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<blockquote data-quote="Kalshane" data-source="post: 3133047" data-attributes="member: 9505">My FLGS fails on all three counts. Which is why, in addition to the 20 minute drive to get there, I normally order all my stuff online these days. The owner's a really nice guy and knows his stuff, but yeah, not the greatest shopping experience. The only time I ever go nowadays is when I need minis or dice, because pictures on the net never look the same as the actual product.Sad thing is, when I first started going there, it only had the third problem. It was a little cramped, but not terrible. Then he remodeled and added a bunch more shelving and now you can barely squeeze between the rows and all the books are wrapped in plastic.There's another store that sells RPGs 20 minutes in the other direction, which is none of the above, but the sense going in there is it's a comic shop first and the RPGs are an afterthought. Plus people tend to look at you funny if you're not a regular, so I don't tend to go there either.I had a major bit of culture shock a few years back when I was visiting a friend in another state and she took me to her FLGS. It was brightly lit, clean, well-organized and the girl behind the counter was very obviously a teeny-bopper working a retail job rather than a gamer working in a game store. It felt like I'd walked into a Gap with RPGs instead of clothes. Very disconcerting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kalshane, post: 3133047, member: 9505"] My FLGS fails on all three counts. Which is why, in addition to the 20 minute drive to get there, I normally order all my stuff online these days. The owner's a really nice guy and knows his stuff, but yeah, not the greatest shopping experience. The only time I ever go nowadays is when I need minis or dice, because pictures on the net never look the same as the actual product. Sad thing is, when I first started going there, it only had the third problem. It was a little cramped, but not terrible. Then he remodeled and added a bunch more shelving and now you can barely squeeze between the rows and all the books are wrapped in plastic. There's another store that sells RPGs 20 minutes in the other direction, which is none of the above, but the sense going in there is it's a comic shop first and the RPGs are an afterthought. Plus people tend to look at you funny if you're not a regular, so I don't tend to go there either. I had a major bit of culture shock a few years back when I was visiting a friend in another state and she took me to her FLGS. It was brightly lit, clean, well-organized and the girl behind the counter was very obviously a teeny-bopper working a retail job rather than a gamer working in a game store. It felt like I'd walked into a Gap with RPGs instead of clothes. Very disconcerting. [/QUOTE]

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