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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3622704" data-attributes="member: 19675">I voted "Introduced by a friend," though its not technically correct.I had heard of D&D, seeing some of its product in the same stores I bought comics and sci/fant novels- not true LGS's, but comic book stores.Then I heard about a kid who was running an intro adventure after school, and signed up.Bookstores in my next place of residence carried D&D and Traveller, but rarely got any new releases, and only restocked every couple of months.  However, my gamer buddies and I would save up money to go to stores in other cities 1-2 hours away to get the new stuff.That covered my first 5 years of gaming.It wasn't until I moved to the D/FW area that I actually had a true LGS located closer than that.  Since discovering true LGS's in my home and where I went to school (Austin, San Antonio), I met many more gamers (per year), played more different games, and expanded & improved my playstyle more than at any other time.  You simply couldn't find the same variety of games or number of gamers (networking, networking, networking!) in a mainstream bookstore as you could in a game store.While LGSs didn't get me into the hobby, without them, I'd still only be playing D&D and Traveller...assuming I could find someone to game with.  The 100 other games I've gotten over the years probably would be absent from my shelves.From my perspective, they are not neccessary for growing the hobby in terms of participants- Big Box stores can do that as well as LGSs- but they are neccessary for expanding the horizons of the hobby beyond a few big games or systems.  IME, Big Box stores (generally) still don't sell the same variety of games as the LGSs, and you still only find 2-4 different systems represented in their stock.</blockquote>

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