I just went on to sanction my weekly home game and my Game Day event, and it said that the Game Day box kits are all sold out already, has anybody else come into this problem? I didn't even know that the sanctioning date was up for it already.
That would be kind of disappointing -- the Game Day event only went up for sanctioning this week, and it wasn't announced till a couple of days ago. I just haven't had a chance to talk to my store yet about how many tables they want.
Chris flies back to WotC today, so I don't promise much until tomorrow at the soonest.
Chris is on vacation this week, so I'll poke around at some of my other contacts.
The most recent Magic: the Gathering game day kits are sold out - but there are still plenty of WWDDGD:PH3 kits in the system.
If you're getting an error ordering those kits, I'd suggest you log the exact error message you're getting and contact Customer Service (www.wizards.com/customerservice).
"We are sorry, but Worldwake Game Day kits, in North America only, have sold out. We are working to find a resolution for locations that have not yet scheduled an event, so please contact your North American Direct Sales representative for additional information."
Now, as I understand it, Worldwake is some sort of Magic thing, so why it appears when I click on a D&D icon, I don't know. Clearly a mistake? I call nothing around here "clear" anymore.
I'll see if I can replicate and screenshot the message to pass along to CustServ. ^_^
How'd your GameDay go? Post your experiences below!
I have some feedback, and photos and intend to blog about it tonight when I get home from a trek out with the kids today.Feedback:
[*] There were a number of editing errors in the adventure, this isn't unusual sadly.
[*] The pregen characters were nice, demonstrating a variety of things you couldn't do yet in CB. However, in the future if we could have the pregens with clearly different sounding names it would be helpful (I am looking at you Caewin and Kalen). Retail environments are loud and sometimes it's hard to clearly hear things... in my second game after the first combat I ended up renaming Kalen to "BOB" to make it clear whom I was calling on.
[*] Make player tokens with a alphabetic letter that corresponds to the pregen name. E.G., a set of six pogs with (A)bishock, (B)ristol, (C)aewin, (D)enton, (E)rais, (F)arkle would go a long ways towards helping manage things.
[*] The Encounters card was fun but we didn't get them till after the encounters ran, so instead I renamed them "Do something cool" cards, and when a player did something outside the box or was very well roleplayed, I gave them this card to use at the table. In the final fight I gave it to everyone. If we could get these more in advance it would be a driver to get folks to come to these sorts of events.
[*] Bring back the minis. Pogs are okay, but being able to give the people who show up a small plastic token of appreciation is really nice too.
[*] Shorten it up a smidge perhaps? I managed to run mine in 4 hours but that was only by shortcutting some encounters. Every group managed to negotiate with Calcrix (or whatever it's name was), but I really could tell some folks were itching to fight it. A three hour game means we could run it more often in the store, staggering the starts and better handling walk-ins.
[*] I loved the skill challenge with the rift, that was a very novel way to do it. I think though that the DCs were too easy on it. Not one person failed.
Overall, enjoyable adventure. It was fun to run twice because each group handled things differently. I subbed in a huge carrion crawler mini for the grick alpha... the look on their faces when I put that out was priceless!
Also, a few of my original ideas got revised and stuff shifted along the way, and whenever that happens, you open the door to editing slips. I just hope everything was clear enough that people could run the adventure, or at least fill in those gaps.
I personally agree that the DCs were low in the sinkhole skill challenge, and it was DM's prerogative to up them as appropriate. Mostly, it was to reflect the sheer randomness, as sometime a person with no Arcana or Intelligence would be forced to make an Arcana check, where the chances of failure were still good. In our game, DCs got upped about 5 points, and it meant a failure in the skill challenge as people kept getting forced to make completely untrained/stat-supported checks.
I think what would have been better would have been to up the DCs by 5 (or more) when the PC was making a trained skill check, but that would have to be ad hoc on the fly.
Cheers