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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7647852" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, there have been 2 stores in my state for MANY years. Hasn't changed AFAIK since the early 90's at least, maybe longer. These are actual game stores that primarily sell games though. There have been hobby/toy retailers that sold some games that have come and gone. I don't think there are any of those nowadays, but it is hard to say for sure.</p><p></p><p>Overall the availability of both games and in-store playing space has remained about the same for a good long time. </p><p></p><p>OTOH I think the general type of gaming that goes on has slowly shifted. There are people RPing obviously, but our local gaming club is quite active and RPGs are now a very small part of what the members do. There are games, but the activity has shifted drastically in the direction of either one-shot games or just playing board games of various types, which are very strong these days. Our local area Con has a good number of RPG tables each year, but 95% of them are filled by either homebrew stuff, indy games, OSR type stuff, etc. I think there were maybe 1 each PF and 4e game scheduled and maybe 2 3.5 games scheduled out of about 40 slots (I could be off a bit but definitely the 'big name' games were not very prominent). </p><p></p><p>I think people are doing a lot of experimenting, playing a lot of board games, and not doing a lot of classic RPG campaign running. It is still there, but I think that style of gaming is not thriving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7647852, member: 82106"] Well, there have been 2 stores in my state for MANY years. Hasn't changed AFAIK since the early 90's at least, maybe longer. These are actual game stores that primarily sell games though. There have been hobby/toy retailers that sold some games that have come and gone. I don't think there are any of those nowadays, but it is hard to say for sure. Overall the availability of both games and in-store playing space has remained about the same for a good long time. OTOH I think the general type of gaming that goes on has slowly shifted. There are people RPing obviously, but our local gaming club is quite active and RPGs are now a very small part of what the members do. There are games, but the activity has shifted drastically in the direction of either one-shot games or just playing board games of various types, which are very strong these days. Our local area Con has a good number of RPG tables each year, but 95% of them are filled by either homebrew stuff, indy games, OSR type stuff, etc. I think there were maybe 1 each PF and 4e game scheduled and maybe 2 3.5 games scheduled out of about 40 slots (I could be off a bit but definitely the 'big name' games were not very prominent). I think people are doing a lot of experimenting, playing a lot of board games, and not doing a lot of classic RPG campaign running. It is still there, but I think that style of gaming is not thriving. [/QUOTE]
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