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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5094895" data-attributes="member: 78357">I have numerous ones I enjoy in the area. They all operate in somewhat different ways but I certainly can understand dealing with issues of overhead, staffing, space, etc. We have them in South Minneapolis, Falcon Heights, Oakdale, Anoka, Saint Louis Park, Burnsville, Blaine and Brooklyn Park and a friend even opened one in Inver Grove Heights. Eight in a local metro is pretty solid.  Most have a lot of CCG or console gaming (or both) but that's to be expected with modern economics. People buy online too often for a store to survive on PnP RPGs. It used to be most stores I frequented (between four metros)were chock full of product with very little 'game space'. That all changed about, oh, 15 or so years ago. They expanded floor space to host games, including CCG tournaments because they wanted to survive. It's a catch-22. People don't buy from them so they carry less overhead/product and then people complain they don't have everything. Too many also use the FLGS as a preview library to figure out what they're going to order from Amazon and they're lucky if they grab a D20 from the discount bin. Gamer snobbery is rampant also. I try to avoid it as much as possible. I modeled in my younger days, Was a jock, bathe regularly, have a job in corporate finance, a good relationship with the SO, etc. Some good people I like would be considered 'ungly losers' to many, but I don't care. I'm definitely not immune to being superficial (and can have opinions stronger than anyone) but this is something I think gamers need to work on in general.  Except for furries. They can all go straight to Hades. <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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