You want a painful admission, try this on for size: I used to BE the local game store owner. My former spouse and I, along with a business partner, owned and operated a comics and gaming shop in the NW suburbs of Chicago. (Yes. Comics AND gaming. I can also quote Python, Babylon 5 and a wide selection of Star Treks. I'm positively
steeped in geek culture. I figure that gives me an automatic 3d12 bonus roll for Offspring Embarrassment.)
That marriage collapsed right around the time the LARP thing was really getting into high gear around there, and I never got into it. But I had a number of friends who did, and I found myself wondering if maybe, just maybe, they had a bit too much free time on their hands.... ;b