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<blockquote data-quote="jonjorgensen" data-source="post: 4343636" data-attributes="member: 58093">my experienceI am a product of the FLGS.&nbsp; I hope that I am not unique here in saying that, I would never have gotten into RPG tabletop without the FLGS near me.&nbsp; To me the place has never been &quot;the place to buy books&quot; but &quot;the place where I can meet socially to game with my friends and deveop new friends.&quot;&nbsp; Now maybe it helps that my gaming store is almost as old as 2nd edition, and is kept clean and uncluttered, but I think that what really attracts &quot;old timers&quot; like me is that it's my substitute bar.I go to my local store 'cuz everybody knows my name, and they are always glad I came.&nbsp; (well maybe not one guy, but we ignore him...)I think that the idea that the interwebs can claim to be the &quot;cradle for RPG gaming&quot; to be silly.&nbsp; Before Ultima Online, no one I have yet met ever played RPG's on the PC, but all the girls and guys I knew who gamed did so at the store I went to.&nbsp; (Or ran games at lunch in the scholl cafe... that was me)I just can't fathom shopping around online and seeing a DND 4.0 book on amazon and going &quot;Ohhh...I'll buy that and pitch it to my friends&quot;&nbsp; It simply defies my experience in gaming.&nbsp; As far as local book stores go, I know one off the top of my head who is still open, but only because of very good support by the publishes of the product and the writers of the works.&nbsp; Bookends, in Ridgewood NJ, does a brisk business but mainly due to their ability to bring writers to sign books on a weekly basis.&nbsp; I hope that the FLGS does not go the way of the Dodo, it would mean the end of my gaming and the end of an era where smelly fat people and not-so-fat and not-so-smelly people can gather together and interact socially in a way that would not have come otherwise.BTW.&nbsp; My local gaming store is the gamersgambit, and even if the owner is a strange dark haired irishman in bad need of a haircut, he's very friendly and earnest in his goal to make his FLGS one that you WANT to come back to.just two cent...rub em together if you like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jonjorgensen, post: 4343636, member: 58093"] [b]my experience[/b] I am a product of the FLGS. I hope that I am not unique here in saying that, I would never have gotten into RPG tabletop without the FLGS near me. To me the place has never been "the place to buy books" but "the place where I can meet socially to game with my friends and deveop new friends." Now maybe it helps that my gaming store is almost as old as 2nd edition, and is kept clean and uncluttered, but I think that what really attracts "old timers" like me is that it's my substitute bar. I go to my local store 'cuz everybody knows my name, and they are always glad I came. (well maybe not one guy, but we ignore him...) I think that the idea that the interwebs can claim to be the "cradle for RPG gaming" to be silly. Before Ultima Online, no one I have yet met ever played RPG's on the PC, but all the girls and guys I knew who gamed did so at the store I went to. (Or ran games at lunch in the scholl cafe... that was me) I just can't fathom shopping around online and seeing a DND 4.0 book on amazon and going "Ohhh...I'll buy that and pitch it to my friends" It simply defies my experience in gaming. As far as local book stores go, I know one off the top of my head who is still open, but only because of very good support by the publishes of the product and the writers of the works. Bookends, in Ridgewood NJ, does a brisk business but mainly due to their ability to bring writers to sign books on a weekly basis. I hope that the FLGS does not go the way of the Dodo, it would mean the end of my gaming and the end of an era where smelly fat people and not-so-fat and not-so-smelly people can gather together and interact socially in a way that would not have come otherwise. BTW. My local gaming store is the gamersgambit, and even if the owner is a strange dark haired irishman in bad need of a haircut, he's very friendly and earnest in his goal to make his FLGS one that you WANT to come back to. just two cent...rub em together if you like. [/QUOTE]

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