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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HinterWelt" data-source="post: 2402564" data-attributes="member: 14785">Let me tell you a story.There once was a game store owner. he ran two stores in very different locations. He made his living selling WOD, DND and other RPGs along with Miniatures games (mostly Battletech). All was going well and he went to a trade show called the GAMA Trade Show in New Orleans. He saw a new thing called a Collectable Card Game. "Wow," he exclaimed, "This is going to be big". He had just had a demo and one of his elder peers leaned close."Don't worry kid, " he confided, " its just like POGS. Here today, gone tomorrow." Unconvinced, the young retailer went to the retailer one-on-one where the heads of the Company were talking with the Retailers. The President of the corporation stated, "Don't worry, there will always be enough product since we will never sell to the Big Chains." They were not convinced.Within six months, the Company was selling to major chains and shortages were rampant. Small shops that had built their fan base could no longer get product. The Big Chains were selling to the small stores' customer base. Then the Internet was born! Discounters roamed cyber space stealing customers. The end was near, hell, the apocalypse was apon us! You know what, those who could not adapt died off. Th moral to the slightly toungue in cheek story above, change is inevitable. RPGs may be a part of that change or they may not. A lot f what we are seeing has happened before. CCG take off actually killed a few stores but the Pokemon crash killed far more. You know what, stores rose to take their place. I am not trying to say this will be an easy time but things are changing and changing in ways that a lot of very experienced people in the Industry seem to be blind to. PDFs, CCGs, Collectible minis, the nature of the internet and a dozen other things I am sure I am missing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> An aside to the Minnesota gamers. Some have mentioned the Source and Phoenix. Has anyone checked out Phantasy in Shakopee, Village Games in Anoka or Unicorn Games in Woodbury? I am a big fan of <a href="http://www.hinterwelt.com/VG-ref.html" target="_blank">Village Games</a>. I have noticed some of the problems mentioned in this thread with the Source. I am mostly indifferent to them I have tried to run demos there but to no avail as they are crowded.Bill</blockquote>

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