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With all this Zorro talk and his centennnial in August 2019, I'm going to have to re-read The Curse of Capistrano now. My referee ADHD :dice: is also kicking in and making me want to run a similarly-themed game set in Spanish California, a.k.a. the good old days :hehe:.
 
TristramEvans said:
A couple thoughts:

1) "Role & Roll" is a pretty cool alternative name for an RPG
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There's a Japanese TRPG magazine called "Role & Roll" as well.

AsenRG said:
I've ran Maid for an all-female group, and played it online with strangers. The only creepy thing about the game are the people who automatically assume it's meant to evoke anything sexual, but personally, this one makes me go "WTF people", not "WTF Japan".
Anything sexual was definitely absent from any of the games I ran or played, while we usually don't shy from the topic. But in this case, we agreed it's way too much of a parody.
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Even if you play it straight, the writing and the examples in the book itself, I have to agree, are pretty creepy.

The Butcher said:
I know we shouldn’t judge books by their covers and all but holy shit, Japan, would it kill you to put something other than a nubile (to put it kindly) schoolgirl on each cover?

I don’t think I’m a prude or anything but some people might want to read their RPG books in public and this is just. Not. Helping.
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Fortunately, it's pretty small (near mass paperback sized) and you can always take off the dust jacket. Here's the second book in the line for male idols:
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I'm afraid I've always wanted to run modern Zorro set in New Mexico with biker gangs and drug lords. Yes Desperado is essentially that.
 
JELEINEN said:
Even if you play it straight, the writing and the examples in the book itself, I have to agree, are pretty creepy.
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It's almost like we've read two different books at this point. Either that, I'm seriously forgetting unimportant stuff, or we've really got different reactions to the same thing.
Congrats, you got me to re-read Maid. To return the favour, I might start a Where I Read Maid thread:grin:!

Also, I just checked the intro and basic rules again. Are you sure you read the "PG-13" disclaimer:tongue:?
 
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Bunch said:
Not the weirdest but still off. Pandemonium the game of tabloid role-playing.
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How does it differ from Corps, Conspiracy X, Unknown Armies, Over the Edge and the like?
 
Bunch said:
Not the weirdest but still off. Pandemonium the game of tabloid role-playing.
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I remember this one! Vaguely. I thumbed through a game store copy and couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
 
AsenRG said:
How does it differ from Corps, Conspiracy X, Unknown Armies, Over the Edge and the like?
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It's more of a light hearted RPG. I believe you're reporters for things like the World News or other tabloid newspapers investigating why Bat Boy is draining the life force of farm cows only to learn it's an elaborate plot to return Elvis from his imprisonment on Mars.
 
Bunch said:
It's more of a light hearted RPG. I believe you're reporters for things like the World News or other tabloid newspapers investigating why Bat Boy is draining the life force of farm cows only to learn it's an elaborate plot to return Elvis from his imprisonment on Mars.
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So, like Over the Edge.
 
Bunch said:
Yeah but even more light hearted. And with fixed stats as I recall.
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Obviously, it's the fixed stats that prevented it from having a cult following, then:devil:!
 
I remember Pandemonium, I played with a smallish group of women back in the mid90s for a couple months. We had to stop when three new players joined us and decided Pandemonium was too weird so we ended up playing RC D&D for awhile instead as that was the only thing everyone seemed to agree was acceptable.
 
JELEINEN said:
Yeah, work schedule for the last several years makes going on IRC at a reasonable hour not very feasible. Anyway, I'm doing pretty well. Glad to see you're still alive and kicking.
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Yes! As Tim said, good to know you are still alive and kicking too! We were talking about Guardian the other day in character, so your character is still fondly remembered! :grin:
 
Bunch said:
It's more of a light hearted RPG. I believe you're reporters for things like the World News or other tabloid newspapers investigating why Bat Boy is draining the life force of farm cows only to learn it's an elaborate plot to return Elvis from his imprisonment on Mars.
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How does it compare to Tabloid!?
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I like the idea of playing something like Tabloid... probably as a one-off for Call of Cthulhu... with a mind towards Kolchak: The Night Stalker... the grubby bottom-feeder 'journalist', out for whatever weird and sensationalist tale he can find. Discovering what 'Bat Boy' really is.
 
Simlasa said:
I like the idea of playing something like Tabloid... probably as a one-off for Call of Cthulhu... with a mind towards Kolchak: The Night Stalker... the grubby bottom-feeder 'journalist', out for whatever weird and sensationalist tale he can find. Discovering what 'Bat Boy' really is.
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A boy with a bat, like the guy in the Ninja Turtles:grin:? Though admittedly, he had hockey and golf sticks, too.
 
CBC reporter 'So what was it like working for WWN?'

WWN reporter 'We made up stories to ignite the imagination of our reader And take them on a fantastic journey.'

CBC reporter 'What do you do for fun?'

WWN reporter 'I have been running a 20 year Metamorphosis Alpha campaign.'
 
TristramEvans said:
well there was a Wizards RPG...

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Vaughn Bodē was the one who did Cheech Wizard, right? If I'm misremembering that, this reply will make less sense.
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I have most of this somewhere. One of those random things I found at Aero Hobbies in Santa Monica when the previous owner was clearing out stock.
 
TristramEvans said:
well there was a Wizards RPG...

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Vaughn Bodē was the one who did Cheech Wizard, right? If I'm misremembering that, this reply will make less sense.
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Must have this! Love that movie (despite all its flaws) and literally was just talking to my son about it.

Tell me there is a Fire & Ice rpg? Please, please
 
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xanther said:
Must have this! Love that movie (despite all its flaws) and literally was just talking to my son about it.

Tell me The is a Fire & Ice rpg? Please, please
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TristramEvans said:
Wizards. Fire & Ice would have been cool. Especially with a bunch of Frazetta art...
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Sorry to disappoint, but that would be the RPG based on Ralph Bakshi's animated movie "Wizards".
 
Dumarest said:
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(Just as an aside, I come from a very specific subset of American culture: Mexican Hispanic criollo Catholic atheist...we've been here longer than the Anglos but not as long as the indios. :wink:)

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Ahhh like my brother in law, though he is still devout. Long ago from ranchers until when the US took on the former Spanish territories and his families deeds and land grants were “unfortunately” lost or destroyed.

Alas he is more “American” than me in that he likes bland food, and speaks little Spanish. . I’ve got a whole bunch of Nordic in me, but ay dios mio I do love spicy SW mex and Tex-mex.
 
David Johansen said:
After they closed down, CBC interviewed one of the writers from Weekly World News, it sounds like the best job you could ever ask for. Fake news you can get behind!
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You know, honestly, never thought about it, but man, being a Tabloid "bat boy" writer does sound like a fun job.
 
Harl Quinn said:
Sorry to disappoint, but that would be the RPG based on Ralph Bakshi's animated movie "Wizards".
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To further disappoint, it was published by Ken Whitman. He allegedly still owes monies to people who worked on it.
 
TristramEvans said:
Smeg, did not know that. Feel bad for even posting a picture of it now.
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You didn't know. No biggie. It's also not the first game of his mentioned in this thread. He also published Zero under the alias of Archangel Entertainment.
 
I read an interview with Ken Whitman once, in Shadis or Cryptech, maybe even Pyramid right around when Wizards came out and people were mad at him about T4. He described himself as a big guy who got things done. For some reason I always feel a little sorry for him because he always falls short and keeps trying. I mean, I'm still mad as hell about T4 though I recall him posting on therpgsite at one point that he was out of the picture before Marc Miller finally pulled the plug. Still, I don't see him so much as a con artist as a failure who keeps on trying, using other people's money. He's also the reason I've never tried to crowd fund the publication of my own games because I'd never want to be him.
 
Whatever his initial intentions are (up to and including stealing other people's ideas for products), it's how Whitman handles the situations when they fall apart that speak for his character. I would definitely call him a scammer.
 
TristramEvans said:
Wizards. Fire & Ice would have been cool. Especially with a bunch of Frazetta art...
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I don’t think hat would be a hard pull at all. Several systems could manage that quite easily I think.

Also one of my favorites as well. I’ve watched it in the last year.
 
Raleel said:
I don’t think hat would be a hard pull at all. Several systems could manage that quite easily I think.

Also one of my favorites as well. I’ve watched it in the last year.
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That was one of those films that back in the 90s it was impossible to get a hold of on video. I remember buying a VHS bootleg at a convention, along with Rock & Rule.
 
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