Thanks for the good words.
We will continue to put out 72 page books, and when we have to reprint them, will probably do a larger collection. But for now, 72 it is.
Please do contact us for your possible contributions. Mark Galeotti is the guy to contact first.
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>From: "Mike Demetro" <president_at_...>
>To: <HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:06:46
>
>I just got back from the Game Manaufacturers
>Association Trade Show (GTS 2003) where I first met
>Greg Stafford in 2001.
>
>It is not a consumer show but a place where
>manufacturers, distributors and retailers can
>interact and thereafter socialise.
>
>As you may know Steve Jackson Games is now handling
>cons and things for Issaries and they were there
>with a full rack of Hero Wars and SJG stuff.
>
>Steve was nice enough to give me a big handful of
>free goodies including Barbarian Adventures,
>Orlanth is Dead and the Imperial Lunar Handbook
>Volume One.
>
>They are a huge improvement in a lot of ways and
>that bodes well for the upcoming Hero Quest game
>which I think is due in the summer. I just wish
>they would not have split the promised books in two
>pieces of 72 pages each but done them as one
>8.5"x11" book at 144 pages.
>
>Having 144 pages of Sartar Rising in ONE volume
>would be the one way to really improve things.
>
>I also hope the Glorantha background is a lot
>easier to reference next time and that maps are
>actually useful in HeroQuest. Explaining things to
>my players was a real bugger, especially for online
>games when my players were far away.
>
>I think Steve Jackson can do a lot more with Hero
>Quest partnering with Issaries than Greg Stafford
>could do alone and I believe they will do it
>without sking Greg Stafford to compromise any of
>his vision. I suspect they will be very hands off.
>
>
>It is Stev Jackson Games that owns Warehouse 23 as
>is now being discussed so they should have no
>trouble working hard to get you hooked up with
>products.
>
>Back to GTS news...
>
>This GAMA Trade Show was the biggest ever with
>DOUBLE the projected attendance. Everyone was
>swamped with retailers.
>
>I gave away all 336 complimentary copies of Scared
>Stiff: The B-Movie Horror RPG that i had brought in
>the first 2 and 1/2 hours of the first day. That is
>135 copies per hour.
>
>Because i can be sure Steve gave Issaries its fair
>share of the action (having seen their table space
>breakdown), Hero Wars is now exposed to 1200 more
>retailer reps at 600+ more stores than it had been
>before.
>
>My tabel at GTS 2001 was near Greg Stafford's and
>despite the really cool duck skull he had, there
>just wasn't the attendance before that we had this
>year and there wasn't the retailer pull for his
>table that Steve Jackson gets.
>
>I think when Hero Quest comes out in afew months or
>so we are going to see a lot of the mistakes of the
>past undone and a much healthier (if still niche)
>audience out there for Glorantha.
>
>In addition to my own stuff (find it at
>www.playbmovie.com) I do plan to do freelance work
>and Hero Quest is one game that would be a bloody
>pleasure for me to do work for because it is my all
>time favourite game (not including those I write
>personally).
>
>I hope that calms some concerns everyone may have.
>
>
>Mike Demetro, Owner, The Guildhall Press, Canada
>www.guildhallpress.com owner_at_...
>www.playbmovie.com www.trythegame.com
>Game Publishers Association (2001 Comm. Dir.)
>
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