D&D 5E A Gamestore

[Zardnaar]

My flgs closes down in April they don't seem to last. Over the last 27 years they come and go.

But in a different location a different store plan B or C.

This place has been going 20 odd years. It has D&D, board

games, arcade games, mini golf, laser tag. When my niece was 11 she smoked me.



Ticket to Ride selection. We bought Japan today.





Some of the D&D stuff.


Boardgame stuff.


Other stuff. Not my thing.


Still more stuff entrance to laser tag.



Game room. Wednesday D&D, Thursday board games, Friday MtG there's also Flesh and Blood nights. Some sort of event most nights.

Also does coffees, fries, burgers, nibbles type stuff not sure about booze. They also do events like children's birthday parties.

5-10 minute walk to a university, 5-10 minute walk to CBD, brewery over the road. Convenient parking.

Bit of everything plus food, location location location. Kids, families, students.

 

[pukunui]

Vagabond, King of Cards and Hobby Master here in Auckland have all managed to last a few decades so far. There are also more hobby shops that have joined them across the city now.

Sorry to hear that your local is closing.

 

[darjr]

Where?

 

[cbwjm]

@Zardnaar that actually looks way cooler than any in Auckland. It's a shame it's shutting down.

Vagabond, King of Cards and Hobby Master here in Auckland have all managed to last a few decades so far. There are also more hobby shops that have joined them across the city now.

Sorry to hear that your local is closing.

Jeeze, for a second there I thought you were gonna say they've closed, you had me worried.

 

[Zardnaar]

@Zardnaar that actually looks way cooler than any in Auckland. It's a shame it's shutting down.


Jeeze, for a second there I thought you were gonna say they've closed, you had me worried.

This isn't the one closing down its a plan B or C if needed.

 

[Zardnaar]

Vagabond, King of Cards and Hobby Master here in Auckland have all managed to last a few decades so far. There are also more hobby shops that have joined them across the city now.

Sorry to hear that your local is closing.

Think I went to one in New Market when I was up there. Auckland something like 20 times the size and then some.

 

[Zardnaar]

Where?

Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

[cbwjm]

Think I went to one in New Narket when I was up there. Auckland something like 20 times the size and then some.

There is Heroes for Sale which I keep forgetting us there (I live in Newmarket), I think there is a site somewhere near Newmarket which I believe is a boardgame cafe, probably able to hire rooms for rpgs, I don't think we have one with so much stuff like what you posted though.

 

[pukunui]

There is Heroes for Sale which I keep forgetting us there (I live in Newmarket), I think there is a site somewhere near Newmarket which I believe is a boardgame cafe, probably able to hire rooms for rpgs, I don't think we have one with so much stuff like what you posted though.

Heroes is more of a comics shop. They’ve always had a small selection of D&D stuff.

King of Cards recently downsized, and Vagabond downsized years ago. I’d say they both have the same amount of gaming stuff as Zard’s shop, just not the extra laser tag and stuff.

That being said, the laser tag place in New Lynn also sells D&D stuff (along with some other games) at their counter.

I haven’t been to Hobby Master in a while, and I haven’t ever been to any of the newer ones that have popped up here and there.

 

[Zardnaar]

Heroes is more of a comics shop. They’ve always had a small selection of D&D stuff.

King of Cards recently downsized, and Vagabond downsized years ago. I’d say they both have the same amount of gaming stuff as Zard’s shop, just not the extra laser tag and stuff.

That being said, the laser tag place in New Lynn also sells D&D stuff (along with some other games) at their counter.

I haven’t been to Hobby Master in a while, and I haven’t ever been to any of the newer ones that have popped up here and there.

This place started off as a funxobe type place. Ten pin bowling, minigolf etc.

The game stuff is kinda new I bought Ravnica here as everywhere else was sold out.

 

[cbwjm]

Heroes is more of a comics shop. They’ve always had a small selection of D&D stuff.

King of Cards recently downsized, and Vagabond downsized years ago. I’d say they both have the same amount of gaming stuff as Zard’s shop, just not the extra laser tag and stuff.

That being said, the laser tag place in New Lynn also sells D&D stuff (along with some other games) at their counter.

I haven’t been to Hobby Master in a while, and I haven’t ever been to any of the newer ones that have popped up here and there.

Probably a good thing for King of cards, if they were still in their basement location they'd have likely been flooded during that storm.

 

[Jahydin]

@Zardnaar
Clean, organized, and stocked with great games.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[MGibster]

My local game store was Lone Star Comics which was actually a local chain of up to nine stores in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Along with Mile High Comics, I remember seeing ads for Lone Star in comic books when I was a wee lad, and I was thrilled to death to get a job with them when I was younger. I worked for them for less than a year before moving on to other things, and I was sad to learn Lone Star had shut down all their stores by 2013 and moved to online comic sales only.

The store in Plano, the first location they had in Plano, was my main gaming store when I was a teenager. They had a good stock of role playing games, comics (of course), miniatures, some Games Workshop stuff (I bought Dark Future on sale around 1990), around 1994 they started selling Magic, novels, and they always had an eclectic stock of geek merchandise. I think having a diversified stock is what helped keep them in business for so long. They didn't have any space for gaming, but the staff were generally friendly, the store was clean and orderly, and it was a friendly retail environment. As an employee, it was a pretty cool job. The manage would quiz us once in a while about what the storyline of a particular comic was at the time, "MGibster, what's happening with Spider-Man right now?" If we had downtime in the store, we were supposed to read comics.

 

[Mad_Jack]

My local is currently on its third location, but they've been in business for something over 40 years now - I'm 50 years old now and I first went there when I was fifteen - I've known the original owner longer than anybody else in my life other than immediate family.

 

[dave2008]

My local is currently on its third location, but they've been in business for something over 40 years now - I'm 50 years old now and I first went there when I was fifteen - I've known the original owner longer than anybody else in my life other than immediate family.

My current location has been in business for as long as I have been play D&D which was in the early/mid 80s. However, the "Hobbyland" where I got my start with D&D has been closed for more than a decade (probably a lot more).

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

That is a bummer. It looks like it's such a cool space.

 

[Zardnaar]

So went and scoped out another store fir plan C. Got options.

Thus us plan B had another look. Events.



And they have a liquor license.


Brewery for that pilsner right over the road and it's not a bad pilsner either.

@payn just saying.