Pic related is how I'm about to run my games.
Just typed a mega blog post about my situation, but it basically boils down to three rich people who aren't good at running a store just moved into the local LGS space and are going to buy out the smaller local place I used to run D&D games at.
I've tried to contact the new place multiple times about how I can move forward with using their (really good) tables for a public D&D game, even attempting to coordinate directly with them as I've done with other LGSs in the past, and they're ghosting me. They don't have a game schedule, and aren't interested in making one. The vibe I get after 2 months is that they're more interested in selling $3,000 vintage comics or whatever. And the owners are rich enough to basically sit on this lethargic attitude that'd quickly cause any other LGS situation to go under.
>I don't have friends to play with and don't have a space I can host in.
Imagine being in the middle of a real estate transaction and setting up a business and some goober messages you about his dungeons and his dragons.
Not middle. The place has been opened for about 3+ months already.
Literally any and every LGS I've talked to in the past would absolutely jump on a DM interested in bringing multiple people into the store each week- especially the store that literally sells D&D-like products. But the store front wants to instead push the section of business owned by the boomer comic guy who thinks the market wants vintage baseball cards and can afford a $3,000 comic despite it being a pretty poor half-rural area.
Their money, their space. The continuity of YOUR dnd campaign isn't their problem, and if they focus on comic sales anyway what does your presence get them?
10-15 bodies in the store per week looking at event advertisements & purchasing minis, paints & paint products, books, and overpriced dice sets.
And unlike most of the nogame & player-only gays here, something like this doesn't stop my campaign. I'm fully able to get a game running any time I want. I just wanted to do it here but if you have to pull teeth just to ask an LGS what their schedule looks like it's not a good long-term solution.
I need to know a stranger for a while before I'm comfortable inviting them into my home. That also goes both ways. You set your game up at an LGS, and people feel more comfortable to join. Last time I did this I easily had 30+ applicants.
His tables his store his problems. You're totally fine to rent out a fricking massive building just to make it a personal lunchroom just as fine as I am to complain about how it's going to effect the LGS scene in the area.
>RPG cheapskates
>purchasing half that shit
>And unlike most of the nogame & player-only gays here, something like this doesn't stop my campaign.
Then, why are you mad, goober?
I was buying some paints and I overheard one of the owners talk to their daughter about the cool LGS that wanted to get bought out by them. Their concern is that they wanted some of their staff to get jobs at the new LGS if the buyout happened, and his response was like
>"$15 and hour!? They're gunna have to work really fricking hard if they want that much."
And the wife has this vibe about her that she's like "playing shopkeeper"? You know what I've mean? Like she's nice and all but there's this weird tension with every checkout like "Please keep coming back despite the fact that we don't offer anything as an LGS other than stuff you buy, my future is tied up in all of this because my husband makes all the decisions and I don't think this was a particularly good one, thank you come again."
Just some all-around ugly people.
Even rich people can make stupid financial decisions and run businesses into the ground. Especially 3rd-generation rich kids who never earned the money they're throwing around. Finally, if they best they can do is run a comic book store in some podunk town, they're not really rich at all.
>go in store
>nothing but MTG crap and a couple of 40k boxes
>smells because of the MTGgays
>only "LGS" for an hour and a half around
and the only event is EDH twice a week. Yipee. I've been there.
>I've been begging some rich people to let me use their space but they don't give a frick
>they're so stupid
Yeah no it's actually really cool that nearly 1/2 the store is tables yet they're only ever used for two of the owners to sit with their fit up eating McDonalds talking about how 40k was better in the old days when they walked up the hill both ways.
To be fair, they're his tables.
Why should they care about a guy that will take up 20-30 square feet of retail space and buy a few sodas?
Maybe that's more profitable than it seems, but honestly I'd just blow you off too.
Why don't you just stop shopping there and run your games at your house?
wow, thanks for the blog post. I stopped reading about half way through
Good luck
sorry for your lost
hope you feel better or don't
idc
The people who are talking "his store, he can do what he wants with it" don't know what the situation is with LGS and how fricked they are.
Amazon killed a lot of businesses, MtG is only good sales as packs, the box mark up is slim and singles market is getting killed by reprints (you can lose thousands of dollars in a day), D&D stuff and board games can sit on the shelves for months, comic book movies being popular never translated into bigger comic sales.
If you get a bad reputation your business is fricked. I traveled around for card tournaments for years and almost anywhere where the staff was rude or disorganized folds. Period. New stores don't always replace the old ones.
Start taking bets on how long they'll stay open. I'll say three years running at a loss.
Why would you want running games in a store anyway? It's like one of the worst places to play - there's constantly noise and distraction, lights are too bright, probably can't even have a beer...
Because OP is a homosexual and thinks the owners of a local game shop owe him the time and energy to cater to him so he can play games at their store.