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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 5137065" data-attributes="member: 20914">No I don't even claim it as a gray area.  It's a tool I use.  While not legal in every location in the world.  It's available.  Much like a knife over 3" is illegal in many locations without a CCW permit.  I can bet many of us have one in a bag or on our person somewhere without even realizing it.But lets not turn this thread over to that.Would rather try to help solve the issue at hand than to beat the dead horse a few more times.I understand about the relationship.  But from my prespective you have to remember the following:1. I frequent LGS once a quarter at best.  And than it is usually for about $5 worth of sales.  Unless there is a good impulse buy for me.2. I've never in my 20+yrs of gaming played in a store based game.  Most of the store hours don't conduct themselves well with my play times.  I do weeknight gaming as my weekends are spent out and about with the family.3. Last time I used a LGS for finding a game/players, I was a teenager without a car or a computer.  Nowadays, I use EnWorld & Pen and Paper for finding fellow gamers in my area.  Heck my first 3E group my wife met them in a movie line because the one girl was reading a Forgotten Realms novel.4. Last time I used a LGS with any great frequency for buying my books.  2005 or so.  That was because it was about a mile from me and carried comics (for my son) and had a D20 selection to go along with the WotC books to further my impulse buying.Its a dang good question, would you force them to have store product only to play?  I can tell you that would be a deathblow for a store.There are plenty of ideas that a LGS can use in this case though.1. Rent the tables - give a %% off of a single purchase for every table rental.  If you rent the table for $5, and give a 10% off a purchase (say one $40 book) the discount is only $4, and you still made a $1 of off the purchase/table combination.That's the kind of restraunt I would go out of my way to use and recommend to folks.But the fact is, even the FREE RPG DAY isn't a big enough draw to make me want to drive that far when I could easily spend time doing something local to me with the family.  Now if I'm driving by it, yup I'll stop in.  Maybe I'll make an impulse buy in addition.The LGS needs to find what fits its Locale the best.  If it's tables dedicated to teenyboopers playing magic after leaving the highschool across the street everyday, that's what you cater to.</blockquote>

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