My anti-D&D LGS

[Scott_Rouse]

Blue Highway Games, at Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington.

Just immediately Googling them, they seem to have gotten at least one rave review from BoardGameGeek. Strange that they weren't keen on letting me run a D&D game, unless they just didn't like the look of me.

This is a nice store and I have always heard good things about it. They have run our D&D game days events so maybe the clerk did not understand the nature of your question.

 

[Timeboxer]

This is a nice store and I have always heard good things about it. They have run our D&D game days events so maybe the clerk did not understand the nature of your question.

That might very well be true -- perhaps I'll drop in and ask again; possibly if I ask in the context of it being an RPGA-sanctioned event I'll have better results.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I live here on the other coast...CT to be exact, and I have seen 3 or 4 gaming stores come and go from our area, all that allowed D&D games, but I also watched as some would charge per hour for table space..ect. Now up on the boarder of Waterbury and southington (not sure witch city it is in) there is a hobby shop that has been there forever...The guy that runs it is the owner and he wants nothing to do with RPGs and CCGs, even though he has sold them in the past.
He once told me that the last thing he needed was a group of young anti social losers cloggin up his shop...needless to say that was the last timeI bought train supplies there.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Not really -- I'm a fairly well-dressed software development professional, which is how I was presenting at the time. Also I'm female, which you would think gives me points.

Admittedly I do have a streak of red in my hair, but.

Maybe he believed you might bring other female friends which would totally screw the demographics, and you might also bring the cooties?

 

[ProfessorCirno]

It might've changed since then (or I might've been just plain wrong) but when I spent some time in San Francisco D&D seemed to be really, really...well, unpopular isn't the word, as I don't think people hated it, but it just wasn't really in the radar.

CCGs were absurdly popular, though.

 

[Darrin Drader]

The local game store in this area runs plenty of RPGs, but put a moratorium on Magic: The Gathering, at least until the end of the year, because of a chronic problem with some local obnoxious players who were causing numerous complaints from other customers. It could be something along those lines.

 

[haakon1]

Blue Highway Games, at Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington.

Not sure if you're interested/able to cross the bridge, but Genesis Games & Gizmos in Redmond (next to Bella Botega movie theatre) has several game tables, and a lot of times folks are playing D&D there.

The guy who runs the place is pretty nice -- he was quite into 3.5, and he was selling books at the WOTC game day on 4e's first day.

I'm sure there are several other places to play in the area, too. (The Eastside has at least 5 FLGS's).

 

[Treebore]

What could be more fun? Sitting at that table with my friends.

When I started gaming, I was 12 and I had zero interest in playing with my parents.

I'm sorry. Fortunately our 12, 15, and soon to be 17 year old kids love hanging out with us. I am sure our playing RPG's together has helped them feel that way.

 

[haakon1]

Plus he could belong to a church that preaches that D&D is evil, and he doesn't want to be caught playing the devils game, let alone selling it from his store, or having the rituals (games) taking place in his store.

Unlikely in Seattle -- the Pacific Northwest is the least religious region in America, and gamer culture is very widespread here. I guess anything is possible, though.

 

[Treebore]

Unlikely in Seattle -- the Pacific Northwest is the least religious region in America, and gamer culture is very widespread here. I guess anything is possible, though.

Well, I went to Seattle a few years ago (2005), and I saw plenty of churches.