Finding Suppliers
Where to Buy the Goods You’ll Sell Your primary sources of products will be game distributors and the game manufacturers themselves. Choosing which sources to u...
Author: lloydbrown
Deciding What to Carry
Merchandise, Space Requirements, and Cost While developing your business model is not the time to get caught up in how many copies of an RPG x or ablister pack ...
Game Store Business Valuation
How Much Is It Worth? Last week we compared the benefits of buying a new store vs. opening your own store. This month, we’re going to expand on that topic a bit...
4e Leftovers
My regular game group rotates DMs, so I’m not running right now. I’m playing a Pathfinder Adventure Path–Rise of the Runelords. However, IR...
Buying vs. Opening
Which is better for you? The Choices You might be interested in this industry because you have the opportunity to purchase an existing game store. If you have r...
1e Sucks
At the risk of sounding like a bitter old man, I’d like to offer up some thoughts about first edition D&D. This is something I’ve been thinking...
Show Me The Money
Finding Startup Capital I’ve advised many people on opening game stores. A few have opened their doors. Most have not. The largest single cause for not making t...
How Much Do I Need?
This article is one of the most math-intensive I’m going to write for this column. It’s not that the math is complicated; there’s just a fair bit of it to do. F...
An Introduction To Game Retail
Greetings! Regular rpg.net readers might know me from Freelancing is Not for Free, a column for role-playing game freelancers. I ended that column to address a ...
8 Hilarious Uses for Explosive Runes
Explosive runes is one of those spells that players love to use to humorous effect. It doesn’t do enough damage to kill most targets appropriate to the ch...