Touch Grass (with your LGS)

I've been sharing in various Discords my journey of running RPGs at my LGS, stuff like Mothership, Mausritter, etc. Ultimately, it led to my LGS stocking things like OSE and Mothership at the store. I've gotten requests to share my journey/how I made that happen, so here's the story and my call to action for y'all to go to your LGS, see if they're cool, and run cool stuff there! Even if it's a one shot, and you never do it again, you're growing the community, being a model for how the community should be, AND supporting your LGS. It has to start somewhere. Vibe Check This Summer, my LGS expanded their store, adding 200 some seats to their play area, mainly for TCGs and Warhammer (sick). Thanks to this, their RPG section is taking over the old TCG play area. They're building 2 additional rooms for folks to play RPGs in (super sick). Over the years, I've primarily gone there for MTG pre-release events or Lorcana. They do really cool things like 3D print trophies, award packs generously,…