from FreeRPGDay.com:
For Free RPG Day, Impressions Advertising & Marketing works with hobby game retailers and RPG publishers to bring NEW RPG Quickstart Rules and Adventure Modules into the hands of gamers.
Consumers WORLDWIDE will be able to grab brand new material for a variety of RPGs — no overstock, retail-priced or dead product here. The goal of Free RPG Day is to inspire gamers to play a new RPG, which will in turn, create sales through local game stores.
Look Who’s Already Involved! These are the sponsors who have already committed to being a part of Free RPG Day 2010. This list is not final.
- Alderac Entertainment Group — Silver (5 per box), L5R 4th Edition RPG Quickstart & Adventure
- Amarillo Design Bureau — Store Sample (1 per box), Prime Directive Quickstart
- Blue Panther — Store Sample (1 per box), Unique Color Knockdown Dice Tower
- Chessex Manufacturing — Bronze (4 per box), Commemorative Dice with store name
- Columbia Games — Store Sample (1 per box), Harn Quickstart & Adventure
- Exile Game Studios — Bronze (3 per box), Hollow Earth Expedition Quickstart & Adv.
- Fantasy Flight Games — Gold (10 per box), Warhammer 40K Roleplay: Deathwatch Adventure
- Goodman Games — Silver (5 per box), Age of Cthulhu Adventure
- Guild of Blades Publishing — Store Sample (3 per box), Heroes Forever Quickstart & Adventure
- Paizo Publishing — Gold (10 per box), Pathfinder Module: Master of the Fallen Fortress
- Q-Workshop — Gold (10 per box), unique dice
- Skirmisher Publishing — Bronze (3 per box), TBA
- Troll Lord Games — Silver (5 per box), Castles & Crusades Quickstart and Adventure
- White Wolf Publishing — Gold (10 per box), Exalted 2nd Edition Quickstart & Adventure
- Wizards of the Coast — Platinum (15 per box), Dark Sun 4th Edition D&D Adventure
Your friendly local game store controls whether or not they participate in this event. Each individual store determines how the free items are given out on the day of the event. If you have trouble with any of the stores participating in the event, please let us know.