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Now, I'm one of those people that comes up with a new game idea once a week, much to the semi-annoyance of my gaming group. Some of the ideas are a bog-standard affair, but some are a little off-the-wall.
What crazy/interesting ideas have people had for games?
I'll start:
- Transformers
- The PCs are the maids of a master who is a ex-spy and every intelligence agency seem to want to kill him
- Ghost-Busters*
- The PCs are Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee who return to the Chocolate Factory to have their revenge on Willy-Wonka*
*These are game ideas not of my invention, and probably taken from one or many of the podcasts I listen to.
Cheers! :D
A low magic campaign during the Russian October Revolution.
d20 Modern - In a prison
d20 Future - Transformers
Fantasy - extremely low-magic, spell-casters are a rare breed (could probably do this with Iron Heroes)
Strange Flowers: The Invisibles meets the warhammer world.
I devised one today during a conversation with my friend Ed. I kept feeling the need to apologize for it and dub it a mental exercise alone, but now I can't get it out of my head because it bangs hard against a universally visceral fear. I can't stop thinking what a good indie RPG book it would make, ala Ron Edward's Sorceror Roleplay Game or Little Fears.
I will do my damndest to forget it, for the good of all the things I really need to get done before I even attempt such a thing. Like make money for food.
As for that Ghostbusters RPG...
Hey, that was no help.
If you're in a Ghostbusters mood, how about something else from the 80's, a nice more cheez please Freddy Krueger Dream Warrior type game?
Don't tell your PCs what the game is. Just tell them they're playing teenagers and need to create their characters' profiles. Then, based on their character sheet's psych profile and interests, devise an appropriate strength/alter ego for the dream realm with which they might band together to defeat that arch devil himself, Freddy Krueger.
Create a chance for a one, two, Freddy's comin' for you singalong.
If they win, play the Dream Warriors song by Dokken. Wait. Reverse that. If they win, don't.
I want to get a hard scifi cyberpunk noir going, where the characters are a.i remains of hardened criminals with a score to settle, and they can purchase new bodies, custom built. The game would have really lethal and bloody combat, with the characters having multiple lives, as long as they can afford new bodies. Some of their time would have to go to stealing and killing just to support their need for new flesh. Running ahead of the law, and trying to make the son of a b$$#@ that double crossed them suffer, getting tangled with the Yakuza and the russian mob.
I will call the game 'meat'
How about a real 'Roll-Playing' experience.
The player would take to rolls of different kinds of bread. They would quest for upgrades like "butter", "Jam", "Peanut Butter", or even the much sought after "Cinnamon Sugar!"
Of course, the doughy heroes would have to avoid the dreaded "hungry diner" . . .
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
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Hentacles, the RPG. Where you play a hentacled thing and have to "hunt" schoolgirls. (Hey, YOU said crazy)
A-Team, the RPG.
Hungry are the Zombies, but I think that was already done.
rednifhtaP. Yeah, it's pathfinder, only reversed. You're a dungeon monster and have to fight for your dear life, and that of your beloved, against marauding bands of Heroes.
Are "hentacles" anything like "tentacles"?
During the last, strange days of AD&D 2nd Edition, TSR did give us "Reverse Dungeon" that was exactly as you describe.
...have to "hunt" schoolgirls.
You mean you don't already?
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Post apocalyptic auto bashing (Car Wars and Mad Max)
Near future earth colonizing the planets (had the idea long before GURPS came out with Transhuman Space)
Pulling out an old game... Creature Feature! Lord that was a fun game.
Terminator
Star Trek the new movie!
1920s era mystic exploration... pyramids, Antarctica- Atlantis, Chinese ruins, Mayan ruins... all with some real magic (Indiana Jones)
Quantum Leap.
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I once designed the Knights of the Zodiac (aka Saint Seiya) as a Class for AD&D, including tables for the random characteristics of a Knight's mystical attacks.
One of my friends created a house-RPG based on the Dumarest Saga by EC Tubb.
I long for a RPG based on the following settings :
- Dune
- The adventures of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever
- Rokugan 2000
Heroes might be nice to translate to RPG too.
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Post apocalyptic auto bashing (Car Wars and Mad Max)
Near future earth colonizing the planets (had the idea long before GURPS came out with Transhuman Space)
Pulling out an old game... Creature Feature! Lord that was a fun game.
Terminator
Star Trek the new movie!
1920s era mystic exploration... pyramids, Antarctica- Atlantis, Chinese ruins, Mayan ruins... all with some real magic (Indiana Jones)
The French RPG designer Croc made several games that fit some of your themes :
- Bitume for the post-apo mad max style
- Heavy Metal where you basically play a Terminator (though a standard one, not the elite prototypes you see in the movies)
Of course, the books are in French.
1920s era mystic exploration... pyramids, Antarctica- Atlantis, Chinese ruins, Mayan ruins... all with some real magic (Indiana Jones)
If you haven't checked out Spirit of the Century you should. It's set in the 20's and full of Pulp like Indiana Jones or Doc Savage. Real magic, giant robots, or whatever your group can dream up.
I tried a game once where all the PC's were small demons summoned by an inept wizard apprenctice. It was ment to be a light harted one shot so my players got a chance to just let loose, act silly, and destroy things...at least until the Master Conjourer returned.
It was ment to be a light harted one shot so my players got a chance to just let loose, act silly, and destroy things...at least until the Master Conjourer returned.
Fantasia!
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If you haven't checked out Spirit of the Century you should. It's set in the 20's and full of Pulp like Indiana Jones or Doc Savage. Real magic, giant robots, or whatever your group can dream up.1920s era mystic exploration... pyramids, Antarctica- Atlantis, Chinese ruins, Mayan ruins... all with some real magic (Indiana Jones)
My group has incorporated a lot of the character creation rules from SotC into our "Pathfinder Modern" campaign. The characters now have definite links to each other and strong character backgrounds. Its added a lot of positive elements to our role-playing so far.
My group has incorporated a lot of the character creation rules from SotC into our "Pathfinder Modern" campaign. The characters now have definite links to each other and strong character backgrounds. Its added a lot of positive elements to our role-playing so far.If you haven't checked out Spirit of the Century you should. It's set in the 20's and full of Pulp like Indiana Jones or Doc Savage. Real magic, giant robots, or whatever your group can dream up.1920s era mystic exploration... pyramids, Antarctica- Atlantis, Chinese ruins, Mayan ruins... all with some real magic (Indiana Jones)
I'll be making my first SotC character tonight, looking forward to the game since it looks like it has a lot of Great RP possibilities. I have been toying with the idea of using the system to run a Star Wars game
Aliens, Endgame- A game where you play an alien and you must infect, hunt and overcome the natives to start a new nest. Then you must try to survive the wave of reprisal attacks by the natives and the Yautja hunters.
Devil's Advocate: A game where you play a devil that has the job of corrupting human souls. You have to be devious, cheat, lie and use your (restricted) powers to earn souls for a promotion and power. See how much evil you can indirectly cause.
That'd be awesome! Have you seen any of the Red Star stuff?
No. Do you have some links?
Devil's Advocate: A game where you play a devil that has the job of corrupting human souls. You have to be devious, cheat, lie and use your (restricted) powers to earn souls for a promotion and power. See how much evil you can indirectly cause.
In Nomine, originally French but translated by Steve Jackson Games.
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Devil's Advocate: A game where you play a devil that has the job of corrupting human souls. You have to be devious, cheat, lie and use your (restricted) powers to earn souls for a promotion and power. See how much evil you can indirectly cause.
Starting equipment: Black leather jacket, sunglasses, and old car with a tape deck that only plays Best of Queen.
Starting equipment: Black leather jacket, sunglasses, and old car with a tape deck that only plays Best of Queen.
Devil's Advocate: A game where you play a devil that has the job of corrupting human souls. You have to be devious, cheat, lie and use your (restricted) powers to earn souls for a promotion and power. See how much evil you can indirectly cause.
Or a cigar, an ugly sweater, and a case of Jell-O Pudding Pops(tm).
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Quantum Leap/Eternal Champions....RPG-style...
*One minute you were reading the TV Guide, then next you're in the body of an orc warrior, you're holding a....*
next time, *you're in the body of a human, you're holding a gun...a laser rifle...*
The characters would be themselves, in a different body at a crucial point in time...
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Near future earth colonizing the planets (had the idea long before GURPS came out with Transhuman Space)
That's an interesting one, If the players were special operations support personnel, that are there to support the new colony while it get's set up...
They get a basic dossier showing the initial survey results...It's a hostile planet, but these are hard-core settlers, and they're paying your bills, after this mission you can sit on your duff for a few years, or move on to the next Colonial Support Operation. (CSO)
D20 Shadow Rifts
Ohhh yeh Cyber-Zombie Ithilid Glitterboys
Quantum Leap/Eternal Champions....RPG-style...
*One minute you were reading the TV Guide, then next you're in the body of an orc warrior, you're holding a....*
next time, *you're in the body of a human, you're holding a gun...a laser rifle...*
The characters would be themselves, in a different body at a crucial point in time...
Or try a Dollhouse campaign. Most PCs are actives. Different scenario, new memories, personalities, class & level. Quite the challenge to remain in character, but perhaps the ultimate gauntlet for character interpretation.
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I like to incorporate easter eggs into my games from time to time. They can be subtle, like naming an NPC after an obscure movie or book character, to blatant, like having the PCs discover the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. One idea I've had for awhile is an adventure based on that old flash animated cartoon with the dancing badgers (badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom snake.) My basic idea is for a low level encounter with a tribe of myconid (mushroom men) druids with badger animal companions who need help defending their territory from a fiendish giant snake.
I once ran an adventure inspired by the horror movie The Relic (imagine a bullette set loose in a museum during the opening of a major exhibition.)