The ProFantasy BoothAnother GenCon has come and gone – it seems in only the blink of an eye. While the show was good for ProFantasy, it wasn’t quite the spectacular success we’ve had in some previous years – sales declined about 10% from a very high base, and we are still one of the few companies which makes a modest profit from GenCon. While the fact that we didn’t have a finished new product this year (FT3 is only in beta) is part of the reason, selling software which can also quite easily be downloaded from the website gets just a bit harder each year, as broadband gets more and more common and people increasingly prefer the electronic-only version of software. Our website sales reflect this. We also get a post-Con blip as people who have seen the demo make their decision.
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Both Profantasy and sister company Pelgrane Press are gearing up for GenCon. Here are some new posters that just arrived.

Poster Maps for Gencon

Have to climb a chair to take pics of these.


Book cover posters for GenCon

Looking forward to hold Ashen Stars in my hands ... I love the look of that book.


I also want to find out how my Ashen Stars galaxy map (created with Cosmographer 3) came out in the book…

Coming Saturday Profantasy will be at Dragonmeet 2010 in Kensington Town Hall, London.

As usual, I’ll be manning the booth and I’m looking forward to seeing the British gaming crowd again! We’ll be right at the hall entrance next to the Pelgrane booth where Simon, Robin Laws and Ken Hite will be lounging around when not occupied by panels or games.

I’m back from the Internationale Spieletage in Essen and again it’s been great fun doing the show. We had great helpers (thanks to Gordon, Carsten, Michael and Torsten!), met some old-timers I always love to see, and added quite a few new faces to the CC3 user crowd. Happy mapping everyone!

Here are a couple pictures from the show.
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