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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WheresMyD20" data-source="post: 5317208" data-attributes="member: 60772">I had an interesting experience when I purchase the Castle Ravenloft boardgame.  My normal FLGS was out of stock, so I had to go to the one at the mall.  I'm not a big fan of malls, and I was there with my wife, so I really just wanted to buy the game and go home.The sales clerk (possibly the store owner) was really, really pushy about getting me to sign up for D&D Essentials.  I could tell that the guy was really excited about 4e.  I told him a couple of times that I've tried 4e already but I preferred the older editions.  I'm just thinking to myself please ring this up so I can go home.He then gave me the speech about Essentials trying to go back to an older style and so on.  I'm now hoping the guy will just hurry up with the cash register because I'm starting to get annoyed with his hard sell.  This guy just wouldn't take "no" for an answer.   I told him I really wasn't interested in trying 4e again.  So, he finally gives up on pushing 4e and then says that there's also a Pathfinder group and that Pathfinder is like D&D 3.75.  Now, he clearly doesn't seem as excited about Pathfinder, but I guess he assumes that by "older editions" I mean 3e.  I'm wondering how long it's going to take him to finish ringing up this one item on his cash register.He continues to ramble on about how Pathfinder "cleaned up" 3.5 and I have to stop him and tell him "no, I prefer editions before 3e".  I'm hoping that he will finally get the hint and give up on the endless sales pitch.At that point, he stopped dead in his speech and looked at me as if I was insane.  He stops working the cash register and asks me, in a very condescending voice, how anyone could want to play an edition older than 3e.  Now, I know this particular store doesn't stock any Castles & Crusades, HackMaster, or any other "old-school" product, but I can't believe the attitude this guy is giving me.He then starts with "I've been playing D&D for 30 years and the game now is much better than it used to be..." I didn't want to get into an edition debate, but at that point my patience was gone and I said, "I don't care... I'm not interested.  I've tried the new stuff.  All the skills, feats, boardgame-combat, and heavy rules they added killed it for me."At that point he *finally* finished ringing up my Castle Ravenloft.  He mumbled something to the effect of "...the new edition is clearly much better, but I guess some people only care about pretending to be their character, the role-playing aspect and all that..."   Anyway, that's not what I meant at all and I don't think he understood (or really wanted to understand) one word of what I had just said.   But, at that point, I had my game, I was *done* with this guy, and I headed straight for the door.Yeah, there's some edition bias (and a lot of pushy attitude) at that store.  I doubt I'll be going back there anytime soon.  Thankfully, it's not the only FLGS in town.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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