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The Glyphstone
2008-11-17, 11:55 PM
What is the most unusual, out of the way, or simply downright bizzare tabletop RPG you have ever encountered? I've seen Pokethulu, Maid, and Monsters and Other Childish Things; I want something that makes them look tame by comparison...anyone have a story to tell about something completely outlandish they've seen/heard of/PLAYED?

newbDM
2008-11-17, 11:59 PM
Kobolds ate my baby. :smallbiggrin:

Sstoopidtallkid
2008-11-18, 12:00 AM
FATALenjoy the nightmares

Starsinger
2008-11-18, 12:04 AM
FATALenjoy the nightmares

That's not weird. That's just stupid.

The Glyphstone
2008-11-18, 12:06 AM
Correct, FATAL is not weird in the slightest. It's not bizzare, just disgusting.

KamB is a good one, I had forgotten....links would be nice if possible, to the advertisement sites if not the actual rules.

Lert, A.
2008-11-18, 12:06 AM
Ninja burger!

VerdugoExplode
2008-11-18, 12:11 AM
My vote goes out to paranoia, the only game in which if you feel like things are making sense something is very, very wrong.

RagnaroksChosen
2008-11-18, 12:15 AM
paranoia mainly because im paranoid and it just never goes well for me..


Also "those who sleep with elves" i believe i remember it vaguely i was stoned and drunk when playing it.

Hal
2008-11-18, 12:16 AM
Kitty! (http://wicked-dead.com/cat/)

Doesn't mean I don't want to try it.

newbDM
2008-11-18, 12:17 AM
Correct, FATAL is not weird in the slightest. It's not bizzare, just disgusting.

KamB is a good one, I had forgotten....links would be nice if possible, to the advertisement sites if not the actual rules.

http://www.koboldsatemybaby.com/

There is a nice preview PDF there to boot. Sold me a copy. :smallbiggrin:

I can't wait for the new book coming out next month!

newbDM
2008-11-18, 12:20 AM
Also "those who sleep with elves" i believe i remember it vaguely i was stoned and drunk when playing it.

More info on this one?

RTGoodman
2008-11-18, 12:27 AM
Okay, I'm going with an RPG I downloaded for free during RPG Now's "Thankgiveaway" Week last year. I've told some people about this and they didn't believe it, so here's the screencap and a bit from the introduction.


http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd40/rtg0922/VeggiePatch.png



Introduction
The Veggie Patch is a rather unusual role-playing game. Players arenʼt powerful wizards, out to discover the secrets of the universe. They arenʼt highly trained spies, trying to save the world, nor do they fly around the galaxy in a space ship. They arenʼt even your typical hero, off saving damsels in distress.

Theyʼre vegetables.

No, that isnʼt a typo. Vegetables. The things that grow in the garden, and that most of us eat on a regular basis. To be fair, these arenʼt normal vegetables. They are the result of a magical experiment gone wrong. Just like regular people they can think, move, talk and generally get into trouble. Lots of trouble.

newbDM
2008-11-18, 12:32 AM
Some more ones:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/bunniesandburrows.jpg



And although not really it's own RPG, it is still pretty neat in my opinion:
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=4900
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=28496&it=1&filters=0_0_0
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2544&it=1&filters=0_0_0

Friv
2008-11-18, 12:45 AM
For me, it would be the Crawl Of Cathulu section of the Toon Adventures book. It was Call of Cthulu mixed with Looney Tunes. The devastating forces you came up against could drive you Sane, leaving you unable to handle the wackiness of the setting.

SurlySeraph
2008-11-18, 12:47 AM
The Timecube RPG.

kc0bbq
2008-11-18, 12:54 AM
Shattered Dreams for an oddball horror RPG.

Wingnut games is your source for really messed up games. From Battle Cattle, a tabletop miniatures game, to Og: The Roleplaying Game, to Solid!, a d20 blaxploitation RPG.

Zeful
2008-11-18, 12:57 AM
Bliss stage. (http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16587&cat=0&page=1) That is all.

mistformsquirrl
2008-11-18, 01:02 AM
I'll just second GURPS Bunnies and Burrows <,< Its just... so... odd... Its interesting, but one of those things you have to ask "Why did someone come up with this? <O.O>"

streakster
2008-11-18, 01:07 AM
Seconding the Timecube RPG.

Waspinator
2008-11-18, 01:13 AM
http://www.koboldsatemybaby.com/

There is a nice preview PDF there to boot. Sold me a copy. :smallbiggrin:

I can't wait for the new book coming out next month!

KAMB is getting another booK? Cool! Any info on it?

And yeah, Bunnies and Burrows has to be at once one of the more interesting and one of the more bizarre RPGs ever.

KKL
2008-11-18, 01:16 AM
IIRC there's an RPG named "Kill Puppies for Satan".

Yeah...>_>

Winter_Wolf
2008-11-18, 01:26 AM
Some more ones:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/bunniesandburrows.jpg



And although not really it's own RPG, it is still pretty neat in my opinion:
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=4900
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=28496&it=1&filters=0_0_0
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2544&it=1&filters=0_0_0

Does anyone know the name of the cartoon that image came from? I swear I saw some R rated cartoon about vicious human killing bunny rabbits when I was like 6 or 7. You know, back in the "good old days" of the early 80's when cartoons exposed impressionable young minds to all kinds of new and interesting ideas. There's a good chance it's been banned, burned, and buried, 'cause it was DARK.

elliott20
2008-11-18, 01:33 AM
there was one indie game I saw where you don't play characters, you play aspects of this one little girl's personality. That's right, you're playing parts of Haley's psyche slowly being shattered because of her inability to tell secrets.

another game I saw could basically only support two people, and the way that it works is that there is no script, no dice, only narrative building. the two players each take turns adding more to the story one sentence at a time through their character. It's interesting, but man it's weird.

I also once played an RPG that made use of CD players for narrative devices. that is an odd one too.

newbDM
2008-11-18, 01:34 AM
KAMB is getting another booK? Cool! Any info on it?

That is the insane thing about it.

About a month ago I saw it on amazon, with a cover and everything saying you can preorder it (I stupidly didn't hoping my local store could get it). Then, like two weeks ago I checked up on it again, but this time it seemed you could no longer preorder it, and I believe it had said something about signing up to see when it would be available. Now I just went back to Amazon to get you a link, but it's gone.

It was called something on the lines of More Things to Kill and Eat! I believe the title was from an older edition book of Kamb, so I figured it was an updated version.

Anyone know about this? Did they cancel this product?! :smallfrown:

Nerd-o-rama
2008-11-18, 01:35 AM
Does anyone know the name of the cartoon that image came from? I swear I saw some R rated cartoon about vicious human killing bunny rabbits when I was like 6 or 7. You know, back in the "good old days" of the early 80's when cartoons exposed impressionable young minds to all kinds of new and interesting ideas. There's a good chance it's been banned, burned, and buried, 'cause it was DARK.Watership Down?

Also, Maid RPG is quite probably the weirdest I've ever seen.

newbDM
2008-11-18, 01:41 AM
That is the insane thing about it.

About a month ago I saw it on amazon, with a cover and everything saying you can preorder it (I stupidly didn't hoping my local store could get it). Then, like two weeks ago I checked up on it again, but this time it seemed you could no longer preorder it, and I believe it had said something about signing up to see when it would be available. Now I just went back to Amazon to get you a link, but it's gone.

It was called something on the lines of More Things to Kill and Eat! I believe the title was from an older edition book of Kamb, so I figured it was an updated version.

Anyone know about this? Did they cancel this product?! :smallfrown:


OK, Paizo seems to still kinda have it listed:
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/d/dorkStormPress/v5748btpy7xaz

JackShandy
2008-11-18, 01:47 AM
The oddest one I've actually played is It was a Mutual Decision, a game about a breakup -- with wererats. A lot of the Jeep Form stuff seems even stranger to me but I've never tried it first hand.

Ravens_cry
2008-11-18, 02:00 AM
Some more ones:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/bunniesandburrows.jpg



And although not really it's own RPG, it is still pretty neat in my opinion:
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=4900
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=28496&it=1&filters=0_0_0
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2544&it=1&filters=0_0_0
Well. . .I really liked Watership Down, so actually I could have considerable fun with this.
Looney Tunes Call of Cathulu also sounds like it it could get my weird on, though an expanded Roger Rabbit universe RPG sounds fun as well. Has anyone done that?

Eldan
2008-11-18, 02:11 AM
Hmm. I remember that we had a really weird game with a really old edition of Gamma World once. One player was an octopus shooting lightning, the other one a telekinetic wolf with the power to know what happened to every object int the past 200 years if he touched it. Our main enemy was a sentient space station.

Waspinator
2008-11-18, 02:39 AM
Someone needs to make a "The Adventures of Dr McNinja" RPG.

Tengu_temp
2008-11-18, 02:45 AM
Someone needs to make a "The Adventures of Dr McNinja" RPG.

Risus (http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/risus.htm) will do the trick here, if you ask me.

turkishproverb
2008-11-18, 02:48 AM
TMNT and other strangeness.

1 Reason: Psychotic, evil carebears.

xanaphia
2008-11-18, 03:12 AM
The chicken rpg. I ran this using modified 40k rules for combat.

The premise: Humans all disappeared and chickens are trying to start their own society. The chickens live in Queen's Gardens, a botanical garden in my town. They live in cages, and spend most of their time eating.

However, all is not well in Queensgardenscoop. Goannas try to eat their eggs, a sinister band of pirate chickens has taken up residence in a nearby McDonalds, and chickens still haven't fully mastered medicine. An the chickens don't know where any other chickens in the world live. Are they alone?

Players could choose any breed of chickens to be, and pick classes based on the Generics in D20 Modern.

When the players had met up with other chicken tribes, the game jumped forward a hundred years. Now a chicken nation had been formed. It was a modern society which hadn't fully matured, with drug dealing, kidnapping, and criminal gangs rife. Players could take the role of anyone, villains or heroes. It was very, VERY fun. I think I should run a RPG around it on these forums. Hmm...

newbDM
2008-11-18, 06:13 AM
For me, it would be the Crawl Of Cathulu section of the Toon Adventures book. It was Call of Cthulu mixed with Looney Tunes. The devastating forces you came up against could drive you Sane, leaving you unable to handle the wackiness of the setting.

Can someone please link me to this RPG?

The more I ponder this, the more intrigued I become. However, I can not seem to find anything about this RPG online.

potatocubed
2008-11-18, 07:28 AM
Don't Rest Your Head is apparently extremely warped, but I have no direct experience of it.

I have vague memories of a game where everyone's trapped in some sort of gilded palace and memories can be traded... or were you all playing insects in that one? I forget.

In all honesty, though, I think high weirdness stems from the actual group rather than the game they play. Any low-realism game can provide hours of wacky adventures if you've got the right (wrong?) GM. Ask me how!

newbDM
2008-11-18, 07:40 AM
In all honesty, though, I think high weirdness stems from the actual group rather than the game they play. Any low-realism game can provide hours of wacky adventures if you've got the right (wrong?) GM. Ask me how!

*Asks how*

Ravens_cry
2008-11-18, 07:56 AM
Can someone please link me to this RPG?

The more I ponder this, the more intrigued I become. However, I can not seem to find anything about this RPG online.
This should help tide you over until you do.

We're slimy, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy
You humans are delish-y when we're feasting on your brains! We're abysmal
creatures with gross horrific features Against Cthuloid preachers all the
good guys go insane!

So here's Miskatonic U. where all the creatures dwell Take a look at a
mythos book and find yourselves in hell!
Your guns aren't defective, they're just not real effective Our feast of
flesh and souls will surely taste so swell!

Your magic and voodoo will not stop the great Cthulhu
Don't eat with the Tchoo Tchoo; the Mi-go steal your brain! Here's Narly,
Tsathoggua, and there's flaming Cthugha
Ol' windy Ithaqua, and don't say Hastur's name! <Aaaiiieee!>

Welcome to dread R'lyeh where the angles are all wrong
You'll lose your soul and go insane if you stay here too long! We're
slimy, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy
Our feast of flesh and souls is just about to start! <Ding da ling ding
ding>
....And now we'll eat your heart![/center]

Raum
2008-11-18, 08:14 AM
there was one indie game I saw where you don't play characters, you play aspects of this one little girl's personality. That's right, you're playing parts of Haley's psyche slowly being shattered because of her inability to tell secrets.Sounds like Everyone is John (http://wso.williams.edu/~msulliva/campaigns/john/index.html) with the character renamed.

For other wierdness check out Over the Edge (http://www.atlas-games.com/overtheedge/), it has a surprisingly well thought out setting given how bizarre parts of it are. Then there's Savage World's toilet humor setting of Low Life (http://www.muthaoithcreations.com/lowlife.html).

Of course it all depends on what you consider to be weird...

Mushroom Ninja
2008-11-18, 08:50 AM
Ninja burger!

I've been thinking of running this one with one of my groups. :smallbiggrin:

Satyr
2008-11-18, 09:37 AM
Bunnies and Burrows is not a very weird game; it follows mostly the conventions of a heroic RPG with fantasy elements, but on a smaller and oftern 'cuter' scale, but it id very similar to many more classic games.

If a strange or unusual background for a RPGis enough to make it weird, than most of my homebrewed settings are this. Especially those ones I did not really inteded to be treated seriously.

The weirder (and more innovative) games are not those with a more innovative background but those, where the genre and its conventions, especially about the how to are changed like the Pool or the Window.

Winterwind
2008-11-18, 09:49 AM
The weirdest game I played? Paranoia. Where else do you get weaponry shooting mini-nukes that destroy everything in a range just a bit larger than its maximum range and other potentially highly dangerous equipment the manuals of which are all not available at your security clearance? :smallcool:

The weirdest game I ever heard of? Judging from the reviews, that would be either TimeCube or Hybrid RPG.
And, contrary to some opinions voiced before, I think FATAL should be mentioned here as well after all. Because how somebody could have come up with that monstrosity is truly mystifying. :smallcool:


This should help tide you over until you do.

We're slimy, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy
You humans are delish-y when we're feasting on your brains! We're abysmal
creatures with gross horrific features Against Cthuloid preachers all the
good guys go insane!

So here's Miskatonic U. where all the creatures dwell Take a look at a
mythos book and find yourselves in hell!
Your guns aren't defective, they're just not real effective Our feast of
flesh and souls will surely taste so swell!

Your magic and voodoo will not stop the great Cthulhu
Don't eat with the Tchoo Tchoo; the Mi-go steal your brain! Here's Narly,
Tsathoggua, and there's flaming Cthugha
Ol' windy Ithaqua, and don't say Hastur's name! <Aaaiiieee!>

Welcome to dread R'lyeh where the angles are all wrong
You'll lose your soul and go insane if you stay here too long! We're
slimy, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy
Our feast of flesh and souls is just about to start! <Ding da ling ding
ding>
....And now we'll eat your heart![/center]This is the most awesome thing I have seen in ages. :smallbiggrin:
Geez, I loved Tiny Toons. :smallfrown:

bosssmiley
2008-11-18, 09:57 AM
Playable: HOL.

You see you're criminals who've been dumped on a garbage world inhabited by feral librarians, Freman sanitation workers, the Sodomy Bikers, the secret lab that makes freakish-looking babies, little green men called the SNEE, oh and BillCo. Then there are these little squishy beasts with a tapoica filling that are the only source of nourishment, entertainment and minefield clearance on the planet, and the cricketcams things that'll leap out and attach to you, then blow a limb off if you cause ratings to dip below a certain point ... Oh, and the money will evolve in your pocket and try to chew your nuts off ... Oh, and there are Grues ... And alien Xenomorphs that look like Mickey Mouse. ... And Elvis.

You have stats called Meat and Nuts. Skills called 'Make Howitzer from Toaster', 'Resist Torture/Bagpipes', 'Scream Until You Get What You Want' and 'Make Sharp Objects Go Into Soft Things That Scream And Bleed'. Then there's the Wound Anguish chart, which tells you how wince-inducingly painful an injury is (1 = papercut, 12 = caught in a bandsaw, 15 = caught in the gears of a Ferris Wheel, 20 = unprotected re-entry from orbit), and a damage system based on how big a hole the weapon would leave in Slim Whitman.

The layout of the rulebook is quite demented, with skits, digressions and pages of outright lunacy (including one page of nothing but the word farming farming farming farming farming farming farming repeated over and over again). The artwork in intentionally cartoony, the tone crapsack world-meets-Toon.

It's still playable though. The core system is simple and sound, and the wholly random character generation system in the expansion book is a work of inspired lunatic genius. :smallcool:

Unplayable: *shudder* FATAL

The Glyphstone
2008-11-18, 10:04 AM
Playable: HOL.

You see you're criminals who've been dumped on a garbage world inhabited by feral librarians, Freman sanitation workers, the Sodomy Bikers, the secret lab that makes freakish-looking babies, little green men called the SNEE, oh and BillCo. Then there are these little squishy beasts with a tapoica filling that are the only source of nourishment, entertainment and minefield clearance on the planet, and the cricketcams things that'll leap out and attach to you, then blow a limb off if you cause ratings to dip below a certain point ... Oh, and the money will evolve in your pocket and try to chew your nuts off ... Oh, and there are Grues ... And alien Xenomorphs that look like Mickey Mouse. ... And Elvis.

You have stats called Meat and Nuts. Skills called 'Make Howitzer from Toaster', 'Resist Torture/Bagpipes', 'Scream Until You Get What You Want' and 'Make Sharp Objects Go Into Soft Things That Scream And Bleed'. Then there's the Wound Anguish chart, which tells you how wince-inducingly painful an injury is (1 = papercut, 12 = caught in a bandsaw, 15 = caught in the gears of a Ferris Wheel, 20 = unprotected re-entry from orbit), and a damage system based on how big a hole the weapon would leave in Slim Whitman.

The layout of the rulebook is quite demented, with skits, digressions and pages of outright lunacy (including one page of nothing but the word farming farming farming farming farming farming farming repeated over and over again). The artwork in intentionally cartoony, the tone crapsack world-meets-Toon.

It's still playable though. The core system is simple and sound, and the wholly random character generation system in the expansion book is a work of inspired lunatic genius. :smallcool:


Wow, that is warped. This plus Vegetable Patch have to be my favorites so far....keep 'em coming!

Darrin
2008-11-18, 10:04 AM
Creeks & Crawdads. Nuclear war wipes out humans, PCs are now semi-evolved crustaceans with barely enough brains to do simple tasks.

Macho Women With Guns. The only RPG to feature the skill "Run in High Heels". Still in print, I believe... Mongoose did a d20 version in 2003.

HOL: Human Occupied Landfill. Fear the MegaYodel!

Trollbabe. Everyone plays freakishly tall half-human half-goat lesbian hairmetal biker chicks. Normally I'd consider this some kind of elaborate joke, but it was written by the indie genius Ron Edwards, who I have quite a deal of respect for.

F.A.T.A.L. - Last called "From Another Time, Another Land", but before that more infamously subtitled "Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery". Pretty much pure fratboy wish-fulfillment, but I won't even attempt to describe it. Supposedly it's playable, but it's much much more entertaining to watch the flame-oshimas it creates in RPG forums.

SenZar - Another frequent nominee for worst RPG ever, but supposedly if RIFTs isn't "over the top enough" for you, caters to a certain niche.

World of Synnibar - Absolutely everything from every scifi/comic/fantasy story you could ever imagine, stuffed into a hollowed-out planet as a blender with the "puree" button turned on for a few 100,000 years.

Blackfang108
2008-11-18, 10:04 AM
Does anyone know the name of the cartoon that image came from? I swear I saw some R rated cartoon about vicious human killing bunny rabbits when I was like 6 or 7. You know, back in the "good old days" of the early 80's when cartoons exposed impressionable young minds to all kinds of new and interesting ideas. There's a good chance it's been banned, burned, and buried, 'cause it was DARK.

I'm fairly sure this image is from Watership Down. A convoluted movie and even more convoluted book.

Heliomance
2008-11-18, 11:04 AM
Not remotely convoluted, really. It's a very good story. Haven't seen the film.

Roderick_BR
2008-11-18, 11:28 AM
Playable: HOL.(...)
Sounds like a mix of Emperor Joker (DC's mini serie) and the world of Mojo (Marvel's recurring villain). Sounds fun.


there was one indie game I saw where you don't play characters, you play aspects of this one little girl's personality. That's right, you're playing parts of Haley's psyche slowly being shattered because of her inability to tell secrets.
I want to be Haley's Latent Bisexuality.

What?

(...)Our main enemy was a sentient space station.
WIN! I need to do an enemy like that. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Eldan
2008-11-18, 12:11 PM
I don't remeber which edition it was, sadly. It was an entirely playable system, character creation was just horribly, horribly unbalanced in a way that was enormous fun.
Short version of the setting: post-apocalyptic. You can play as an evolved, mutated humanoid animal, a mutated human, an evolved, mutated humanoid plant or non-mutated human (that's just stupid, they don't get mutations.). Then you have a chart where you roll 1d100 to see which mutations you get, with everything from "second brain in your stomach", "hearing what happens a kilometer away" and "gasbags which allow levitation" to "1d4 extra arms". Since the games only rule for multiweapon fighting was "not more than you have arms", it was freaky to see a humanoid octopus with a flintlock rifle and four flintlock pistols.
You had stats like "Robot Recognition", to see if the ultra advanced robots recognized you as human, a piece of furniture, a pet or a housplant.

Oh, and the best thing: since character weren't supposed to recognize technology, the game included long, complicated descriptions for normal household objects and used made up words to describe them when someone who knew what they were, like intelligent computers or robots, talked about them. I still remember that in one adventure we had to stop a weapon called the Yorkumtorkel from destroying an entire country.

Apart from that, the game had every imaginable tech level thrown in for fun. You could find technology from our time or freakishly powerful sci-fi weaponry like homing monomolecular sawblades or 10d8 damage handheld lasers. You could build yourself a halberd from two golfclubs and a kitchen knife, or buy medieval weaponry in shops. There were guilds and affiliations like the knights of genetic purity, who hunted down all mutants.

A very fun game.

Morty
2008-11-18, 12:38 PM
I haven't seen many RPGs in my life, but that parody of WoD where you play as hobos was preety darn weird.

Guinea Anubis
2008-11-18, 12:42 PM
Bunnies & Burrows

Kurald Galain
2008-11-18, 12:49 PM
Let's see...

Toon RPG is pretty weird.
So are Squeam and Pokethulhu.

My prize goes to the Caveman RPG where you are not allowed to use more than 25 words in-character.

Oracle_Hunter
2008-11-18, 12:51 PM
Bliss stage. (http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16587&cat=0&page=1) That is all.

So, Bliss Stage will send you to some very weird places.

Your mecha is powered by the trust and intimacy of your relationships, all of which can only be improved by RP. A Bliss Stage munchkin will have to be an amorous, bisexual roleplayer of tremendous skill. Weird, no?

However, when I heard of CthulhuTech (http://www.cthulhutech.com/) I can only think of EVA with the Mind Screws turned up to 11. Anyone actually play this thing?

xPANCAKEx
2008-11-18, 01:04 PM
wasn't there a game where you played cave men and had to use a language limited to about 36 words mostly consisting of grunts?

Project_Mayhem
2008-11-18, 01:33 PM
IIRC there's an RPG named "Kill Puppies for Satan".

'I kill puppies for Satan' is a genuinely hilarious game. The way it's written - hilarious. The gameplay - hilarious. The complaints section on the website - Sublime

LibraryOgre
2008-11-18, 02:21 PM
HoL.
Tales from the Floating Vagabond.
Spawn of Fashawn.
FASA's He-Man RPG.

Nerd-o-rama
2008-11-18, 02:55 PM
However, when I heard of CthulhuTech (http://www.cthulhutech.com/) I can only think of EVA with the Mind Screws turned up to 11. Anyone actually play this thing?Yep (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78812).

It's...weird, but it all meshes together surprisingly well. I'm not terribly fond of the ruleset, but the setting and fluff are superb.

Fax Celestis
2008-11-18, 03:15 PM
Spawn of Fashawn.

Real Men play Call of Cthulhu.
Real Roleplayers play Palladium 1e.
Loonies play an extremely variant Spawn of Fashawn/TOON crossover.
Munchkins play D&D.

only1doug
2008-11-18, 03:34 PM
Puppetland (http://johntynes.com/revland2000/rl_puppetland_www.html)

Swordguy
2008-11-18, 06:11 PM
I don't remeber which edition it was, sadly. It was an entirely playable system, character creation was just horribly, horribly unbalanced in a way that was enormous fun.
...
A very fun game.

You've done an excellent job of describing Gamma World.



Yep (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78812).

It's...weird, but it all meshes together surprisingly well. I'm not terribly fond of the ruleset, but the setting and fluff are superb.

Well, it's currently being published by Catalyst Gaming Labs, the spiritual descendants of FASA - who were the KINGS of making absolutely phenomenal settings with "so-so" rules (MechWarrior/Battletech, Renegade Legion, VOR, Crimson Skies, Earthdawn, Shadowun...). Thusly, when you praise the fluff and kinda handwave the crunch, it's right in line from what I expect.

For the record, by the way, my assessment of CthulhuTech is identical.

Siegel
2008-11-18, 06:20 PM
DORP - A german roleplaygames where you play roleplayers (or other nerds)

Winterwind
2008-11-18, 06:43 PM
DORP - A german roleplaygames where you play roleplayers (or other nerds)Funny, I call that "real life". :smalltongue:
And it is really weird, I agree. :smallbiggrin:

newbDM
2008-11-19, 10:20 AM
DORP - A german roleplaygames where you play roleplayers (or other nerds)

Seems interesting.

How does it work?

Is there a translation to English?

Starbuck_II
2008-11-19, 10:45 AM
DORP - A german roleplaygames where you play roleplayers (or other nerds)

Do you play roleplayers playing roleplayers playing roleplayers playing roleplayers?

FinalJustice
2008-11-19, 11:22 AM
This kind of recursive gaming would be the cooleest way to break a DM ever...

Oracle_Hunter
2008-11-19, 12:11 PM
This kind of recursive gaming would be the cooleest way to break a DM ever...

Obligatory XKCD Link (http://xkcd.com/244/) :smalltongue:

Waspinator
2008-11-19, 12:25 PM
Isn't there a Sluggy Freelance RPG under development? That one's probably going to turn out pretty strange. So will GURPS Girl Genius.

Zeful
2008-11-19, 12:26 PM
This kind of recursive gaming would be the cooleest way to break a DM ever...

Shadowrun> D20 modern> SW Saga> Farcape d20> Serenity d20> D&D> Miniatures wargaming.

Tyrrell
2008-11-19, 01:24 PM
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the new line games from the late 90's early 2000's

In The Adventures of Baron Von Munchousen you play noblemen sitting around a table having a competitive lying contest (it's a combination RPG/drinking game... with swords!)

Pantheon is a competitive role playng game characters switch every action and players win be being the most genre savvy.

On a slightly less wierd note there is Rune which combines a railroaded RPG where everyone plays a viking warrior (why would you want to play anything else?) with a competitive dungeon design game Players earn points for the sucess of their characters and for the success of the encouters that they design and run against the other players.

Ascension
2008-11-19, 01:30 PM
Shadowrun> D20 modern> SW Saga> Farcape d20> Serenity d20> D&D> Miniatures wargaming.

Wait, so the Shadowrun party is playing a game in which technology is more primitive and magic is gone, and their characters in that game are playing a space opera, and the space opera characters are playing a (? Never watched Farscape.) kind of sci-fi game, and those characters are playing a space western, and those characters are playing high-fantasy, and those characters are busy inventing miniature wargaming? Have I got that right?

Zeful
2008-11-19, 01:38 PM
Wait, so the Shadowrun party is playing a game in which technology is more primitive and magic is gone, and their characters in that game are playing a space opera, and the space opera characters are playing a (? Never watched Farscape.) kind of sci-fi game, and those characters are playing a space western, and those characters are playing high-fantasy, and those characters are busy inventing miniature wargaming? Have I got that right?

Yeah. You've got that right.

Eldan
2008-11-19, 03:31 PM
You've done an excellent job of describing Gamma World.


I know it's Gamma World, the question was what edition. I once got my hands on something that looked like a newer edition of it, done by wizards in d20, and it seemed utterly boring and balanced.

Waspinator
2008-11-20, 02:00 AM
I feel like GURPS Uplift is worth mentioning. Any game that has bionically enhanced intelligent dolphins and lifeforms with minds made out of the collective consciousnesses of a stack of wax rings is pretty weird.

Guinea Anubis
2008-11-20, 12:48 PM
I do not know how we got to page 3 and no one has said Low Life (http://www.muthaoithcreations.com/lowlife.html). Any game that lets you play as a snake cake is weird.

Waspinator
2008-11-21, 02:50 AM
Etherscope: Victorian cybersteampunk. Zeppelins and a parallel dimension that is basically entropy-defying cyberspace.

Dragonstar: Star Trek meets D&D. Evil-seeking missiles. Need I say more?

Dragonmech: Dragons from the moon invade and you fight them off in a steam-powered MechaGodzilla:
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4288/mechavt1.png

turkishproverb
2008-11-21, 03:10 AM
Steam-Kaiju Punk

Waspinator
2008-11-21, 04:33 AM
Magical steam kaiju punk!

The world of Dragonmech was your stereotypical D&D world right up until the lunar invasion. That's when the mechs, bionic steam-powered implants, and giant monsters really started. But there was already a pretty strong magical base going.

newbDM
2008-11-21, 05:30 AM
Dragonstar: Star Trek meets D&D. Evil-seeking missiles. Need I say more?


Not quite.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/b55bd81a.jpg

Waspinator
2008-11-21, 06:37 PM
They're actually a bit different. Spelljammer is more fantasy in space, with magic being used for space travel and the layout of the universe being more mythologically based. Dragonstar uses more of a realistic universe structure (instead of that crystal sphere stuff) and is less "sailing ships in space" and more "Drow with laser rifles".

Hida Reju
2008-11-22, 03:31 AM
Weirdest RPG ever....Tales from the Floating Vagabond

I saw it listed but no one blinked...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Floating_Vagabond

Trust me it exceeds most peoples weirdness lvl in character creation.

Here is a better review of it

http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_952.html

Kris Strife
2008-11-22, 04:24 AM
Teenagers from Outer Space.

Evil DM Mark3
2008-11-22, 04:28 AM
Macho women with guns.

Knaight
2008-11-22, 10:46 AM
I'll just second GURPS Bunnies and Burrows <,< Its just... so... odd... Its interesting, but one of those things you have to ask "Why did someone come up with this? <O.O>"

Because the author, Stephen o' Sullivan started with non-GURPS Bunnies and Burrows, which was based off of a classic book, Watership down. He has since moved on to create Fudge, which is an incredible system, which can be used for both the normal stuff(high fantasy) to the abnormal(rogue experimental robots that were built so as to adapt enemy weapons including stuff from other companies, in a world controlled by the powerful companies, which are mostly robotics and weapons, while robots are attaining sentience and trying to earn the right of being a person while still having to cope with being tools of the robots. This being Mods, which I made up, which Fudge worked really well for.)

Given that Bunnies and Burrows is based on Watership Down, its not really all that odd. Nothing on the vegetable patch game.

Siegel
2008-11-22, 12:30 PM
Seems interesting.

How does it work?

Is there a translation to English?

It's free to DL in german but no english translation...

Basicly there is the DORP. The DORP is a organisation lead by three people known as the Triumvirat. They say that they where touched by the powers of Nerdor ( a diffrent world from where the Nerd Power comes from). You normaly play one in a group of 3 people, a Squad so to say. You get missions from your local DORP club (you know, these people who organise cons, sell roleplaybooks or own videoshops). A mission could be to sneak into a print shop where LoTR is printed and to change the text to "One dorp to role them all" etc.

Now imagine 3 untrained, chaotic people tyring to solve this missions.
The whole rulebook is hillarious und the concept quite unique, never got to play it sadly...

Friv
2008-11-22, 03:03 PM
Can someone please link me to this RPG?

The more I ponder this, the more intrigued I become. However, I can not seem to find anything about this RPG online.

This, as it turns out, is because my memory sucks.

The actual name of the chapter, now that I have the book in front of me, is "Crawl of Catchoolu". It appears in the sourcebook Tooniversal Tour Guide, for Toon, The Cartoon Roleplaying Game. It was published by Steve Jackson Games in 1992. Since it's a sixteen-year old book, you might have trouble finding it in stores - but Ebay seems to have more than a few books up for auction. Good ol' Ebay.

Also present in the book were the chapters "Atomic Monster Theater", "CarToon Wars", "Dungeons And Toons", "Mektoon", "Star Toon", "Supertoon" (the only RPG I've found to accurately model playing Darkwing Duck, which is a big plus), "Toonpunk 2020 1/2", and "Toony Tyke Adventures".

Knaight
2008-11-22, 07:21 PM
http://www.fudgefactor.org/2005/12/call-of-chtoonhu.html

You just reminded me of that. Any game with the skill "go postal with guns" goes up a few notches in the weirdness(and awesomeness) category.

Eldan
2008-11-24, 10:58 AM
A little research showed me that the edition of gamma world I played a few years back was 4th. If I could find the books somewhere, I'd start a game on these fora, but even all the torrents I can find have no one seeding.

Roderick_BR
2008-11-24, 12:17 PM
Shadowrun> D20 modern> SW Saga> Farcape d20> Serenity d20> D&D> Miniatures wargaming.
"My SR character makes Gaming check, so my Moderm character can make a gaming check, so my SW character can make a gaming check, so my FS character can make a gaming check, so my Serenity character can make a gaming check, so my dwarven fighter can make a gaming check, to reach across the table and move his elven wizard miniature."

Heh, reminds me of the movie 13th Floor.

Tola
2008-11-24, 01:14 PM
FASA's He-Man RPG.

You've intrigued me...

How does that work well?