Not the movie studio; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is doing OK, and I look forward to the release of Valkyrie (Tommy Cruise as a Nazi, what a stretch).

I mean master game master (MGM): that kid who had to run the game so everyone could have fun, and years later, is the verbal equivalent of Scorsese, and yet still does it for free, unlike Salvatore. His masterful mastery of games has ironically made him a slave to the role amongst his gamer friends and his own commitment to style. I’ve enjoyed DeNiro’s The Good Shepard and loved Washington’s The Great Debaters. Actors can assume the big chair as players can. Yet, we never see Spike Lee starring in a Ron Howard joint, nor Howard in Jungle Fever 2. Why? Outside of Lee’s inability to act and Howard’s good sense … and inability to act, I say it’s because of a surrendering of control.

Some GM’s make excellent players that feed fun at a table, like me, but others find it hard to submit to another’s direction … like me. The need to be a player has made me seek out new groups to join where I can slip off the shackles. I’ve recently joined a new group who play in a very simplistic style that I feel is kind of adolescent (yes, gaming can done maturely). I aim to create stories with characters and plots worthy of publishing or filming. They’re just happy to be gaming with the scenario A to B to C plotting and roll-hit-roll-miss narration.

I’m dealing with it, the way an epicurean can live on fish heads Survivor style but not really thriving. Beggars cant be choosers, unless they start beating people with their change collecting cups, but by then they’re bandits — whom can choose a whole lot. Must I start sapping GMs with my dice bag, is D-bagging the answer?

Nah. The answer is to lead by example. I’m going to method act my character, as I love to do, and narrate my actions as much as the DM will allow. Seeing how much fun I’m having will hopefully inspire the others to emulate me. It’s in human nature to do what others are successful with, even chimps do this — so the average gamer can with effort. Each group is like a micro-culture with traditions and practices that can be altered over time with patience. Gamer Ghandi.

Eventually, I may be asked to GM and another group will enter my dominion … then I’ll be back to where we started.

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