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<blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5173562" data-attributes="member: 34865"><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I sympathize with the OP, I really do. I too am in (Central) Florida and I have seen game stores die one after the other here. Enterprise 1701 was sold, moved across town, and is now part of the Sci-Fi City "chain" (there's a store in NC and one in GA). I can't figure out what they sell anymore. Is it WHFB? WH40K? Part of the front of the store was dominated by Axis and Allies and FoW. Now it's I don't know what.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">The employees are "OK" but back in the day they were excellent in a homey sort of "oh hi I know you," way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Nooks and crannies in the store are stuffed with $.88 value items where they clearly bought too much junk (they have, or had, for a long time an entire wall - a WALL - of those <strong>WARHAMMER:40K</strong> Space Marine maquettes). Once <strong>DWARVEN FORGE</strong> went online only and I discovered <strong>MINIATURE GIANT</strong> here...I really had no reason to go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">The other two game shops here in town (Rhubarb Games and Cool Stuff Inc.) are only open at weird hours. Acme Comics had a pretty nice game selection...which they dropped after they fired both of the game guys (long story there, I won't go in to it).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I'm sorry but the fact is I can (and would rather) buy online. I don't have a need for instant gratification, and most of the time? I can save a boatload of money shopping direct from the manufacturer or online.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">My game(s) won't end if I don't have XYZ supplement and if I know I'm going to need a given campaign guide or module or something I'll order it in advance, and work around it if it won't be here on time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">The lone comfort I take from this is that Games Workshop hasn't opened up a store here in town.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">The argument might be brought up "But don't you want to go and browse?"...to which I'd say, no. I don't. I'd rather dig through the stacks in my favorite local used bookstore (which, for me as an <strong>AD&D</strong> player is far more the repository of RPG goodness than FLGSs have ever been, to be honest) than stand around in someone's failing tax dodge.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Sorry, but there we are.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">EDIT: Rhubarb Games actually has less weird hours, 2PM-9PM Mon-Fri - still not terribly convenient as I need to get most stuff done early in the day before I get my oldest from school at 3, and Cool Stuff doesn't open until Noon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thedungeondelver, post: 5173562, member: 34865"] [FONT=century gothic]I sympathize with the OP, I really do. I too am in (Central) Florida and I have seen game stores die one after the other here. Enterprise 1701 was sold, moved across town, and is now part of the Sci-Fi City "chain" (there's a store in NC and one in GA). I can't figure out what they sell anymore. Is it WHFB? WH40K? Part of the front of the store was dominated by Axis and Allies and FoW. Now it's I don't know what. The employees are "OK" but back in the day they were excellent in a homey sort of "oh hi I know you," way. Nooks and crannies in the store are stuffed with $.88 value items where they clearly bought too much junk (they have, or had, for a long time an entire wall - a WALL - of those [B]WARHAMMER:40K[/B] Space Marine maquettes). Once [B]DWARVEN FORGE[/B] went online only and I discovered [B]MINIATURE GIANT[/B] here...I really had no reason to go. The other two game shops here in town (Rhubarb Games and Cool Stuff Inc.) are only open at weird hours. Acme Comics had a pretty nice game selection...which they dropped after they fired both of the game guys (long story there, I won't go in to it). I'm sorry but the fact is I can (and would rather) buy online. I don't have a need for instant gratification, and most of the time? I can save a boatload of money shopping direct from the manufacturer or online. My game(s) won't end if I don't have XYZ supplement and if I know I'm going to need a given campaign guide or module or something I'll order it in advance, and work around it if it won't be here on time. The lone comfort I take from this is that Games Workshop hasn't opened up a store here in town. The argument might be brought up "But don't you want to go and browse?"...to which I'd say, no. I don't. I'd rather dig through the stacks in my favorite local used bookstore (which, for me as an [B]AD&D[/B] player is far more the repository of RPG goodness than FLGSs have ever been, to be honest) than stand around in someone's failing tax dodge. Sorry, but there we are. EDIT: Rhubarb Games actually has less weird hours, 2PM-9PM Mon-Fri - still not terribly convenient as I need to get most stuff done early in the day before I get my oldest from school at 3, and Cool Stuff doesn't open until Noon. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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