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Vairdic

Aug 11 2009, 01:24 AM

Hey Folks,

I thought I'd post here the product that will be available at Gen Con this year in limited numbers:

BattleTech
- Masters & Minions (limited to ~25/day)
- 25 Years of Art & Fiction (limited to ~50/day)

Shadowrun
- Seattle 2072 (limited to ~50/day)
- Running Wild (limited to ~50/day)

Eclipse Phase
- Eclipse Phase Core Book (limited to ~25/day)

CodeBreaker

Aug 11 2009, 01:29 AM

QUOTE (Vairdic @ Aug 11 2009, 02:24 AM)

Shadowrun
- Seattle 2072 (limited to ~50/day)

Does that mean we can expect to maybe be getting a PDF format of this Soon™?

BishopMcQ

Aug 11 2009, 01:44 AM

There is no PDF, only Zul.

My best guess is that it is on someone's "to-do" list. The question of whether it happens in the next 24 hours before everyone boards their travel method of choice and heads to GenCon is unclear. Adam has said that the office is pretty much shutting down for the week tomorrow afternoon.

ravensmuse

Aug 11 2009, 11:36 AM

What about SR4A? Will it be there? Will there be limited editions?

I'm coming in Friday afternoon and leaving Sunday morning, so I'm hoping to not have to bumrush Catalyst and WotC this year...

Stormdrake

Aug 11 2009, 03:13 PM

Where is Seattle 2072 coming from? I never saw it on a upcoming list. Not complaining mind you, just curious.

Prime Mover

Aug 11 2009, 04:28 PM

Seattle 2072 been in works and on lists floating around since last fall IRC

SR4A Pre-Orders not shipping till 18th or later? That sux.

ravensmuse

Aug 11 2009, 05:09 PM

Oh, and what about the SR dice? Will they be limited too?

Prime Mover

Aug 11 2009, 05:48 PM

Saving Runners Toolkit for x-mas? ;P

Tiger Eyes

Aug 12 2009, 11:58 AM

QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Aug 11 2009, 01:09 PM)

Oh, and what about the SR dice? Will they be limited too?

While Dave did not take my advice on the bright pink or sparkly purple dice, he did take my 3rd suggestion, so there will be special SR dice at GenCon too (and tee-shirts! don't forget the teeshirts!).

Stahlseele

Aug 12 2009, 03:24 PM

I insist on this swag being made available in germany too! >o<

RunnerPaul

Aug 13 2009, 07:17 PM

QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 12 2009, 11:24 AM)

I insist on this swag being made available in germany too! >o<

And I insist that an English translation of Die 6. Welt gets published. Until then, quit yer bellyaching about US Shadowrun fans getting more perks than the German ones do, because you've got your little exclusives too.

Stahlseele

Aug 14 2009, 07:03 AM

QUOTE

And I insist that an English translation of Die 6. Welt gets published.

All for it. For us non native english speakers it can get a bit frustratingly complicated, trying to piece together information in some cases. Especially, if you have sources in both languages and the translation gets in between . . But a book is a book, and Shirts and Dice are Shirts and Dice <.<

Grinder

Aug 14 2009, 10:31 AM

I gave up on waiting for (sometimes suffering from a crappy translation) german versions on sourcebooks a long time ago. And the pieces we get as an extra in the german books are hardly worth the waiting, i.e. the poorly written new clothing stuff in Arsenal.

Stahlseele

Aug 14 2009, 10:50 AM

yeah, i mostly stick with the english stuff too . .

Bull

Aug 14 2009, 11:21 AM

Just a quick update... None of the books besides Eclipse Phase have been limited thus far. I think CGL managed to get a few more copies than expected to the show. However, they are expecting to sell out of most of them. Eclipse Phase sold all 25 copies yesterday in under 5 minutes.

Also, there's an Ares T-Shirt this year ( don't remember the slogan offhand, I have pics though) and "Ares Shadowrun Dice", which are beautiful. Red and Blue swirly dice, with gold pips and gold SR "S" Logo

Pics, hoever, will have to wait till I'm home.

puke

Aug 14 2009, 07:57 PM

QUOTE (Prime Mover @ Aug 11 2009, 01:48 PM)

Saving Runners Toolkit for x-mas? ;P

indeed, whats the story on this? i dont see it on any of the upcoming products pages, and havent heard it mentioned in a while. I had been anticipating this much more than any other upcoming SR publication, and would be pretty sad if it has been dropped.

Critias

Aug 14 2009, 09:28 PM

An Ares t-shirt, on the one year I can't make it. Figures.

FlakJacket

Aug 15 2009, 12:50 AM

QUOTE (Critias @ Aug 14 2009, 10:28 PM)

An Ares t-shirt, on the one year I can't make it. Figures.

Yeah. I've been to something like the last six or seven GenCons, Christ has it really been that many?, and the one year I can't attend is the anniversary year for Shadowrun and Battletech and when they've got the Ares t-shirts for sale.

Bull

Aug 15 2009, 01:21 AM

There may be some shirts available through the Battlecorps sight once the crew gets back from the con, dunno.

Oh, and the slogan?

"Business is Booming!"

Method

Aug 15 2009, 05:42 AM

Awesome!! Is it just the Ares logo or is there other artwork?

malichai

Aug 16 2009, 03:34 AM

I'd love to see some reports from folks that picked up some of these products, especially the Seattle 2072 book.

kanislatrans

Aug 16 2009, 03:36 AM

QUOTE (malichai @ Aug 15 2009, 11:34 PM)

I'd love to see some reports from folks that picked up some of these products, especially the Seattle 2072 book.

Zendead got one and tweeted" its very pretty"

Erebus

Aug 16 2009, 11:27 AM

Gimme Gimme Gimme some product....

Any Amazon dates for Seattle 2072, or Running Wild?

Adam

Aug 16 2009, 02:19 PM

QUOTE (Erebus @ Aug 16 2009, 06:27 AM)

Any Amazon dates for Seattle 2072, or Running Wild?

We don't have street dates for either title, yet.

Deus Innomen

Aug 17 2009, 03:09 PM

QUOTE (Method @ Aug 15 2009, 12:42 AM)

Awesome!! Is it just the Ares logo or is there other artwork?

Ares logo on the front (shirt-pocket sized), back is similar with the "Business is Booming!" slogan. I got it at GenCon, I could NOT possibly say no to this one. It's great!

Adam

Aug 17 2009, 04:40 PM

Guess who forgot to get one? Oops!

Bull

Aug 17 2009, 11:17 PM

Stahlseele

Aug 18 2009, 12:58 PM

yarg, me wanna! ._.

Malachi

Aug 18 2009, 04:00 PM

QUOTE (Bull @ Aug 17 2009, 05:17 PM)

Pics of product (I'll add to this as I come across the pictures)

Who are the CGL people that can be seen in the pics? I want to put face-to-handles!

RunnerPaul

Aug 18 2009, 08:06 PM

QUOTE (Bull @ Aug 17 2009, 06:17 PM)

Pics of product (I'll add to this as I come across the pictures)

Is it just me, or does CGL really like firey orange covers? Street Magic reprint, Seattle 2072, a couple of the Battletech books...

Guess it makes em stand out on the storeshelf.

Bull

Aug 18 2009, 08:40 PM

QUOTE (Malachi @ Aug 18 2009, 11:00 AM)

Who are the CGL people that can be seen in the pics? I want to put face-to-handles!

Oi, you would want that. Facebook has a handy "Tag" feature that lets you label people in pics, but you have to be at least logged in to facebook to see those (I have the pics set public, but still, that feature doesn't apparently show up for non users). So... Sign up for Facebook. Otherwise, it's a giant PITA for me to label all the pics

(Also, I don't quite know everyone in the booth shots. THere were a fair number of volunteers who were Battletech folks, or simplyfriends of the CGL guys that were helping out)

Adam

Aug 18 2009, 08:45 PM

QUOTE (RunnerPaul @ Aug 18 2009, 04:06 PM)

Is it just me, or does CGL really like firey orange covers? Street Magic reprint, Seattle 2072, a couple of the Battletech books...

Yes, we do.

CodeBreaker

Aug 18 2009, 09:20 PM

Looking at those pictures it appears Eclipse Phase has flying space whales. Awesome sauce, now I have another game system I want to buy.

Earlydawn

Aug 19 2009, 05:17 AM

That hoodie is killer. Is it going to the webstore?

Kerenshara

Aug 19 2009, 10:34 AM

BLEEK!

Seattle 2072 is going to be a HARDCOVER?!

knasser

Aug 19 2009, 04:11 PM

QUOTE (Kerenshara @ Aug 19 2009, 11:34 AM)

BLEEK!

That's a bad sound, right?

Can anyone who has it or someone involved in publishing it give us a page count? I'd like to get a feel for what I'm looking at here. Are we talking Runner Havens sort of material, here? What are we looking at in the way of maps?

K.

Adam

Aug 19 2009, 04:13 PM

Seattle 2072 is 200 pages, a map of for each district.

Method

Aug 19 2009, 04:20 PM

Heh... did you get route 99 sorted out?

Kerrang

Aug 19 2009, 05:10 PM

QUOTE (Kerenshara @ Aug 19 2009, 05:34 AM)

BLEEK!

Seattle 2072 is going to be a HARDCOVER?!

My daughter was at GenCon, and I asked her to pick a copy of Sea2072 while she was there. She called me from the Catalyst booth to ask which book I wanted again, and she told me that price was like $46. I quizzed her to see if maybe she was looking at the wrong book, thinking this was a about twice the price a typical soft cover SR supplement, and told her not to get it. She did not mention it was hard cover, but I am not sure if this would have changed my mind. I hope there is a soft cover version when this is finally put up for order, otherwise I will have to opt for the PDF when I would much rather have a physical book.

BlueMax

Aug 19 2009, 05:12 PM

QUOTE (Kerrang @ Aug 19 2009, 10:10 AM)

Wait. What is wrong with Hardcover?

Funny enough I opt to PDF anything softcover. Softcovers get trashed in my gaming circle.

BlueMax

Kerrang

Aug 19 2009, 05:17 PM

QUOTE (BlueMax @ Aug 19 2009, 12:12 PM)

Wait. What is wrong with Hardcover?

Funny enough I opt to PDF anything softcover. Softcovers get trashed in my gaming circle.

The thing that is wrong with Hardcover is the price. I play too many gaming systems to buy anything other than core rules in hard cover.

BlueMax

Aug 19 2009, 05:26 PM

QUOTE (Kerrang @ Aug 19 2009, 10:17 AM)

The thing that is wrong with Hardcover is the price. I play too many gaming systems to buy anything other than core rules in hard cover.

Then I am jealous of you sir. I actively play only a few systems and of those only Shadowrun puts out new material. Thus I can understand how its perhaps too easy for me to budget for hardback books and perhaps even worse, I operated under the assumption it was easy for others.

BlueMax
/who would love to blow money on RTS games
//but they really don't make them anymore
///RTT sucks

Adam

Aug 19 2009, 05:31 PM

The "Anniversary" titles that aren't corebooks -- Seattle 2072 and Sixth World Almanac -- are both full-color hardcovers. No plans for any other versions of them.

knasser

Aug 19 2009, 05:54 PM

@Adam: Thanks for the info.

@Hardcover discussion: I tend to buy things in physical form if the group will want to maul it amongst themselves. I tend to buy things I will only use myself for GM'ing (e.g. Ghost Cartels, Running Wild) as PDFs.

Kerenshara

Aug 19 2009, 05:57 PM

QUOTE (knasser @ Aug 19 2009, 11:11 AM)

No, "Bleek" can be any kind of sound, usually taken with context.

For further information, read the Honor Harrington series and pay special attention to Nimitz, the Sphinxan Treecat. They can't speak due to the limitations of their vocal appratus, but they are... as bright as most two-footed people and combined with their ears, a bleek can say a lot.

In this case, it's absolute delight, because as wondrous as the original Seattle sourcebook was decades ago, it was softcover. Hardcover implies that it will have more material that I really want as well as suggesting a higher production quality.

*grin*

Method

Aug 19 2009, 06:05 PM

I'm much the same. Lately I buy everything in pdf because I am the only one that uses it (GM prep, etc). I will buy everything in hard copy eventually for my collection, but thats a different situation...

Fezig

Aug 20 2009, 05:30 AM

I'm never really comfortable until I have a dead tree copy to play around with when it comes to things I use constantly. Can't wait for the chance to pick this one up. The maps alone will be great.

Critias

Aug 20 2009, 06:47 AM

Real paper copies, and hardcovers in particular, are fantastic to own. You can swat bugs with them, swat players with them, swing your bookbag as a club with them, stack them into protective forts around your PC (which also keeps them within arm's reach for when someone is being wrong on my internet), use them to even out crooked table legs or missing couch legs, and there's always just something reassuringly physical about thumbing through a well-worn book. They're awesome. I love 'em...

...until it's time for my gamer-ass self and my gamer-ass wife to box them up and move. Jesus, Buddha, and Zeus, but I wished I had more pdf's when we were loading and unloading that thrice-damned truck.

Method

Aug 20 2009, 07:30 AM

Ha! That is so true! My SR collection alone takes up 3 plastic tote bins! WH books fill another one. And don't even get me started on how many *thousands* of miniatures I have totted around the country. Lets just say I had a little "problem" for awhile, but I'm working through it. I've been clean of my ebay habit for like 10 whole months now!!

Kerenshara

Aug 20 2009, 02:05 PM

That is why I several years ago settled on laying out the money to pay somebody else to jackass my stuff into and out of the truck. It's so liberating to just stand there and watch somebody else sweat in the August heat while you stand comfortably from within the air conditioned confines of your home on both ends. Seriously though, they're always a lot faster than you anyway, and compared to the extra rental day on the truck, it's not as bad as you'd think. Also, I am not without pitty; I make sure to have a couple liters of Gatorade on hand for each of the movers. Funny how much they seemed to appreciate that. And a couple things I was trying to decide to dump or donate, they scooped up for their own selves. So it works.

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