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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WyzardWhately" data-source="post: 4039600" data-attributes="member: 33207">I tend to think that a good gaming store does a lot to keep geek culture alive.  It cross-pollinates the CCG people, the comics people, and the RPG people.  Some of those Pokemon kids might grow up to play D&D if they're exposed to it.  That's the problem with so many rpg sales being done over the internet - people tend to run into it because they're looking for it, or otherwise they stumble across an ad, but don't have someone on-hand to ask, "Hey, what's this D&D thing about?"Also, my FLGS has game rooms I use, it's clean, well-lit, friendly, they special order dice for me and answer my questions about stuff.  I buy a fair amount of game books from them for those reasons - because they *add value* to my gaming hobby in a lot of ways not directly represented by my purchases.  If they started charging me, say, fifty cents every hour I was in the gaming room but selling gaming books at the same kind of discounts Amazon can?  It might even out to the same price, but it'd still piss me off.Now, if my LGS was *less* friendly, I'd have not a damn thing to do with them.  The dank and hostile pits that some places devolve into, I wouldn't buy from even if I couldn't go online.  Because I want them to die off and be replaced by something that could actually serve to invite some newcomers.</blockquote>