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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 6343726" data-attributes="member: 11365">Oh, I hear ya! I was with Dave Christ, who heads up Baldman Games and runs Wizards' biggest conventions, in Cleveland. I talked him into dropping in on an Encounters session, because it was a new season and why not. I had called in ahead of time and was told they were running it. We show up... and they are running the first Living Forgotten Realms battle interactive from 2 years prior, bit by bit every Wednesday. They didn't have a good explanation why. They ask if we have played it... we just are standing there unsure of how to answer that... I mean, Dave organized it at his con. I finally stammer that we know it well and we thank them and leave. And I get that stores have a tough time. They need to stay in business. Magic and wargame minis sell really well and every time people play they get cash. They will often just do whatever one person mentions, if that person is convincing enough, because they don't have time to figure everything out. (I would that the WPN solicitations are really pretty clear, but...)I've been working with a Houston area store (since I travel there) to help them understand why they might want to run a table on Wednesdays. I have a final call with the store, but I'm pretty sure it will be a go. It can take a while to make it work. For this store I'm suggesting that playing will cost some small amount, but you can get it waived if you buy that amount or more in store product. That is helping them see us in a very favorable light (as a group we've purchased about $70 in our two games so far).Individual problems don't mean the program isn't overall successful. We've been running 4-8 tables from the beginning of the program at just a single store in Portland. And we have probably 8 stores that have run the program at various times. A store doesn't even have to run the program continually to be an effective OP program. I just checked in on one of those stores this week and it is running a kids' D&D camp every single weekday of the summer!</blockquote>

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