Forge East

[Luke]

One of  the ideas behind the $21 is that it helps me get to the convention. Meaning: It helps me get your books onto tables where you cannot be.

It's funny, the Forge/GenCon buy in was $100. If you want'ed to be there you had to pay another $55 for your badge. No one seemed to have any trouble with that scheme.  Of course, these cons aren't GenCon. But $21 isn't $100 either. My point being, I was following Ron's model for this set up which seemed to work.

Books on Consignment: Abzu, if we were to provide you with books on consignment, asking you to pay us, say, 65% of MSRP whenever you sold them, would that be something you would consider?

It is my understanding that "consignment" is what I am doing. You send me stock, i sell it and send you money. Again, I am asking for money up front to help me defray the costs of promoting and hauling your games around.

Option on Quantities:

The idea right now is you send me three copies of one book and I try to sell it.  I need to minimize my load while trying to represent as broad a Forge selection as possible. If I can handle more books, I will open up room for more books.

Everyone who sends me books will get put on my dealer's table under the Forge banner.

Abzu, how much stock are you willing to carry to conventions?

Just a few to start. I don't have a car. I live in Manhattan. Thus space is very limited.  I was hoping to get three copies of each publisher's main title. And I could make special arrangements with Jake and Ron (and others) to take on their hot sellin' supplements.

Again, I am trying to help promote Forge games. I really want to spread the word at these conventions that I am going to. But I am trying to be honest, too: It is going to be a lot of effort on all fronts for me to do this. I am willing to undertake this, but I think everyone needs to contribute to make it work.

-Luke

[Valamir]

I just wanted to put a positive word in for what Luke's doing here.  My god, he's offering to pimp our stuff to cons we'd likely never ever even hear about, let alone attend, let alone attend as a dealer.  Whatever the terms are seems pretty irrelevant.  Further its a new idea that hasn't been tried before so who really knows what will work, what $ amount is appropriate, how many copies are appropriate, how many games he can pimp and still have time to push his own.  Its all a big question mark.

I will be sending my three copies and $21 with a big thanks for trying this experiment and see what happens.

[eruditus]

has anyone actually attended this con? has any one run games? has anyone been a dealer? I am going to contact the arisia people myself, but I am always looking for the inside track. Specific question: How sci-fi is it? I am always nervous about crashing genre-specific cons with my other-genre-specific stuff.  (perhaps i'll do a BW scifi module in celebration.)

[this post/response is another reason why there should be a Forge Conventions forum. I will post this in the Site Discussion.]

Word from an old Arisia vet is:

"Its a younger con, formed in the early 90's, very diverse programming track, heavy on gaming, costuming, etc. (all the stuff most of the other cons consider fringe) good masq, usually at least one LARP.  Book your room early!!! they sell out fast."

addendum: "bring your food.  not a lot of cheap eateries about."