Garrison Gaming Hub Opens in Bartlett, Tennessee, Welcoming D&D Players

Bartlett, Tennessee now has another reason for tabletop players to make the drive down Stage Road. Garrison Gaming Hub soft-launched at 6765 Stage Road this month, with owner Greg Warf and manager Jason Hodge bringing what the Daily Memphian described as "decades of experience with role-playing and collectible card games" to a Memphis suburb that is quietly assembling one of the region's more interesting gaming scenes.

Warf and Hodge, who are also identified as the founders and operators of the venture, have already signaled that Dungeons & Dragons events will be part of the Hub's regular programming. The official grand opening is slated for April 1.

Warf's philosophy for the space is pretty much the dream for any player who has ever been kicked out of a game store at closing time. "We close when the last gamer leaves. That's our motto," he told the Daily Memphian. That kind of open-ended commitment is rare, and it goes a long way toward explaining why local players are paying attention.

The Hub's arrival adds another node to what has become a surprisingly dense cluster of gaming venues in and around Bartlett. Edge Gaming recently opened on the city's east end, longtime gaming center The Cellar anchors the middle of the suburb, and the Greater Memphis Magic Arena sits just across the Bartlett line back in Memphis proper. Garrison Gaming Hub at 6765 Stage Road slots into that network as a new option for players looking for a home campaign or organized play.

For the D&D community specifically, a venue where the lights stay on as long as the session runs is exactly the kind of infrastructure that lets longer arcs actually finish. Whether Warf and Hodge plan dedicated weekly game nights or open-table formats for the Hub's D&D programming remains to be confirmed ahead of the April 1 opening, but the combination of their RPG and CCG backgrounds and that closing-time philosophy suggests the space was built with serious players in mind.