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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7375637" data-attributes="member: 6871653">I'll start by saying that I was born in 1990 and only started gaming in 2000 or so, so I dont have the same experience as many poster who lived the era with boxed sets and modules with weird art and cryptic rules <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> (I actually prefer those old-school arts to most of the newer stuff)There's two gaming store in my city. I went to the first one called Le Donjon (The Dungeon) when I was 8-9 years old as it was one of the rare place where they sold Pokemon Card. It watched the older guys playing Warhammer a lot in that place: never understood the rules, but those minis where awesome, like Playmobile for grown ups! I really wished I had the opportunity to one day play with cool figures with actual rules when fighting against your friends.Then there's the other spot, L'Imaginaire (The Imaginary). This is the place I bought my first DragonLance novel in 2001-2002(dragon something something season) because I loved the art and I just saw the first Lord of the Ring that week and I also bought a used copy of BG2 and also my neighbor (who was an old person of a least 15 years old) invited me to play (I fell in love with the half-elf druid in the player guide) and he lent me his PHB he bought at the same place so I could draw some of the character in my sketchbook...and....and...yeah it was a great week. The kind of week you know you belong in secretive group that actually know L'Imaginaire and buy stuff there; that week I was part of the gang.Now, those two stores are much bigger and the reality for FLGs is different. Le Donjon closed recently and reopened under a new banner a shop specialized in wargaming where old guys look down on filthy casuals and new players. L'Imaginaire went trough an expansion rush and add some difficulties, they now specialized in every geek and collectible. The place is still friendly, but I fear the older staff might act like the Comic Book guy from the Simpsons most of the time. So, those places where really a place of awakening, not just for me, but also a bunch of unrelated guys and gals who shared at leat one thing.</blockquote>

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