youspoonybard said:
I'm sorry, I know this doesn't pertain to this thread, but I just noticed Nail's location is Cedar Rapids, IA.
I'm a college student in Grinnell, IA, without much transportation ability (ie I can borrow a car...sometimes). Do you know of any gaming stores in the Iowa City area?
Hey! If you'd like to some evening let me know and you can play IMC if you'd like. We're always happy to have another gamer, even if it's just for a single evening cameo. Nail & the rest of the company would have to extend the vote to Nail's game, of course.
Anyway, here's the only two stores I know of left in the area:
MidAmerica Hobbies, 185 Hwy 965, #2 Liberty Plaza, North Liberty, 319 665-9655
www.midamericahobbies.com (but nothing's up yet)
This guy just opened a small store here, and his store sells mostly to modelers (rockets, remote control cars & trucks, etc.) but he does carry some CCG stock and he has access to most everything through his distributor (though they couldn't get me Diamond Throne, I'm going to see if they have better luck with BoEM 3.5). The only time I ordered from him was just after Thanksgiving and he gave me a 10-20% discount on each of the items I ordered, which he indicated he'd be able to do with most RPG stuff. He doesn't have any RPG stock, but you can contact him for something you actually want to order. I'm planning to buy Unearthed Arcana, BoEM 3.5 and a couple other things here shortly (I need to do that...). Anything you order from him is Fed Ex'd within 2 days (at his cost), so it works out very nicely for me being only a few blocks away.
The Hobby Corner, 1672 Sycamore St, Iowa City, 319 338-1788
They are in Sycamore Mall and also carry all sorts of train, RC cars & trucks, planes, but they actually carry a lot of RPG stuff, dice, CCGs, CMGs, board games, puzzles, etc. It's nice to go there occasionally and browse. My only real beef with them is that they only ever order 1 of any given RPG item, so if someone buys it it's out of stock for quite a while. They have ordered something for me on demand, but it took quite awhile to get (and honestly, they're quite some distance away from where I live, so I only get there when I'm going to that Mall for other stuff).
Anyway, if you get to the Des Moines area, one of the best places I found is on University, between 8th st and 22nd st in West Des Moines in a strip mall, but I can't remember the name right now, sorry.
Hope that helps.
DrSpunj