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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogminky" data-source="post: 4249807" data-attributes="member: 66912">I wish I could support my FLGS.  But there isn't one.  The only physical place I could get the D&D 4e core books from is 40+ miles away.  And even if I did drive that far - it is't guaranteed they'd have them.  For a guarantee I'm lookin' at 60 miles, maybe.Assuming I did do the insane drive I'm then faced with game shop syndrome.  You know, the shop that's run by a gamer not a businessman.  So it's cramped and hasn't been cleaned for a year and overstocked with things with dust on them and is full of scary-looking figures from horror movies that my wife doesn't like.  And nothing is in order, and there's only 1 copy of anything decent and that copy's being read by a scary guy with no face, and the guy behind the counter - the one who wants my business - refuses to smile or even look up from his computer screen where he's playing some MMO, and when he does talk it is in some sort of Orcish version of valley-speak with added brevity and rudeness.  He then overcharges me for my non-mint condition books and tells me 4e sucks and I'd be better off playing whist.Sorry - I'm sure you're a great game-shop owner.  I've just had many bad experiences of game shops.  I really want to be able to go to a clean, friendly game shop where I can play RPGs - but it exists only in my dreams.</blockquote>