Where are you buying Mordenkainen's Magnificient Emporium?

[I'm A Banana]

What, no option for "If WotC doesn't want my money that badly, I will gladly pirate the hell out of the thing?"

When I get around to caring what's in it, I'll probably not have a big problem finding it -- being in a major metropolitan area does give me that advantage. Likely I'll hunt it down on an online retailer somewhere, perhaps used, perhaps not. I wish everyone the best luck in finding their source. It IS a little narmed, though kind of abstractly understandable.

 

[Obryn]

I got it from my FLGS today. It's pretty awesome.

The place was kickin', too. I guess there's an MtG release today, and a table was doing Lair Assault. Some other tables were doing Warhammer. There were probably 75 or so people in the store, altogether.

-O

 

[Pour]

The Paizo store, ironically enough. I've been meaning to put an order in for some of those miniatures, anyway.

 

[delericho]

As I understand it, my DM picked up a copy from a bricks-n-mortar store this weekend, while also picking up "Black Crusade". They're certainly Friendly, and a Games Store, but they sure ain't local!

It's not (yet) available on Amazon UK, or he might well have gone there. But then, having it now seems to trump over low prices for him!

(I'm also a little surprised he didn't feel DDI had him covered, given the reports of extensive reprinting.)

As for me, I don't buy 4e, so won't be getting it. However, if I did I would be going back to the same FLGS I always shopped at (ever since the Red Box, back in the '80's). Actually, that's one of the worst things about me failing to adopt either 4e or PF - I no longer buy any RPG books (well, very few), and so don't support the store.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

I actually tried to get it from my FLGS, but he told me that he actually *can't* get it. He said that all copies had already been "allocated" at the distributor level, and that he could not now, nor likely to be able to, order it in the future.

My other LGS (note, no "F"), doesn't do 4e. At all. They also suck at doing business in general. They still have piles of remaindered 2e product and still try to charge ABOVE MSRP because it's still shrink wrapped. It will be sitting there for a long, long time.

So looks like I'll be ordering online. I tried Imaginaire in Quebec (my FGS, note the lack of "L"), and it's backordered there. I guess I'll try ebay or one of the other shops linked here, but somewhere in Canada would work better, since cross-border shipping is a huge pain.

Maybe next time I go down south, I'll swing by Hugin & Munin in Windsor...

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I picked mine up at Compleat Strategist in Falls Church, VA. While DC has lost a lot of its FLGS while I've been here (an unnamed gaming store in Rosslyn, Fantasy Forum, the Woodbridge location of Games Parlor), we still have some choices.

As there is no FLGS within 50 miles of me, I have no choice but to order online.

I can kind of see not wanting to make a special trip just to get a sight-unseen book.

However, having grown up in a one-stoplight town in rural Kentucky in the age before Amazon, and having to drive an hour or so to get to the town with a FLGS, I really can't see why you "have no choice," unless you don't have a car at all and no reason or way to go to that area otherwise.

Brad

 

[thewok]

I picked it up from the FLGS where I play Encounters. I didn't see it available on Amazon at all, or I would have bought it from there (if the price + shipping were less than the price + tax at the FLGS).

I'm all for supporting the FLGS, but I am a realist. Until the FLGS can supply merchandise at prices competitive with Amazon, I will prefer Amazon. But, when I can get a book from Amazon at a discount of 33%, there is no contest.

Wednesday, my usual FLGS was out of Nightwing #1. So, I had to go to another store to see if I could find it this weekend. I got the last copy off the shelf. When I made a comment about his being out of Batman & Robin #1 (like everyone else in the world), owner got uppity and went on about pull lists and inventory control.

That's all well and good, but why am I going to bother setting up a pull list with you when, first of all, you're a total cock, and secondly, when I can just buy the digital edition straight from DC for a buck off the cover price?

As long as this "restricted release" thing is an uncommon occurrence, I'm fine. But if WotC were ever to make it the SOP going forward, I'd have to seriously reconsider my spending habits for the game.

 

[ForeverSlayer]

There are 2 books on Amazon for $29.95.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

However, having grown up in a one-stoplight town in rural Kentucky in the age before Amazon, and having to drive an hour or so to get to the town with a FLGS, I really can't see why you "have no choice," unless you don't have a car at all and no reason or way to go to that area otherwise.

I dan relate: I used to live in Manhattan, Kansas: pop 30K when Kansas State was in session, 10K when it wasn't. Sure, you could find some D&D or Traveller in the bookstores catering to students, but inventories were small and not exactly varied. Typically, to get this year's stuff, we had to go to Topeka (1hr away), Wichita (1.5 hrs away) or Kansas City (2hrs away).

And because I was 13, that meant waiting until my folks were headed to one of those cities.

(Oh yes, there was also the fact that it was uphill both ways past T-Rex riding Snow-Ninja pirates. With lasers. And we LIKED it like that! *muttermutterKIDSthesedaysmuttermutter*)

 

[Sutekh]

Bought it online via book ordering website. Would of cost me 60 ish locally (more likely 65). Got it online for 40.50 inc delivery.

To be honest Im a bit over my local GStore. Not only are things so skewed towards helping the magic buyer/player at all costs, but I do feel like Im getting ripped off there. I bought some Gamma world boosters there recently for 8 bucks each, then noticed them online for 3.49.

If I want to have my money taken that way, ill purposely give it to a dude with a gun