Re: Report To The Stakeholders
My store is primarily a miniatures gaming space. It started out because I wanted to rent some workspace for a while and have somewhere to game and I thought if I carried some of the cool new stuff that the other stores here were neglecting it would help to pay for the space. It's as fly by night / shoe string an operation as there's ever been.
It's had it's ups and downs but I'm still going after four years. The rpgs are a bit hit and miss but I often kick myself when someone walks away because I didn't have something. But GURPS is a hard sell. It's like a massive wall of options that just stops new players cold. I may take a better swing at it in the new year, print up some new copies of GURPS Lite to give out and push for a big crazy science fiction campaign. Of course, the majority of people will be looking for Star Wars, sigh.
I'm afraid the D&D starter set is pretty bad, it doesn't have a proper rule book in it. I know that Basic D&D is free on-line, indeed that was enough to shift me towards giving 5e a look. But a cripple ware starter set is a sad state of affairs and printing a booklet isn't all that cheap.
Personally, there's a lot more that could be done to move GURPS in stores and no one plan is necessarily better than another but some might be better than doing nothing.
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