Travelling self-serve Forge display?

[Christopher Weeks]

The discussion of late got me thinking about how to get small-press games to lots of cons.

What if there was a self-serve display rack of some kind for a few (4-10?) products. The display, product and all would assemble quickly and easily and could be placed as appropriate for good traffic by convention staff or a single Forgite.  Each book would be wired to the display, be browsable, maybe have tabbed sections and author annotations in the margins to draw attention to certain parts, and above where the book would normally rest, have a card (8x10"?) with a fairly brief highlight-description of the game/suppliment/whatever. It could also hold and dispense literature for the associated products.  The whole display could be "owned" by the publishers using it and be shipped around to various conventions (free when possible by piggyback, or shared shipping expense when not). It would be like a self-serve kiosk. There could be more than one of these and they could even accompany an actual dealer who stocked the Forge games if someone like that was going to be there. (I think that would be the ideal synergy.)

The potential problems that I see are:
a) lack of proper attention from con organizers when no invested Forgite is there to care for it
b) theft
c) initial cost
d) keeping the design small and light enough to make shipping and storage feasible.

Anything else?

Has anything like this been done before?

Chris

[Dregg]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Chris,
what about a bible sized catalog with highlight pages from each game (each section seperated by Cover art and such), it would be a way for people to veiw the different games, it would be portable, and can be placed on any table in the dealers or Demo room.

Just an Idea

[Christopher Weeks]

After re-reading, I decided that Bible sized must mean large, right?  Even if it's quite large it could still just walk away.  Or even get lost legitimately.  A whole racked up display wouldn't suffer from that.  On the other hand, it would be much cheaper to put together ship around.

Chris

[Dregg]

After re-reading, I decided that Bible sized must mean large, right?  Even if it's quite large it could still just walk away.  Or even get lost legitimately.  A whole racked up display wouldn't suffer from that.  On the other hand, it would be much cheaper to put together ship around.

Chris

I grew up catholic, all the bibles in my house were large... sorry for the guess work =)

Dregg <neo Pagan

[GB Steve]

I offered to do this kind of thing for the Forge at Dragonmeet in the UK next month but didn't get much response (1 form a UK forgite who is coming along).

I'd like to see the Forge's product on show in the UK, I think it deserves that kind of coverage. Maybe something can be worked out for GenCon UK next Autumn (or possibly one of the smaller more Indie friendly cons such as Continuum)