Totally Guy
2011-03-23, 07:51 AM
Has anyone ever played Inspectres?
It's a light system about a group of normal people that happen to have an unusual job: Paranormal Investigators.
It's pretty sweet in that it runs with virtually no prep. The players get to tell the table what happens when they succeed dice rolls. If you roll to investigate the green goo and you are right, you can say, "The green goo is not alive... the whole well is alive!"
The players can't resolve everything in a single roll though as each mission is worth a certain number of successes. This becomes a pacing mechanic.
I played a game where the Inspectres visited a house with a green goo infectation in the basement. They determined that their employer was a murderer when they found living skeletons in the basement. They found out that a tentacled cthlulu-like abomination came out every midnight. They get themselves kitted up with books, candles and a chainsaw and the whole thing was resolved in a slimy explosive mess.
Their employer had to then share his home with the living skeletons of the guys he'd killed and if he didn't he'd be found out and arrested for sure.
The payoff was so good that they doubled the the worth of their business unit!
It's a light system about a group of normal people that happen to have an unusual job: Paranormal Investigators.
It's pretty sweet in that it runs with virtually no prep. The players get to tell the table what happens when they succeed dice rolls. If you roll to investigate the green goo and you are right, you can say, "The green goo is not alive... the whole well is alive!"
The players can't resolve everything in a single roll though as each mission is worth a certain number of successes. This becomes a pacing mechanic.
I played a game where the Inspectres visited a house with a green goo infectation in the basement. They determined that their employer was a murderer when they found living skeletons in the basement. They found out that a tentacled cthlulu-like abomination came out every midnight. They get themselves kitted up with books, candles and a chainsaw and the whole thing was resolved in a slimy explosive mess.
Their employer had to then share his home with the living skeletons of the guys he'd killed and if he didn't he'd be found out and arrested for sure.
The payoff was so good that they doubled the the worth of their business unit!