Pen and Paper RPGs?

nervoustic

I was looking forward to a bunch of TRPGs, but after looking through the app, it seems like they've all abandoned PAX East. I didn't see Paizo, Chaosium, Fantasy Flight, Modiphius, or Catalyst on the exhibitor's list. Am I missing something? Or is there really no official Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Star Trek Adventures, or Shadowrun representation?

zerzhul

Often times tabletop exhibitors won't be on the main exhibitor list and will still have stuff in the tabletop area. PAX usually doesn't release a map or list for the tabletop area at paxen other than unplugged.

Solanales

They did this year though https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.guidebook.com/upload/116957/WK567l86Qbf3X5t4yG1b7dvfp448DI871rBT.png

It does seem that they aren't attending. I can't really say if I know how many attended in the pas, but they don't seem to be there.

zerzhul

Oh cool! that map must have gotten on there since I last looked. Well then, yeah. I dunno.

Gundabad

nervoustic wrote: »

I was looking forward to a bunch of TRPGs, but after looking through the app, it seems like they've all abandoned PAX East. I didn't see Paizo, Chaosium, Fantasy Flight, Modiphius, or Catalyst on the exhibitor's list. Am I missing something? Or is there really no official Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Star Trek Adventures, or Shadowrun representation?

It's not so much an abandonment of PAX East. Most of those companies have never exhibited at East. Catalyst was the latest to drop off, having not been with use for the past two years. Fantasy Flight came back around that time, though, and will be exhibiting (under the Asmodee umbrella), however, don't expect them to be pushing their pen and paper RPGs.

From an exhibitor standpoint, I would check out the Burning Wheel booth, which has doubled in size this year and will host many other indie RPG publishers. These games are all fantastic, and well worth checking out. Greater Than Games will probably be pushing the Sentinels Comics RPG too.

From a play perspective, PAX will have a 30-table RPG zone. 18 tables of D&D, 6 tables of Pathfinder, and 6 tables of indie RPGs. All of the tables here will fire off new games "on demand," so no need to register for events. The D&D/Pathfinder tables are expected to turn over en masse every two hours, so well start a queue in-between games for people who want to ensure they can get a seat. This is twice as many RPG play tables as prior PAX Easts, so hopefully there will be less of a need to queue up early. Still a personal decision of "how badly do I want to do this thing vs other things" though.

Edit: Forgot to mention exhibitors in the main Expo Hall, adjacent to Tabletop. Several RPG publishers landed in there, many for the first time at PAX East. 9th Level Games, Cubicle 7, John Wick Presents, and Table Titans. There is a Hasbro booth in Expo, but don't get your hopes up on D&D content. I expect that will be a Dropmix booth. Gale Force Nine will be there though, and will be acting as WotC's retail presence, while also selling much of the licensed D&D accessories that GF9 produces.

drakuldragon

coming from my first pax being unplugged, i knew this would be different but was hoping for more TTRPG too. It's going to be an adventure either way!

djlybs

drakuldragon wrote: »

coming from my first pax being unplugged, i knew this would be different but was hoping for more TTRPG too. It's going to be an adventure either way!

BCEC is way, way bigger than the PA convention hall unplugged was in. From the recent East experiences, the unplugged game play area was actually about the same size of East's TT gameplay area, especially if you don't play MtG.

Imho, the biggest difference was the amount of TT vendors/manufacturer present at unplugged. I mean I don't think John Wick has ever been to East.

PS, I think you could fit at least two 747's in east main exhibit hall.