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Thread: I Found a Maid RPG
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2013-07-22, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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I Found a Maid RPG
So, as I was messing around on 1d4chan, I found something interesting. A Maid RPG. It is SFW (mostly) and appears to be rather hilarious. It is also compatible with Dark Heresy for some reason. Thoughts?
Here's the link to the 1d4chan page (links may not be SFW, you have been warned)
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Maid_RPG
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2013-07-22, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Maid RPG is pretty well known on these forums. There were several discussion threads as well as a few games.
The thing that irks me though is that so few people are playing it straight. What's wrong with vanilla Maid RPG? It always has to be "Maid with space assassins" or "Maid in Warhammer 40k" or "Maid with dragons".
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2013-07-22, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
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2013-07-22, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Heck, I'm new here so I didn't know. Anyways, it looks interesting, so I'm thinking about buying the book. Is it good?
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2013-07-22, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
There's a rather involved review, if you have an SA account.
http://tradwiki.foxxtrot.net/index.p...8by_Comment.29
Long story short: Maybe fun, very skeevy. Especially the examples of play.
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2013-07-22, 08:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2013-07-23, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
I've played it twice. We had a fun bit of gender reversal with the female GM being the master and all of the male players were maids. Despite the best efforts of the most vanilla setting of an old Victorian house in the modern-day United States we managed to:
- Massive floods breaking off parts of California
- Several assassinations
- Abuse of day laborers
- Robot uprisings
- Kidnapping of neighborhood pets
- Swimsuit competition with the CEO of Facebook judging
The game is much better when you ignore all of the adult themes and have fun with how ridiculous the premise is. It's a strong player and narrative driven game. Easily adapted to any setting as long as you keep the "a bunch of dudes working for one dude to do something in a week."
Mechanically the game is as simple as it can get, though that doesn't stop strange rules from happening, such as how I made a character that can generate XP at next to no cost.
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2013-07-23, 04:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
There's one time where you can't shake a stick without hitting a Maid game in this forum. Ah, those were the days.
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2013-07-23, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-07-23, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
I'm not entirely sure how Maid RPG is compatible with Dark Heresy. I dunno if they did that as a joke or what, but I can't see how a mainly d6 system functions well along side a d10 system.
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2013-07-23, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
So, I caved and bought the book from the English website. And OHMYGOD the little "examples" of how the rules work are hilarious.
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2013-07-23, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Dark Heresy uses a d100, not a d10. Regardless, I think the point was setting compatibility, not system.
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2013-07-23, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-07-23, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Which rulebook are you reading? The rulebook explicitly says that the game is played with at least two ten-sided dice per player. You can easily roll 2d10 to determine the digits of what would be a d100 roll (results of 10-10 are 100 though many d10s have 0 marked instead of 10)
Last edited by Emperor Ing; 2013-07-23 at 04:53 PM.
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2013-07-23, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Well, the core mechanic uses a d100. I tend to forget things like "damage rolls" or "corruption points".
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2013-07-23, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
A friend of mine made a similar sort of RPG called "Ballerina princess". Basically, all the players take the roles of Disney-esque princessess in a magic land with one magic power each (along the lines of "I can talk to /command birds", no lasers or fireballs) and have to win the heart of the prince. The fun comes when trying to sabotage the others while appearing the soul of innocence.
And I'm pretty sure the only anime/manga he ever watched/read was "Spirited Away".
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2013-07-23, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
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2013-07-23, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-07-24, 03:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
I've played a couple decent Maid oneshots, but the problem is that essentially by design the game progresses by having people get bored with what's going on and call for a complication. The complication table is full of such plot uprooting insanity that it's impossible to actually get anything done. You'll be in the middle of a shopping trip and the sky will break open and the legions of hell will invade. Then another complication will transport the whole cast to another dimension, then terrorists will kidnap the Master, then a bomb threat will be called in.
In addition, you're not really in control of the character you make, so sometimes you can roll "Is a vampire who secretly is trying to kill the Master" and know what you're going to add to the game and sometimes you can roll, "Has a pink bow in her green hair, and her maid outfit is purple" and you'll be totally lost. Really, you just need to give yourself the option to keep rolling and adding new traits until you're happy with the character.
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2013-07-24, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-07-24, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: I Found a Maid RPG
Best played as a situational comedy anime, I take it.
Last edited by SowZ; 2013-07-24 at 03:58 PM.
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