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| Benzed-R-INE |
 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:19 am Post subject: Random Genre Generator? |
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I have an idea for zap games... the Random Genre Generator. I got the idea while watching "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" during the game where the audience calls out different genres and the actors play out a scene in that style.
The concept is simple. Number a piece of paper from 1 to 20. Write down 20 different genres, and roll a d20 at the beginning of the game (or any time you feel like it during the game), and that's the style the characters have to act.
Say, for example, at the beginning of a game of zap, we use the RGG. I roll the 20-sider and get an eleven. On the RGG, that just happens to be "Dr. Seuss Book", so everyone, the players, the NPCs, even Friend Computer, has to talk in silly rhymes.
Does that sound like a good idea or am I just crazy?
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| Mike-V-LEM |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Gor-R-ILA |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:10 am Post subject: |
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YELLOW
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| Reminds me of Paranoia, the musical.... |
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| Costin-U-MOR-6 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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Could be applied to any game... not sure it would work for PARANOIA except as a one off - like Buffy's 'Once More With Feeling'.
A better choice of game would be Toon...
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| Dystopian Rhetoric |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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INDIGO
 
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| Gor-R-ILA wrote: |
| Reminds me of Paranoia, the musical.... |
Heehee.
I remember trying a vaguely similar idea once, the Troubleshooters had a machine with which they could change the room they were in to any other room they could think of. Hijinks ensued. |
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| Adam-R-LON-1 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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No, that does sound like a really good idea, except that there's no in-game justification for why the game is being performed in that genre. I suppose you can always blame it on Commie Mutant Traitors.
And yes, I do remember PARANOIA: The Musical. What fun. 
Show us the RGG, if it exists. I'd like to see what genres are on there.
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| Etaoin Shrdlu |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I can totally see how this could be worked in - the RGG is an experimental R&D device designed to even further improve the already-absolutely-wonderful morale of Alpha Complex. Instead of it affecting everyone, maybe it's a helmet style device, locked onto one unfortunate PC. If he strays from the genre, the RGG gives him a good healthy zap. (Those who've read the newly-scanned comic books know the sort of thing I'm talking about.) Or maybe the whole team is wearing them. With this system, you get the added bonus of funny looks from the NPCs who can't understand why Troubleshooters are talking to them in haiku.
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| saulres |
| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Or it's a drug, created by the Romantics, slipped into the Bouncy Bubble Beverage processing plant in the sector the PCs go to. The briefing officer, a Romantic himself, orders the PCs to drink some BBB "for the road" before sending them on their mission, which winds up taking them to the sector in question. So, for part of the mission, the Troubleshooters are the only ones slipping into genre, garnering strange glances at best. Once they get into the affected sector, they fit right in, and realize that the source of their odd behavior is located somewhere nearby. Now they have to decide if they want to continue their original mission, or break off and try to get their behavior under control. |
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| Benzed-R-INE |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:35 am Post subject: |
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Both of those justifications rock! The expirimental equipment explanation is a way of possibly using the RGG on several missions. The B3 explanation is great for a one-shot game. I can just see the characters in debriefing for that one, acting so strange that Friend Computer has no choice but to terminate them all, and each one of them go to (or dance to, depending on the genre) the termination chamber, acting out the events in the chosen style.
Both are very nice, and fit in very well. I'll get that RGG posted as soon as I finish it.
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| Gor-R-ILA |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Attention all clones.
Haikus found to boost morale.
Now mandatory. |
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| Benzed-R-INE |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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ORANGE
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Hail Friend Computer!
The RGG will be fun!
Or else we all die.
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| Adam-R-LON-1 |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hail is two syllables! TREASON! ZAPZAPZAP
Well it is in my mind anyway.
Yes, the R&D device is perfect as a 'morale-booster'. Well, R&D could develop anything and call it a morale-booster. "Take this highly volatile container of Uranium-238, citizen. It is designed to boost morale in your team."
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| Benzed-R-INE |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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ORANGE
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Your cry of treason
Did not follow haiku form.
Zap zap zap zap zap.
Expect follow-up.
The RGG will be done
And posted tonight.
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| saulres |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Anticipating
This exciting new concept
Has me all gooey
I would tape it to
My GM Screen excepting
Tape is treasonous
Hey Moderators
Maybe thread becomes sticky;
Genres change weekly? |
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| Adam-R-LON-1 |
| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Oh dear...
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