FLGS Rejection followup

To address a couple comments…

No, there really wasn't more to the conversation than what I presented. I'm not pushy, and when he said "no," I wasn't going to stand there and argue with him about it. I figured I'd follow up with a letter eventually, but I needed to sort out my own thoughts on the matter.

While meeting in both stores sounds equitable, keep in mind that there aren't just two stores I'm trying to maintain good relations with… there are five. And I can't rotate meetings among several stores in any kind of schedule… people would get confused. (They already got confused when our meetings were first-Thursday-east and second-Tuesday-west.)

The only reason I considered tying the group to one store was because only that one store goes out of its way to help us, and they have the most to offer us. But tying ourselves to that store keeps us from reaching people who frequent the other stores and cripples our ability to form a strong network.

Ultimately, we decided that we should be store-neutral and are currently looking for a new location for the west-side meeting. (And a new east-side location, just because Village Inn is too darn crowded half the time.)

It seems somehow wrong that a roleplaying club can't meet in a game store. We'll still run demos in the stores, but we have to make an effort to spread them around and not run them exclusively at the stores that are most convenient.