It looks like I may be running Dungeon World at a store on a regular basis as the game I ran on Saturday for freerpgday went really well. Adam Koebel do you have any plans for an organized play program? If the store is willing to print sheets for me is it allright if I give them the basic moves/character sheet pdf? What distributors carry DW so I can tell the store how to get it? Johnstone Metzger I use Truncheon World extensively while running DW is it available in distribution or only as a print on demand or pdf from drivethrurpg, ie: is there a way for a brick n mortar store to sell it?
It looks like I may be running Dungeon World at a store on a regular basis as the game I ran on Saturday for…
It looks like I may be running Dungeon World at a store on a regular basis as the game I ran on Saturday for…
Organized play takes community managers and distro channels to stores and all that stuff takes $$$ and me and Sage are just two dudes. DW isn’t really big enough for anything official. We rely on awesome fans (like you!) to play the game with local groups. I can however, help you with the following;
1) The sheets are totally available for printing by whomever wants to print ’em. That PDF is free and okay to distribute like crazy.
2) Dungeon World is currently being stocked by IPR and Alliance.
Thanks Adam Koebel.
All my books are POD only, through Lulu and DriveThruRPG. At my level, there’s not a lot of incentive to chasing distribution, but I would still be happy to at least talk to a brick and mortar store that’s interested in stocking my stuff.
Thanks Johnstone Metzger r ill mention it when I speak to the store owners again.
John Kramer I will be overawed if your FLGS allows you to do DW on a regular basis, since there is no income to be derived from it. Magic makes money, and to a much lesser extent DnD and PF. So those are the games you are going to see at stores. While no store owner will stop you from doing a once off here and there, you will find that they do not support you unless you generate sales.
It’s nothing personal. It’s business.
Wynand Louw that strikes me as totally inaccurate. I worked at a game store for 2 years, running events, and we wanted people in the store for whatever reason. Sure, magic tournaments are lucrative because there’s a buy-in but people in the store look at games before, during and after – they’re exposed to your merchandise. They talk about games, they share stories about other games they’ve played and they buy stuff. There’s also dice and snacks and other side-market miscellanea that any store set up to run events should consider. We’d sometimes rent out table or room space to groups for $10 an hour / table or whatever but that $ was refunded as a gift certificate, so it turned into merch sales anyway.
It’s not all about everyone at the table purchasing a copy of the main rulebook.
Wynand Louw luckily for me, one of the store’s owners was one of my players and he was the one who supplied the comment I started my other thread with. Which is to say: he wants to play again.
Adam Koebel I’m really glad that’s your experience. Maybe I’m too cynical…
What Adam said is spot on. The store didn’t have any DW products to sell nor was there anything DW related to give away for FreeRPGday but they did sell 5 sodas to me n the 4 other players and one set of dice to one player. I posted the store name to g+ and Facebook (I haven’t reposted it as the name is changing and I don’t have the details yet) giving them a little free advertising. A couple of the players for my game stuck around after and played/bought magic cards. The other table was running 13th age which the store also didn’t have any product for beyond the free adventure for freerpgday.