Re: [DL] The Good, The Dead, and The Supported

[Greg Vose <kitsune@xmission.com>]

Same situation for me, Mike, well the fact that Hero is my favorite system.

As I have said before I am extremely lucky.  MY FLGS is owned by a 25-30
year gamer, it is managed by a 25-30 year gamer and our core group has
something on the order of 190-200 collected years of gaming experience
(yeah we are kinda big and rather old <grin>).  Hero gets supported,
Deadlands gets supported, other games get supported.

It is very true that D20 is taking up a large amount of the shelf space but
it is also true that I never see anyone buying it. I am sure people do but
I doubt that many people buy every bloody book that comes out which is what
quite a few people do with Hero or Deadlands for example.  This store sold
over 40 copies of the Hero 5th edition last year, sold out its order of 12+
of the Champions genre book and had to order more.

Currently Deadlands has a small problem though, with regards to that store.
Everyone who regularly plays it there has all the books they need (well,
except me and Law Dogs but that's beside the point).

Not certain what to suggest about the shops that don't support you except
to start buying mailorder and go back to them every month just to tell them
how much you spent on games via mailorder rather than in their shop.  If
they don't support you then why on earth would you support them?

Greg

At 06:22 AM 5/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Chuckle, I play mainly the HERO System, and get the same grief.  Never mind
>that HERO Games put out more stuff last year than in any year of their past
>existence!  On the other hand, their stuff is finally starting to show up in
>some of the smaller local game stores.
>
>Hmmm, now that I think about it, maybe I am a bit elitist as well.  :-)  I
>refuse to play anything d20, and I am very picky about which systems I
>use/play.  The HERO System is number one with me, and it would be extremely
>difficult for ANY other system to replace that.  But I also like the
>Deadlands stuff, Shadowrun and to a lesser extent, GURPS.  I'm going to get
>Savage Worlds and give it a shot as well, and the Tri-Stat System from GOO
>looks worth a shot as well.
>
>~ Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David R Goecke" <mightygecko@juno.com>
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [DL] The Good, The Dead, and The Supported
>
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>> Someone mentioned forming a lynch mob? I'm in.
>>
>> I can hardly beleive the stuff I'm hearing. the guy rolling his eyes...
>> it's almost like there's an elitist preppy group among gamers! While in
>> highschool  when we were all being laughed at by the trendy kids in
>> polo-shirts and sweaters for wearing our Optimus Prime t-shirts, there
>> seems to be a similar group among us gamer geeks!
>>
>> "Pinnacle? Steve Jackson? *gufaw* Why, that's so unsupported. I only get
>> my gaming needs filled by Wizards of the Coast."
>>
>> Pardon me while I bash him over the head with my spitoon full of Fate
>> Chips.
>>
>> David "I got yer 'dead system' right here, buddy!" Goecke
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 09 May 2003 16:45:04 -0600 "Michael Maguire"
>> <mikejmaguire@hotmail.com> writes:
>> > I received a similar spiel from my local store when I tried to order
>> > in some
>> > Deadlands books...  I was informed they weren't able to get them
>> > since it
>> > was considered a "dead" system.
>> >
>> > I took my business to a competitors store and had my books in hand
>> > about 2
>> > weeks later.
>> >
>> > My only comment to the manager at the first store was, "Dead? Wow...
>> >
>> > somebody should tell Shane Hensley that.   Most folks don't print
>> > this much
>> > stuff for a dead system."
>> >
>> > Suffice to say I don't bother shopping there anymore.
>> >
>> > Mac
>> >
>> >
>> > ----Original Message Follows----
>> > From: "Matthew Pulido" <talison@netnitco.net>
>> > Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>> > To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>> > Subject: Re: [DL] Special Viewing of The Good, the Bad, and the
>> > Ugly"
>> > Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 23:28:12 -0500
>> >
>> > OT, I was talking to my game store asking about running Deadlands in
>> > there
>> > and the guy told me he considers it an unsupported system so he'd
>> > prefer if
>> > I didn't use store space for it.
>> >
>> > Talison
>> >
>> >
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