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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7032680" data-attributes="member: 996">Oh. Like, over what period?  I think I might corroborate that, depending on what you mean by 'last year.' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Encounters seemed to have a big draw, the crowd when I started in the second season was startlingly young after years of mostly just seeing the home gaming group and convention-goers, and they transitioned very quickly into DMing.  The FLGS, then, was a comic book shop that had a few gaming tables.  Over the years, they squeezed in as many tables as they could - we'd have a table outside weather permitting, which, in this area, is almost always - and it got to the point that half the shop's income was from games.  So the owner spun off a new game shop and Encounters went there.  Then AL took over the reins from Encounters, fairly smoothly.I suppose boardgames must really account for much of the revenue, though - they certainly account for the vast majority of the shelf space.But, Weds, wall-to-wall D&D.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>