Down At The Gaming Store

I had this new idea I pitched to the guy down at our local gaming store about a new type of RPG I was thinking of developing. I asked him, what if we got rid of all the dice, all the resolution mechanics, all the rules, the fascist GM structure which perpetuates a negative white authority model in our country, and just had two or more people sitting around, telling a story? He said it sounded a lot like this thing people had been doing since prehistoric times called “telling a story”. I was like, “exactly!” I think I might be onto something with this one. Stay tuned for further developments.

I also told him about Vince Baker turning down Mongoose because he’s making soooo much money alone (I guess Mongoose wanted to make a REAL RPG for once), and he was like, “so I guess that means D&D is doomed like you’re always saying, huh?" I hate that store sometimes—they never stock My Life With Master or Trollbabe, just because they don’t have “widespread appeal”, and “nobody here buys that crap”. Fine, Tim’s Gaming Dungeon, stock your White Wolf, stock your D&D, be the generic Wal-Mart of RPGs—but you know what? Wal-Mart is for rednecks. They don’t even have Chomsky in their book aisle.