I've already emailed a few of you about this, but I figured that it is worth posting here, as well. . .

The premiere local hobby shop here in Colorado Springs, Compleat Games & Hobbies is sponsoring an offical "indie Game Day" at the store. On the first Sunday of every month, the store employees (notably, JM Defoggi) will be running a different indie game for interested parties.

The store already carries several indie games in stock (e.g., Shock, The Zorcerer of Zo, Dogs in the Vinyard, Burning Wheel Revised, Burning Empires) and is preparing to significantly increase that number during the next few weeks -- and, yes, I've personally pressed hard for copies of CoS, Keith ;)

If you folks have any promotional material (e.g., posters, hand-outs, etc), you may want to get in touch with JM or Ty Hare (the store owner, who doubles as an active gamer). Alternately, you may want to participate on the store forums here to help generate interest.

I think that there is some real potential for all parties (including consumers like myself) to benefit from a group effort here. I've always been a big fan of indie RPGs and I'm excited to see a brick and mortar store make a real, substantive, promotional push for them offline (I haven't personally seen too many organized efforts like this).

Anyhow, I'd be even more jazzed to see some publishers get involved, even if it's only to drop by the forums and say "Hi!" :D

[Note: I am not affiliated with Compleat in any capacity other than as a consumer. That said, I'll stand behind any effort that will get more people interested in indie games at the local level.]