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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5094981" data-attributes="member: 52734">I used to have a decent FLGS near me, but after about 2001, they dried up and gave up on RPGs, did Mechwarrior and Magic for a while and then it all went belly up.  They are a small store that doesn't have space for games in the store, but they did rent a building on Friday nights that I went to for RPGs and Mechwarrior for a while - until I had kids.  I went back to the store a few months ago, they stopped hosting game nights and they still had the same stock from 2001 with nothing new.  The owner's son now runs the store, and has a really bad additude towards customers.  I haven't gone back since.We had two other LGS (I hesitate to say "friendly"), but they quickly went out of business because of "hanger-ons" and staff that were too busy playing to attend to customers who wanted to buy something.  They lasted about a year apiece.  It's rather funny, they dogged on the other hobby shop from above, but in the end their practices were worse.I did, however recently have a nice visit to Oxford Comics in Atlanta last month.  While they don't specialize in games & RPGs nor appear to have space for gaming, they've got quite the collection - not only new stuff, but stuff all the way back to 2E's glory days.  I was amazed and picked up quite a lot of stuff while I was there (non-D&D stuff; I actually already have a complete 2E collection).  I intend to make another run there in March, and the staff was very friendly as well.For the most part though, I prefer to get my stuff off Amazon.  I have no desire to deal with FLGS on a regular basis any more.</blockquote>

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