Gaming with Ebola, a Review


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So with all of this Ebola stuff in the news, I wondered what would happen if I tried bringing this Ebola stuff into my weekly D20 games.

First, getting Ebola is super hard and surprisingly expensive. I attempted to source it through DriveThruRPG. It seems to be out of print. The news keeps talking about Africa so I traveled to Africa to a place called a "Hot Zone", which is honestly the second stupidest name for a gaming store I've ever seen. Not a very good Game store either, very poorly stocked in my opinion.

None of the many people I met spoke English or had a strong knowledge of the Ebola game system. But I must say that this place had a strong LARPing Community because they were running some sort of Mage the Ascension Game with very high production values. Like seriously, those are the best Progenitors costumes I have ever seen.

I attempted to get Ebola by asking the nearest LARP ST how to get it. This guy was really into his character and actually RPed being a Doctor for about two hours before he came back and informed me that I already HAD Ebola. This was confusing and I assumed he was saying that I'd gotten like some sort of Free Alpha slice of the game. I said thank you and tried to go back to my hotel. That violated some sort of LARP rule because the other players wanted to finish RPing with me and got kind of upset when I tried to leave.

Seriously, I have to commend the dedication and production values of this LARP because I genuinely believed that the guys playing the NPCs were Liberian Policemen and American Army Personnel.

I attempted to explain to them that I prefer VtM over Mage and I definitely don't RP as a Technocrat. They didn't listen so I tried to leave any way and they got super rude. I put my hand up with the crossed fingers and everything, they didn't listen and then they tried to physically assault me which is poor sportsman ship in my mind. Rule Number 1 in the White Wolf books is no contact.

But okay I thought, fine. I then punched the nearest guy in the nuts, again I was uncomfortable with this level of contact, and I screamed "Praise be to Caine." I worried the ST was going to be uncomfortable with me crossing Genres but nobody called me on it.

There was a car chase scene and a lot of yelling, again the production values were spectacular because they had a helicopter. They broke the rules again because I kept trying to throw chops for tests and they kept shooting actual guns at me. Seriously, this was getting silly.

Eventually I did get back to the airport where apparently the airline had some sort of cross promotional deal with the LARP organization (seriously, HUGE production values) where the pilots refused to fly because I had the Ebola Alpha Slice. I stayed in character and told them that I would sacrifice them all to the Sword of Caine if they didn't comply. The Airport personnel were nice enough to play along and every one on the aircraft genuinely looked terrified as I board the plane back home.

I kept expecting someone to hand me the core rule book for the Ebola game but there must've been some kind of miscommunication because they just gave me a few pills. Now I'm sitting in the Baton Rouge IHop and all I've got to show for my hard work is this weird fever. Honestly? Not a fun gaming experience.


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Ha?


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... ROFLMAO!... Not cool dude.

This is as bad a taste as Ebola-Chan.

One of those things that's like.... "Ha! HAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHA! Not cool dude!"


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Gotta give you points for ingenuity. Well played, sir, well played.

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