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One day when I was getting my glasses fixed at Walmart Vison Center, I looked at the store without them and I realised that I couldn't see where it ended in two directions. Now this is partially because I'm near-sighted and will eventually become all but blind, but ti is also because the place is so darn big. Now it got me thinking "what if Walmart went on forever, what if they put apartment buildings in them, people would never have to leave". So I began to invision a world dominated entirely by Walmart, and being the RPG fan that I am I decided to do so in campaign setting form.


Imagine a world where Walmart is allowed to ignore any rules banning monopollies, and then it spreads itss corporation and its interests until it controls much of the world. The Walmarts themselves gain built in apartments, restaraunts, small factories, and eventually become largely self-sufficient indoor communities, many of which grow so large that they conect onto other nearby Walmarts, forming enormous cities. After time they take on a sort of surreal quality, growing so large that they need their own small police forces and militias to maintain order. Eventually all other business are replaced by Walmart and they are able to raise prices without any sort of limit because they are the only show in town.

This causes most of the world to sink below the poverty line. Several rebel groups thinking that the management of Walmart is the root of their problems assault the main headquarters and slay the board of directors, along with everyone else involved in the management of Walmart.

This causes the utter collapse of civilized society, but because much of the proccesses by which Walmart runs is automated and autonomous the essential fall of civilization seems to barely effect them at all. Eventually the colossal miles-wide walmarts are one of the last bastions of civilization. They are runs by machines and staffed by robots. The aisles are inhabited by scavengers and bandits. Some people evolve to live among the ceiling supports, others take to the vast rooftop exampanses, still others follow the way of the Smiling One. Most simply wander the aisles searching for what they need to survive.

Magic in this world stems not from rituals or cosmic forces but from extreme devotion to a particular skill, or belief in something percieved to be greater than ones self (even if it is rather trivial).

So what do you think? A lot of this is kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I am posting this with a certain degree of seroiusness. Any ideas you may have are very welcome.

I already posted this on Sci-Fi, but I wasn't entirely sure if that was the best place for it (and I think you can post the same topic in two places within the CoC, provided you don't post any more than that).

Thanks.


P. S. I have deleted much of the original post here, as to not confuse people. The Official Rules and Canon Material is all on page 4, in a post of mine discussing Beta Rules (you can't miss it, it's about 5 pages long)

Yeah, most likely. But anyway, other than that, what do you think?

This is excellent. I've pondered the base idea that Wal Mart takes over the world before, but never even thought of a campaign setting. Absolutely wonderful. And I think barter over money. Makes more sense fo this Aisle Warrior type setting.

This is some great stuff you're all giving me here. I believe some on Sci-Fi suggested using the motorized carts for the Speed Demons too, but I hadn't thought about souped up carts, makes me wish WotC would put out some rules for non-magical augmentation of vehicles (although of course magical isn't out of the question either). Of course if anyone here knows anything about cars (I don't) I would love it if you would post some basic rules for souping up a car (or lawnmower, or whatever). Ok so a more visually oriented internet (anybody remember the computers in Minority Report? maybe something like that?).

As for the Cyberpunk, what elements do you think would work well here? I don't know a lot about the genre, but from what I do know it might fit very well.