6A | OCTOBER 21, 2021 |
COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Arts & Culture
Arts
Gaming back on the table at Delight
By Sophia Edelblute
sedelblute@cgsentinel.com
What started as a Dungeons and Dragons game among
friends transformed Hannah Felton and Colton Kirsh-
ner-Lira’s lives for the better.
In January 2020, they took over ownership of Delight,
Cottage Grove’s local game store, from Uyen-Thi Nguyen,
who had decided to pursue her art more full time.
Felton and Kirshner-Lira had started playing games at
Delight about two years before Nguyen decided to step
away from the shop. By the time Nguyen was ready to
move on, they were regulars. Before closing permanently,
she asked the two if they wanted to take over the store.
After some initial hesitation, they ended up going for it.
Felton has a background in business and Kirshner-Lira
in gaming, so it was the perfect setup.
Unfortunately for the pair, January 2020 was mere
months away from the complete shutdown of social in-
teraction, a key component in most, if not all, tabletop
games.
“It’s been a bumpy ride,” said Felton.
Throughout the pandemic it’s been challenging to keep
things on a roll, especially since so much of what Delight
focuses on is considerably better in person and the major-
ity of their revenue comes from gaming.
Recently though, Delight was able to get games up and
running again, focusing mostly on Magic: The Gathering,
a multiplayer trading card game.
This tabletop game is popular around the world and al-
most any local game shop who sells Magic cards will inev-
itably host a Friday Night Magic games. These games are
promoted and scheduled by Wizards of the Coast world-
wide, the gaming company behind Magic: The Gathering
and Dungeons and Dragons, among other games.
“If you’ve got a local game shop that’s part of the Wiz-
ards network that sells Magic, they do Friday Night Mag-
ic,” says Kirshner-Lira.
Near the end of the summer, Delight was also able to
open its doors for summer camps, and now throughout
the fall has been hosting its after school program The
Guild in the Grove.
The program is open to all and if the cost for any family
is too high, scholarships are available. The request for a
scholarship is trust-based in an effort to make the pro-
gram accessible to everyone, regardless of financial status.
Kirshner-Lira and Felton understand that it can be tir-
ing and frustrating to have to fill out income verification
forms and so they have a “no questions asked” policy.
The shop’s goal of accessibility has led community
members to donate gaming supplies so kids can learn how
to play games like Warhammer without having to invest
the hundreds of dollars it takes to own the miniatures.
“People just started bringing us their armies,” said
Kirshner-Lira. They would drop off a couple hundred dol-
lars worth of Warhammer miniatures because they were
moving or no longer needed them.
It really helped Delight in “trying to create a situation
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where the store has armies and pieces for people to play
with, that you don’t have to buy. And you can experience
that hobby without having to invest a ton of resources of
money and time into it,” said Kirshner-Lira.
The shop also has a selection of used gaming books and
board games that make it easier for kids to play games
without having to go out and buy them.
The next step is to hopefully get more roleplaying
games back on the table, an example being Dungeons and
Dragons.
In November they plan to start hosting Adventure
League games on Sundays, which is a way to play Dun-
geons and Dragons with a little less of the “crunchiness,”
as Felton says.
Adventure League runs in a drop-in format, single day
adventures that only last a couple of hours, when the aver-
age Dungeons and Dragons game can last anywhere from
months to years. It’s an opportunity for people to take their
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able to play together and have a satisfying adventure.
Felton also plans on running what she calls Monster of
the Week, an episodic opportunity for kids to fight a mon-
ster every Friday through a roleplaying game setup.
Felton and Kirshner-Lira find that playing collaborative
games like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic provides
kids with an opportunity to expand their social abilities.
Going forward, they hope to keep providing a space
for kids to learn through their “nerdiness” and just enjoy
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