Got my Narrator's Screen today. Though I would have preferred an adventure instead of the charatcer sheets, it's a good screen. Nice job Team Decipher
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Got my Narrator's Screen today. Though I would have preferred an adventure instead of the charatcer sheets, it's a good screen. Nice job Team Decipher
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Got my narrator screen today, Nice layout
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Got it Tuesday. Nice thing. I love the idea of the booklet, that's quite handy to find tables that are not on the screen without having to start flipping through the book.
Now eagerly waiting for the StarFleet Ops book (no, I'm never happy)
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I don't know if I ever will buy the screen. I probably will but I really am looking forward to the Starfleet Operation Manual!
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Has the "Starships" book been released yet?
The Decipher site doesn't even have the Narrator's Screen on it - just the Players and Narrator's Guides - certainly no Starships.
Jeez...they need to get their act together, and at least update their website once in a while.
It was interesting they aren't producing the SW CCG anymore - anyone know why? Was it a licencing or a financial issue?
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No, the Starships book is not out yet. I'd look for it at the end of March IIRC.Originally posted by Aldaron
Has the "Starships" book been released yet?
It was interesting they aren't producing the SW CCG anymore - anyone know why? Was it a licencing or a financial issue?
And the SWCCG liscence wasn't renewed by Lucasfilm. They instead gave it to WOTC.
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My local game shop's distributor is taking preorders for the SF Ops Manual.I've been assured it will be out in roughly 2 weeks.Can,t wait.
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Decipher has also come out with a new version of their Star Trek CCG - called 2nd Edition and it is such a great game. Definately the best sci-fi card game around.
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I just found out my FLGS is no longer going to carry Decipher games due to constant nagging from fans asking when books are going to come out and the constant delays from both Decipher and the distributor
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Same here. The games guy said that Decipher's release schedule is simply too much work to keep up with. He says that the few of us that actually want the products take up an inordinate amount of the store's time by asking them to find out when/if Decipher will ever release anything new for Star Trek RPG.
I guess I'll be getting mail order from now on.
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You know, as a consumer, I find that attitude... well... stupid. "We're sick of listening to people asking about a game, so we're going to throw away all these guaranteed sales and just not carry the stuff to shut people up."I mean, what's to stop people from asking about it in the future? ::shakes his head:: I'd say more, but words fail me...
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Uh, anyhow.. my FLGS did this to me a while back, I think It was for White-Wolf's Mage... But it turned into a form answer, The guy that ran the store was a comic-book guy, and rpg's were a backseat, He'd also gotten tired of kids ordering games and not buying them when they came in, So he started the "We're not going to carry it when it does come out, So I'm not gonna bother checking on it." But he would when it came out.. He was just tired of talking to his distributor for no point.. So, don't write your FLGS off yet.. Wait for something to be out and then for him to not carry it. Right now it's just theo-rhetorical physics.
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As someone who used to run the Games department at one of Ann Arbor's several no-longer-friendly local game stores, this attitude does not surprise me. If it isn't quick and easy money like the D20 flavor of the week, Warhammer or 40K, or whichever Clix game is the current rage, the majority of retailers are too lazy to bother with it. Hobby stores flourish in a recession, due to the "value-added" of repeat game-play, so this strikes me as short-sighted at best. A retailer which fails to listen to its customers is one headed the way of the dodo.
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Actually, as sad as I am to say this, the shops are correct. Why spend time trying to do X when you cannot get X acomplished in a timely manner and make no money, while you can do Y in the same amount of time and get paid for it. Time is money. Really if you cannot satisfy your customer, they will go elsewhere. I respect Decipher for thier quality stuff, but from a business point of view, I see where those shops are coming from. I would fire the RPG Marketing team and hire people who could get my product advertised. Sales would increase if more people knew that Decipher made Star Trek RPG Stuff and it always met the release dates. Sure people know about it, but only in a small demographic (the people here). I only found out about the RPG on chance when I was looking for ST images and found this site, and I found out about the LOTR game here as well. Not in the game shop. I asked my FLGS about the narrator's guide a month ago, and they told me they didn't know it existed.
There are so many cool things out on the market (STRPG being one of the foremost) that no one knows about. I remember when I got the narrator's guide and showed it to my friends, who are all avid rpg'ers, they all said "WOW! when did they start making an RPG?"
It's just a big information gap, and people look at time as money and don't want to waste that time looking for something that is supposedly released or they don't know about..
Chris' 5 cents of Marketing and Operations crap.
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I guess I should consider myself fortunate.Here in my city we have 3 Wizards stores(useless if you don't play card games),3 large idependent shops and several comic shops .The idependent shop I frequent carries a wide selection of RPG's and miniatures and what they don't have they'll order.I started my ST game there. I think the best thing about a good shop(besides not allowing open play for M:TG)is a game room and knowing what the clientele want.If enough people ask for it they should carry it.The only Decipher products the aforementioned shop that sell well are the new RPG products.My Star Trek players are all pretty much anti-clix,anti-GW,Anti-CCG,and this is reflected in several of the groups that play at that store.the management knows this and stock what sells.
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