Sample RPG Books

 

If you are an RPG publisher adn you want to get a  print copy of your product into the hands of the exact group of consumers interested in your product, but in order to do that, we need to have more than three copies of your submission to put on the table. Send the store enough copies to get a reasonable number into people's hands.

Free RPG Day

 

Once again the store had a great Free RPG Day with a line of people waiting to get in when we opened (See “Thoughts on the Upcoming Free RPG Day”)  We had a longer line waiting for free role playing stuff than we did for Free Comic Book Day but that does make sense given that we focus more on tabletop games than comics. Foot traffic was up about 20% over a typical Saturday and sales increased about 40% over a usual Saturday as well  RPG sales doubled but I ascribe a significant amount of the increase to the Yu Gi Oh Chaos Origins Premiere event that ran this past weekend. Unlike past recent Premiere events, which ended with us having about half a case of booster boxes remaining, the lure of the first full art Yu Gi Oh cards proved too tempting for local Yu Gi Oh duelists who descended on the set in droves and cleaned us out by the close of the business day on Saturday.

Back to Free RPG Day though. This was the best one we have had in recent years. There was a wide assortment of offerings from which customers could choose and a surprisingly small number of Dungeons and Dragons/5E compatible supplements. Not only did we give away our entire order of items but we managed to clear out all of the Free RPG Day items left over from previous including Cosmic Patrol, which has been kicking around our storeroom since 2015. The only Free RRPG Day item we had left over by the end of the day was the “Enter the Collection” supplement provided by Renegade Game Studios back in 2021. As usual, I do have a few thoughts about the event:

New 40K Releases for July 25th

 

New Edition. A New Beginning. More Ways to Grow the Hobby. New Starter Products for the New Edition   The next chapter of Warhammer has arrived, with the launch of our new edition, there has never been a better time to welcome new hobbyists into the world of Warhammer 40,000.We are releasing a number of new starter products, ideal for making it easy and exciting for new customers to begin their journey in the Warhammer 40,000 hobby. The excitement does not stop at Armageddon, these products provide great opportunities to build momentum and keep hobby journeys moving forward. These products will be added to the Stockist Ranges upon release, Click Here for more details on our on Range Updates.   The following three products are taking their rightful place in our Bestsellers Foundation range.

The following four products are available to all clients and are part of our Extended Box Range. Ask us about how to carry our Extended Box Ranges in your store.

New Comics for July 8th

 Here are the new comics releasing July 8th

2000 AD PROG #2488

ABATTOIR SIX #3

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #22

ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN #2

ALADDIN #1

ALTERED STATES WARLORDS #2

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 FACSIMILE

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #14 FACSIMILE

ARCHIE COMICS 85TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTS BETTY & VERONICA SWIMSUIT SPECIAL

BABY GARFIELD #4

BARBARA GORDON BREAKOUT #3

BATMAN #156 FACSIMILE

BEN 10 #3

BLACK CAT #12

BLEEDING HEARTS #6

BO WOLF #1

CALEXIT SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD #1

CIVIL WAR: UNMASKED #3

CLAYFACE CELEBRITY DIRT #1

CONAN AND DRAGONERO #3

DAREDEVIL #4

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT MIMI GREEN #2

DIE LOADED #7

DINGOLIATH #1

DISPATCHED #1

DO A POWERBOMB BLACK AND WHITE #1

EMPEROR AQUAMAN #19

FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST FOES – SHALLA BAL #1

FIRE AND ICE DARKWOLF #1

FORGED #12

FURY OF FIRESTORM #4

GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #330

GREEN LANTERN #49 FACSIMILE

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #18

HANK HOWARD, PIZZA DETECTIVE THE INSIDE JOB #1

INNARDS #2

IT’S SYMBIE #1

JEFF THE LAND SHARK: SUPERSTAR #1

JUST BRUTAL #4

MASK #2

OPERATION: IRON COFFIN #1

ORDER #2

PIMP KILLER #1

SEASONS #11

SEVEN WIVES #2

SHOWDOWN #2

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: 35TH ANNIVERSARY

SORCERER SUPREME #8

SPEED RACER #10

STAR WARS: SHADOW OF MAUL #5

STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES–PATHFINDERS #3

STAR-CROSSED #1

SUPERGIRL #15

THE ROCKETEER: INFILTRATOR! #1

THE TWILIGHT ZONE #9

THUNDERCATS X SILVERHAWKS #4

TRANSFORMERS #34

UNCANNY X-MEN #31

VAMPYRATES! #1

W0RLDTR33 #21

WHITE BOAT #3

WITCHBLADE #23

WITNESS POINT #1

WOLVERINE #23

X-MEN ’97: SEASON TWO #2

ZORRO’S LEGACY #1

Gotta Catch 'Em All

 Calling all Pokemon Trainers in the area.  Bring us in cards showing the pictured 10 Pokemon on them and you will earn a limited edition Cinderace Pokemon League foil card.

Dungeon Crawler Carl Crowdfunding Campaign

 

Dungeon Crawler Carl the RPG crowdfunding campaign was one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever and a remider as to many publishers are now using crowdfunding, notsomuch as a means of raising funds to publish a product and moreso as a promotional device (See “Dungeon Crawler Carl:  The BackerKit”). After following the Dungeon Crawler Carl campaign, a crowdfunding campaign from another publisher popped up in my social media ads, only this one was touting that their campaign had fully funded in only 15 MINUTES. That sounded pretty impressive so I took a look at it, which now means that ads for their campaign keep showing up all across my social media feeds. The magic of tracking and algorithms.

Anyhow, funding in 15 minutes should mean quite a bit of excitement about the product and, looking at the campaign now, the amount of money it has raised is comparatively impressive but the project’s funding goal was only in the mid four figures, a comparatively easy figure to raise and create the opportunity to promote how quickly it funding and how far in perms of percentage the project is over goal. This is what copywriter Bob Bly refers to as the “magic of false logic”, not lying or misrepresenting the situation but making manipulating existing facts to make the result sound far better than it is through skillful writing. I also have heard this referred to as “fun with statistics”. For example, if a particular game has not sold a copy in six months and then sells two copies, I can legitimately claim a 200% sales increase in six months. Is that a true statement? Absolutely. Does it reflect the actual popularity of the game? Nope.

Cryer from the Castle

 Cryer from the Castle for the Week of June 30, 2026

https://youtu.be/wwbhpM5aJdg