who would pay tournament fees and buy
snacks and other products while in the store. A win-win for everyone, in the
eyes of whomever developed this plan. Needless to say, stores did not embrace
this idea, figuring their time better spent hosting tournaments and otherwise
promoting products they could sell in the store, rather than giving customers a
reason to buy more stuff elsewhere. Yep, that was a winning business plan.

I expect Galactic Connections to do decently for Wal-mart
and but not gangbusters, so no OP program put in place at the store and, once
the movie hype dies down, so will interest in the game.

Friday, September 11, 2015

AEG announced today it was selling the venerable Legend of the Five Ring RPG and trading card game to Fantasy Flight Games:

For twenty years, Legend of theconcluded that it's time to start a new chapter
in the story of L5R. Accordingly, the upcoming Evil Portents expansion for the
CCG, and the �Atlas of Rokugan� for the RPG, will be the final products for L5R
produced by AEG. The L5R Brand will continue under a new owner, Fantasy Flight
Games (FFG). We believe that the good folks at FFG, some of whom have themselves
been involved with the L5R Brand for many years, will do an excellent job of
carrying the L5R Brand and the story of Rokugan on into its next twenty years.
Fantasy Flight Games anticipates that its first L5R product will be a relaunch
of the card game as a Living Card Game (LCG), with a debut event at Gen Con
2017.
Of course, your most immediate concern is likely to be,