The Hoard Potato: Legends of Retail

[athelind]

Last night, I had a trio of kids in the store looking at the boxed Introductory Set for D&D4. They wanted something that would keep them entertained for the whole summer.

I told them this would be a good introduction -- it's inexpensive, and the tiles and markers are sufficiently useful that experienced players have bought the set to get them. If they liked it, they could come back and pick up the full books.

One of them noted that they weren't sure if they wanted to get TOO into it, because they didn't want to turn into...

And he paused.

And I finished, "geeks who work in a game store?"


They bought two sets.

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Comments

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

In my case D&D led to SCA.

I thought I was clean, but - damn. I'm going to a tournament on Saturday.

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

"Henceforth you shall be known as Darth... Gamer."

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

and that is how we upsell, boys and girls.

Next you introduce them to the contest over who has the most dice. Then show them where you can conveniently sell them aforementioned polyhedral random number generators.

Also show them the weird ones, like the d30, and the d5, which they'll never use, but will be neat to have.

[baphnedia.livejournal.com]

Uhh... you work in a game store? How the hell did I miss this?!

Just, whatever you do, now that I know, don't let me forget! :P

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Good work, Agent Athelind!

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Natural 20 for initiative....

[zeeth_kyrah]

Nah, just contested wisdom checks.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Heh heh, good show. ^^ No doubt they'll have many the interesting dungeon crawl.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Rock. :)