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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brainstorm" data-source="post: 5316983" data-attributes="member: 45712">Just came back from my FLGS where I had an interesting experience.  There were some guys in there that were apparently shopping around for a gaming system.  I didn't catch the entire conversation, so I may have a few facts wrong, but what I gathered was that they had been 3.5 D&D players at some point and were looking into the current options.  The guy in the FLGS that was helping them pretty much went straight for Pathfinder and tried to sell that to them, going into the strengths of the game, the changes they made from 3.5 and how it was such an improvement, yada yada yada.  He barely talked about 4E, only mentioning that he'd tried it for a few months and lost interest in running it.  I really had to bite my tongue to keep from speaking my mind, and maybe I should have, but it's not my store and really none of my business what they want to push off their shelves.  But I thought the whole scene odd, given their stock of 4E material was much larger than their Pathfinder stock.  I got the impression that they weren't trying to sell a product, they were trying to sell a version of D&D that they preferred.   Now, I've only played Pathfinder once and didn't really enjoy the experience, not because of the game, but because of the guy running it, so I don't necessarily have anything against Pathfinder.  But as a 4E DM, I kinda felt, at that moment, that my FLGS wasn't there for me.   Anyway, taking personal feelings out of the equation, I think that a better approach might have been to discuss the benefits of both systems, ask the customers what they liked about 3.5 and what they were looking for in a current game and then tout the pros/cons of each of the systems.  Heck, they carry Dragon Age, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and a few other fantasy systems, but none of those were mentioned either.   Anyway, just thought I'd share.  Thanks for listening.</blockquote>

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