Now I've been to hole-in-the-wall game stores and they usually.....well, they usually suck. The Hobbit Hobby Shop is a narrow storefront you'd blink and miss among the various pawn shops, military shops, "adult entertainment", and fast food places just outside an Army post. You walk in and the shop feels like it's 20 feet wide and 100 feet long? The left half of the shop is pretty much just models of all varieties and the gaming stuff is on the right side, along with the register and a little bit of workspace for maps.
Yep....maps. If you don't do models or gaming, but happen to be a soldier at Ft Bragg, the Hobbit Hobby Shop is the place to go to get your maps laminated and Ranger cut. If you don't know what that means, you probably need to spend more time outside, definitely more time trying to not get lost in the woods.
For such a small shop, it is really packed with stuff. More dice than I'm used to seeing. About the same amount of minis as I'll see at most shops, but there is always a small box with some minis on special sale. There was just as much D&D whatever-the-current-edition-is as I've seen elsewhere (maybe more), but there is a LOT of older game stuff to be had. I never fail to be surprised in finding something unique that isn't readily available elsewhere.
Last time I got some comics for my collection that have been OOP for a while. They were pretty much priced the same as when they were newly printed and really.....I scooped them up because I just can't find them elsewhere. One series I got most of as a bundle and I've never seen them in the wild before.
This year I found some D&D 3.0/3.5 Kingdoms of Kalamar products, which is a great find because most of the stuff is pretty much system-generic, so it's still relevant to today's gaming table. I also found some HackMaster 1st Edition Hacklopedia of Beasts. If I had room in my luggage I'd be sorely tempted, but to be fair I do not recall which ones I might be missing.
I also found some Fairy Meat products, most notably Sugar & Vice and Clockwork Stomp, both of which I never had. Fairy Meat was a fun miniature battle and my 1st KenzerCo game. I think I have some of the minis still, but I don't have the game or any of my set-up.
In the end I got a book on drawing maps I'd been eyeballing on Amazon, but wasn't ever going to purchase, along with a cool Dwarven Fighter mini and another mini that was of a torchbearer hireling.
I do really try to pick something....anything up, when visiting a FLGS. If you happen to be making a stop in Fayetteville, you really need to stop by the Hobbit Hobby Shop.
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