# What would you think a store named "Gamer's Armory" would sell? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305 "2011-02-05T19:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/1 "2011-02-05T19:43:50Z")
I was driving around an unfamiliar area and I saw a store named “Gamer’s Armory” and I thought they would have videogames and stuff, and I stopped and went in, but they just had a bunch of tabletop wargame stuff and like 20 people sitting at tables playing. I felt like quite the fool. I had to stay in the store a few minutes and look at all the things they were selling, lest they know I had made a mistake. And then I left thoroughly embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/2 "2011-02-05T19:48:05Z")
Without opening the thread, my first thought was “dice”. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/3 "2011-02-05T20:21:03Z")
Six people have voted that they are fools… 😉 My thought was D&D type games, possibly with video games as well. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/4 "2011-02-05T20:23:50Z")
It sounds like your kind of store! Are they open Superbowl Sunday? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/5 "2011-02-05T20:23:51Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Without opening the thread, my first thought was “dice”. This was exactly what I was going to say. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see a video game section in such a store, but I’d have expected it to focus on tabletop gaming. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/6 "2011-02-05T20:25:36Z")
I’d expect them to be selling D&D books, Magic: The Gathering cards, mats, card holders/files/boxes, maybe some Pokemon for the wee sprogs (Gotta Catch 'Em Young!). Probably comics and graphic novels, posters, figurines from D&D, Star Trek and Buffy. Dice, of course, as well as little velvet bags for carrying your dice in. Maybe some DVD/BluRays with a heavy SciFi/Fantasy selection. I wouldn’t expect video games, except maybe as a subsection of the store. ETA: I wouldn’t be surprised to see people there playing, and even holding tournaments there, but I would expect it to be a retail store as well. ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/7 "2011-02-05T20:37:41Z")
It would probably be worth surveying how many of the people ‘not fools’ would be people with a passing knowledge of said games. I wouldnt have worried about making a mistake at all. Otara ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/8 "2011-02-05T20:44:10Z")
I would have thought it was a place to buy costumes & props for LARPing. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/9 "2011-02-05T20:53:16Z")
Dice, miniatures, rulebooks, tabletops setups in the back, maybe those li’l airplane for WW2 simulations. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/10 "2011-02-05T20:54:47Z")
What **WhyNot** said. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/11 "2011-02-05T21:00:16Z")
My friends had (and one still has) a store that this happened to all the time. I don’t see why it would be a misleading name since there are PLENTY of types of games. In fact, if I saw “Armory” I’d think tabletop games. > [@needscoffee](#): > > It sounds like your kind of store! Are they open Superbowl Sunday? The one friend of mine who still owns a gaming store is open Superbowl Sunday so we can do some 40K, Warmachine, and various board games while we watch. Plus there’s alcoholic beverages. If you’re in Orlando I can PM you the store info 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/12 "2011-02-05T21:03:21Z")
well how was I supposed to know that. I have never seen a store just for these games (although I have seen them in a section of the videogame store). When I hear “gamers” I think videogames. I guess “armory” is the biggest clue, but I don’t know anything about these sorts of games, so it went unnoticed by me ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/13 "2011-02-05T21:06:47Z")
I wasn’t calling you an idiot for not knowing what sort of games, exactly, were being sold in a given store. I’m calling you an idiot because you seriously feel the name is deceptive. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/14 "2011-02-05T21:18:39Z")
Another vote for expecting it to feature tabletop games. That said, I know that my local gaming store, Games Plus, doesn’t carry video games, but it does seem like, nearly every time I’m in there, they get a phone call or a shopper wandering in looking for video games (they always politely redirect them to local video-game stores). So, **PSXer** , I can understand your confusion, though I don’t think that you have any need to feel embarrassed by it. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/15 "2011-02-05T21:21:51Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > well how was I supposed to know that. I have never seen a store just for these games (although I have seen them in a section of the videogame store). When I hear “gamers” I think videogames. I guess “armory” is the biggest clue, but I don’t know anything about these sorts of games, so it went unnoticed by me You are not an idiot, but it’s also not misleading. “Gamer” meant table-top games long before it meant video games. I mean, what sort of name could they put on it that _wouldn’t_ be misleading? It’s a game store. It’s going to be “[something] Games” or “Gamer’s [something]”. Those are pretty much the only option. These sorts of stores have existed for 30 years or more. There’s not a lot of them, but any mid-size city and larger has them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/16 "2011-02-05T21:25:09Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > they just had a bunch of tabletop wargame stuff and like 20 people sitting at tables playing. This is exactly what I’d expect to find there. No vote. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/17 "2011-02-05T21:55:25Z")
> [@](#): > > "What would you think a store named “Gamer’s Armory” would sell? " > > Poll otions: > a)Misleading store name > b)I am a fool You fucked up some where between the question and the poll selection. I was looking for RPG store, didn’t answer poll. How are you doing in college btw ? ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/18 "2011-02-05T21:56:25Z")
I’m doing fine in college but the problem is I don’t know what I will do after college because I have a useless major (Latin/Greek) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/19 "2011-02-05T22:04:31Z")
Condoms. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305/20 "2011-02-05T22:21:53Z")
I’d have expected about what you saw. What confuses me is why you were embarrassed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-think-a-store-named-gamers-armory-would-sell/570305.md?page=2)