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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5348162" data-attributes="member: 14159">Holy cow.  If I was at a "F"LGS that asked me to cough up some dough if my browsing time exceeded 30 minutes that would be the dead last time I ever visited there.  Between Amazon, eBay and various online stores, the only appeal of the FLGS is the friendly atmosphere and ability to browse and socialize, not just shopping.Now, as for my "pay to play" story, a comic book store in town decided to branch out into gaming about 10 years ago.  He even created a walled off gaming room.  As he'd been on friendly terms with our gaming and anime clubs, one GM in our club decided to hold one of his games there one week. He'd splurged on it, painting the walls grey with a faux stone wall pattern, and putting up some cheap medieval decor like some shields and banners even, and a wooden table and chairs (I think it was a well-used old dinner table).  It was very thematic for D&D. . .but he was running a DeadLands campaign.Then when we got there, he sprung on us that he was charging for the room, it was something like $10 per hour, so about $50 for the session, which worked out to $7 or so per person just to game there, as opposed to the rooms in the student center which were free to us as university students, or our various apartments and houses, which were free.  We played there once, and never again.  It must not have taken off, because he dismantled the whole thing a few months later.</blockquote>

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