Tales from The Sidequest Inn

Sidequest Loot has made it a priority out of the gate to treat the Brantford community with a few extra perks.  Our free-over-$25 delivery in town, our support for local causes and our attempts to find local suppliers first for the things to keep our business going.  There is a lot of pride in the good parts of the community, hope to see or help improvement in the not-so-good and to provide buyers/sellers in the community to have just a few extra options available to them.  Geography is a tremendous factor, obviously.  It's also always nice to have a pleasant chat about something OTHER than the item that we are delivering.  There is so much good and frankly, normal about this town.  We love our OHL team just as much as we loved our CHL team and as much as we would have loved a team that was the first North American KHL team.  I don't think you get that in a "big town" Having spent a large portion of my life here, I can reasonably let you know that we a...

Part of the idea of Sidequest Loot was based on a couple hundred successful sales on Facebook Marketplace, with just a pinch of Kijiji. It started with the sale of some of my childhood items: Transformers and Video Games.  I was able to find other name brand items through online auctions, estate sales and visits to Antique Malls (the architecture previously known as Flea Markets). I would need to pickup items from Burlington to Waterloo to London to Niagara Falls.  To be a little more efficient, I would always make sure to try to stop at local thrift stores.  Sometimes, I would find some modest gems.  More efficiencies were found when we were able to locate Facebook Marketplace listings in the same area.  A sidetrip became a Sidequest - every time we hit the road.  We have merged deliveries, pickups and scouting expeditions, finding some new favourite spots along the way.  We love finding packaged goods, unique collectibles, stuff I remember from my yo...

Turnabout Asked about how I created Turnabout, I have a bunch of prepared statements that sound either irascible for laughs, or deeply humble to play the puppets of the board gaming world. But the simple fact is, I am an outsider, looking in. I do not play board games, for the most part. What I’ve built here wasn’t meant to belong to any community, it was a project I started working on to entertain guests, since the regular classic family board games had complications that made them difficult for people I knew to enjoy at the best of times. Other games, commonly popular contemporary games, seemed either too complicated and/or vague in the rules, or were simply meant for kids under twelve, and no mistake about it. This is not a failing of theirs, because people play them all the time and ask others to play with them. It’s not even my failing, as a middle-aged man with a weird sense of humor, a self-destructive lifestyle, and more friends than I deserve. No, I think the problem is just...

If you're expecting an intimidating rant about how no one should mess with us or that we will avenge ourselves upon evildoers or that LOWBALLERS SHOULD BEWARE (huh, three equivalent terms, how 'bout that), this post is going to greatly disappoint you. We have already shared a couple guest Sidequest Tales and intend to share many more.  Thus far, there are at least two commonalities in our contributors to this blog: they each took a leap of faith and I can guarantee that none of them followed a guidebook word-for-word.  There's no such thing.  If the idea became reality then the methods that they used worked.  Successful? That's an eternally moving goalpost. Sidequest Loot is fully involved in a FAFO mentality.  We are prepared to try new ideas, new approaches and new concepts to move ourselves forward and grow.  There are a large number of "tried and true" strategies in our playbook but we are also not afraid to incorporate a bit of anarchy into the game....

This Sidequest Tale been shared with us by The Dungeon Minister ( The Dungeon Minister - YouTube ) , an Anglican priest and self-confessed Olde School D&D Nerd.  With almost 3000 Subscribers and approaching his 300th episode, he also has managed to invent/promote/run a great RPG Convention suitably named "Clericon".   This year marks the 3rd incarnation of this event in Glen Williams, Ontario from October 24 - 26, 2025.  This year's event has grown to nearly 100 participants and multiple vendors, attracting them from near & far. Attendees can expect good old-fashioned roleplaying goodness, fun and community while keeping the Convention at "just the right size" to be welcoming to all. The Sidequest Tale of The Dungeon Minister My Sidequest, from parish priest to YouTube sensation (hey, you'll get some sort of sensation watching me...probably annoyance or boredom, but those are sensations), began in 2021, when I started my YouTube channel. Though, in a...

Every business is trying to get your email address to only bombard you with spam, products that don't interest you and lousy "deals".  Sidequest Loot feels that you deserve better. IF YOU JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET THE GOOD STUFF, GO TO THE BOLD INFORMATION BELOW! Even though we deal in just about every kind of legal product that's out there, we won't deny that some of our featured stock has a doctor-approved amount of "nerd" content.  That's me.  Much of my life has been spent appreciating these things.  Maybe it's because there isn't a mainstream fanbase when to like it and when to get out.  Participation was a very personal and active decision. We want to connect with our followers to share their input with us.  Participants in Sellrond's Council can indeed expect that they will receive notices about special deals, featured product, neat stock that we have just received and new partners in "The Fellowship of the Things" - t...