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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thagdal" data-source="post: 5601726" data-attributes="member: 95215">I've often paid to play at cons. I've been paid to GM <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=":)" /> ~ The shop I game at, (gamequest.net.au) has cheaper prices for food and drinks for the GMs, charges $2 AUD for causal rates to play, can't recall the monthly membership but it also gets you a discount of %5 of product plus some net time/printing rights on the computers.$5 USD sounds like a bit more than i'd be happy with, but not by much. If there is limited table space they cant run as many games, to have cheaper prices with more people. First time visitors get 2-3 free games to try stuff out. The shop keepers do a great job of ogranising games, matching players and GMs to preffered games etc. They run about 4 tables a night plus do board games during the day. I could play at my house, or at one of the other gamer's place. I do for one of my games, but I like to think I'm helping the community and encouraging growth of my favourite hobby. Plus its in the heart of town, they supply meals, drinks, banter and they sometimes even clean up. I also get to see a variety of different games, and people (mixed blessing<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

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