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Syaoran Li said:
You may be onto something...

Now I'm definitely going to go the route of zombies in a Vietnam War-esque setting, it sounds crazy enough to work for the type of gonzo game I want to run.
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It's fun in such a genre mix not to tell the people that you're going for a genre mix at all.
Make it big boobed bimbos bombing bamboo-dwellers at the start and blindside your players with a completely unexpected zombie apocalypse.
Best way to do it is to have them go about their regular business, maybe being charged by Vietcong and in hindsight realize that the Vietcong wasn't charging them, they were fleeing from somebody else, but they can't figure out what or who it was. Keep this stuff a mystery. Then they bump into a "badly hurt" Vietcong that they end up killing cause he's delirious and attacks the players suddenly (this is their first Zombie encounter).
Do a bit of slow buildup in that fashion and then hit them with a full blown Zombie Apocalypse. It'll blow their mind.

This, btw, is the best and only way to play CthulhuTech.

Kyria the Great said:
Once the games clear up in the Kiwi D&D server, I plan on eventually running a Exodus(aka Fallout d20) game either set in Texas or Ohio if anyone is interested in the near or distance future.
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Frankly, I might have a go, depending on how the game works...
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
It's fun in such a genre mix not to tell the people that you're going for a genre mix at all.
Make it big boobed bimbos bombing bamboo-dwellers at the start and blindside your players with a completely unexpected zombie apocalypse.
Best way to do it is to have them go about their regular business, maybe being charged by Vietcong and in hindsight realize that the Vietcong wasn't charging them, they were fleeing from somebody else, but they can't figure out what or who it was. Keep this stuff a mystery. Then they bump into a "badly hurt" Vietcong that they end up killing cause he's delirious and attacks the players suddenly (this is their first Zombie encounter).
Do a bit of slow buildup in that fashion and then hit them with a full blown Zombie Apocalypse. It'll blow their mind.

This, btw, is the best and only way to play CthulhuTech.
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I dunno man; this sounds like you just aped the plot of Shellshock 2, one of the worst games ever made to me. Right down to it including zombies.

And yeah @Kyria the Great ; I'd love to try a run on Exodus.
 
Adamska said:
I dunno man; this sounds like you just aped the plot of Shellshock 2, one of the worst games ever made to me. Right down to it including zombies.
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Never played Shellshock, also including Zombies wasn't my idea. I'm just saying there might be at least some payoff to the whole Zombie Apocalypse if it is a surprise. I mean, after all, "From Dusk till Dawn" is a phantastic movie and it does the transition from "Gangster Road Movie" to "Vampire flic" within the span of 5 seconds.

So I guess it depends on execution.
 

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Been recently re-reading some of my old books for Big Eyes Small Mouth that I bought way back when I was 19.

I bought a whole bunch of used books for BESM from a local gaming store at the time, including the First Edition core rules, the supplement Hot Rods & Gun Bunnies, and the Sailor Moon RPG and Resource Book.

Overall, I like the system. It's kind of like GURPS Lite for Weebs, but easier. My uncle and I were going over the rules and we both like what we see, it's a lot more rules-light than say D&D or something.

I even ordered a copy of the supplement Big Robots Cool Starships off of Amazon this morning.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
I discovered this cute sounding series that I just had to buy a copy of it. I'm hoping that I can run a game of it as soon as I get familiar enough with the rules.
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Comes from the same creator as Maid RPG, Zettai Reido, and Nechronia. There's also Sword World, but that hasn't been translated into English, neither officially or by fans.
 
My uncle and I have been going over the Big Eyes Small Mouth books that I own (First Edition core book, Big Robots & Cool Starships, Hot Rods & Gun Bunnies, and the Sailor Moon book) and I think I may have found a new go-to system for a while.

My uncle really likes the simplicity and open-ended rules-lite approach of the game and he wants to play another one-shot with me sometime this week.

We've been thinking of either a game based on InuYasha, as it is an anime that we both are fans of, or maybe a silly one-shot based on Army Men, since it is an idea I have talked about before.

If we go the former route, I will try to plan the game to work as a one-shot but be open-ended enough to make into a multi-shot game or even a small campaign if I can get that far.
 
Been re-reading a lot of my old New World of Darkness books and PDF's for fun, specifically the 1E stuff from before they renamed it "Chronicles of Darkness"

I forgot how much I loved that setting in its early days, before it got hijacked by stuff like Onyx Path's identity politics and terrible writing (especially in Beast)

Unlike most WoD fans, I started with Requiem and Vigil in the late 2000's before I switched to the Classic World of Darkness.
 
Maybe not 100% an 'RPG' as such but has anybody played Gaslands? Basically its the Star Wars miniatures game crossed with Mad Max but the idea is you customize toy cars in lieu of buying minis which seemed like a cool concept. In short: Look what Laz did!
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Maybe not 100% an 'RPG' as such but has anybody played Gaslands? Basically its the Star Wars miniatures game crossed with Mad Max but the idea is you customize toy cars in lieu of buying minis which seemed like a cool concept. In short: Look what Laz did!
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That sounds awesome.

Sort of reminds me of an old game from the 70's and 80's called Car Wars. It was a wargame of sorts inspired by stuff like Mad Max and Cannonball Run, and if I remember correctly, it could be played with ordinary toy cars like Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
 
Syaoran Li said:
That sounds awesome.

Sort of reminds me of an old game from the 70's and 80's called Car Wars. It was a wargame of sorts inspired by stuff like Mad Max and Cannonball Run, and if I remember correctly, it could be played with ordinary toy cars like Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
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It's awesome. The book is £10,00. The movement templates are photocopiable from the book or you can make them yourself. Everything else is 100% creative. you can play it with 4 toy cars and a load of household crap to populate the battlefield or you can go full custom. They don't sell minis or terrain, there's no gouging. Literally a tenner for the book and a few quid in a charity shop for cars if you can't pinch them off your kids and you're up and running.
 
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