confession: I am a huge nerd

So I designed and wrote a tabletop role-playing game centered around the uniquely disjointed environment that IS the shopping mall.

Closing Time is a dice-based role-playing game for 2 to 10 friends. (Ten is an utterly arbitrary number. Maybe you have thirty friends, I don’t know your life.) A cast of 5 to 7 is generally the outer limits of comfort for a gaming group, but you and your thirty friends do whatever makes you happy.

As with most TTRPGS, one person acts as the Game Master and the others will each create and play characters. The Game Master plans out the framework of the session, deciding on the scenario and the big bad ahead of time. When the group gets together, it's the Game Master who sets the initial scene and gets the story started.

They also encourage and support the players as they shape the narrative, while simultaneously creating and unleashing challenges, complications, and even monsters for the players to overcome.

The players, meanwhile, flex their imagination muscles. Individually, they come up with ordinary human characters and assign them an ordinary job in the mall. During the session, they work together to use their perfectly mundane, not-at-all magical or super-powered abilities and skills to save the mall and each other from whatever horror or danger has dared to keep them past closing time.

It’s available now at DriveThru RPG for only $2.99!