Heroes and Dragons -- A Friendly, Non-Local, Game Store
We headed out of town this past weekend to visit my family in Conway, South Carolina. On our way back, we made a pit stop in Columbia for lunch; I talked the wife into letting me swing by Heroes and Dragons, an FLGS I had visited a long time ago. Though they had moved across the street, we found them with a minimum of hassle.
I had great plans of taking some pics and posting a quasi-walk through, but then my (tired) four year old had a minor meltdown over a fairy statue and we had to cut our visit short. (It did not matter that I had secret plans of buying her the fairy for Christmas as soon as she and her mom went back to the car. She had to Have. It. Now. And now I can't even get it for her because she threw a fit about it and I don't want to reward that behavior. And, yes, I am still bitter). Anyway, where was I?
Oh, yeah. Heroes and Dragons is a cool store. It's huge! They have separate sections for comics, toys/collectibles, games (RPG's, miniatures, and board games), used books, and game tables. Everything was clean and well lit. They had a large selection of high-quality used sci-fi and fantasy books, which skewed to newer stuff, though I did see some interesting Edgar Rice Burroughs volumes. They also had a decent selection of pulp novels, though I saw more adventure books than fantasy pulps. The game selection was good, with a glass display case with some older materials -- I saw a number of 1E D&D adventures in there, including Beyond the Magic Mirror. There were maybe 8 tables set up for gaming in another section of the store. My daughter seemed particularly fascinated by the terrain that was set up on and under them.
I ended up not getting anything, due to the aforementioned meltdown, but I definitely want to check the store out again next time I am down that way.
Here's their commercial:
I had great plans of taking some pics and posting a quasi-walk through, but then my (tired) four year old had a minor meltdown over a fairy statue and we had to cut our visit short. (It did not matter that I had secret plans of buying her the fairy for Christmas as soon as she and her mom went back to the car. She had to Have. It. Now. And now I can't even get it for her because she threw a fit about it and I don't want to reward that behavior. And, yes, I am still bitter). Anyway, where was I?
Oh, yeah. Heroes and Dragons is a cool store. It's huge! They have separate sections for comics, toys/collectibles, games (RPG's, miniatures, and board games), used books, and game tables. Everything was clean and well lit. They had a large selection of high-quality used sci-fi and fantasy books, which skewed to newer stuff, though I did see some interesting Edgar Rice Burroughs volumes. They also had a decent selection of pulp novels, though I saw more adventure books than fantasy pulps. The game selection was good, with a glass display case with some older materials -- I saw a number of 1E D&D adventures in there, including Beyond the Magic Mirror. There were maybe 8 tables set up for gaming in another section of the store. My daughter seemed particularly fascinated by the terrain that was set up on and under them.
I ended up not getting anything, due to the aforementioned meltdown, but I definitely want to check the store out again next time I am down that way.
Here's their commercial:
Whoah, been busy with work and I come back to find that you've completely changed your layout. Nifty.
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