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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonmasterCal" data-source="post: 2555779" data-attributes="member: 5388">It's not always easy to set up games in libraries, bookstores, and the like, at least where I'm from.  Where I live, there's one chain bookstore--Hastings.  For awhile, they allowed kids to come in on Saturdays and play CCG's, but when some older kids began hanging out, bullying the younger kids, and when a really, really, REALLY creepy smelly old guy and his equally creepy smelly wife began hanging out and trying to get kids to come out to their car and look at what they had to trade, they shut the thing down, and have no interest in allowing anything else like it (CCG's or RPG'S) again.The local library...forget it.  It's a new facility with tons of space and small conference rooms that are barely used.  But when I approached them about running games on Saturdays there, they told me I have to pay a large deposit and schedule it 90 days in advance.  Further talking to them just cemented the fact they wanted nothing to do with the project because they try to keep the rooms open for the "scrapbooking, quilting, and stamper clubs that people find more normal."  Yup.  "More normal."There's not really an FLGS in my town.  There are a couple of college age kids who have a tiny little shop attached to their mom's vintage clothing store where you can come in and game in the evenings, but that's all the store has going for it.  Virtually bare shelves they have no intention of filling (they'll special order, but they don't want to stock something in case they can't sell it) and some really chewed up used books and games that the LAST FLGS couldn't unload on people.  The gaming area is two folding tables that is always occupied by the two guys and a friend of theirs who sit and loudly proclaim the virtues of d20 Modern and Exalted as the only games worth playing, and if you're not there to play those you may as well just go home.  I run games for my son and his friend (both 12 years old).  But they can't get any of their friends to play.  One kid said "adults who play pretend games are losers" (meaning me, the DM) another kid's mom immediately told her she couldn't be friends with my son and his buddy because D&D is bad for you (despite the fact this same kid's parents let her watch R rated movies and play M rated video games).  But, that's the drawback to gaming in a small town in the southern USA, I suppose.</blockquote>

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