spinwardpirate
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Down on Route 1? If so, that puts you in pretty close proximity to the Family Game Store in Savage Mill. They have a decent selection of MGT last time I looked. In fact, I think I've picked up half of my MGT books there.
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jfetters
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I thought there were only two... Not totally sure on that, tho. I almost always go via the shore.
Funny about the pirates. A new franchise has started up in Lewes that is for kids - they get to play pirate for a day and go up and down the river and it's supposedly loosely based on some of the pirate activity from that period. The kids get to shoot at some poor sap in a dinghy with water cannons.
A few others of these have popped up here and there over the east coast.
jfetters
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Where are they, exactly? I get down that way occasionally. Usually it's to go to Ram's Head.
jfetters
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Yeah, I have some friends that are alumni and know a decent number of folks from the area. We moved down that way a few years back, until we realized it would make my commute even more horrific than it was at the time.
Where are they, exactly? I get down that way occasionally. Usually it's to go to Ram's Head.
It's located with the other small stores nearish where they have the food court-ish like area. I haven't been there in a while because their selection wasn't so good then but that was before MGT hit.
spinwardpirate
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Cool. Ok, this is something I've thought of asking, and since you brought it up, I'll ask. How many hours of play do you get in on a weekend game? We play on a week night, and manage to get in around 5 hours of play. Do your weekend games go from, say lunchtime to late in the evening?
spinwardpirate
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Lets see... there's the tunnel, then the bridge over the Susquehanna, then a toll to get into Delaware... I think that's it.
Funny. There's one in Fell's Point, and another in Annapolis. I felt sorry for them last year, the price of fuel must've really cut into their profits.Funny about the pirates. A new franchise has started up in Lewes that is for kids - they get to play pirate for a day and go up and down the river and it's supposedly loosely based on some of the pirate activity from that period. The kids get to shoot at some poor sap in a dinghy with water cannons.
spinwardpirate
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Right. I had no idea they were there until about a year or so ago. I was there with the wife and kids and we just stumbled upon it. It's not a great game shop, but it does have the bonus of having kids' games too, so I can look at stuff while the kids stay occupied too.
And they can order stuff. And it shows up pretty fast. And... it is closer than Dream Wizards, or the place in Glen Burnie, or the one up in the city, and much closer than the Game Parlour in Chantilly.
spinwardpirate
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Are these gamer friends? If so, maybe we know some of the same people.
Don't get me started on Dream Wizards, the place isn't even a shdow of its former self. I was at the place in Glen Burnie right after it changed locations and there were some interesting things to be found there but I really haven't been to a game store recently which is worthy of the name.
spinwardpirate
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I agree about Dream Wizards. But it is within driving distance of work, so I still hit it once in awhile.
The place in Glen Burnie is ok. They have some old and used stuff, which is nice. When I was playing D&D4e last year, I picked up quite a few minis from them. But then they got kind of quirky about selling singles. One day I'd go there and one dude would sell me a single. I'd go a couple days later and another dude would tell me they didn't sell singles.
Even though it is a bit of a trip, the Game Parlour in Chantilly, Virginia, is worth visiting. They are the closest thing to an old-timey game store I've been able to find.
The place in Glen Burnie is ok. They have some old and used stuff, which is nice. When I was playing D&D4e last year, I picked up quite a few minis from them. But then they got kind of quirky about selling singles. One day I'd go there and one dude would sell me a single. I'd go a couple days later and another dude would tell me they didn't sell singles.
Even though it is a bit of a trip, the Game Parlour in Chantilly, Virginia, is worth visiting. They are the closest thing to an old-timey game store I've been able to find.
jfetters
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Nah, one just graduated a few years ago and I can guarantee is not into gaming, the rest are military/ex-military work friends that have all been there fairly recently, or still live down there. Although, I don't know if they are RPG gamers or not, as the subject hasn't come up. I'll have to ask them. I know a few of them are more online players than anything else, but I don't do much of that outside of the occasional poker game.
jfetters
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THere used to be the WotC store in the Mall, but that closed years ago...
Not much else around here, that's for sure. The comic store in town does games, but I think they just do the CCGs.
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ThunderChilde
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On account of working 4-12 tues - sat, Sunday is my only game day.
On the one weekend it's Noon till 11pm, on the other I run Traveller Noonish till 6. Once upon I a time I gamed in Baltimore (Bohmore to the natives, like nawlins) ever other weekend out on Liberty Road, about a Mile north of the Beltway.
I used to be active in the Marklanders, medievel recreationist. I have tinkered around with the 1800-1830 period, and been out to the Roundup out west of Hagerstown, can't remember the name of the Fort they hold that in(Frenchtown?).
I was out that way back in the '80's with the Skraelings and had lunch at the most wonderful olde tavern I have ever has the fortune to take refuge from a cold rainy day in 12th century clothing. Best ham sandwich and beer ever, the miserable day may have made it shine, but I dunno, I still remember it clearly. Just not the name of it. Could see the Pax river from it, on the old road is all I know about that, I was a passenger in a van that day.
On the one weekend it's Noon till 11pm, on the other I run Traveller Noonish till 6. Once upon I a time I gamed in Baltimore (Bohmore to the natives, like nawlins) ever other weekend out on Liberty Road, about a Mile north of the Beltway.
I used to be active in the Marklanders, medievel recreationist. I have tinkered around with the 1800-1830 period, and been out to the Roundup out west of Hagerstown, can't remember the name of the Fort they hold that in(Frenchtown?).
I was out that way back in the '80's with the Skraelings and had lunch at the most wonderful olde tavern I have ever has the fortune to take refuge from a cold rainy day in 12th century clothing. Best ham sandwich and beer ever, the miserable day may have made it shine, but I dunno, I still remember it clearly. Just not the name of it. Could see the Pax river from it, on the old road is all I know about that, I was a passenger in a van that day.
spinwardpirate
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WHOA! I'm a Skraeling! Or should say I was, back in the 80s!
spinwardpirate
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Ahhh... the reason I ask, many of my old reenactors friends went to Saint Mary's back in the 80s, where we were in a Markland group called... the Skraelings. Since then we've gone off in different directions, but most of us are still gamers or reenactors or both.
spinwardpirate
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At one time there were what, four or five of those shops within travel distance (Columbia, Owings Mills, White Marsh, Arundel Mills), originally called Alternate Worlds? Then Wizards took them over, and they all went bully up. It's a shame. I think that's one of the things that put me off D&D3.5, they fact that they bought out those stores and then killed them.THere used to be the WotC store in the Mall, but that closed years ago...
Of course, I really miss The Compleat Strategist. Now that was a gamer heaven.
And if you have never been out to the Game Parlour, it really is worth the trip. It's a little over an hour, but they have more square footage than all of our local stores combined.
