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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TalonComics" data-source="post: 820812" data-attributes="member: 60">Riiiiight. The short of it is this: The speciality game store is the reason tabletop RPGs even still exist. Sad but true. If you support the massive discounters then you're just effectly putting one more nail into the coffin that is the tabletop gaming market. No gamer wants that!Someone said earlier that D&D was almost dead 10 years ago. No, it *was* dead. TSR was gone and out of business. WotC bought the rights to TSR with money they made from their CCG, Magic: The Gathering, which only took off because of a grass roots campaign by speciality gaming stores and distributors like "Bob". Heck, I remember the call when my distributor called me up and said, "we just got this really cool game that you should try out!" Sure, I was a little skeptical but I still bought a starter and booster box. When I got those in and played it that was all she wrote! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Did Barnes and Noble do that? Did Wal Mart? No, of course not. Why? Because the gaming market only exists for them when they think they can make tons of money on it and at the same time run off competition. They don't take chances and they don't support the small publishers. WotC *was* small publisher until they found their hit game.So "Bob" doesn't put food on your table or pay your student loans but "Bob" does want table top gaming to survive. "Bob" also wants to see cool new games like M:tG, Settlers of Catan and even D&D 3rd Ed. Does Barnes & Noble?So you say "Bob" loses the round but the reality is we, the gamers, will all lose when the gaming market is gone because massive discounters kill it with short term sales.~Derek</blockquote>

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