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After Talisman it all went quiet for a bit on the gaming front. I guess there was a feeling that we'd pinnacled. Reached the zenith of gaming perfection. Oh no! Oh no no no! We hadn't really scratched the surface but we didn't know. I had ventured onto the Fantasy Flight website a couple of times but it all seemed a bit specialized. A bit complicated. There is a certain language and a basic shared understanding that we weren't familiar with.
We weren't sure that the games were for us and it's not easy to tell from a website. Also there was the issue of buying something at arms length and not really knowing how it would play out. We weren't interested. We were Talisman all the way.
However not long passed before we were told by a friend that she was a fan of Dominion. Had no idea what that was and we played it and it was good fun (but I preferred Talisman ). However as she was such a big fan I looked into buying her some expansions for her birthday.
Without much in the way of hope I did a bit of an internet search to see if there were any shops that might sell such a game. A game that I still considered to be obscure. We live quite remote and the chances were slim. However something turned up and , tentatively, I called up.
"Do you have a game called Dominion?" - "Oh yes!" "Do you have any expansions?" - "Yup - got them all". This was interesting! Anyway the friendly assistant put the expansions aside for me and I travelled (quite a distance) to pick them up.
Walking into that store I saw not only the expansions I was looking for, but all the games I already had and all the games that I had seen on the internet. Plus many many more! I spent AGES in that store and got chatting to some very helpful staff. They need to count themselves responsible for starting my addiction. Needless to say I walked out of the shop with something for myself. I think it was Runewars.
I have never been able to go to that town again without buying something from the shop. That is an addiction isn't it? And here's me thinking of setting up a boardgame shop. That's trafficking .
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