Let's Sperg Lets Sperg: RPG Edition. - What game should I run first?

What game should I run first?

  • Chthonian Highways

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • Violence

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • Total voters
    7
Randall Fragg

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Since we have a Lets Sperg subforum for games, I was thinking about running a few one-shot RPGs in a manner similar to the video game lets plays.
The basic rules are:
Nobody "owns" a character, so we don't wait on someone to go. Instead, users will submit characters, either completely worked out with rules, or as a general concept. I'll work out the mechanics of a general concept character.

The next action is determined not by who posts first, but who can post the most entertaining and well described action, such as "Sgt. Edgelord raises his AK-47, and lets loose a burst of lead into the chest of the charging zombie" over "Sgt. Edgelord runs away".

I have a few games that I think would be fun to try and run. Right now, my top two choices are:
Chthonian Highways: A currently in open alpha RPG which can best be summed up as "Mad Max, only taking place after The Great Old Ones awaken". A download of the current rules and pre-generated characters can be found here.
Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed: an obscure little game from 1999, written by Greg Costikyan (one of the designers behind Paranoia and Toon). It is essentially a parody of dungeon-crawling style games, as in "The players are violent psychopaths who break into people's apartments, murder the inhabitants, and take their stuff." Like a mix between Postal 2 and a self-aware version of FATAL.
Of course, this seems like something that would be perfect for a lets play, given that the whole book is written as a big "fuck you" to the reader. A PDF of it can be found here.
 
I was the only one who voted for the Mad Max thing, but Violence seems nice once I can sit down and figure out how to create a character. Do I get Retard Strength or something?
 
Tranhuviya said:
I was the only one who voted for the Mad Max thing, but Violence seems nice once I can sit down and figure out how to create a character. Do I get exceptional individual Strength or something?
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Actually, the rules do say that you can adjust your stats by doing certain things during character creation (such as giving the GM money, agreeing to roleplay an embarrassing voice, ect). So, I'm going to allow you to gain Retard Strength by taking one point away from "Everything Else" and putting it into Strength for doing each of the following:
Making everything the character says "hulk speak". (duuuhh, me smash puny police).
Giving your character a childish phobia (like the dark, teletubbies, puppets, ect). Oh, and I get to choose the phobia. 1 point per phobia, can take multiple.
Limiting the amount of points you can put into a skill dependent on smarts (such as reading) to the default of 3. 1 point per skill.
Giving your character some sort of odd behavior or obsession (such as MLP, hot wheels cars, or sonic the hedgehog). 1 point per obsession.
 
When are characters due?
 
Tranhuviya said:
I was the only one who voted for the Mad Max thing, but Violence seems nice once I can sit down and figure out how to create a character. Do I get exceptional individual Strength or something?
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Meh if we're gonna do Mad Max we may as well just go whole hog and run a Gorkamorka game. Mad Max really needs visceral car combat fights to work, the fights in Cthulonian seem a bit too small scale to fit the bill. A Mad Mad car combat battle should have half a dozen souped up hell machines swerving all over the desert, smashing each other, firing wildly, while screaming nonsense obsceneties at each other. So Violence was probably the better choice.

That said, I wouldn't be against running a multiple player rolling road battle for Gorkamorka someday, but that's another thread for another time.
 
Strelok said:
Meh if we're gonna do Mad Max we may as well just go whole hog and run a Gorkamorka game. Mad Max really needs visceral car combat fights to work, the fights in Cthulonian seem a bit too small scale to fit the bill. A Mad Mad car combat battle should have half a dozen souped up hell machines swerving all over the desert, smashing each other, firing wildly, while screaming nonsense obsceneties at each other. So Violence was probably the better choice.

That said, I wouldn't be against running a multiple player rolling road battle for Gorkamorka someday, but that's another thread for another time.
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Yeah. Of course, I was thinking of this as kind of a "weird/fun RPG showcase", but Gorkamorka sounds pretty fun.
I have a few suggestions for games to run in the future:
Maid. Terrible weeaboo RPG about being a maid. Will probably end badly.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: It's kind of like if FATAL was self aware and had rules that made sense. Role up a random peasant as a character, and have them run around until they are unceremoniously killed in a gory/hilarious way.
Call of Cthulhu: The favorite of killer GMs everywhere. The Cthulhu by Gaslight adventure "The Yorkshire Horrors" is one weird option, because it's basically "Sherlock Holmes, but with fishmen cultists and madness inducing tomes".
Tomb of Horrors: One of the most infamous D&D modules of all time.
 
Maid is pretty great. Its like a weeby fetish clustering where everyone is trying to win sempai (the GM's) favor. :oops:
 
Maid seems like just the right type of autism for this forum, really
 
Randall Fragg said:
Maid. Terrible weeaboo RPG about being a maid. Will probably end badly.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: It's kind of like if FATAL was self aware and had rules that made sense. Role up a random peasant as a character, and have them run around until they are unceremoniously killed in a gory/hilarious way.
Call of Cthulhu: The favorite of killer GMs everywhere. The Cthulhu by Gaslight adventure "The Yorkshire Horrors" is one weird option, because it's basically "Sherlock Holmes, but with fishmen cultists and madness inducing tomes".
Tomb of Horrors: One of the most infamous D&D modules of all time.
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Why not Deathwatch or Dark Heresy?
 
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Tranhuviya said:
Why not Deathwatch or Dark Heresy?
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Oh yeah, Dark Heresy.
For extra fun, we could play it in the Autism 40k setting that a few of us joked about a while back, where Chris is the Emperor.
 
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