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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1632660" data-attributes="member: 15651">Reading WizarDru's response reminded me that I started out 25 years ago gaming at a store.  Well, it wasn't a gaming store at the time, it was a hobby store mostly focused on model railroads, but the owner had a small display of D&D stuff, and he let us use his back room to play.  Game day was Saturday during the school year, and Tuesday during the summer.  Kids from around town would ride their bikes to the store (eventually the plaza owners got sick of all the bikes chained to the columns out front and bought a couple of bike racks) to play D&D.  We were all within about four or five years in age, most of use were pre-adolescents, so deodorant was not a factor, and being annoying was what we all were, so it didn't bother us.  There was a diner-type restaurant next door, and a supermarket at the end of the plaza, so food and drinks were no problem.  We played there for several years, but eventually the owner stopped allowing gaming beause the younger kids coming up behind those of us who started there realized another store had lower prices for gaming material (they were the local wholesaler), and stopped buying anything from the store we played in.  Most of the "veteran" players by then were in high school and had jobs and understood the need to support the local store, but there were no longer enough of us to sustain things; cars and boy/girlfriends were a higher priority for many of the original gamers, and only those of us who remained true geeks kept playing.Maybe that's why I keep considering joining a game at my FLGS (until I actually walk in and see the people playing there)...nostalgia.</blockquote>

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