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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8663645" data-attributes="member: 19857">The nearby FLGS has D&amp;D and Pathfinder and then most of their RPGs are games from companies that also make board games - and generally are licensed properties for the most part.&nbsp; For example, that's where I saw the Power Rangers and GI Joe RPGs in the wild - and Renegade also has deckbuilding games for both of those properties that the store already was selling.&nbsp; And they don't seem to get entire lines on the shelf beyond D&amp;D - everything else is a core book and maybe 1 or 2 supplements at most in stock.&nbsp; They'll happily order whatever you want, but they're not speculating on what RPGs people are going to buy anymore (and not getting stuck with the stock on their shelves when they guess wrong).I don't blame the game store for not stocking more RPGs though - 20 years ago the local game stores used to be RPGs, wargames and Magic/Pokemon and they eked along - most of them always seemed to be on the verge of shutting down.&nbsp; The boardgame boom and the d20 bust combined made it make more sense for them to shift to boardgames - and all of the stores are more populated and better stocked than they were before so they seem to have healthier business models as well. (Origins is the same way - I was just commenting to a friend last week about how much Origins has changed since I started going decades ago.&nbsp; It used to be RPGs, minis and wargames dominated the vendor hall, now it's mostly board/card games and only a few booths are selling RPGs.&nbsp; And it's been that way for a while now.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8663645, member: 19857"] The nearby FLGS has D&D and Pathfinder and then most of their RPGs are games from companies that also make board games - and generally are licensed properties for the most part. For example, that's where I saw the Power Rangers and GI Joe RPGs in the wild - and Renegade also has deckbuilding games for both of those properties that the store already was selling. And they don't seem to get entire lines on the shelf beyond D&D - everything else is a core book and maybe 1 or 2 supplements at most in stock. They'll happily order whatever you want, but they're not speculating on what RPGs people are going to buy anymore (and not getting stuck with the stock on their shelves when they guess wrong). I don't blame the game store for not stocking more RPGs though - 20 years ago the local game stores used to be RPGs, wargames and Magic/Pokemon and they eked along - most of them always seemed to be on the verge of shutting down. The boardgame boom and the d20 bust combined made it make more sense for them to shift to boardgames - and all of the stores are more populated and better stocked than they were before so they seem to have healthier business models as well. (Origins is the same way - I was just commenting to a friend last week about how much Origins has changed since I started going decades ago. It used to be RPGs, minis and wargames dominated the vendor hall, now it's mostly board/card games and only a few booths are selling RPGs. And it's been that way for a while now.) [/QUOTE]

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