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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5357176" data-attributes="member: 19675">Re: Specialty storesI'm a bit of an oddball.  I'd heard of the game before ever seeing it, and was initiated by a fellow student doing an intro adventure in the school library after classes let out.  I bought my AD&D PHB for that in a comic book shop.A few months later, we moved to a small town in a different state.  There, gaming supplies (and comics) such as could be found were only in a college bookstore and a small Mom & Pop bookstore.  I exhausted most of their variety within a year, buying only things like character sheets and the occasional new mini that showed up.  New modules disappeared as fast as they showed up because they typically only ordered one or two.To find anything beyond the bare bones stuff I could get locally, I had to save up my $$$ and wait for one of our monthly family trips to Topeka or Kansas City- 1-2 hours away- to go to a specialty store.(Yes, past Dino-riding Ninja Pirates in the snow...though not uphill since Kansas didn't order any of those when it was under construction.)And while I'm convinced online retailers can fill a lot of the gap that existed back then, I think that the healthier specialty shops- esp. those with an online presence- are still the best places to find the full range of gaming supplies.</blockquote>