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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonGames" data-source="post: 2868369" data-attributes="member: 41032"><p>I also can see the trend to online & PDF purchases, and I have done that as well. However, there is still something to being able to hold a new product in your hands, maybe leaf through it before buying it and walking in to the local FLGS and discovering a game or supplament that I didn't know was out. Now, I have recently purchased a brick & mortar FLGS, so perhaps I am a bit biased. Our biggest seller is CCGs, but the money from them enables us to carry the less profitable RPG books. Plus, with our store, we hope that some customers will pay a little more to not only support a local business, but also because of our friendliness and the fact that we have ample gaming space and stay open until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays. We are a small store and we can't compete with the buying power of Amazon or Walmart. But being smaller, we can offer more personal service and we benefit from the fact that we ARE gamers. We know and like what we do. When you ask what the THAC0 is for a level 20 Paladin is, we may not know it off hand, but we know where to look. We also know that you are likely playing 2nd edition D&D and that you might be interested in some of the used 2nd ed books we just got in the other day. Is this worth a buck or two more on your game book purchase? We hope you think it is. But I do understand if someone goes to Amazon or grabs a PDF. The thing I hope never happens is that so many people go online for their stuff that we will have to close our doors. Losing a FLGS not only removes the products they carry from the local economy, but it takes away a gaming area and a hub for meeting local players.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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