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Pagan Publishing attending two (relatively) local Cons

Howdy Pagan fans,

Just a short note to let folks know that Pagan Publishing will be running games at a could of local Cons.

In just two weeks we’ll be running some games down in Vancouver WA (just across the Columbia River from Portland, OR) at GameStorm 14, March 22 -25. We’re set to run three games of Call of Cthulhu.

On Friday March 23rd I’ll be running The Last Flight of the L58 at 11:30am. It's 1918. The players are the crew of the Imperial German Naval airship L58. While on a secret mission over Persia, unnatural, impossible death stalks the crew. They will have to fight for their lives if they ever hope to return home to the Fatherland.

On Saturday March 24^th I’ll be running “The Vengeful Dead” at 9:00am. This scenario will be a sneak peek at our upcoming Bumps in the Night scenario anthology. In “The Vengeful Dead” it's 1921. Players are the guests of the rustic Grandview Lodge Resort in the foothills of the Appalachians. Undoubtedly they will find the peace and quiet they so desire. Nothing disturbing will happen. Not at all.

Finally on Sunday March 25^th at 11:30am I will run a Delta Green game I like to call "Gone South.” Here a 70-year old photo of something that should not exist leads our Delta Green agents to a quiet corner of Mexico where the drug war is a distant story. Does the tranquility mean that the danger has passed, or has it grown to horrific proportions?

The second con is The Emerald City Comicon here in Seattle. We’re going to support our favorite Seattle comic and game store, The Dreaming. Over the course of the weekend we’ll be running some Call of Cthulhu, some Hills Rise Wild and maybe even a couple of games we don’t even have stake in, like Fantasy Flight’s Arkham Horror or Flying Frog’s Fortune & Glory… ‘cuz well, they’re just fun. Hope to see some local Pagan fans while we’re there.

Oh, and stay tuned... we're about 24 hours away from launching a Kickstarter fundraiser to get "Bumps in the Night" to press.

Pagan Publishing Attending not one, but TWO! (count 'em) two Lovecraftian film festivals!

I can't imagine that I have to remind any of you agents and cultists out there that the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival continues to thrill and astound views both in its Northern and Southern incarnations. This weekend I shall be attending the Portland H.P. Lovecraft film festival at the magnificent Hollywood Theatre.There I will be taking in all the new short films as well as a German feature film based on "The Colour Out of Space" and the latest creation of those madmen from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society: a feature length version of "The Whisperer in Darkness" done in the style of a 1930s Universal monster movie!

Next weekend, however, there is a second film festival of similar bent up in my home town of Seattle. Lovecraft's Visions is a new film festival that will debuting at the Seattle Art Museum the weekend of October 7th, 8th and 9th. This will give folks in the Pacific Northwest a chance to see The Whisperer in Darkness again as well as a far rarer gem: the never before seen director's cut of The Resurrected! Dan O'Bannon did a pretty good job bringing "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" to the screen, but it wasn't the movie he wanted to make. For the first time an audience will get to see Dan O'Bannon's vision without the clutter and cuts forced on him by producers and the studio.

Come on out and see it folks. Who knows when it will ever see the light of day again?

 

More Con News, Bumps in the Night, Reprints & PDFs

As events rocket past once again I have fallen behind keeping the general public up to date on the comings and goings at Pagan Publishing.

First: Con News

Pagan Publishing will be attending Gamestorm in Vancouver WA, just across the river from Portland. The con is held at the Vancouver WA Hilton Hotel from March 24th to March 27th. Hope to see you there. I plan to run some Delta Green scenarios and some stuff from our upcoming Horrors of War collection.

Second: Bumps in the Night

Bumps in the Night creeps forward. The second edit/proofread of the interior is being done and it'll soon be time to start soliciting printers for bids. When the book is ready to go to the printer we will start soliciting you, the loyal Pagan customers, for pre-sales to support the cost of printing. We plan to offer PDFs along with the pre-orders.

Reprints & PDFs

We're still looking to do reprints of out of print Pagan products and still plan to take the first step into that arena via pdfs through DriveThruRPG. Delta Green is re-laid out right now. Delta Green: Countdown is next and then The Golden Dawn and other rpg titles will follow. Delta Green: Alien Intelligence and Delta Green: Dark Theatres will be next on the agenda. We're working with Arc Dream to bring other Delta Green titles to pdf publishing.

Pagan Publishing to Attend PAX 2010

Just a quick note to let folks know that A. Scott Glancy, that's me, will be at PAX (the Penny Arcade Expo) 2010 here is Seattle on September 3rd, 4th and 5th. I'm helping to support my favorite brick and mortar game and comic store (The Dreaming) by demoing a few games and hopefully driving sales in the direction of their two booths. One booth will be on the exhibition floor, number 1440. The other booth will be in the Table Top Area right in front of where I'll be demoing Arkham Horror and Call of Cthulhu.

I'll be running Arkham Horror on Saturday (4th) and Sunday (5th) from 10am to 12 noon.

I'll be running Call of Cthulhu on Friday (3rd) from 1pm to 5pm and on Saturday (4th) from 3pm to 6pm.

Be Seeing You...

Pagan to Attend GenCon 2010, PAX 2010, The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and MythosCon 2011

Looking at the massive gap between posts, one could easily get the idea the team at Pagan have been devoured by dimensional shamblers. Well, we weren't, but I do admit that I am terrible at keeping the public up to date on what's happening around Pagan. We have four bits of news to post and rather than drop them into one big blog entry where they'll all get lost I'm going to post them separately.

First of all, let's lay out Pagan's convention schedule for the next six months. This is convention season for Pagan will be attending:

GenCon Indy from August 5th through August 8th

Look for us in the Exhibitor Hall in Booth # 315

The Penny Arcade Expo (or Pax) here in Seattle from September 3rd to 5th

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland Oregon from October 1st to 3rd

And there's a new Con just getting started. It's calling itself MythosCon and it's based out of the Phoenix area. The folks putting it together are hoping to resurrect the old NecronomiCon that used to be based out of Providence Rhode Island and was dedicated to all things Lovecraftian. Luckily Pagan has old allies in the region so we're planning on attending. The dates for MythosCon are January 6th to the 9th.

We'll be running a retail booth at all these events as well as running some games of Call of Cthulhu to promote our products. Where the players agree to it, we'll record the games using our newly acquired Zoom H2 recorder and post them on the Role Playing Public Radio Actual Play website.

That's all we've got on the subject of Cons... 

Next post, The Unspeakable Oath returns from the grave.