Where do you buy your RPG products?

[Barendd Nobeard]

Boob...bar...rians..?

Yes, they have a line of topless female figures. I wouldn't have started buying them, except the first one was a female frost giant sculpted by Sandra Garrity. What I like most about the figure she did is the necklace--a human head.

The other figs in the line aren't as good, but I've got that "gotta complete the set" mentality. The frost giant almost looks proportioned compared to later figs. The dwarves are way too "top-heavy"--they look even more unreal than the topless halfling archers. You can see them at the Discount Hobby website. The first one listed (DECAPA-TIT-ED) is the one by Sandra Garrity.

 

[Desdichado]

Why can you only select one option? I buy from online retailers, online gamestores (like Talon), WotC retail chain stores and my local independent guy.

 

[dreamthief]

Why oh why...

Why can you only select one option? I buy from online retailers, online gamestores (like Talon), WotC retail chain stores and my local independent guy.

I guess I should have stated MOST of your RPG products..

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Barendd, the Boobarians are part of the Dark Ages line of figures. They only recently became available. We just started carrying the line, your local store may now have them. IFAIK, they are not in normal distribution, but the manufacturer's terms are pretty inviting.

Thanks for the info, thalmin. I didn't know that. They were first promoted (last summer) on the web site as available only through the Discount Hobby (a.k.a. Dragglestown) web site. I'll have to start buying that at stores, now. Any chance you'll open a Games Plus branch in Milwaukee?

 

[El_Gringo]

Well I am lucky enough to have three local game shops within five minutes of my house, and five within thirty. One of them is always top notch, while the others are usually filled to the brim with reprehensible humans I normally would not be seen with, much less communicate.

I don't know about y'all, but I absolutely detest being challenged on my choice of game by an employee of a store.

I have recently started shopping at a shop that caters to closet gamers. It's great.

Since I'm from Olathe, I'm dying to hear about your choices. Personally, I've always been a loyal Tabletop customer. When I can enter the place with a greeting of "Hi! We've got those books you reserved right here.", I know I've found my mecca.

 

[Wolfen Priest]

I buy 90% of my stuff from a local chain that sells magazines, baseball cards, magic cards, comics, a few sci-fi/fantasy paperbacks, and RPG's (it's basically a closet-gamer place, called Shinder's).

But it's a big chain, and lately I've noticed they don't carry new d20 releases as much anymore, mostly just core stuff and the 'same old' d20 stuff that's been on the shelf for months. I waited and waited for them to get the Scarred Lands Campaign Setting, and finally I asked the guy who worked there, who didn't seem to think they had it ordered. I also wanted 2 Dragonstar books, which they never got.

So, I ordered them from amazon.com and saved about $17. I see little reason to 'support' my FLGS that doesn't care what products I want.

 

[Ulrick]

It usually depends on what I'm looking for. If I want hard back books from a major publisher (like WotC) I usually go online and look around. I can get them cheaper online ($10+ cheaper in a lot of cases)...with free shipping with bulk orders its a great deal!

I go to my local gaming store to pick up 3rd party stuff that I usually can't find online at a decent price. But I've notice that I don't go to my local gaming store that much anymore.


Ulrick

 

[Davelozzi]

I buy 90% of my games ay any of three or four local game stores (one of which doubles as a bookstore and is probably the same place that Umbran is talking about - Pandemonium Books & Games). I alternate favorites between two of them - Your Move Games (excellent hours, great service, good selection) and The Compleat Strategist (terrible hours, excellent selection, and service that used to suck but got way better with recent changes in management). There's also a Gamekeeper that I buy at occasionally, but much less often than the other three.

Once in a while, I buy something at a Waldenbooks, B.Dalton's, Border's or other chain bookstore.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

FLGS.

I rarely buy online--unless it's something you can only get from an online vendor (like Discount Hobby's "Boobarians" line of minis). Other than that, my local stores have it all--or can order it.

Discount Hobby *is* my local game store

Well, one of them. There's 4 halfway decent game stores within a 20 minute drive of my house, and I feel guilty if I support one more than the others..so I end up buying a bit from each of them.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Right now, I buy almost all of my gaming stuff from my local FLGS (Game Parlor in Chantilly,VA), which is AWESOME.

Except for the fact that their distributors run a week+ behind on the release schedules. I've lost track I've gone to the store (after a product is confirmed in stores), and asked, only to receive a "Huh?" (it was even worse when I was diversifying away from D&D).

This past time with the ELH, since I was in an advanced state of Igoritis ("IT MUST BE MINE!"), I didn't even bother. Just logged onto the ENWorld store, ordered it, and had it 3 days later, long before it even appeared at the FLGS.

That entire experience has changed the way I buy things - it's nothing but online shopping from now on.