Major bummer!
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gridloreAnd some serious weirdness.
After posting my gaming quiz (by the way, when you click "Other, detailed in comments", please leave a comment so I know what you are trying to tell me.) I was thinking about gaming products, and hit the Hero Games site. One of the products intrigued me, but I never buy sight unseen. "I know!" I said to the chair, "I'll go to Gamescape, check the book out, and since I have cash, pick it up if it works for me!"
Gamescape is in Palo Alto, about 25 miles from here. Jump in the car, drive up, park.. and notice there seems to be a BBQ in the back. Odd...
Wander around to the front, where I'm greeted with a GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! banner.
Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not my FLGS!
The weirdness part comes in here. I hadn't been to the store in months (no money, no reason to go) and normally on my days off I'm pretty rooted.. so why today did it suddenly become vital for me to race off in search of a RPG book; the very day the store was closing?
Turns out the last day was today, and the shelves were picked over. A few d20 items, some third-rate publishers' works, and a few copies of Dungeon magazine were all that were left. Even an invitation to help myself to anything I wanted from the used shelf for free didn't turn up anything worth taking.
Goodbye Gamescape, and to all of you who worked there over the years, thank you. Thank you for being there during my chemo when I needed to lie down in your back room for an hour. Thank you for letting me autograph all the copies of Ground Forces that came in. Thanks for being a cool store, a cool staff, and good luck in where ever life takes you all.
Damnit, this makes three great stores I've had close out from under me (The Game Table and Planet 10 were the others.)
I'd go to mail order, but I hate ordering game books like that. I want to see the work, judge the content, before buying. Even the best writers and companies crank out some bilge, and I want to avoid that. Now I have to find a game store that carries Hero products and SJG stuff.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jemstone, where do you go?
Ah, well. (opens beer) To the Friendly Local Game Store, and all who staff them!
*CRASH*
After posting my gaming quiz (by the way, when you click "Other, detailed in comments", please leave a comment so I know what you are trying to tell me.) I was thinking about gaming products, and hit the Hero Games site. One of the products intrigued me, but I never buy sight unseen. "I know!" I said to the chair, "I'll go to Gamescape, check the book out, and since I have cash, pick it up if it works for me!"
Gamescape is in Palo Alto, about 25 miles from here. Jump in the car, drive up, park.. and notice there seems to be a BBQ in the back. Odd...
Wander around to the front, where I'm greeted with a GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! banner.
Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not my FLGS!
The weirdness part comes in here. I hadn't been to the store in months (no money, no reason to go) and normally on my days off I'm pretty rooted.. so why today did it suddenly become vital for me to race off in search of a RPG book; the very day the store was closing?
Turns out the last day was today, and the shelves were picked over. A few d20 items, some third-rate publishers' works, and a few copies of Dungeon magazine were all that were left. Even an invitation to help myself to anything I wanted from the used shelf for free didn't turn up anything worth taking.
Goodbye Gamescape, and to all of you who worked there over the years, thank you. Thank you for being there during my chemo when I needed to lie down in your back room for an hour. Thank you for letting me autograph all the copies of Ground Forces that came in. Thanks for being a cool store, a cool staff, and good luck in where ever life takes you all.
Damnit, this makes three great stores I've had close out from under me (The Game Table and Planet 10 were the others.)
I'd go to mail order, but I hate ordering game books like that. I want to see the work, judge the content, before buying. Even the best writers and companies crank out some bilge, and I want to avoid that. Now I have to find a game store that carries Hero products and SJG stuff.
jemstone, where do you go?Ah, well. (opens beer) To the Friendly Local Game Store, and all who staff them!
*CRASH*
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Date: 29 Aug 2005 01:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Aug 2005 02:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Aug 2005 02:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Aug 2005 03:19 (UTC)I'm looking for a Friendly, Relatively Local, Gaming Store that isn't Media Play or Amazon. :(
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Date: 29 Aug 2005 04:00 (UTC)Our only real hobby store closed last year. It's getting to be mail order or nothing.
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Date: 29 Aug 2005 04:27 (UTC)Paradox Playground Games
paradoxplaygroundgames.com
2050 S. Bascom Ave #5
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 369-8716
Gamescape
Date: 29 Aug 2005 07:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Aug 2005 18:38 (UTC)Damn, that sucks. How am I supposed to bug Michael now?