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To Shoppe or not to Shoppe... that is the question. To the hobby enthusiast, to Shoppe - that is to shop at your local game shops, hobby shops and specialty shops - is a constant question of supporting a local business that keeps our joys convenient, easily accessible, relevant and more important: alive . ...but there is an underlying issue in the contemporary world that has always been, but was never as glaring, never as obvious as it is now. Retailing at USD $49.99 each from the Wizards of the Coast Cost. The markup price of a game at your local hobby shop can be upwards of twenty percent or more. For example: Dungeons and Dragons the fifth edition retails at USD $49.99. The Dungeon Master’s Guide, the Player’s Handbook and the Monster Manual each retail at USD $49.99.  At your local hobby shop you’re probably not going to pay less than USD $60.00 for each (I know I paid USD $120.00 for the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and The Player’s Handbook). If I purchased all ...

Michael Stackpole authored Star Wars and Battletech novels. He created numerous Tabletop RPGs; Tunnels & Trolls / City of Terrors , Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes , the Interplay Computer RPG Wasteland and Wasteland 2 . Never mind that he basically altered the perception of our community overnight (that may be oversimplifying it), his contribution helped to restore calm in a nation wracked by moral panic ( Satanic Panic ). In response to the moral panic, Michael A. Stackpole presented Pulling Report ( read this !) in 1990. The build-up of the social horrors that began in the 1960s and culminated in the 1980s was nothing less than a modern day witch hunt in its time. Frightened people hate what they cannot define, and do not understand.  When tragedy after tragedy strikes, there has to be someone or something to blame. For a decade she <Patricia Pulling> and others like her, held captive beliefs created in a campaign built on the myth of ritual satanic abus...

You’ve heard of tabletop Role Playing Games and if you were born here on the planet Earth, you’ve heard of Dungeons and Dragons. Everyone - and I mean everyone - has heard of Dungeons and Dragons. Whether you’re newer to the world, or you come from a time when the fabled 1970s walked the earth, it almost feels as though the tabletop phenomena has always been. D&D <Dungeons and Dragons> is easily one of the most overused tabletop role playing games referenced when talking about tabletop role playing games. There’s a good reason for that.  It is the first massmarketed, and wildly successful tabletop RPG <Roleplaying Game> to sell was Dungeons and Dragons. This brainchild of Gary Gygax (Co-founder of the International Wargaming Federation alongside Bill Spear and Scott Duncan; IFW est. 1967 - 1973) and Dave Arneson, with art by Dave Arneson, Keenan Powell, Greg Bell, C. Corey, T. Keogh, and David C. Sutherland III.  The original Dungeons a...