History  & &  Inspired by Free Comic Book Day, Free RPG Day was started in 2007. The free RPG event was coordinated worldwide by Impressions, a game distributor, from 2007 to 2013.  &  
History Shannon Appelcline discussed Kenzer Company's comics "Crisis in Raimiton (2004), an "Adventure Guide to D&D" that Wizards gave away on Free Comic Book Day '04. It told the story of gamers playing D D, and then the story of the characters they created. Wizards' interest in the free giveaway foreshadowed the industry's interest in a free giveaway day of their own: Free RPG Day." Appelcline noted that Impressions Advertising& Marketing's "most successful advertising program is one that continues today: Free RPG Day. Beginning in 2007, Impressions has every year coordinated the give-away of original RPG products in game stores across the country, resulting in considerable buzz and interest in those products — which is exactly what Impressions, an advertising and marketing company, was looking for. Inspired by Free Comic Book Day, Free RPG Day was started in 2007. The free RPG event was coordinated worldwide by Impressions, a game distributor, from 2007 to 2013. Appelcline noted that "Goodman Games' last stand against the dying d20 market was Free RPG Day 2007. Where most companies were offering up a single product of variable quality, Goodman contributed three different books to Free RPG Day, each one of them a top-quality production." Paizo Publishing previewed the new GameMastery Modules series with D0: Hollow's Last Hope (2007), which showed up on June 23, 2007, at the first Free RPG Day. Flying Buffalo put together quick-start editions (2007, 2008, 2011) of Tunnels Trolls for three of the Free RPG Days. Margaret Weis Productions put out the Castlemourn Cortex System Quickstart (2008) for the second Free RPG Day before closing down the line. Green Ronin first new RPG was A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (2009) had been previewed the previous year at Free RPG Day 2008. From 2007-2011, Troll Lord Games issued a Castles& Crusades "quick start" at each Free RPG Day, to bring new players; science-fiction game StarSIEGE: Event Horizon (2008) was also previewed at Free RPG Day 2008. Pinnacle Entertainment Group offered The Wild Hunt (2011) as a "Savage Worlds Test Drive" for Free RPG Day 2011. Shannon Appelcline outlined that Columbia Games "produced adventures for two of the Free RPG Days: Field of Daisies (2008) and Dead Weight (2010). However, the latter product was more a teaser than anything. Stores only received one copy of the adventure when they purchased a box of Free RPG Day products; Columbia has since started selling the rest of the print run — and even admonished websites that reviewed Dead Weight as a "free" release. More recently they produced a map of Hârn (2012) for Free RPG Day 2012."
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Shannon Appelcline discussed Kenzer
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Company's comics "Crisis in Raimiton (2004), an "Adventure Guide to D
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D" that Wizards gave away on Free Comic Book Day '04. It told the story of gamers playing D
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D, and then the story of the characters they created. Wizards' interest in the free giveaway foreshadowed the industry's interest in a free giveaway day of their own: Free RPG Day." Appelcline noted that Impressions Advertising
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Marketing's "most successful advertising program is one that continues today: Free RPG Day. Beginning in 2007, Impressions has every year coordinated the give-away of original RPG products in game stores across the country, resulting in considerable buzz and interest in those products — which is exactly what Impressions, an advertising and marketing company, was looking for.
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Appelcline noted that "Goodman Games' last stand against the dying d20 market was Free RPG Day 2007. Where most companies were offering up a single product of variable quality, Goodman contributed three different books to Free RPG Day, each one of them a top-quality production." Paizo Publishing previewed the new GameMastery Modules series with D0: Hollow's Last Hope (2007), which showed up on June 23, 2007, at the first Free RPG Day. Flying Buffalo put together quick-start editions (2007, 2008, 2011) of Tunnels
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Trolls for three of the Free RPG Days. Margaret Weis Productions put out the Castlemourn Cortex System Quickstart (2008) for the second Free RPG Day before closing down the line. Green Ronin first new RPG was A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (2009) had been previewed the previous year at Free RPG Day 2008. From 2007-2011, Troll Lord Games issued a Castles
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Crusades "quick start" at each Free RPG Day, to bring new players; science-fiction game StarSIEGE: Event Horizon (2008) was also previewed at Free RPG Day 2008. Pinnacle Entertainment Group offered The Wild Hunt (2011) as a "Savage Worlds Test Drive" for Free RPG Day 2011.
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Shannon Appelcline outlined that Columbia Games "produced adventures for two of the Free RPG Days: Field of Daisies (2008) and Dead Weight (2010). However, the latter product was more a teaser than anything. Stores only received one copy of the adventure when they purchased a box of Free RPG Day products; Columbia has since started selling the rest of the print run — and even admonished websites that reviewed Dead Weight as a "free" release. More recently they produced a map of Hârn (2012) for Free RPG Day 2012."