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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 1060192" data-attributes="member: 2525">By non-gamer, I mean pen and paper RPG gamer.I've never seen a game store devoted exclusively to pen and paper RPGs.  Have you? It might be interesting to see.  Much in the way a few comic book stores are now devoted exclusively to graphic novels and trade paperbacks.  However, I have yet to see such an exclusive game store.Every game store I have ever been in (and that is a lot), even the most focused of them, carry board games and card games at an absolute minimum.  I know a lot of people who are board game addicts and go to game stores on a regular basis to buy board games, and yet do not play pen and paper RPGs.  I used to know a lot of card came addicts that also never touched RPGs or really knew what they were.  Many of those people eventually got around to playing D&D, and it's pretty well known that Magic: The Gathering brought a lot of new players over to playing D&D.And, as others mentioned, most game stores also carry non-game material these days, like comics, posters, anime DVDs, sports cards, computer software, etc... And the presence of pen and paper RPGs in such a cross-cultural atmosphere exposes those people to the covers, shelf space, store marketing efforts , gamer-seeking-gamer bulletin boards, demos, tournaments, and regular games of pen and pencil RPGs held at the store as well.I am slowly trying to bring my board game addict friends into the fold...and every time I go to a game store with them, I try to show them some pen and paper RPG material that I think they might like.  As soon as the StarGate SG-X d20 game comes out, I think I might hook them.</blockquote>

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