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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1731764" data-attributes="member: 3649">Montgomery ALVisions Cards and Games LLC is the only games store in the area. The next closest might be in Auburn, but I'm not sure. Birmingham had a nice place but the last time I went there, they'd turned almost totally into a card game store. Visions is about 40-50 feet long or so, located in a backwater strip mall opposite Montgomery Mall. It is, in fact, on the site of the old Blitzkrieg Hobbies which closed in 82 or so when the owner wanted to invest in the hair salon his new bimbo GF wanted to open <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The strip mall took that space, cut it in half and made two shops from it. Visions moved in about, oh, six years ago after it spun off from a comics store.  There is a glass counter. The long wall space that is covered in shelving holding the RP games (grouped by subject), boardgames, and card games on one wall. The other wall for a much shorter length holds all the Warhammer and other mini stuff. The back wall has a large set of shelves that hold new releases, a smaller unit that holds only WOTC stuff, another unit with collectable minis, and the novel/anthology section. Three 'dumps' (the standup cardboard things you see holding books in book stores) near the front hold the new d20 releases.  Two rows of two long folding tables dominate the main sales area where people can play board games or card games. RPG's use the back room with the larger square table. A smaller square table in the main room is used alternately for Warhammer, Mechwarrior, HeroClix and Necromunda. There's a snack machine, a drink machine, a bathroom, etc opposite the entrance to the back room.  Not too bad a place. I've been in worse, I've been in much better. I'm surprised we even have a games store, though, so I'm not complaining. I'm also surprised at the small towns in Alabama that have their own games store. Jasper, Hoover, Florence, Theodore....</blockquote>

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