I’ve been trying to get a Capes game going for more than two weeks now and without fail, every single time I’ve made plans, the other players bail on me. I don’t think I’m going to get to play at all until I run demos at the local game shop on Feb 18th, and even then that won’t really be playing, just showing off the system.

Despite having so much trouble finding people who’ll actually play these newfangled hippie rpgs with me, I’m convinced that there’s no turning back. To this end, I’m getting rid of all my old gaming crap. Yesterday I started pulling books off shelves and taking inventory. If I can’t sell it, I’m giving it away. If nobody will take it, I’ll donate it to Goodwill or something. I dunno. By the end of February, these books will be out of my house:

AD&D2 Dark Sun Revised & Expanded Box Set (Including Dune Trader)
AD&D2 Ivory Triangle Box Set for Dark Sun
AD&D2 The Complete Thieves Handbook

Dungeons & Dragons 3E Player’s Handbook
Dungeons & Dragons 3E Dungeon Master’s Guide

Fantasy Flight Games Traps & Treachery
Dragonstar Starfarer’s Handbook
Dragonstar Guide to the Galaxy
Call of Cthulhu d20

Alternity Player’s Handbook
Alternity Gamemaster’s Guide
Alternity Beyond Science: A Guide to FX
Alternity Starships
Alternity StarDrive Arms & Equipment Guide
Dark*Matter Sourcebook

Vampire: The Masquerade 2nd Edition
Vampire: The Masquerade Players Guide 2nd Edition
Mind’s Eye Theater The Masquerade 2nd Edition
Mind’s Eye Theater Antagonists
Mind’s Eye Theater Laws of the Night
Mind’s Eye Theater Laws of Elysium
Clanbook Ventrue
Prince’s Primer

Shadowrun 3rd Edition
Seattle Sourcebook

Cyberpunk 2020
Cyberpunk Eurotour
Rifts Japan
Delta Green
GURPS Space
Vampire Hunters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
West End Games’ The World of Necroscope Box Set
Shades of Nightfall

Some of these I don’t remember buying. Some of the things I know I bought seem to have disappeared. That doesn’t really matter, though, because I’m ditching everything I own except for Feng Shui. That one gets to stay on the shelf. Oh, and the new stuff, of course. Primetime Adventures, Dogs in the Vineyard, and Capes. All that other crap? I’m done with it.