By the way Chromwolf, welcome to Zepherus' non-videssian game. By the way, I'm the one playing the fighter/sorcerer/cleric in that game.
Zepherus has been telling me about EN World for a while so I finally created a user today, how appropriate that I chose Zepherus Bane to hopfully denote how my character will foil all your plans Zepherus
For other Cedar Rapids people, I also run a game on random Saturdays, not very active in the summer but I'm looking for one or two more. Gina, if you are still looking for a game this might be for you since we don't play all the time (have a game coming up on the 24th of July).
If you are interested, send an email to dm at e2pc dot com. Most of the characters are around 13th level currently, playing 3.5 rules but I'm nice to the old 2nd ed people out there (I was a late convert). The plan is to go to Epic level with the campaign. If anyone joins in you'll start at 13th.
The players are a mix of fairly new and somewhat experienced, mixed gender but one of our two female players left after having a baby a while back.
Moving on to another subject I noticed in this thread, I agree that I'd like to see a FLGS open back up here in CR. I've been wondering what thoughts anyone in the area has on whether they would start using one if one was to open. If anyone from the area is interested, I wanted to do an informal survey and get the answers to a few questions, call it market research or a feasibility study if you will. I have talked of opening a shop for a while now but obviously would need to hear from the local gamers before giving any more serious thought to the matter. I've looked in to the distribution and it really is not very good for the core products now that Wizards was purchased by Hasbro (must make a $5000 minimum first order per year to buy direct, $2500 for additional orders). To go to a distributor the next rung down will get you to $500 minimum orders but you've already lost the ability to compete with Walmart by that time with your cost for a $30 book being around $22.
So, if you are willing to help out here are the questions:
- Where do you purchase your D20 materials now? If more than one place, denote a percentage to each place and/or which types of things from each place.
- How much (if any) of a discount off of suggested retail prices do you receive from this(se) place(s)?
- Would a 5 or 10 percent discount off of suggested retail price be enough incentive to get you to buy all your books at a FLGS? I'm assuming a friendly, knowledgeable staff.
- What other d20 products besides Wizards of The Coast products do you buy regularly?
- If not included previously, where do you buy accessories like dice, hex maps, and miniatures?
- Do you also play CCG's like Magic or Star Wars?
- If you play CCG's, would you find a benefit in having a place to buy singles? If so, which CCG's?
- What about comic books?
- Would you find it valuable if you could pre-order on a web site and select to either have the product shipped to you on arival or to pick it up at the store?
- Would you value the ability to check inventory online before coming to the store?
- Would you value the ability to be able to pay on-line and have a book waiting at the counter when you got there?
- Optional: What age group are you in? <20, 20-30, 31-40, 41-50, 50+
- Optional: What's your salary range? <15000yr, 15001-25000, 25001-35000, 35001-45000, 45001+
Send your answers to dm at e2pc dot com, post them here, or fill out the questionaire online
here.
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