Hello everyone,

For the last few months two extended personal crises have gripped major personnel within Laughing Pan Productions, leading to our absence from both our online presence here and in the forums. For details on this please see the post located on our forums Laughing Pan Returns: Answers. I want to inform everyone that while we may have been silent, we have not been idle and over the next days, weeks and months you will see a number of changes to our company. These changes will affect almost every facet of the company. All of them are good and purposeful; some of them are from an extremely practical nature and some are from growth, an evolving of sorts that only life can bring.

Until then please spread the word among fans of Deliria, Plunder and Horrific to watch the site, measure the changes and embrace the new direction that Laughing Pan is beginning.

Sincerely

Kevin DiVico

We will be working on the website here at Laughing Pan for the next couple of weeks, so if you click a link and hit an "Under Construction" page, you know we are busily working to improve our web presence.

This year at Origins, Laughing Pan Productions was proud to once again hold the annual “Play with Pan!” event Saturday evening.

This year we had record-breaking attendance and what had started as a table-top scenario quickly became what might be the Larpletop event of the year. Everyone who played contributed to a story that had several of us literally weeping at its conclusion—myself included, and I ran the darned thing.

Laughing Pan, and myself in particular, would like to hear from all of you who attended this event. Please send your contact information to: shavens@laughingpan.com.

Something is coming…

Deliria's first supplement, Everyday Heroes: Adventures for the Rest of Us, has been nominated for an ENnie Award in the Best Supplement category

Everyday Heroes also received an Honorable Mention in the Best Writing category.

Anyone can vote, and voting begins on July 17th. For more information, visit the EN World website: http://www.enworld.org as well as the website for the ENnie Awards themselves: http://www.enworld.org/ennies/index.html

Looking for information about Laughing Pan's upcoming LARP for Origins? Check out the Conventions sub-forum on our forums for all the details as they become available!

Vote for Plunder! Cast your ballot at: www.originsgames.com/aagad/gcvote by midnight EDT on June 12th, 2006!

The Gamer's Choice Award lets the entire gaming community join the excitement of the Origins Awards! Gamers from all over the world reward their favorite games by giving a coveted Origins Gamer's Choice trophy to the top vote-getter in each of these categories:

* Board Game or Expansion * Collectible Card Game or Expansion * Historical Game or Expansion * Miniatures Game or Expansion * Role-playing Game * Traditional Card Game or Expansion

Anyone and everyone can vote for the Origins Gamer's Choice Awards. You do not need an account on the Origins website, nor do you need to sign in at the website to vote.

Only one vote allowed per person. ALL DUPLICATE VOTES WILL BE DELETED. We record your email address and Internet address during voting. We ONLY use this information to prevent duplicate votes. Your email address IS NOT added to any mailing list.

VOTING DEADLINE The voting closes on June 12th 2006, at midnight EDT, so cast your ballot today at: www.originsgames.com/aagad/gcvote!

Laughing Pan Productions is pleased to announce that Wildfire Entertainment, Inc. is our latest distributor here in the U.S.

Laughing Pan Productions is pleased to announce that ACD Distribution is our latest distributor here in the U.S.

ACD Distribution is one of the largest hobby and game distrubtors in the country, and Laughing Pan is pleased that they will be carrying our products.

All you Plunder fans out there know what a great game Plunder is - and now everyone else does, too!

Plunder has received a nomination for Best Card Game of the Year from the prestigious Academy of Adventure Game Art and Designs’ Origins Awards.

The winners of the awards will be announced at the 2006 Origins International Gaming Expo, to be held in Columbus, Ohio from June 29th through July 2nd.

Congratulations to Karl and Julie Lepp, the designers of Plunder, and we'll be hoping Plunder sails away with the treasure...errr, award! at Origins.

Laughing Pan Productions is pleased to announce that Hobbygames Ltd. is our latest distributor for the United Kingdom.

Hobbygames Ltd. has been in the hobby and games industry for over twenty years, and Laughing Pan is thrilled that they will be carrying our products.