Calgary Gamers! (or Alberta Gamers!) Introduce yourselves!

[CCamfield]

Is the Sentry Box store as cool as their website makes it seem?

*waves west from eeeeevil Ottawa* Don't lynch me, I'm not a government employee...

 

[Alchemist]

Sentry Box is a big store with plenty of gaming tables (in the order of 10-15 booths and 2-3 ping-pong size tables for wargaming). There's also a back room people can reserve for private after-hours gaming and the like, with another bunch of tables and stuff. No cramped little cubicle, but on the order of 10'x20'. Tons of playing room if you want to hang out with complete strangers or friends.

They've got a whole room of stuff for those crazy historical wargamers. The lower level is mostly RPG's/wargames with some other board games and stuff thrown in, with a little corner under the stairs for CCG's. There's a large section of fantasy/sci-fi novels too.

It's pretty big, and puts Warp (I use Warp because it's the only other game store I've ever visited) to shame. They're friendly and helpful there. We are blessed with a decent store to get our goods from.

But I still order stuff from cyberdungeon, because they don't carry everything in the world. But they are a good store, and it would be missed if it went away.

 

[Latency]

Re: Re: Re: Dis-located from Edmonton!

What's his name? I'm 23 (24 in a bit).

His name was Sean but he was went by Peon

He was an FC of 6 Henday....

 

[DWARF]

I'm 21 and currently game at the U of A after classes.

Sorry for being brief but I have a lab quiz tomorrow, heh...

 

[cbatt]

It was in the West End. On 95th ave, about 156th street. I don't remember when it closed down, but it was between '92 and '94 I think.

When I was a youngin' (~junior high circa 90-93), it was my main RPG source. I got my first ever RPG stuff there--dice (I still have the first set I ever bought, although the blue d10 is missing/stolen, minis (Ral Partha almost exclusively), 2E core books and splatbooks, Rifts, FASA Star Trek, Battletech, Judge's guild, paints, etc.

Still the best RPG store I've ever been to, although some of that could be nostalgia.

I'm pretty sure it closed in '92 or early '93. I can remember it still being open during my 12th grade year. I would pass by on the bus to work at The Mall after school. I miss that store too, though I didn't frequent it very often. Good selection and service is what I remember.

I'm 27 btw. (I bought my RPG training pants at Outpost 4 in Londonderry mall. Anyone remember that place?)

 

[Foundry of Decay]

Holy hell. I didn't realize there were that many gaming Edmontonians.. But then again, I rarely get to play in any games myself (Well, when I was working anyway.. Now my spare time is taken up with job searches). I'll have to open my eyes a little more often it seems.

I'm 28, and live not 5 blocks from where Adventurer Supply was. And by far, I have yet to find another Canadian store that was as good as they were. Sure, they had a small crawlspace of a store, and used to have problems with lobotomized circus beasts breaking in to steal, of all things, change from the frigging coke machine in the back, but no matter what.. They would get *anything* that you'd care to order from them.

Ah, and adventure bucks.. I remember those.. A friend and I saved 'em up until years end and found we had nearly 150 of them between us.. It makes me SICK to think I spent that much cash when I was still in high school

Warp is, unfortunatly, awful, and overpriced. They seem to be stunned when you ask them if they will ever be getting in a restock of Reaper paints, and aren't on the ball miniature wise.. And 9 times out of 10, if you order something in through them, you won't get a call that it's in.. You'll have to search the shelves every 2 weeks or so, and find the order they brought in for you but didn't bother telling you about.. Ahhhhh.. Customer service

I'm hoping to get to Calgary sometime, and check out the Sentry box. One of the folks in my game group took a trip up there and found the store to be pretty cool. Now if they could maybe get around to putting up a competant web-site I'd happily order through them.

 

[Foundry of Decay]

I'm 27 btw. (I bought my RPG training pants at Outpost 4 in Londonderry mall. Anyone remember that place?)

Certainly! It's where I picked up my first Red box set of D&D! Kites and other Delights furnished (and started) my miniatures habit after that.

 

[Magic Rub]

Sentry Box is a big store with plenty of gaming tables (in the order of 10-15 booths and 2-3 ping-pong size tables for wargaming). There's also a back room people can reserve for private after-hours gaming and the like, with another bunch of tables and stuff. No cramped little cubicle, but on the order of 10'x20'. Tons of playing room if you want to hang out with complete strangers or friends.

They've got a whole room of stuff for those crazy historical wargamers. The lower level is mostly RPG's/wargames with some other board games and stuff thrown in, with a little corner under the stairs for CCG's. There's a large section of fantasy/sci-fi novels too.

It's pretty big, and puts Warp (I use Warp because it's the only other game store I've ever visited) to shame. They're friendly and helpful there. We are blessed with a decent store to get our goods from.

But I still order stuff from cyberdungeon, because they don't carry everything in the world. But they are a good store, and it would be missed if it went away.

Not that I've seen thousands of game stores, but it (Sentry Box) puts all the ones I've seen to shame. It should have a better web site, they have the money for it. (I know I've spent enough of my own there.) Campaign Outfitters in Winnipeg is cool, nice staff & layout. But it's way to small.

And just to add to the stats... I'm 26

 

[Alchemist]

Oh yeah, ages. I sort of implied approximately how old I am earlier, but I guess I should be explicit.

I'm 27, which seems to be around average for the people in this thread. I only ever get to game with 19-22 year olds, so there was a bit of a gap in expectation between myself and my last group when we still played. Ahh well.

Are there no other UofC students lurking around? Am I alone?

 

[Agamon]

I was a UofC student, does that count?

I'm 29, but I'm not sure of the relevence of that.

Sentry Box rules. I remember when they were a tiny shack packed with stuff on 31st south (was it 31st? around there anyway). They moved to the warehouse sized store during the M:tG craze. Coincidence? Don't think so.