So Gencon is typically the place for big announcements by gaming companies... which do you predict will happen this year?

The Pundit Predicts:

Mongoose will finally reveal that their "holy grail" license is for the "The View Talk Show RPG".

Monte Cook announces that his retirement from RPG writing will be postponed one more time in order to produce the "Monte Cook's Space:1889", where instead of Victorians on Mars you'll have a D20 game featuring strange classes and races that make no sense fighting against 1889 different varieties of evil sentient fatty-foods.

Flying Mice's decides to put all its eggs in one basket and cancel all its existing products, replacing them with the new revised
"Starcluster: Forward...to Cold Space In Harm's Way!"

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You play It Was a Mutual Decision with Ron Edwards...and enjoy it.

Quote from: droogYou play It Was a Mutual Decision with Ron Edwards...and enjoy it.

Awww... I was hoping they'd play Breaking the Ice together.

That'd be so cute!

Quote from: Tyberious FunkAwww... I was hoping they'd play Breaking the Ice together.

Is that the one with the penguins?

Uh... Star Wars D20 4th edition will be released.

White Wolf announces they will be going retro with "more werewolf rape".

WotC: Everway to get a 2nd edition. "Even more Vision cards!"

Mongoose have discovered actual Holy Grail. "That's the cup of a carpenter," says Sprange.

D&D 4.0 is a pdf of dungeon punk belts which you can cut and paste over existing 3.5 artwork.

"David" Gamescience dice. Are you artist enough to chisle perfect dice out of a deeply flawed plastic slab? Available in five styles: Sharp, bubbly, flash, concave and doomed.

RPGs on hiatus for five years while everyone plays some fool collectable game

Pipe smoking: It's the new B.O.!

Indie Press Revolution announces its partnership with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.  The short announcement reads only "Who's mainstream now, bitches?" followed by cocaine, hookers, and a variety of Sam's Club colas at the IPR booth.

Quote from: RPGPunditFlying Mice's decides to put all its eggs in one basket and cancel all its existing products, replacing them with the new revised
"Starcluster: Forward...to Cold Space In Harm's Way!"

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OK - we have a leak! Purges commence! Fun ensues!

-clash

Quote from: C.W.RichesonIndie Press Revolution announces its partnership with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.  The short announcement reads only "Who's mainstream now, bitches?" followed by cocaine, hookers, and a variety of Sam's Club colas at the IPR booth.

God, that'd totally be worth it to see.


-Palladium Books' Kevin Siembieda lifted up high in triumph on the backs of thousands of weeping, overjoyed Wizards of the Coast fans and RPGnet denizens.
(who do not drop him)...

-Also, Palladium announces their release schedule for the rest of the year is actually well ahead of schedule, which means not only will everything they had set out to do this year will get published, but they'll get Rifts: Lemuria finished up, too.

(And yeah, I kid because I love).

-Green Ronin, refusing to admit they are running low on ideas, announce Red Tulip, a game that stresses tolerance of pagans and mimes (with some civilizations in the game being up to 50% mime-pagans), ruled over by a benevolent, talking, magical, capybara.  Disney picks right up on it.

Quote from: Malleus ArianorumPipe smoking: It's the new B.O.!

Holy fuck, you have no idea how much that would improve the scent of Gencon!  If there's one place that desperately desperately needs to allow indoor pipe smoking, that would be it.

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Wizards of the Coast announces that it buys CCP, swallowing the maker of EVE Online and White Wolf in one big double-gulp.  It also merges with Blizzard Entertainment, and announces that D&D 4.0 will use Azeroth as its default campaign setting.

White Wolf will announce that impressed by preorders of Monte Cook's World of Darkness, they will switch all their games to d20system and pledge the eternal loyalty to Wizards of the Coast.