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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3602407" data-attributes="member: 2067">I've had this idea...If I were to open it, I wouldn't have people paying for space.What I would have, includes the following:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Big tables, comfy chairs: The point is to get people to hang out there for as long as possible I'll come to "why" in a minute...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rentals for dice, books, maps, and minis: You could always BYO, and for those who don't, a small fee ($1/hr maybe?; maybe $3/hr for books) gets you what you need.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Food, drink, etc.: Here's the moneymaker. You don't need much; you could rig it up like diner food or a cafe or something, offer a few "healthy alternatives," have chips and sodas available to buy. Everyone comes by for dinner and sticks around to game. And as the time passes, they eat more, they drink more...it's golden.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Game Store": You can buy your gaming supplies here, too. If you want to own rather than rent, for instance. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Computers with Internet Access and eLibraries of books: A by-minute access fee (something like 25 cents) gets you all the rules references you need. You could even pay to just read the pdf file on the computer screen, in theory. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Membership Programs: Sick of paying rental fees for books and dice and maps and minis? Get a membership. $20-30/month and we'll even throw in our "member's tables" and our newsletter about what's going on at the club, and in gaming.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Advertising: We've got a newsletter, we've got space to put adds, and even to run "promo games" of new stuff that's coming out. This should be priced so even homebrew systems can take advantage of it, so if you've got a kickass setting you want to play in or a new system you want to run, you can find players for it. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find-A-Gamer: Want to run a game? Need to play? For a small fee (maybe $10, free for members) we'll match you up with a group that hits your stated likes and dislikes. Because we see you in person and get to do an interview, we'll get a better sense of who you'll match up with. A professional gamer match service! Heck, you don't even HAVE to play here. Of course, if you come back kicked out of a lot of groups, we might not be able to help you, here... <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=";)" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bookstore: What better place to buy your gaming books (and other books -- sci-fi/fantasy books, comic books, magazines, etc.) than here? Perhaps go the Border's route and populate it with music and movies and videogames, too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Events: New nerdy movie coming out? Marvel or DC doing something epic with their core line? Maybe we'll do some members-only discounts on the next Batman movie, or 30% off the next Star Wars novel or WotC book. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Private Rooms: For an actual fee you can get tricked out private rooms with projections, laptop hook-ups, surround sound for the ambient noises, a waiter who would bring your group food, etc. I could see these going for maybe $30/night (maybe $5-10/hr). </li> </ul>I think of it something like the "full package" experience. The challenge would be to lure shy gamers out of their own basements and to indulge their nerdy desires. Give it a community feel, make sure they never need to go anywhere else, and don't charge them just to hang out there. Instead, offer a million little services, charge them for that, and don't be affraid about kicking out people who just loiter.</blockquote>

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