Curation in the Modern Market
TL;DR: a good local shop gives me hope for the Indie TTRPG market. Suburban Gaming Lives! Today I popped into The Fantasy Shop in Maplewood, MO (On Facebook here ) for our not-so-regular in-person playtesting game. We try to have one every other week or so and I'm happy to say they are going quite well. I'd like to thank the shop for the ongoing welcome. The shop is a great mix of comics, manga, interesting board games, wargames, and TTRPGs. The RPG games have a few scattered books, but are mostly concentrated on two sizeable bookcases in the back. The left shelf is WotC D&D, with Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Planescape and more. The other is pretty much everything else. Because I like to support local businesses - especially ones that let me regularly use their facilities - and because I try to stay informed on the market, I bought a copy of Mörk Borg . I found it odd that there was only one Pathfinder box, and that it...