My anti-D&D LGS

[WizarDru]

Just to put this out there: Many modern board games take several hours to play, so I don't know "the time concern" is valid.

That's fairly dependent on the individual game, obviously. Virtually any game by Out-of-the-Box might take only 20 minutes, while a game of Starfarers of Catan might drage for 4 hours. But by and large, most Euro-games are designed to be played in anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Mainstays like Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico usually take about 90 minutes to play.

There are plenty of possible reasons the owner might want to encourage one customer over another. Certainly, if he'd been burned by the RPG glut of 2000-2001 or being stuck with dead inventory, he'd understandably not want to push that line of gaming in his store. A copy of the original Mayfair US release of Catan from 1995 is still just as sellable now as it was then. A copy of Sword and Fist from 2000? Not so much.

Sure, but we go to them less often than any other region in America -- a statistic I've heard a few times living here. Relative to say, England or Scandinavia, we're raving religious fanatics. Relative to Texas or Utah, we're unwashed heathens.

Because The source of that statistic was the ARIS 2001 survey, in which 6 western states were listed as having the most respondents who did not identify themselves as religious or practicing a religion. It surveyed about 50,000 folks by phone and was meant to follow up an NRIS survey from 1990. Personally, I have a problem with it using a phone survey, as I live in South-Eastern Pennsylvania....you know, where the Amish live. That may be why the Mennonites are represented in the survey but the Amish are not.

That said, you are correct: Seattle, per that survey, had the highest number of respondents per capita who said they were not religious. Number 2 was Vermont. Out of the next five states, four of them were the remaining states of the Pacific Northwest, with California in the middle. Overall America has a much more self-identifying religious population than most industrialized nations, but within America (if the data was/is accurate), then the Northwest is the least religious part of the US.

 

[Timeboxer]

We have two owners, and both of us grew up playing D&D so we certainly don’t have a personal bias against it. Over the years our interests have moved towards board games and we decided to create a store to help expose these new games to a mainstream audience that has probably never tried them before. As a new store, we feel that is important to define a personality and we have chosen to focus ours around board & card games, not RPG’s and Mini’s. We aren’t trying to say there is a “right” or “wrong” type of game, but that is simply where our passion is right now. Originally we didn’t carry RPG’s but we did add D&D with the release of 4.0, will continue to add to this section as 4.0 expands, and I can imagine our support for D&D expanding over time as well.

Hey Scott,

Thanks for joining in the discussion, and welcome to the boards. I realize that your current focus is board games, but if you're interested in having someone run a demo game of D&D at your store, consider this a standing offer. Until then -- perhaps you'd be interested in taking a look at the Board Games side of the site as well?

 

[justanobody]

Thanks for dropping by to give us your perspective/reasoning, Scott.

and welcome to the boards

Second that, if not already done on this page.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Second that, if not already done on this page.

Third that.

Thank you for coming here and explaining your side. It's hard to figure out the truth without all of the information.

D&D is currently just something you do on the side right now. It simply isn't part of your business plan right now. You don't hate D&D, you just don't have the resources for it right now. Hope you make a bucketload of money.