#flgs

[mooglythegreatandgoogly]

Game shop owner: You're being banned from the store

Me, licking all the cards: you said they were mint!

#trading card games #mtg #magic the gathering #flgs #hobby stuff #this is a joke

[ladymirdan]

I often think about a thing that happened when I was still a kid and pretty new to Warhammer.

There were this FLGS located pretty much exactly inbetween my school and my home. I didnt do very well in school, my grades were okish but I skipped class A LOT. Oh the joy of being a girl with comically autistic traits in the 90’s, my baby brother got a diagnosis, I got a “why are you so weird, stop it”.

But I spent a lot of time in this store, and im genuinely surprised they let me do that. I was a kid, I couldnt buy very much. I just sat there and painted or played a few games. And sometimes I got to build stuff for the store (very exciting). They even convinced me to send in a contribution to Golden Daemon (I did not win, not even close 😂)

Even back then I was obsessed with oldhammer stuff. And the store owner who had been into nerd stuff for decades thought that was really fun and says something along the line of “hey I have a few first edition WHFB armies in a box in the basement, if you want tou can cone down with me and look at them.

So there I go, 14 year old girl, with this 40+ year old man into a shady ass basement to look at minis.

And the minis were soo awesome, he was a very good painter. He also found a “how to paint minis”- pamphlet from like the 80’s and gave it to me (boy do I wish I still had it)

But like, what was I thinking. If he had been any kind of shady guy, things could have ended so badly. I cringe just thinking about it. And I wasnt a naive kid either, ever since I hit puberty at like 11 ive had grown ass men grope me on the street before. I knew all about “bad men”.

But shoutout to that store for being one of the first places in my life where I felt appreciateed and not not a burden. Where people would greet me excitedly whenever I showed up. My guess is they saw a lot of themselves in that lonely and weird kid.

I would link to it, but it closed down over a decade ago, and I heard the owner passed away. And that is such a damn shame because the world needs more people like him. That creates safe spaces for the weird and the lost.

#mirdan deep lore #40k #warhammer 40k #warhammer #warhammer fantasy #oldhammer #flgs #why I have such a soft spot in my heart for this hobby

[necromanticowboy]

Kinda wanna set up a warhammer event at the new local gamestore. Only it’s not warhammer it’s battletech and everyone gets a pair of these guys

And we walk em through how to play battletech. Winner gets a printed trophy that very clearly used to be a 40k trophy.

Maybe throw in a mechanic for “reinforcements” purchased in store.

Idk I feel like it’d be fun and community building

#battletech #warhammer #flgs

[phar1ka]

“we need an alcohol free queer space for adults with no friends to meet each other”

#flgs

[ofsilentthings]

Gonna be a little personal here.

My best good friends are looking to open a Local Gaming Store in their hometown. When we moved to this area we had no friends - except in these folks. Every Saturday for years now we have played some form of tabletop game: usually D&D, sometimes SWRPG, sometimes even board games. Their friendship and our shared hobbies made me feel much better about living far away from my family.

The town they are in has no game store where people who enjoy the hobby can get products and, more importantly, find groups to play with. They really believe in creating a safe community place to game.

Take a look at the indigogo campaign and, if you feel so inclined, donate. Just $5 gets your name immortalized in a replica of the Necronomicon that will be displayed at the store! How cool is that?

So please, take a look at the link and give if you can. Or if you can't give, share and spread the link.

And thank you in advance.

#indigogo campaign #indigogo #fundraiser #friendly local game store #flgs #dungons and dragons #magic the gathering #d&d #mtg #games #business #donate #donation #necronomicon

[aaronsrpgs]

The store I work at is doing 20% off used games on the website. Ships to anywhere in the US. Help us clear out the stock! (Dog picture is unrelated.)

#board games #ttrpgs #flgs

[fantastictalesofadventure]

Great haul this year for Free RPG Day 2023! Excited to learn 'Heckin' Good Doggos' and check out the indie games in this year's Level 1 book. Also got to learn to play 'Monster of the Week' and demo some board games!

#free rpg day #free rpg day 2023 #ttrpg #avatar the last airbender #dungeons & dragons #d&d #pathfinder 2e #pf2e #starfinder #heckin' good doggos #dice #pins #indie ttrpg #flgs #support your flgs #support local businesses #support small businesses

[inquisitor-edgelord]

you can never have too many dice.

also only thought the one set was glow in the dark. what a treat!

neither are purposely altered. the first was just taking a picture and the second I accidentally had a 3 second timer. Not sure what the settings were.

#ttrpg #dice #flgs

[nowhereman313]

The Nowhere’s Store Saga

Alrighty folks, it’s Storytime. I, along with my business partner, a couple of employees, and a handful of very dedicated volunteers, am building (quite literally) a Friendly Local Game Store and geeky community center in Springfield, Missouri! And hoo boy, it has been a journey. I’ll be merciful to the scrollers and put most of it under the cut, but click through to see the adventures we’ve been on for the last six months of dealing with a decrepit old building full of mysteries! 

But first, a little begging for money. We’re so close to being open, but we’re also doing it as working class folks who don’t get on well with banks, so we’re dependent entirely on personal loans and crowdfunding. If you’d like to help us buy ceiling tiles along on our journey, please check out our GoFundMe! 

First, a little background. I grew up in the gaming community in my hometown, getting my first job in the industry when I was 16, working as a Dungeon Master for a game and comic shop called Dragon’s Lair, which became my home store and the center of both my social and professional life. When Dragon’s Lair closed down in 2010, I bounced from shop to shop for a little while, looking to replace the sense of community that Dragon’s Lair had embodied. Nothing ever quite set right for me. Either the place felt too much like a store, where I felt uncomfortable spending time there without constantly buying stuff, or it didn’t have enough space, or it didn’t cater to the markets I cared about, or I just plain didn’t like the people behind the counter. So eventually, I got enough, and decided that I was gonna start my own store! With blackjack! And hookers! Actually, probably not those last couple things, because the license fees are outrageous. 

So Nowhere’s Store of Forgotten Lore was conceived. It took a few years to get to the point of being able to actually pull the trigger, but the circumstances that came with the pandemic forced our hand, and we started building Nowhere’s Store into something real. 

After a couple months of sitting around a table at a pizza joint and hashing out details, a metric fuckload of paperwork, and a lucky break involving a rock in someone’s shoe, we finally had a place. It’s huge, and the price is fantastic, but... Well, we had our work cut out for us. What we found when we got there was this:

Our building had been a carpet wholesale place since the 1960s, and had seen a lot of use and abuse over the decades. We found all sorts of unpleasantness in our ceiling and our walls... and our floors... and any other available (or unavailable) nook and/or cranny. Some highlights include:

Shoddy construction on carpet shelving that would have held literal tons of product. This particular bit, helpfully labeled by whoever Shawn was, fell. the fuck. off. while someone was working on that shelf.

See this wall? No you don’t, because that’s not a wall, it’s a Wall-Like Object. It is merely the suggestion of a wall, because a real wall wouldn’t be held in place solely by two screws and a single piece of goddamn corner molding.

Alex’s tool chest here was hiding a broken and open window, which solved the where the fuck is all this humidity coming from??? question we had for the first couple months. Why there was a chest-high window in a former-bathroom-turned-closet, the world may never know.

This is our office, which as you can see, was tastefully paneled in 1980s wood paneling and brown shag carpet stapled to pegboard. Because sure. The shag was removed immediately, but the paneling remains...

For those of you unfamiliar with the Holy Trifecta of Jury-Rigging, that is baling twine. Which was the only thing holding up a length of electrical conduit that was suspended from the ceiling. That’s definitely safe and up to code.

Thankfully, most of the above has gone bye-bye, and we were able to start actual construction.

Once the sham-walls were out of the way, this is what the front of the shop looked like. All you see before the beginnings of the new wall is strictly retail space. About 2,500 square feet of space for games, comics, and collectibles. But that’s only about a third of our space.

This is our reading lounge. Until we get the rest of the shop completed, it’ll be our primary gaming space, but the end-goal is a space where people can just come in and hang out, read some comics, or just spend some time with other members of the community. It’ll be themed after a 19th century explorer’s club, and that big brown panel in the back is in the middle of becoming a false window, where we can display landscape scenes to move the lounge from the African savannah to the windswept deserts of Mars, and anywhere else we can imagine.

Speaking of gaming space...

This is Sparta gaming space. Roughly the same amount of space as the front of the shop, this is going to be our tournament space. Enough room to host a full-scale Magic tournament, with a couple board gaming groups or tabletop RPG parties as well, without breaking a sweat. We’re even putting in a back counter so that those participating in a tournament don’t have to schlep all the way to the front counter to buy some chips.

But Nowhere, you ask, I’m self-conscious around crowds, and Magic players are loud. I wouldn’t want to run my D&D campaign in the middle of so many people. I hate your shop and I hate you!

Well, aside from being oddly aggressive, my dear strawman, you’re also... 

Wrong! 

With our social media mala for scale, what you see before you is one of our three private game rooms! Through a secret door (yes, really), is a second section of the store, which will be dedicated entirely to private gaming spaces, all available to our community for free! Not available in Alaska or Hawaii. Void where prohibited.

There’s two concrete walls and an air gap between this section of the shop and the rest of the place, so it’ll be noise-free and, due to the struggles we dealt with trying to run games during lockdown, will be set up for streaming, so that any member of your groups that can’t make it to the shop can remote in via Discord or other apps and participate just like everybody else.

Now, up to this point, everything’s kinda looked like... well, shit. It’s looked like shit. Bare concrete, shockingly unsafe walls, and janky construction throughout. But we’ve been busy these last few months, and now it looks like this:

We’re installing the slatwall right now, so apologies for that being in the way, but look! Walls! Carpet! People! I’m actually in this picture, there in the hat, writing this very post. 

That whole wall there, that runs the length of the retail space, is going to be dedicated to comics. Our manager, Stu, is a fixture in our local gaming and comics community, and has been The Comic Guy for 30+ years. We’re really excited to see what he does with it, as he’s been given free reign to do with it what he pleases. 

Our manga section is my business partner’s baby, and he has great plans for it, starting with the massive X-frame display you can see behind me there.

The back wall will be dedicated to tabletop RPGs on one side, and board games on the other. We plan on carrying things that are hard to find elsewhere, including niche miniatures and tabletop games made by people other than Hasbro. 

Our counter, which will be where the slatwall is now (the counters themselves are in the back right now), will be split between card games and collectibles.

And speaking of niche, hard-to-find products, one of the things I’m most excited about is our local creator display. We have a floor display that’ll be a showcase for local artists, authors, and other creators. We want to show our customers that they don’t need to order things from half a world away to get affordable, handmade crafts, and we want to show our community that we’re willing to put our money (and our floor space) where our mouth is, and regularly stock local creations.

We’re opening in stages, but the front will be ready for stock within the week, and we should be open very soon. However, like I mentioned back at the beginning, we’re running low on funds, and we’re looking to the community for help in the final stretch. Whether you’re local gamers, friends of the staff, or just people who want to see a community-centric place like ours exist in the world, please consider donating to our GoFundMe. We’re also amenable to loans, so if that’s more your speed, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Whelp, that’s it for now! Thanks for spending your time on this post, and happy gaming.

#storytime #flgs #renovation hell #local business #springfield mo #tabletop gaming #roleplaying games #comic shops #small business

[lulaicapaints]

No painting today, but we go up to the local game shop and spend some time rolling dice. I've really gotten into Kill Teams and it has been one of the most enjoyable games I play. I started work on my Voidacarred Corsairs almost a year ago and they've just got back lined to other projects and my preference to playing my Warpcoven/Thousand Sons team. It was nice to bring them out and play against the Blooded.

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #kill teams #voidscarred Corsairs #eldar #craftworld eldar #tabletop games #flgs #miniatures

[mightylancergames]

Mrs MLG did a 1 hour paint challenge and this is the result, hope you like it.

#Bridlington #flgs #lgs #dodo #mini #miniatures #paintedMiniatures #knight #rpg #tabletop #tabletopGames #painting #paintingChallenge

#miniatures #flgs #ttrpg #bridlington #hobby #lgs #painted miniatures #mini #tabletop gaming #dodo #knight #halfling #painting miniatures #mighty lancer games

[zackapplewhite]

Let it be known to all makers of tabletop games,

Metal Coins 🪙 = Gourmet Shit ☕️

#tabletop games #board games #boardgames #game night #flgs

[necromanticowboy]

Now this is what I call a gamestore

I love my flgs, but noble knight in Madison Wisconsin was an experience

#noble knight #flgs #stores that sell more than warhammer and 5e #I love you

[clericalerror87]

One of the game stores local to me stocks Thirsty Sword Lesbians, its supplement Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, Coyote & Crow, and other less mainstream TTRPGs and it's great.

Also got a big pride flag hanging in view of the front door behind the register. Never felt so at ease in a store where a bunch of other nerds were milling about playing Magic.

#thirsty sword lesbians #Coyote and Crow #queer #ttrpg #flgs

[pkraj]

I love my India 🇮🇳😍

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#international #india #flgs #tiranga #lifestyle

[daniellethamasa]

WIP Wednesday - Aug 30

Hey all, Sam and David here again today. Well…we broke our blog streak, just shy of 200 days straight of posting. I’ll be completely honest…I had a burnout moment, where I was feeling overworked and overwhelmed and so drained that I couldn’t do anything. Part of it was the heat wave that came through the area, but part of it was just the stress of 2023 weighing down on me. Welcome back to WIP…

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#3D Printing #Book Haul #Book Releases #Books! #FLGS #Manga #Miniature Painting #Reading #Signal Boost #TBR #Writing