Sigh.
Heading down to the local game shop later today. If they keep with the way they did things in prior years, each person gets two free items with a purchase. We Be Goblins! is first on my list. I'm not sure what else I want to grab. Pinnacle's Savage Worlds quickstart looks like it might be interesting. The artist list alone for DCC is a draw.
I don't suppose anyone got a look-see at the "unique elven dice" set from Q-Workshops?
Wow went to my local store and they gave me one of everything wooot.
I caught a glimpse of a few dice in the bottom of the box but didn't see any details. There were some green ones and a biggish glittery gold one, as I recall.
Here's my whole Free RPG Day recap, now that I have the time:
The FLGS we've gone to for the last couple of years wasn't on the list of participating retailers this year, and having read this thread, I wonder if it had to do with them not having a separate gaming room. It's a shame, if so, because they've been great: You walk in and they had the Free RPG Day stuff already set up on a table, you pick what you want and chat with the clerk about Pathfinder, which they were very enthusiastic about.
This shop had a nice gaming room next door, but it was mostly full of YuGiOh players for whom they were worried about getting a tournament going while the people looking for Free RPG Day stuff had to stand around and wait rather aimlessly. They already had the box open and behind the counter, and one of the staff guys wasn't really doing anything, but everyone still had to wait about 20 minutes for the manager to carry the box into the other room and get the stuff out. Once he did, he didn't seem very enthusiastic about actually letting anyone take anything; he kept trying to get people to agree to sit down there and play one of the games, despite the signs around the store promising 1 free product per customer.
I was finally like, "Dude, I've been waiting half an hour, and my kids are with me. Can I just have my copy of 'We Be Goblins!' and go?" He didn't seem pleased but he let me take it and leave. Ironically, I had gone in totally ready to buy some dice and stuff if they had been as accomodating as the store I'd been to before; by the time I'd stood around there 30 minutes watching them do nothing, the spreading-money-around-to-be-nice urge had totally passed.
On the plus side, though, I did get what I came for (even if I left the sparkly pink dice that caught my eye on the shelf), and I met a couple of local Paizonians who run Society games there so I might go back and play another time when I've planned for it and don't have my kids waiting in the car.
For several years now I thought that all of the gaming stores in North Carolina had closed up shop. However, not 2 days ago I discovered that Game HQ is actually still around — they simply keep changing locations every couple years.
Went up there today picked up We Be Goblins, the Dragon Age Quick Start Guide, and bought a bunch of nice-looking pre-painted minis. The store was absolutely packed. I saw a table of 5 guys playing 4th Ed, 4 guys playing Cthulu, 6 playing Warhammer, and 9 playing Pathfinder — including a friend that I had just introduced to tabletop gaming back in March! :D
Talked with the owner for a while and he apologized for slim pickings of Paizo products, but apparently someone had come in just the day before and bought half his stock. Good to see the hobby alive and well!
Well, went down to Merlyn's and picked up Faiths of Purity and Classic Horrors Revisited. Got We Be Goblins! and the Dungeon Crawl Classics quick start (last copy left) as part of the giveaway.
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I slept in til 1:30 today (I think I'm coming down with something, I feel icky), then I took my dog to the park, and finally went down to my FLGS. Previous years they still had Free RPG Day stuff the day after Free RPG Day.
Today it was all gone twenty minutes after they opened.
So, uh, no We Be Goblins for me. :(
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Went to Ravenstone, got We Be Goblins and the Dragon Age quick start. Not much going on there (but there rarely is). There was a shop in Reynoldsburg, but I didn't head down there.
At Ravenstone we played the All Flesh Must Be Eaten module followed by the Pathfinder one. I'm not sure what you were expecting from a game store.