Leliel
2008-04-07, 07:00 PM
I was playing No More Heroes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Heroes_%28video_game%29) the other day when a thought struck me: "What would happen if your stereotypical band of fantasy heroes were in this game? I have a nice time imagining a paladin wielding a beam katana...Hey, why not ask the boards if they like this!"
So, players, through means left to be defined by them, come into possesion of beam-katana type weapons, and end up joining a widespread orginization of assasins and hitmen. Given that one does not wish to be stabbed in the back by rivals, they decide to team up in a parody of Power Ranger-like super teams. Now, they have to move up the ranks of the orginazation while avoiding the machanations of said rivals, killing other assasins, and killing people other people want dead.
And just to screw with them, the orginazation has banned evil members from teaming up together like the PCs are forced to by DM fiat(they're just as tired of "loose cannon" evil parties as the rest of us), so they have to do all this while having a moral compass. Hey, who says the forces of good can't be selfish, amoral criminals?
So, is this a good idea?
And in case you can't tell, that line about selfish, amoral criminals was more than a little sarcastic. Any game based on No More Heroes is more than a little sarcastic.
So, players, through means left to be defined by them, come into possesion of beam-katana type weapons, and end up joining a widespread orginization of assasins and hitmen. Given that one does not wish to be stabbed in the back by rivals, they decide to team up in a parody of Power Ranger-like super teams. Now, they have to move up the ranks of the orginazation while avoiding the machanations of said rivals, killing other assasins, and killing people other people want dead.
And just to screw with them, the orginazation has banned evil members from teaming up together like the PCs are forced to by DM fiat(they're just as tired of "loose cannon" evil parties as the rest of us), so they have to do all this while having a moral compass. Hey, who says the forces of good can't be selfish, amoral criminals?
So, is this a good idea?
And in case you can't tell, that line about selfish, amoral criminals was more than a little sarcastic. Any game based on No More Heroes is more than a little sarcastic.