the bracknell upon avon rpg club

The Bracknell upon Avon RPG club is in regular session and new starter Luke has just been rescued from a particularly animated group of Vampire LARP players (looking for a member to play a sacrifice too one of their dark gods), by old regular member Ben.  Safe in the clubs brightly lit main room Luke talks to Ben about his father who unknown to luke, used to be a member of the club...........
LUKE:No, my father didn't play Roleplaying games.  He was a collectable figures player.
BEN:That's what your uncle told you.  He didn't hold with your fathers ideals.  Thought he should have stayed at home and not gotten involved in the club.
LUKE:You roleplayed at this club?
BEN:Yes,i was once a Roleplayer the same as your father.
LUKE:I wish I'd known him.
BEN:He was the best Roleplayer in the club, and a cunning Gamesmaster.  I understand you've become quite a good gamer yourself.  Which reminds me.....
Ben leans over a rummages through an old tatty sports bag next to his chair, from it he removes a plastic carrier bag which seems to have something in it.  Luke watches with puzzlement as from the bag Ben removes a large book and presents it to him.
BEN:This is for you.  Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it.  He feared you might join old Ben on some dammed-fool idealistic gaming campaign like your father did.
LUKE:What is it?
BEN:Your fathers rule book.  This is the tool of a Roleplayer.  Not as clumsy or as un-creative as a collectable figures game.
Luke takes the book and opens its well worn cover.  Inside Luke finds pages of instructional text, various unknown tables of numbers, passages of descriptive text and dozens of inspiring illustrations.  Luke is mesmerised by the book.
BEN:An elegant gaming book for a more creative time.  For over Thirty years the Roleplayers were the guardians of creativity and excitement in the old club.  Before the dark times, before the big American gaming corporation.
Luke hasn't really been listening.
LUKE:Why did my father leave this club?
BEN:A young gamer named ***** *****,who was in a gaming group of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Corporation hunt down and destroy the Roleplayers.  He tricked and betrayed your father into playing a collectable figure game.  Now Roleplayers are all but extinct.***** was seduced by the power of the profit.
LUKE:The profit?
BEN:Well, the profit is a economic force which drives most business including large American gaming corporations.  The profit being the most important force in gaming today is created by gamers buying into games that are made just to help generate profit for gaming corporations and not inspire gamers.  This is done by creating some false sense of importance by attaching some bull**** ratio of rarity and collectibility to a mass produced, souped up mini plastic figures game.  I mean please what is this all about?  'm sure figures and roleplay can co-exist.  They could create one big healthy game rather than just now only  giving gamers one area of support.  Figures are great but every gamer worth his/her salt knows the vast level of creativity a good well supported game offers can't be touched!  If a company is producing a game based on the biggest movie licence of the last 100 years then it should look at the quality of support it is giving rather than just assuming interest is dropping off. The only way forward is not just to produce one type of product, especially if that company has revitalised a 30year old RPG licence to success producing award wining support products  (Campaign settings, Adventures, Playing aids etc etc) and a extensive figures range to be used along side that game. New talent, either writers or artists could have been brought in to help bring fresh ideas into the licence and a massive relaunch with say a new campaign setting tied to that licence could have been linked in to the launch of the biggest film of the year .Bringing the profile of the game higher into the gaming worlds awareness could have made the difference.  What does it take to support a licence rather than just dropping it and denying gamers the extra support they deserve eh? 
LUKE:Maybe gamers should have been more vocal in their support of the licence.  Besides Figure games are cool to play and collect.
BEN:That's your uncle talking!
LUKE:My Uncle, how am i going to explain all this to him?
BEN:Come with me to the club every Thursday night, learn the ways of the game.  Become a Roleplayer like your father.  Join me and we can keep our favourite game going even without any corporate support.  Use your fathers rulebook to create fantastic new characters and adventures, let your imagination take your games to greater heights.
Together we can keep our favourite game going and bring low cost fun and excitement back into the club.
Luke looks down at his fathers old rulebook and ponders on the words Ben has said.  The possibility of following in the gaming heritage of his father is just to much for Luke to ignore, he knows what his destiny is.  Together he and Ben will keep the game going encouraging new gamers to join and to keep the licence going.