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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3610052" data-attributes="member: 8447">In my area there is one fully-dedicated game store and two partially-dedicated (have jigsaw puzzles/comic books as their primary source of income).I visit the dedicated one as often as my pocketbook allows (a bit more this last half-year than in the previous two and a half), but the store is still in a rocky financial position.  The owner pushed Free Game Day and got a bit of extra foot traffic.  He is putting in gaming tables and has recently pushed WWII and Star Wars minis at least as much as rpgs (they tend to bring in more income-per-footprint in store) and has branched seriously out into card games (ccgs have always been there) and board games (used to be a more limited selection).Still, he thinks that within 2 years, unless things change drastically, he'll probably have to shut down.  In general, rpgs are, to his eye, a small and shrinking market.  Of the rpgs he sells, D&D far outsells all the others because, as he says, the majority of the people coming into his store have never heard of the others, even though he encourages people to branch out; then again, based on the standard customer, most of them have not even heard of D20 Modern and most of them are not sure they can trust 3rd Party publishers -- they only buy WotC products and at that primarily the core books, with a few others.I hope things improve.  Gary is a good guy.  I want to support him.  He is facing a dangerously shrinking market, however.</blockquote>

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