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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 3617827" data-attributes="member: 9213">No, SOME FLGS provide a place for gamers to meet and play. There are quite a few game stores here in NYC that I know of that don't. Even Neutral Ground, which HEAVILY promotes Card and miniatures gamers while giving RPGr's a hard time about taking up tables that can be otherwise used for card gaming...Once again, that may be your experience but my experience has been most of the people that I have introduced RPG's got introduced to them while I was in the Hosptial, or in school or in another enclosed environment. Those people then bought other friends in to learn or tought them themselves and so on and so on. Most of those people didnt set foot in a gaming store until well after they were playing for a while. I learned when I was visiting a friends house and saw his older brothers mangled copy of B2 on the floor and asked if I could read it. He told me I could have it and I tried to figure out the rules from the module alone. It wasnt until a month later I was able to scrounge up enough money to purchase the red box from Toys R' US that I learned to play. I didnt even set foot in an actual gaming store until 5-6 years later... Maybe he has a better grasp on the market as a whole, but they don't trump my experiences when it comes to how many people I've introduced to the hobby and how many of those people got their exposure to gaming from a gaming store. As many gamers as I've known through the years alot of them were introduced to the game by friends and family members or saw the books in a Toys R' Us or a chain bookstore. There was a guy I knew  from JHS who bought the FASERIP marvel box from B Daltons and was reading it at lunch completely oblivious that my friends and I were actually running a Marvel game in that same lunch period. Ah, lunch period gaming...those were the days.</blockquote>

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