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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9828000" data-attributes="member: 7044459">Not complaining about any pineapple on pizza, but something interesting I wanted to share with you all.I play a lot of Magic: The Gathering. Much more than I play D&D, infact. One of my favorite formats is Pauper, which has the deck building restriction that all cards must be of the Common card rarity. It's an official format, endorsed by WOTC, but it's largely ignored by them, and very much community driven. As such I'm part of a Discord server for people who play Pauper in my area.We recently got my preferred LGS to run the format as a regular weekly event in the last few months. Last week a group of guys from the server all car pooled out to my store to join us and play. It was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed seeing them all. One of the guys won for the day too. The store is cool, and they pay out 100% of the entry fees back out as store credit for prizing, so he ended up with a cool $45 or so to spend at a store he's unlikely to visit again any time soon.I'm showing everyone around the shop, showing them the little arcade, the in-house candy store, and where all the MTG related accessories are and he stops at the TTRPG shelf and mulls it over. I apologetically mention that the RPG supply is a little lacking, but point out some of the cool third party books and stuff that are available. He grabs a copy of Descent into Avernus and looks it over and asks my opinion of it. I tell him I've never ran or played it, but have always thought it sounded cool. It's got some Mad Max vibes, and it's also kind of like a precursor to Baldur's Gate 3.Here's what's interesting. He tells me he doesn't actually play D&D, or TTRPGs in general for that matter. He does however collect, and reads sourcebooks/adventure modules. And that's what he spent his store credit on.I just found that kind of fun. I know a lot of books are sold to people who will likely never actually use them, but I always assumed that demographic was more like, people who were being wishfully optimistic.. Like "Maybe someday I will run this." or like me, who enjoys reading source books to steal bits and pieces from them for my home brew game.</blockquote>

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